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.

Last Day of 2012

Where do you ski on the last day of the year? Quite a few years we rang in the New Year with skiing till The ball dropped .Since then the Ski area has eliminated this fun night because of under age drinking . We knew ,early day skiing ,would be chaotic and lodge would be overcrowded, so instead we headed out to Prompton dam, where earlier in the year we picked out some good ski lines along their hiking trail system. We skinned in and made 3 full runs down a gentle pitched run that ended with some quick planning at the end to avoid tight trees and some natural obstacles. Great fun and lots of exercise we had on this last day of 2012.

Remembering those old Ktells

Ski Big Bear opened yesterday for the season and we were there. With today's snow and Holiday crowds at BigB we decided to try something else besides the normal ski. Way back in 1979 My mom bought me a pair of cheap skis , they were bright red and they slapped on the bottom of your shoes. I skied them across the road from my house that Winter and had a blast. In following years I went to buy other skis and eventually ended at ski hills , but you never forget your first. Today's ski was dedicated to those first plastic skis. We skied the same short pasture I skied so long ago.

Ski Belleayre

Belleayre Mt is on a ridge in the Catskills. State owned and run it is clearly our least favorite mt still operating in the Catskills region. We frequent all four of the areas ski centers every ski season , we decided on Belleayre this weekend since Big Bear wasn't open yet. There were three ways down from the top , alttle more than Local hills of Elk and Camelback were offering. We arrived early and lapped the short funs off the Lift 7 triple. Conditions were't bad considering the major rain event earlier in the week. Sno was rock hard but well placed snowgun droppings kept it maneurable. A long cold spell will help this mountain out this week. We have begun to out grow this mountain as my family evolves a skiers but will still like its aspects of it catering to the newbies with its lower mountain set aside for newest snowsport participants. New management will hopefully bring facilities in to the new millenium while still keeping skiing affortable for families.