122 more days until Thanksgiving when most resorts seem to aim for opening.

Sorry wgo, I probably should have converted months into days months ago. Thanks for doing the math bawalker.

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Jimmy

Thanks!

Summer seems to be crawling by more slowly than usual. Normally I start getting ski cravings in august or so, but they never really went away this year.

Mid-December is more realistic for this neck of the woods.

I guess that means adding about 10 days to Baywalker's "short timer" calender. What gets me the most excited are the reports of snow guns firing up, which usually starts happening around turkey day.

John my fav part is the talk of snow guns firing up as well. The best part is the first series of pics, usually coming from the 'Shoe. I wish mid-atlantic resorts had better publicity.

Was it me... but the first time I went snowboarding was two years ago this past November. Me and several younger but more expert boarders went to Wisp during the last week of Thanksgiving where they had several trails open. I remember this clearly because coming home off of Corridor H we passed the Capon Valley Bank in Baker and it was 8*F that night which was the coldest that early in recent memory.

Cross your fingers that we get a nasty cold snap. My mom said she remembers the year my sister was born, 1982, that it snowed in October. Start doing that snowdance... or at least bribing Timberline to let us volunteer work on the snowguns till it snows.

No, please, ski season starts Thanksgiving. We've been lucky the last few years, someone being open Thanksgiving week.

wgo..try this to beat the August blues. I sit on the front porch and search the clouds for outlines of a ski area. Last night I saw Whitetail. Made a couple runs in my mind and then I started apres ski.

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jimmy