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    Quote Originally Posted by Brownski View Post
    It’s skiable- not sure why they only groom half that trail. They do lots of stuff their own way at Greek. Lots of red light/green light traffic control devices. One trail even has a stop sign at an intersection
    Do you have to come to a full and complete stop or can you just roll through as long as there’s not a cop around?
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    Do you have to come to a full and complete stop or can you just roll through as long as there’s not a cop around?
    When my kid was small we got him a Poc helmet. It came with a little light. I'd imagine that could be converted into a brake light or turn signal with a bit of tweaking.
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    If the Upstate ski traffic is the equivalent of an orderly grid, then the midwest places I used to ski are the on-snow version of a demolition derby.

    They should issue strobe lights with all helmets there.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    Do you have to come to a full and complete stop or can you just roll through as long as there’s not a cop around?
    And when a cop is beating you over the head with his nightstick, do you want him to stop, or just slow down?

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    Quote Originally Posted by riser3 View Post
    And when a cop is beating you over the head with his nightstick, do you want him to stop, or just slow down?
    I see you've been stopped by the Winhall police too?
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    Quote Originally Posted by riser3 View Post
    And when a cop is beating you over the head with his nightstick, do you want him to stop, or just slow down?
    I've been hit by some of the previously referenced out of control yahoos shooting onto the trail from the ditches just off the side, all backseat and arms flailing, and it never occurred to me to ask them to slow down as we tumbled down the hill in a tangled mess of skis and swearing.

    I think a stop sign could have been helpful in that situation now that I think about it.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    Do you have to come to a full and complete stop or can you just roll through as long as there’s not a cop around?
    Upstate rules so I would think it’s optional, you know, volume based.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    If the Upstate ski traffic is the equivalent of an orderly grid, then the midwest places I used to ski are the on-snow version of a demolition derby.

    They should issue strobe lights with all helmets there.
    Sounds more like Hunter or Mountain Crack (shudder)

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    Quote Originally Posted by huckbucket View Post
    For a moment today the lake effect clouds parted and the sun shone down on Cortland NY to bath us in glorius light.

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    It was too early in the day or I would have hoisted a Cream Ale for you all.
    Are the trees skiing well? I want to get back there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brownski View Post
    I think Florida may have a similarly hostile level of regionalism. I worked with a native Floridian (from Gainesville I think) who was really offended that I’d only been to the Orlando area and judged the whole state based on that.
    Yeah, and in winter, there's an obvious dividing line just below Orlando that divides the south from the tropics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Are the trees skiing well? I want to get back there.
    Affirmative to some areas and not to others. Needs another 6" ... like your mom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brownski View Post
    It’s skiable- not sure why they only groom half that trail. They do lots of stuff their own way at Greek. Lots of red light/green light traffic control devices. One trail even has a stop sign at an intersection
    I liked that when I was there. The girlfriend took the groomed side while I played in fluff next to the trees.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    I liked that when I was there. The girlfriend took the groomed side while I played in fluff next to the trees.
    A lot of my favorite small places did it like this too, which would eventually make for some good bump lines on one half and groomers on the other. Just surprised no one had seemed to take advantage of the fluff in that pic and opted for what looks like fast GS turns on the cords. To each their own.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    IME when a trail goes half groomed like that the ungroomed side is almost always mostly untouched. I'm ok with not understanding. Kind of used to it actually

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    I'd probably turn farm for a few runs on the fluffy side and then go carve some trenches on the groomed. Unless there's a stop sign I can't see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    A lot of my favorite small places did it like this too, which would eventually make for some good bump lines on one half and groomers on the other. Just surprised no one had seemed to take advantage of the fluff in that pic and opted for what looks like fast GS turns on the cords. To each their own.
    My pic was just after they dropped the rope so it was eventually farmed although yesterday was super quiet and we had the mountain to ourselves really. Took my daugher out of school for her 18th bday and we made a day of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    A lot of my favorite small places did it like this too, which would eventually make for some good bump lines on one half and groomers on the other. Just surprised no one had seemed to take advantage of the fluff in that pic and opted for what looks like fast GS turns on the cords. To each their own.
    Okemo used to do this on a lot of trails.
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    Quote Originally Posted by huckbucket View Post
    My pic was just after they dropped the rope so it was eventually farmed although yesterday was super quiet and we had the mountain to ourselves really. Took my daugher out of school for her 18th bday and we made a day of it.
    Sounds like a great day.

    Quote Originally Posted by Timberridge View Post
    Okemo used to do this on a lot of trails.
    That's the truth. My brother in law was an instructor at Okemo and my first time visiting him to ski I commented that their grooming manager must be from the Midwest.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    A little treat for all you UNY enthusiasts

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brownski View Post
    A little treat for all you UNY enthusiasts

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    Seems like a typical day anytime from Oct to April.

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    And Wisconsin thinks it has a smelly derriere...

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    Quote Originally Posted by EWG View Post
    Seems like a typical day anytime from Oct to April.
    Love it.

    But you sure that season doesn’t start in April and end in April?
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Ha. One time I was standing in line at a coffee place in Saratoga on, like, April 10th, which was after a month of God teasing us with 50-60 degree days, some two or three in a row, and then, on that morning, we all woke up to 10 degrees. The general mood was foul. Like, fuck this shit already.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brownski View Post
    Another classic

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    What do you think we are, idiots? That's is a January photograph and there's no snow on the road. I don't know where that is, but it's sure as hell not upstate.

    It's probably photoshopped. Or it's someplace dryer and warmer. Like Maine. Or Nova Scotia.

    Edit: I can see a tiny little bit of blue sky. Dead giveaway. Probably Nova Scotia.

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