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It was an exciting rain shorted Chicago Street race, as Alex Bowman broke his winless streak. It was another week where the wet weather package would play a roll in the race, and it was Alex Bowman gabling on wet racing tires to get him through to the end of the race, as the pavement was quickly drying, and a hard charging Tyler Reddick was hunting him down on dry slicks.This week on the Bump N' Run Podcast veteran radio host Michael D. White, Daytona Ron, and Matt "The Stat Man" Reilly talk about the latest news including Hailie Deegan parting ways her Xfinity ride.Xfinity race: Shane Van GisbergenCup race: Bowman lead once for 8 lapsWe saw 5 cautions for 19 laps9 lead changes among 6 drivers2 hours 19 minutes 24 seconds1 Bowman 2 Reddick 3 Gibbs 4 Hand 5 McDowellNext week preview: We are heading to the Pocono mountainsTrucks on Track 5:30 for the CRC Brakeleen 175 on FS1Xfinity on track 3pm on USA for the Explore the Pocono mountains 225Cup on track Sunday 2:30 on USA for the Great American Getaway 400 presented by VisitPA.comBumpnrunpod.com

As someone who was born and raised in Idaho for 35 years of life, I never imagined that I would fall in love with the East Coast, or the state of Pennsylvania... After a year of planning, we took the leap and moved over 2,000 miles. Episode Resources:Pennsylvania: Pursue Your Happiness!WHYYSupport the showJoin the community & the conversation!Call | Text | Emailwww.EverettPodcast.comLike & FollowInstagram.com/EverettpodcastFacebook.com/EverettpodcastTwitter.com/Everettpodcast Subscribe Wherever you like to listenListen.EverettPodcast.com has all our connected platforms

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Feb. 3. It dropped for free subscribers on Feb. 6. To receive future pods as soon as they're live and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription.WhoBrett Cook, Vice President and General Manager of Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, and Laurel Mountain, PennsylvaniaRecorded onJanuary 30, 2023About Seven SpringsOwned by: Vail ResortsPass affiliations: Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Northeast Value Epic Pass, Northeast Midweek Epic PassLocated in: Seven Springs, PennsylvaniaYear opened: 1932Closest neighboring ski areas: Hidden Valley (17 minutes), Laurel Mountain (45 minutes), Nemacolin (46 minutes), Boyce Park (1 hour), Wisp (1 hour), Blue Knob (1 hour, 30 minutes)Base elevation: 2,240 feetSummit elevation: 2,994 feetVertical drop: 754 feetSkiable Acres: 285Average annual snowfall: 135 inchesTrail count: 48 (5 expert, 6 advanced, 15 intermediate, 16 beginner, 6 terrain parks)Lift count: 14­­ (2 six-packs, 4 fixed-grip quads, 4 triples, 3 carpets, 1 ropetow)About Hidden ValleyOwned by: Vail ResortsPass affiliations: Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Northeast Value Epic Pass, Northeast Midweek Epic PassLocated in: Hidden Valley, PennsylvaniaYear opened: 1955Closest neighboring ski areas: Seven Springs (17 minutes), Laurel Mountain (34 minutes), Mystic Mountain (50 minutes), Boyce Park (54 minutes),Wisp (1 hour), Blue Knob (1 hour 19 minutes)Base elevation: 2,405 feetSummit elevation: 2,875 feetVertical drop: 470 feetSkiable Acres: 110Average annual snowfall: 140 inchesTrail count: 32 (9 advanced, 13 intermediate, 8 beginner, 2 terrain parks)Lift count: 8 (2 fixed-grip quads, 2 triples, 2 carpets, 2 handle tows)About Laurel MountainOwned by: Vail ResortsPass affiliations: Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Northeast Value Epic Pass, Northeast Midweek Epic PassLocated in: Boswell, PennsylvaniaYear opened: 1939Closest neighboring ski areas: Hidden Valley (34 minutes), Seven Springs (45 minutes), Boyce Park (1 hour), Blue Knob (1 hour), Mystic Mountain (1 hour, 15 minutes), Wisp (1 hour, 15 minutes)Base elevation: 2,005 feetSummit elevation: 2,766 feetVertical drop: 761 feetSkiable Acres: 70Average annual snowfall: 41 inchesTrail count: 20 (2 expert, 2 advanced, 6 intermediate, 10 beginner)Lift count: 2­­ (1 fixed-grip quad, 1 handle tow)Below the paid subscriber jump: a summary of our podcast conversation, a look at abandoned Hidden Valley expansions, historic Laurel Mountain lift configurations, and much more.Beginning with podcast 116, the full podcast articles are no longer available on the free content tier. Why? They take between 10 and 20 hours to research and write, and readers have demonstrated that they are willing to pay for content. My current focus with The Storm is to create value for anyone who invests their money into the product. Here are examples of a few past podcast articles, if you would like to see the format: Vail Mountain, Mt. Spokane, Snowbasin, Mount Bohemia, Brundage. To anyone who is supporting The Storm: thank you very much. You have guaranteed that this is a sustainable enterprise for the indefinite future.Why I interviewed himI've said this before, but it's worth repeating. Most Vail ski areas fall into one of two categories: the kind skiers will fly around the world for, and the kind skiers won't drive more than 15 minutes for. Whistler, Park City, Heavenly fall into the first category. Mt. Brighton, Alpine Valley, Paoli Peaks into the latter. I exaggerate a bit on the margins, but when I drive from New York City to Liberty Mountain, I know this is not a well-trod path.Seven Springs, like Hunter or Attitash, occupies a slightly different category in the Vail empire. It is both a regional destination and a high-volume big-mountain feeder. Skiers will make a weekend of these places, from Pittsburgh or New York City or Boston, then they will use the pass to vacation in Colorado. It's a better sort of skiing than your suburban knolls, more sprawling and interesting, more repeatable for someone who doesn't know what a Corky Flipdoodle 560 is.“Brah that sounds sick!”Thanks Park Brah. I appreciate you. But you know I just made that up, right?“Brah have you seen my shoulder-mounted Boombox 5000 backpack speaker? I left it right here beside my weed vitamins.”Sorry Brah. I have not.Anyway, I happen to believe that these sorts of in-the-middle resorts are the next great frontier of ski area consolidation. All the big mountains have either folded under the Big Four umbrella or have gained so much megapass negotiating power that the incentive to sell has rapidly evaporated. The city-adjacent bumps such as Boston Mills were a novel and highly effective strategy for roping cityfolk into Epic Passes, but as pure ski areas, those places just are not and never will be terribly compelling experiences. But the middle is huge and mostly untapped, and these are some of the best ski areas in America, mountains that are large enough to give you a different experience each time but contained enough that you don't feel as though you've just wandered into an alternate dimension. There's enough good terrain to inspire loyalty and repeat visits, but it's not so good that passholders don't dream of the hills beyond.Examples: Timberline, West Virginia; Big Powderhorn, Michigan; Berkshire East and Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts; Plattekill, New York; Elk Mountain, Pennsylvania; Mt. Spokane, Washington; Bear Valley, California; Cascade or Whitecap, Wisconsin; Magic Mountain, Vermont; or Black Mountain, New Hampshire. There are dozens more. Vail's Midwestern portfolio is expansive but bland, day-ski bumps but no weekend-type spots on the level of Crystal Mountain, Michigan or Lutsen, Minnesota.If you want to understand the efficacy of this strategy, the Indy Pass was built on it. Ninety percent of its roster is the sorts of mountains I'm referring to above. Jay Peak and Powder Mountain sell passes, but dang it Bluewood and Shanty Creek are kind of nice now that the pass nudged me toward them. Once Vail and Alterra realize how crucial these middle mountains are to filling in the pass blanks, expect them to start competing for the space. Seven Springs, I believe, is a test case in how impactful a regional destination can be both in pulling skiers in and pushing them out across the world. Once this thing gels, look the hell out.What we talked aboutThe not-so-great Western Pennsylvania winter so far; discovering skiing as an adult; from liftie to running the largest ski resort in Pennsylvania; the life and death of Snow Time Resorts; joining the Peak Pass; two ownership transitions in less than a year, followed by Covid; PA ski culture; why the state matters to Vail; helping a Colorado ski company understand the existential urgency of snowmaking in the East; why Vail doubled down on PA with the Seven Springs purchase when they already owned five ski areas in the state; breaking down the difference between the Roundtop-Liberty-Whitetail trio and the Seven-Springs-Hidden-Valley-Laurel trio; the cruise ship in the mountains; rugged and beautiful Western PA; dissecting the amazing outsized snowfall totals in Western Pennsylvania; Vail Resorts' habit of promoting from within; how Vail's $20-an-hour minimum wage hit in Pennsylvania; the legacy of the Nutting family, the immediate past owners of the three ski areas; the legendary Herman Dupree, founder of Seven Springs and HKD snowguns; Seven Springs amazing sprawling snowmaking system, complete with 49(!) ponds; why the system isn't automated and whether it ever will be; how planting more trees could change the way Seven Springs skis; connecting the ski area's far-flung beginner terrain; where we could see additional glades at Seven Springs; rethinking the lift fleet; the importance of redundant lifts; do we still need Tyrol?; why Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, and Laurel share a single general manager; thinking of lifts long-term at Hidden Valley; Hidden Valley's abandoned expansion plans and whether they could ever be revived; the long and troubled history of state-owned Laurel Mountain; keeping the character at this funky little upside-down boomer; “We love what Laurel Mountain is and we're going to continue to own that”; building out Laurel's snowmaking system; expansion potential at Laurel; “Laurel is a hidden gem and we don't want it to be hidden anymore”; Laurel's hidden handletow; evolving Laurel's lift fleet; managing a state-owned ski area; Seven Springs' new trailmap; the Epic Pass arrives; and this season's lift-ticket limits.        Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewWhen Vail bought Peak Resorts in 2019, they suddenly owned nearly a quarter of Pennsylvania's ski areas: Big Boulder, Jack Frost, Whitetail, Roundtop, and Liberty. That's a lot of Eagles jerseys. And enough, I thought, that we wouldn't see VR snooping around for more PA treasures to add to their toybox.Then, to my surprise, the company bought Seven Springs – which they clearly wanted – along with Hidden Valley and Laurel, which they probably didn't, in late 2021. Really what they bought was Pittsburgh, metropolitan population 2.3 million, and their large professional class of potentially globe-trotting skiers. All these folks needed was an excuse to buy an Epic Pass. Vail gave them one.So now what? Vail knows what to do with a large, regionally dominant ski area like Seven Springs. It's basically Pennsylvania's version of Stowe or Park City or Heavenly. It was pretty good when you bought it, now you just have to not ruin it and remind everyone that they can now ski Whistler on their season pass. Hidden Valley, with its hundreds of on-mountain homeowners, suburban-demographic profile, and family orientation more or less fit Vail's portfolio too.But what to do with Laurel? Multiple locals assured me that Vail would close it. Vail doesn't do that – close ski areas – but they also don't buy 761-vertical-foot bumps at the ass-end of nowhere with almost zero built-in customer base and the snowmaking firepower of a North Pole souvenir snowglobe. They got it because it came with Seven Springs, like your really great spouse who came with a dad who thinks lawnmowers are an FBI conspiracy. I know what I think Vail should do with Laurel – dump money into the joint to aggressively route crowds away from the larger ski areas – but I didn't know whether they would, or had even considered it.Vail's had 14 months now to think this over. What are these mountains? How do they fit? What are we going to do with them? I got some answers.Questions I wish I'd askedYou know, it's weird that Vail has two Hidden Valleys. Boyne, just last year, changed the name of its “Boyne Highlands” resort to “The Highlands,” partly because, one company executive told me, skiers would occasionally show up to the wrong resort with a condo reservation. I imagine that's why Earl Holding ultimately backed off on renaming Snowbasin to “Sun Valley, Utah,” as he reportedly considered doing in the leadup to the 2002 Olympics – if you give people an easy way to confuse themselves, they will generally take you up on it.I realize this is not really the same thing. Boyne Mountain and The Highlands are 40 minutes apart. Vail's two Hidden Valleys are 10-and-a-half hours from each other by car. Still. I wanted to ask Cook if this weird fact had any hilarious unintended consequences (I desperately wish Holding would have renamed Snowbasin). Perhaps confusion in the Epic Mix app? Or someone purchasing lift tickets for the incorrect resort? An adult lift ticket at Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania for tomorrow is $75 online and $80 in person, but just $59 online/$65 in person for Hidden Valley, Missouri. Surely someone has confused the two?So, which one should we rename? And what should we call it? Vail has been trying to win points lately with lift names that honor local landmarks – they named their five new lifts at Jack Frost-Big Boulder “Paradise,” “Tobyhanna,” “Pocono,” “Harmony,” and “Blue Heron” (formerly E1 Lift, E2 Lift, B Lift, C Lift, E Lift, F Lift, Merry Widow I, Merry Widow II, and Edelweiss). So how about renaming Hidden Valley PA to something like “Allegheny Forest?” Or call Hidden Valley, Missouri “Mississippi Mountain?” Yes, both of those names are terrible, but so is having two Hidden Valleys in the same company.What I got wrong* I guessed in the podcast that Pennsylvania was the “fifth- or sixth-largest U.S. state by population.” It is number five, with an approximate population of 13 million, behind New York (19.6M), Florida (22.2M), Texas (30M), and California (39M).* I guessed that the base of Keystone is “nine or 10,000 feet.” The River Run base area sits at 9,280 feet.* I mispronounced the last name of Seven Springs founder Herman Dupre as “Doo-Pree.” It is pronounced “Doo-Prey.”* I said there were “lots” of thousand-vertical-foot ski areas in Pennsylvania. There are, in fact, just four: Blue Mountain (1,140 feet), Blue Knob (1,073 feet), Elk (1,000 feet), and Montage (1,000 feet).Why you should ski Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, and LaurelIt's rugged country out there. Not what you're thinking. More Appalachian crag than Poconos scratch. Abrupt and soaring. Beautiful. And snowy. In a state where 23 of 28 ski areas average fewer than 50 inches of snow per season, Seven Springs and Laurel bring in 135-plus apiece.Elevation explains it. A 2,000-plus-foot base is big-time in the East. Killington sits at 1,165 feet. Sugarloaf at 1,417. Stowe at 1,559. All three ski areas sit along the crest of 70-mile-long Laurel Ridge, a storm door on the western edge of the Allegheny Front that rakes southeast-bound moisture from the sky as it trains out of Lake Erie.When the snow doesn't come, they make it. Now that Big Boulder has given up, Seven Springs is typically the first ski area in the state to open. It fights with Camelback for last-to-close. Twelve hundred snowguns and 49 snowmaking ponds help.Seven Springs doesn't have the state's best pure ski terrain – look to Elk Mountain or, on the rare occasions it's fully open, Blue Knob for that – but it's Pennsylvania's largest, most complete, and, perhaps, most consistent operation. It is, in fact, the biggest ski area in the Mid-Atlantic, a ripping and unpretentious ski region where you know you'll get turns no matter how atrocious the weather gets.Hidden Valley is something different. Cozy. Easy. Built for families on parade. Laurel is something different too. Steep and fierce, a one-lift wonder dug out of the graveyard by an owner with more passion, it seems, than foresight. Laurel needs snowmaking. Top to bottom and on every trail. The hill makes no sense in 2023 without it. Vail won't abandon the place outright, but if they don't knock $10 million in snowmaking into the dirt, they'll be abandoning it in principle.Podcast NotesThe trailmap rabbit hole – Hidden ValleyWe discussed the proposed-but-never-implemented expansion at Hidden Valley, which would have sat skier's right of the Avalanche pod. Here it is on the 2010 trailmap:The 2002 version actually showed three potential lifts serving this pod:Unfortunately, this expansion is unlikely. Cook explains why in the pod.The trailmap rabbit hole – LaurelLaurel, which currently has just one quad and a handletow, has carried a number of lift configurations over the decades. This circa 1981 trailmap shows a double chair where the quad now sits, and a series of surface lifts climbing the Broadway side of the hill, and another set of them bunched at the summit:The 2002 version shows a second chairlift – which I believe was a quad – looker's right, and surface lifts up top to serve beginners, tubers, and the terrain park:Related: here's a pretty good history of all three ski areas, from 2014.The Pennsylvania ski inventory rabbitholePennsylvania skiing is hard to get. No one seems to know how many ski areas the state has. The NSAA says there are 26. Cook referenced 24 on the podcast. The 17 that Wikipedia inventories include Alpine Mountain, which has been shuttered for years. Ski Central (22), Visit PA (21), and Ski Resort Info (25) all list different numbers. My count is 28. Most lists neglect to include the six private ski areas that are owned by homeowners' associations or reserved for resort guests. Cook and I also discussed which ski area owned the state's highest elevation (it's Blue Knob), so I included base and summit elevations as well:The why-is-Vail-allowed-to-own-80-percent-of-Ohio's-public-ski-areas? rabbitholeCook said he wasn't sure how many ski areas there are in Ohio. There are six. One is a private club. Snow Trails is family-owned. Vail owns the other four. I think this shouldn't be allowed, especially after how poorly Vail managed them last season, and especially how badly Snow Trails stomped them from an operations point of view. But here we are:The steepest-trail rabbitholeWe discuss Laurel's Wildcat trail, which the ski area bills as the steepest in the state. I generally avoid echoing these sorts of claims, which are hard to prove and not super relevant to the actual ski experience. You'll rarely see skiers lapping runs like Rumor at Gore or White Lightning at Montage, mostly because they frankly just aren't that much fun, exercises in ice-rink survival skiing for the Brobot armies. But if you want the best primer I've seen on this subject, along with an inventory of some very steep U.S. ski trails, read this one on Skibum.net. The article doesn't mention Laurel's Wildcat trail, but the ski area was closed sporadically and this site's heyday was about a decade ago, so it may have been left out as a matter of circumstance.The “back in my day” rabbitholeI referenced an old “punchcard program” at Roundtop during our conversation. I was referring to the Night Club Program offered by former-former owner Snow Time Resorts at Roundtop, Liberty, and Whitetail. When Snow Time sold the ski area in 2018 to Peak Resorts, the buyer promptly dropped the evening programs. When Vail purchased the resort in 2019, it briefly re-instated some version of them (I think), but I don't believe they survived the Covid winter (2020-21). This 5,000-word March 2019 article (written four months before Vail purchased the resorts) from DC Ski distills the rage around this abrupt pass policy change. Four years later, I still get emails about this, and not infrequently. I'm kind of surprised Vail hasn't offered some kind of Pennsylvania-specific pass, since they have more ski areas in that state (eight) than they have in any other, including Colorado (five). After all, the company sells an Ohio-specific pass that started at just $299 last season. Why not a PA-specific version for, say, $399, for people who want to ski always and only at Roundtop or Liberty or Big Boulder? Or a nights-only pass?I suppose Vail could do this, and I suspect they won't. The Northeast Value Pass – good for mostly unlimited access at all of the company's ski areas from Michigan on east – sold for $514 last spring. A midweek version ran $385. A seven-day Epic Day Pass good at all the Pennsylvania ski areas was just $260 for adults and $132 for kids aged 5 to 12. I understand that there is a particular demographic of skiers who will never ski north of Harrisburg and will never stop blowing up message boards with their disappointment and rage over this. The line between a sympathetic character and a tedious one is thin, however, and eventually we're all better off focusing our energies on the things we can control.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 9/100 in 2023, and number 395 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. 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Michael Chapaloney of VisitPA on fall tourism getaways close to home in Pennsylvania

Food has connected people for centuries. Last September, the Tourism Office launched four culinary trails, to bring people together in the name of food and spotlight the rich food culture in Pennsylvania. Now, the Tourism Office is preparing to launch an Apple TV series, Stuffed with Steve Ford, promoting the trails hosted by HGTV star and Pittsburgh-Native Steve Ford. Carrie Lepore, Deputy Secretary of Marketing, Tourism and Film, said the TV series will allow them to connect with travelers and continue to tell the story of local small businesses, farmers, bakers, chefs and the history and heritage of the state in another medium. "We're helping to make connections with people. Travel at its core can be transformative for people," Lepore said. "When you have an opportunity to quite literally break bread with someone, this is how I think we can really become more curious and interested in one another's stories." Lepore also said she hopes the Culinary Trails will continue to aid in some of the COVID-19 recovery; helping to make sure restaurants stay busy, farms stay vibrant, and create opportunities for people to take a piece of the state home with them.Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What better way to learn about Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece Fallingwater than visiting the site itself and speaking with someone who walks the grounds each day? Hear Bear Run flowing in the background as we chat with Ashley Andrykovitch, curator of education, about the house, the surrounding trails, her favorite times to visit and much more in this Fallingwater-focused episode. Thanks to our sponsors, Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Living Treasures Wild Animal Park, for making this show possible.

Laurel Highlands Happenings returns for 2022 with a slightly new sound and lots of new guests sharing their love for the events and things to do in our region. We sit down with Abigail's Coffeehouse so you can hear the sounds of a busy coffee shop in the heart of town and learn about this unique eatery, then we're joined by Post & Rail Men's Shop and Ice Fest 2022 to discuss ice sculpting, carriage rides and more. Thanks to our sponsors, Abigail's Coffeehouse and Log Cabin Lodge & Suites, for making this episode possible.

We're ending 2021 on a high note (figuratively and literally) with a look at the upcoming Party at the Palace with Westmoreland Cultural Trust and 2022 concert season with Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra. Thanks to our sponsor Saint Vincent College for making this episode possible.

No matter what topics we cover this month, local art and artists remain front and center! Join us as we celebrate Westmoreland Art Nationals and upcoming events with Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival. Then, stay tuned as Latrobe Art Center recaps their celebrations of Fred Rogers in the community and upcoming summer art camps and farm-to-table lamb dinner. Guest host Jared Bundy even gets to discuss Lord of the Rings, so this episode has a bit of everything. Thanks to our sponsor Saint Vincent College and 98.7 Gold for making this show possible!

Don't touch that dial! Louise Henry is back as a special guest host as we welcome Lincoln Highway Experience and The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. This month we're discussing some delectable food and live entertainment at Lincoln Highway's popular Suppermarket events, and then we explore the unique Border Cantos | Sonic Border exhibit at The Westmoreland. Thanks to our sponsors LHTC Broadband and Saint Vincent College for their generous sponsorship and support that makes this show possible.

1HOOD Power is a 501c4 organization with the mission of building political power, holding politicians accountable, and developing effective political leadership through electoral organizing, issue advocacy, and civic education efforts.1HOOD Power is the advocacy arm of 1 HOOD Media, A collective of socially conscious artists and activists who utilize art to raise awareness. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed during this presentation are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of 1Hood Media, 1Hood Power, and/or its affiliates.

Celebrate Earth Day in the Laurel Highlands and help keep our towns and scenic landscapes beautiful. Join Uptown Somerset on an Earth Day Trail to help clean up the community and help seed bomb the county even greener.   Jar, the Zero Waste Store also joins us this episode to discuss ways you can create less landfill and make our Earth a better place with helpful tips and great products to help your home go green.   Huge thanks to our sponsors, Pennsylvania Maple Festival and Fallingwater, for making Highlands Happenings possible.

We celebrate the beautiful fall weather with two of the best ways to enjoy it in the Laurel Highlands! First, we discuss the ins and outs of ebikes with JoltBike and what makes it such a popular activity for riders of all ability levels. Then, spooky season officially arrives and we descend into the madness of Haunted Hollow to learn about new frights this Halloween. Thanks to our sponsor Idlewild & Soak Zone for their generous partnership that makes this show possible.

Highlands Happenings heads to Maple City, USA (aka Meyersdale, PA) to discuss the 73rd annual Pennsylvania Maple Festival and Meyersdale Area Merchants' Association.  We learn how to take part in spotza demonstration, crown a maple queen and grab some delicious goodies like maple bacon chili and maple coffee. Big thanks to our sponsors Walk a Mile in Her Shoes and LHTC Media for making our show possible!

There's "sew" much going on this month in Westmoreland County we can barely fit it into one episode! First, the Lamp Theatre talks about rolling out the red carpet with upcoming movie premieres, a Clarks performance, an evening with Dr. Cyril Wecht and more. Then, Bushy Run Battlefield counts down the days until they open for the season with popular events from sewing workshops to reenactments. Plus, Saint Vincent College stops by to announce a summer theatre packed with monumental musicals, including The Sound of Music.

Join us for the premiere of Heritage Happenings where, each month, host Jessica Petrovich explores the culture and heritage of Westmoreland County, PA. For the inaugural episode, Westmoreland Heritage welcomes guests from Westmoreland Historical Society, Historic Hanna's Town, Ligonier Country Market and Loyalhanna Watershed Association. Many thanks to our sponsors LHTC Broadband and the Rogers-McFeely Memorial Pool

Join us for a special edition of Laurel Highlands Happenings as we talk to Heather Papinchak from Polymath Park about the Frank Lloyd Wright houses, tours, overnight stays, the NEW house opening in May, TreeTops Restaurant and much more! Thanks to our sponsors LECOM- Seton Hill, Performance Kayak Inc. and LHTC Broadband for making this podcast possible.

The Laurel Highlands is all about collaboration and coming together! Join special guests from Leeper Meats, Silver Horse Coffee and The Green Shelf Boutique as we discuss local produce, local support and building community. Thanks to our sponsors LECOM - Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Laurel Highlands Meadery and LHTC Media.

Our eighth episode of The Nosleep Podcast brings you tales from the darkness of foreboding forrests to the psychological torment of lost hope. Featuring horror stories from the Reddit.com horror writing community, these stories will make the dark hours of the night creep slowly past.  This episode features these stories: The Woods written by Kyle Thomas (Redditor mountainbrewer) and read by David Cummings (Redditor MikeRowPhone). Can You Hear the Birds Singing? written by Douglas Bramlett (Redditor writermonk) and read by David Cummings.  Laurel Highlands written by Bill Penfield (Redditor 1-800-VISIT-PA) and read by David Cummings.

Mustech.net podcasts are some of the very best on the web about music and technology subjects you love! Visit MUSicTECHnology.net today! and let us know about you! Mustech.net offers articles about music, education, technology and more! ************************************************************ HD Radio, Earsets, RIS, and More!, Podcast E13 The third episode of season three finds Joseph and Darren being surrounded with jack hammers, wrecking balls, and general chaos at the WSAJ studio. Darren was a little "late" for the recording and Joseph was stuck trying to find his way into a construction war-zone! This episode re-visits the HD Radio concept and new topics like Reading Instruction Services, Earsets for broadcasting, soundproofing, mic preamps, and whole host of audio related topics. This show is also the first one that was dual recorded as a standard mp3 and ALSO as an ENHANCED PODCAST in wma form. Don't miss the cool features and immersive learning environment that the ENHANCED podcast offers! NOTE: In order to take advantage of the Enhanced podcast on the MAC you will have to have Windows Media Palyer 9 for OS X installed. Get it here! Also you will have to have the "Run Scripts When Present Box" checked from the Security Tab in Window's Media Player if it's not already. You'll know this is working when websites related to the podcast start to open while the podcast is playing. Original Air Date: 8/02/2008 Website: http://www.mustech.net Podcasters: Dr. Joseph M. Pisano, Mr. Darren J. Morton Episode 13’s Show: *HD Radio *Soundproofing *Alarm Clocks *Garbage In, Garbage Out GIGO *Advice about microphones and audio quality *RIS Reading Information Services/Radio Information Services *AKG HSC271 Earsets *TRS 80 *Beautiful PA! [RSS] Subscribe to our Podcasts with Feedburner [RSS] Subscribe to our latest news, posts, and GREAT articles [RSS] Subscribe to our podcast with Podomatic Related Links: McDonalds WSAJ Radio Online Clock Soundproofing 101 AKG Understanding the PreAmp Jungle MusTech.net E5 Postcast HD RADIO and Ibiquity Gene Autry! RIS -Reading Service PILOT Traveler's Stop Visit PA! Music provided by Jason Davis: Jason Davis Music Visit our site today for awesome information, news and fun! MUSicTECHnology.net END.

This is the ENHANCED podcast version of Episode 13 Make sure you have selected "run scripts" from under the security tab of the tools section in Media Player to utilize this Enhanced Podcast! Also note that this episode may have to be downloaded to your computer to take advantage of the Enhanced features... Mustech.net podcasts are some of the very best on the web about music and technology subjects you love! Visit MUSicTECHnology.net today! and let us know about you! Mustech.net offers articles about music, education, technology and more! ************************************************************ HD Radio, Earsets, RIS, and More!, Podcast E13 The third episode of season three finds Joseph and Darren being surrounded with jack hammers, wrecking balls, and general chaos at the WSAJ studio. Darren was a little "late" for the recording and Joseph was stuck trying to find his way into a construction war-zone! This episode re-visits the HD Radio concept and new topics like Reading Instruction Services, Earsets for broadcasting, soundproofing, mic preamps, and whole host of audio related topics. This show is also the first one that was dual recorded as a standard mp3 and ALSO as an ENHANCED PODCAST in wma form. Don't miss the cool features and immersive learning environment that the ENHANCED podcast offers! NOTE: In order to take advantage of the Enhanced podcast on the MAC you will have to have Windows Media Palyer 9 for OS X installed. Get it here! Also you will have to have the "Run Scripts When Present Box" checked from the Security Tab in Window's Media Player if it's not already. You'll know this is working when websites related to the podcast start to open while the podcast is playing. Original Air Date: 8/02/2008 Website: http://www.mustech.net Podcasters: Dr. Joseph M. Pisano, Mr. Darren J. Morton Episode 13’s Show: *HD Radio *Soundproofing *Alarm Clocks *Garbage In, Garbage Out GIGO *Advice about microphones and audio quality *RIS Reading Information Services/Radio Information Services *AKG HSC271 Earsets *TRS 80 *Beautiful PA! [RSS] Subscribe to our Podcasts with Feedburner [RSS] Subscribe to our latest news, posts, and GREAT articles [RSS] Subscribe to our podcast with Podomatic Related Links: McDonalds WSAJ Radio Online Clock Soundproofing 101 AKG Understanding the PreAmp Jungle MusTech.net E5 Postcast HD RADIO and Ibiquity Gene Autry! RIS -Reading Service PILOT Traveler's Stop Visit PA! Music provided by Jason Davis: Jason Davis Music Visit our site today for awesome information, news and fun! MUSicTECHnology.net END.

We're at the fourth and final stop on the Pennsylvania Amusement Park Roadtrip - Kennywood in West Mifflin, PA. Beautifully landscaped and designated as a National and State Historic Landmark, Kennywood features 31 major rides, including three wooden roller coasters, an antique carousel, the Phantom's Revenge steel coaster, the indoor Exterminator, three water rides, and 14 Kiddieland rides. The park also has 35 various games, as well as four gift shops and four arcades. The 2006 season features the new Swing Shot---a 32-seat swing thrill ride. The Pennsylvania Amusement Park Road Trip is brought to you by VisitPA.com.

Join us as the Pennsylvania Amusement Park Roadtrip rolls on to Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, PA! From high speed world-class roller coasters like Hydra The Revenge, Talon, Steel Force, and ThunderHawk to soaking wet water slides, you're sure to enjoy a day spent at the park. The park originally opened in 1884 as “Dorney’s Trout Ponds and Summer Resort." It quickly became more when rides such as the Old Mill, Circle Swing, Cable Ride and Ferris wheel were added. In 1923, the park’s first coaster was built. The Wildwater Kingdom was added in 1985. At the time, it offered the Northeast one of the only seasonal water parks in the country. Its exciting collection of water slides, activity pools and the gigantic wave pool created a new experience for people throughout the Northeast. The Pennsylvania Amusement Park Road Trip is brought to you by VisitPA.com.

Join us as we kick off the Pennsylvania Amusement Park Roadtrip at Hersheypark in Hershey, PA! Rated the No. 1 Amusement Park in the Northeast by FamilyFun Magazine, Hersheypark celebrates its 99th year by offering fun and excitement for every member of the family! Hersheypark is home to over 60 rides and attractions, 6 drenching water rides, and over two dozen kiddie rides. With live entertainment daily, a dolphin and sea lion show, games, food, and shopping, Hersheypark has something to delight every member of your family. The Pennsylvania Amusement Park Road Trip is brought to you by VisitPA.com.

On this week's show, we'll celebrate the 4th of July by shooting off some of the lamest legal fireworks that the Commonwealth of Virginia allows. Our fireworks display isn't gonna be like what you'll see over Cinderella Castle, but it's better than nothing. We'll also fire up the deep fryer and pay homage to the greatest theme park food ever made - Fried Oreos! Yes, we know this is a theme park podcast and not a cooking show. But when we were at Holiday World a few months ago, we were blown away by this strange dessert. So, after a lot of testing in the kitchen, we have come up with what we believe is a very close version of our own. We'll also bring back Bryan Temmer to the show. Long time listeners will remember Bryan from a show we did last November. Bryan is a normal guy, with a normal job and a normal family. But he has a dream that is far from normal. Bryan has a dream of building his own theme park and he's making progress! We'll check in with Bryan and find out what's been happening since we spoke with him six months ago. We'll also hear a live trip report from Lee in Los Angeles, CA. He recently had a chance to experience the new story overlay at Pirates of the Caribbean at The Disneyland Resort in Anaheim. We'll find out if Captain Jack Sparrow fits in with the older pirates who have been in the attraction since the late 60's. We'll also announce the winner of the On-Line Sign Generator Contest and give you another clue in our Soundwave Contest! Don't forget, next week we begin our 4-week long Pennsylvania Amusement Park Road Trip brought to you by VisitPA.com. We'll start the road trip by visiting Hersheypark and experiencing their new attraction for 2006, Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge! After the show, join us in our forums to talk about your opinions. You can also record your thoughts on the CoasterRadio.com Voicemail Line at 206-339-RIDE (206-339-7433). Let us know what you think by e-mailing us at feedback[@]coasterradio.com. This week's episode is brought to you by MapleLeafTickets.com, Orlando's oldest and most trusted discount ticket agent for Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and dozens of other area parks and attractions. Unmatched customer service combined with everyday low prices has made them one of Central Florida's most popular discount ticket agencies. In business since 1983, MapleLeafTickets.com offers the best value of any local ticket agent - guaranteed. Call them at 1-800-841-2837.