Brownski
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- Jul 19, 2020
Yeah, I skied Campgaw. I became curious when I realized the place is less then a half hour from my house. Night tickets are only like $25. The place actually has a paved parking lot; not sure I’ve seen that before.
I suspected from the start I might get bored so I made sure I had some sick tunes along
It has a base area
Two doubles, a carpet and a tubing hill. Something less then 300 feet of vertical.
All I can say is that I enjoy skiing and there was skiing to be done. It was really just one run that had lights on it. I tried everything I could think of to make it interesting. Big turns, little turns, no turns, skiing ridiculously fast, skiing backwards, skiing on closed unlit trails. This place is really only appropriate for raw beginners and toddlers. Steve Miller and Joe Walsh helped though.
At some point I looked over my shoulder, near the top of the lift, and realized we were so close to the city that I could actually make out the Empire State Building in the distance. I tried to take a pic on the next lap but the lights blurred it out. You’ll have to take my word for it.
This made me giggle a little. The “upper mountain” was a little steeper then the bottom 3/4 but not much.
I had dinner there too. After I ordered, one of the managers got on his radio to call the kitchen and told them to send up “another bag of chili” so... it didn’t taste bad but it made me wonder if any of the other ski resort chili I’ve had over the years was bag chili. Probably.
Lots of heads on walls around the lodge; not all of them native to New Jersey currently.
They apparently have a mascot.
Not a bad lodge as far as it goes. There was more seating downstairs and outside.
There was a big snow-making whale on top between the two doubles, with a flag jammed in it. It might have added 5% to the place’s vert. God bless America.
I suspected from the start I might get bored so I made sure I had some sick tunes along
It has a base area
Two doubles, a carpet and a tubing hill. Something less then 300 feet of vertical.
All I can say is that I enjoy skiing and there was skiing to be done. It was really just one run that had lights on it. I tried everything I could think of to make it interesting. Big turns, little turns, no turns, skiing ridiculously fast, skiing backwards, skiing on closed unlit trails. This place is really only appropriate for raw beginners and toddlers. Steve Miller and Joe Walsh helped though.
At some point I looked over my shoulder, near the top of the lift, and realized we were so close to the city that I could actually make out the Empire State Building in the distance. I tried to take a pic on the next lap but the lights blurred it out. You’ll have to take my word for it.
This made me giggle a little. The “upper mountain” was a little steeper then the bottom 3/4 but not much.
I had dinner there too. After I ordered, one of the managers got on his radio to call the kitchen and told them to send up “another bag of chili” so... it didn’t taste bad but it made me wonder if any of the other ski resort chili I’ve had over the years was bag chili. Probably.
Lots of heads on walls around the lodge; not all of them native to New Jersey currently.
They apparently have a mascot.
Not a bad lodge as far as it goes. There was more seating downstairs and outside.
There was a big snow-making whale on top between the two doubles, with a flag jammed in it. It might have added 5% to the place’s vert. God bless America.
