Tamarack The Drive A weekend roadtrip up to Stratton, VT with some friends sounded like a good idea. A six hour drive from Philadelphia, we thought it best to leave at 5pm on a Friday. Arriving around mid night as I was carpooling the driver was getting tired, so I took over for the final hour. I was also pretty tired, but still more alert as I hadn’t been driving the last five hours. Well soon after the car owner went to sleep it started to snow, the roads hadn’t been re-salted and the fog was coming in. This would be the first time I drove in the snow, luckily…

Challenge Express Lift It’s the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, and the USA is killing it. What has this got to do with a small ski resort in lower Pennsylvania? While I didn’t have a long weekend due to Presidents Day on the 19th, it seems many others did. Many others. A decent snow storm came through on the 17th, with 6 inches of fresh powder. These three factors combined into what amounted to be lift lines around one hour long. Lines so long that Blue Mountain stopped selling lift passes before lunch time. Traffic jams that blocked the access roads and the carparks, no one could get in or…