{"id":122372,"date":"2026-02-24T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122372\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:28:10","slug":"kooky-contests-and-music-coming-to-montage-mountainfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/122372\/","title":{"rendered":"Kooky contests and music coming to Montage Mountainfest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mountainfest at Montage Mountain will again combine kooky contests, concerts, a tribute to the 1980s and fireworks in a party atmosphere March 6-7.<\/p>\n

The slopes at the Scranton resort are open through it all and ticket options can combine skiing and the festival.<\/p>\n

Competitors build creative sleds out of cardboard for Preston & Steve\u2019s Cardboard Classic, which begins at 10 a.m. Friday, March 6. The resort expects 125 sleds, the maximum it can handle, to compete for prizes.<\/p>\n

There is even a $500 prize for the category of \u201cfavorite fail.\u201d One category, for sleds that pay tribute to the beer brand Pacifico, rewards a team with a year\u2019s worth of beer and other merchandise.<\/p>\n

\"AA giant chicken sled made entirely of cardboard sits with a team member on top of it, ready for a previous Cardboard Classic sledding contest. (BOB HAVENS \/ SUBMITTED)<\/p>\n

Spectators are encouraged to come early to look at the sleds.<\/p>\n

The name comes from the \u201cPreston & Steve\u201d radio show of WMMR in Philadelphia, which will broadcast that morning from Montage Mountain beginning at 6 a.m.<\/p>\n

The contest is followed by a tribute to the MTV of the 1980s, with the band M80s at 1:30 p.m. Big hair, leg warmers and other \u201980s looks are encouraged. Spectators can join both events for free.<\/p>\n

Later, Slocum Hollow will play more live music.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, March 7, the pond skimming contest is at 11 a.m. What is pond skimming? Costumed skiers and snowboarders try to end their downhill run skimming across the icy water of a shallow artificial pond.<\/p>\n

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Wheatus, the pop\/rock band known for the 2000 song \u201cTeenage Dirtbag,\u201d goes on stage Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The rock band Sugar Ray plays at 5. Their top songs include 1997\u2019s \u201cFly,\u201d followed by \u201cEvery Morning,\u201d \u201cSomeday\u201d and \u201cWhen It\u2019s Over.\u201d The concerts are held outside.<\/p>\n

A ticket to watch the concerts and the pond skimming, with access to the bars and restaurants, is $42 in advance and $50 at the door.<\/p>\n

Other ticket options vary, according to the time spent on the slopes. A two-day VIP package that includes lift tickets and equipment rentals is $249.<\/p>\n

The last event is a fireworks show Saturday, March 7 at 6:35 p.m.<\/p>\n

The resort\u2019s webpage is montagemountainresorts.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Scranton resort is about 80 minutes from downtown Pottsville and around 50 minutes from downtown Hazleton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mountainfest at Montage Mountain will again combine kooky contests, concerts, a tribute to the 1980s and fireworks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1681,201,182,1213,28,178,180,179,289,181],"class_list":["post-122372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-entertainment","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}