In my email this morning, I got a wicked cool Jiminy Peak lift ticket coupon. It’s valid this Fri 12-19-08 and Sun 12-21-08.
$23 Lift Tickets Friday 12-19-08!
$35 Lift Tickets Sunday 12-21-08!
It’s especially awesome considering the storm that’s coming today!
Check out this forecast
E.
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… WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM FRIDAY TO 1 AM EST SATURDAY…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW… WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM FRIDAY TO 1 AM EST SATURDAY.
HEAVY AMOUNTS OF SNOW WILL FALL ACROSS THE MOHAWK AND SCHOHARIE VALLEYS… THE CAPITAL DISTRICT… THE AREA FROM SARATOGA SPRINGS TO GLENS FALLS… AND ACROSS SOUTHERN VERMONT. SNOW WILL BEGIN ACROSS THE REGION MID TO LATE MORNING ON FRIDAY. THE SNOW WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING… THEN TAPER OFF TO SNOW SHOWERS AROUND MIDNIGHT.
TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION FROM THIS STORM WILL BE 6 TO 12 INCHES FROM THE SCHOHARIE VALLEY TO THE CAPITAL DISTRICT AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. FROM THE MOHAWK VALLEY TO THE NORTHERN SARATOGA REGION AND GLENS FALLS… 5 TO 10 INCHES WILL FALL.
SNOW WILL FALL AT THE RATE OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR FRIDAY AFTERNOON… WHICH WILL SEVERELY IMPACT ALL TRAVEL… INCLUDING THE FRIDAY EVENING COMMUTE.
THE STORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SNOWFALL WILL MOVE QUICKLY ACROSS THE COUNTRY TONIGHT AND FRIDAY… REACHING THE JERSEY COAST FRIDAY EVENING.
A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.
E.
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Gore Mountain Lift Ticket Deals!!!!
Bring Gore a canned food item, and you’ll get $10 off your ticket price daily through Saturday 12-20-08!
Sunday 12-21-08 will be $45 lift tickets!
E.
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Heavy snow for Friday. Get your gear in order tonight. It should amount to excellent riding on Fri, Sat, and Sun. Looks like the heaviest snow will be hitting Gore, Jiminy Peak, and below. Remember Burnt Ridge will be opening this weekend at Gore with a review to follow!
E.
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So the Holiday season is almost upon us, I figured I would put on my Santa Hoody and ride the mountain in festive style listening to a Christmas snowboarding mix.
| George Thorogood & The Destroyers | Rock and Roll Christmas |
| Keith Richards | Run Rudolph Run |
| Eddie Money | Everybody Loves Christmas |
| The Ramones | Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) |
| Billy Idol | Yellin’ At the Xmas Tree |
| Run-DMC | Christmas In Hollis |
| Jimmy Eat World | Last Christmas (Studio Version) |
| Justin Timberlake & Andy Samberg | (It’s My) “Junk” in a Box |
| Luscious Jackson | Let It Snow |
| Run-DMC | Christmas Is |
| The Waitresses | Christmas Wrapping |
| Smash Mouth | Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On |
| Pearl Jam | Someday At Christmas |
| Tom Petty | Christmas All Over Again |
| The Kinks | Father Christmas |
| G. Love | Christmas Baby |
| Toots & The Maytals | Christmas Feeling Ska |
Remember this holiday season it’s better to give than to receive.
E.
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“Several factors converged to cause the tower failure. The structure of the tower is such that two parts are spliced together. Water had seeped into the tower which had turned to ice with the recent extreme cold temperatures. The ice build-up caused the tower splice to rupture, an extremely unusual situation referred to as “ice-jacking”.
Hmmmmmm. Doesn’t the Whistler Gondola look similar to Whiteface’s Cloudsplitter Gondola? Yes, Yes it does. Doppelmayr who built the Whistler Excalibur Gondola that collapsed also built the Whiteface Cloudsplitter Gondola. Governor Paterson please please please don’t cut Gore and Whiteface’s budget anymore! I would rather run out of toilet paper and have to use paper towels . . . ummmm nevermind . . . Safety inspections are key!
****Latest update from the Whiteface Web site - The Cloudsplitter Gondola is down today for maintenance. The Little Whiteface Double chair will provide access to the Little Whiteface summit.
If you want to read more about the Whistler Gondola accident click here.
E.
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So I figured since we got some descent snow, I was going to sneak out tonight with my partner in crime Squirrel and ride West Mountain in Glens Falls. As one friend puts it, “it’s the best skiing and riding in Glens Falls.” 
Well . . . .
West Mountain is closed till Friday. Kind of a bummer but that means the storm that is blowing through Thursday night into Friday will leave the mountain in even better shape because of the untouched snow from last night into today’s dump. Rock on!
E.
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If you can get out today and ride, DO IT! Check out the forecast for the rest of the week below.
E.
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So my wife (Squirrel) and I (E.) went to Jiminy Peak for night riding last night. Being an eastcoast rider, I am used to hardpack conditions and I even enjoy the speed and thrill you get zooming over flat hard snow but last night was ridiculious.
THEY SHOULDN”T HAVE BEEN OPEN! This picture doesn’t paint a true picture of the hell it was riding on 6 inch ice rocks!
In my 7 years of riding I never once ask for a refund but I did last night. Jiminy Peak has a 30 minute guarantee on snow conditions and when I went to ask for a refund after 20 minutes of hell, they gave me a hard time. Listen Jiminy Peak, the mountain was a sleet of ice, snow guns running for a day won’t help the mountain out. It was glaring ice that was unforgiving on my board and my body. Wait till it snows a ton to go back to Jiminy Peak. It’s not worth it right now.
But in other news, WE GOT SNOW LAST NIGHT IN UPSTATE NEW YORK!!!!!!!!! Word on the street is more snow to come through the rest of the week. More to come on this breaking news!
E.
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So the rumor is Gore is planning on opening Burnt Ridge this weekend. The long awaited unveiling of it’s expansion. The one trail that will be open because of snowmaking is Echo. It’s a blue trail. We will see how it is. I heard it’s Twister’s sister but with wicked nice views. I am really amped for the opening of Cirque Glades. I heard nothing but rad things about it. Stay posted for a trail review of Echo once it opens.
E.
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