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Skiology is reporting that Platty will be open on Wednesday.

This is the first year I've felt any confidence in the trees. And even then I don't feel a lot of confidence unless the conditions are right. The conditions were right today.

I don't usually do laps. I prefer to explore. But the Big T Glades were so good today that I didn't want to go anywhere else.

Wonderful conditions. Sunnier and warmer than predicted. Snow is holding up great. My kid went down Dot Nebel, her first black slope ever.

Another issue AIUI is that in rural areas, private equity firms will buy up all the medical institutions in an area and then create a labor monopsony (that is, a monopoly of demand). That keeps wages artificially low.

This really destroyed my confidence.

If it's the same as this year, I think you get one free day and one half-price day at either Gore or Whiteface.

Best snow of the year. Highlight was the Lift Line Glades. If you were looking down from the gondola when I made a Neymaresque double barrel roll while ending up sitting Indian style at the bottom of Seneca, well, I hope you got as many laughs out of it as I did.

But not Highmount. That wouldn't take much at all, in my (completely uneducated) opinion.

At first chair, it was so foggy you could barely see an outstretched hand. The snow was wet and sticky, like Elmer's glue. I could never build up enough speed on the steeps to avoid having to skate on the blues and walk on the greens. But the woods and glades were more enjoyable for me, as an...

Like, how far out east? Past the lean-to?

This sounds like a challenge.

The corduroy was wonderful everywhere on the mountain today.

As an adult, I've been to: Belleayre Plattekill Windham Hunter Gore Whiteface When I was a kid, my dad took me to: Mont Ste Anne Taos Sundown (in Iowa). (Yes, Iowa.)

Do you get to wear a hall monitor's sash? :D

Unless Whiteface replaced their gondola in the last couple of weeks, I beg to differ.

Oh my god, I thought it was me! I've never even thought twice putting my skis in the gondola at Belle. I just could not get them in at Whiteface. I finally gave up and started putting them in one-at-a-time. While we're there, at Whiteface I hit my head on the roof of the gondola every single...

As a relative novice, I don't feel qualified to comment too much in this thread. But I will say one thing. I live about equidistant from Belleayre and Hunter. Even if the Epic Pass were a third of the price of the ORDA pass, I still wouldn't consider it (although I fully understand why others...

Still some turns to be had but Belleayre is getting slushier by the day.

I'm not going to take a position on how terrible ORDA is because I'm not really informed on the subject. But I can say that I am perpetually thankful that my home mountain is run by them and not by the parasites over at Vail.