Rough start to Ski Season

I Have a rough start to my ski season this year. While conditions have been great early season,my dengenerative knee has not responded well to skiing. six days out ,all at Elk mt have been a painfull challenge. Anything but skiing soft groomers has me buckling in pain. Seeing the Orth this week maybe a cortisone shot will do the trick.

Where to next Season

Time marches on, children grow, people change and the world keeps changing. Ten seasons at Big Bear and 218 ski days later we picked up up one last time. Oh we might drop in at BB once in a blue moon in the future, but our days of pass holders there are over. Kids have outgrown the mountain and time to move on is in order. We had some fun days BigBear and this little hill will always be special to us. When we are ever asked were do you come from we always will proudly proclaim"Big Bear PA

Underrated Mountain More Gore

Woke up 3:30 am packed up headed out 244 miles and 4 hrs later arrived at Gore mountain. What we found was a paradise for skiers with endless possibillties. Started of easy and worked our way to the top. Derek is a little shy when skiing new terrain so we went easy at first. Snow conditions and weather were perfect. Skied hard to 3:00 taking very few pics packed up drove home. Drove 7 hrs to ski 6, was it worth it Oh Yeah cannot wait to get back.

Rainy day in Central Ny

Skiers hate to have it rain, but usually means soft snow. Sat was no exception , light rain and soft snow made for a fine day at Greek yesterday. As always such a fun time skiing with Caleb. Injury prevents me from going hard or looking good skiing , but Iam stil out there. Going to the Ortho March 6th. He will prescripe rest and Corto?

Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo the movie came out the year my passed away ,so the movie will always be special to me. Nemo the storm brought alot of hype to ski community, while it came up short in quantity , quality was awesome and it really helped out the area's ski shoppes and hills. We enjoyed freshies early Sat at the Bear and then on Sunday hit up our Cat favorite Plattekill. Blue bird skies and mininimal wind made for a great day sliding at the Bear. We lapped the screamer until all the snow was smacked down ,then we burned the snow off the Polar Bear. Fun morning Sunday driving up to Platt temps bottomed out at -1 on the mountain still winds and sunshine warmed temps quickly into the mid 20's ,by the time we left temps were above freezing. Conditions were alittle hard in the morn but really fun. Attendance at the mountain seemed to be at an alltime high for any day we have ever skied here.{Platte is the only non BB area I will ski on Holidays)We been here on Presidents day with less people. Scotty (from Alpine Zone forum) and Harvey (NY Ski Blog) are doing a great job in promoting. While waiting at the lift we spied some local critters complaining about the crowd and blaming the promoters,I said "Don't worry March is coming we will once again have the mountains to ourselves!

Blue Mountain Bike Tour Jamaica

If you asked me what would I be doing at 5700 ft above sea level I would answer skiing. But on this MLK day, this year, we were touring the Blue mountains in Jamaica. Learned alot about coffee and the Jamaica culture. T

he skiing will be there but its nice to keep my wife Tammy happy as she puts up with all those ski days

Perfect Day in Pa

What a day to out today in NEPA , warmth sunshine no wind and soft snow. Big Bear served up an awesome learn to ski for free Day today, Mother nature cooperated with great weather and perfect ski conditions for the novice. Guaranteed customers will return and get hooked on skiing. Derek and I lapped the red chair all day . He decided he could ride the chair solo so while I lined up a demo from the ski haus he rode it all by himself. Another mile stone caught on camera

Life and parenthood just goes by too fast.