There really is nothing spectacular about Mount Snow really... it just is a cool mountain with a friendly and diverse crowd. There is some development there, but nothing obscene. I usually ski solo, and I can honestly say I would ride up the chair again with any one person that I rode with there this year. The same cannot be said for places like Killington where I can't wait to get off the lift.
Stratton: I don't think people hate it as much as they just don't care for it. Like I said, and the person above here, it just has a cookie cutter feel, and that's what the people who ski there like. The mountain police, the gondola terminal which looks more like a Tramway in the Alps than something in Vermont, the gates which keep you from entering the lift until the chair has passed, etc. and so on... its just not for me.
The walk the walk comment was regarding the flashy outfits and nice equipment all around, it was just to build on my point. I'm not judging anyone's skiing ability, I could care less.
To each his own I guess...
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Originally Posted by trusty  How so?
Am new to VT skiing. I would like to try Mt Snow but had not read anything spectacular about it thus far.
& why is Stratton a McMountain? Everyone seems to roll their eyes at Stratton - what is the deal with this place that makes everyone detest it!?
I have only been to Stratton once, last week, 3/20, and thought it was fine. In VT, I can only compare it to Stowe, which has better, longer and prettier trails but is a bit far from Brooklyn. Stratton seemed OK, very average, people generally nice, save for a few wealthy people with Boston accents on the gondola bragging about their house "facing the mountain" or the non-stop yapper going on and on about Aspen. But found everyone else pretty normal: a mix of scraggly VT hippies, yuppies, regular folks, older folks in their 70s, families, and the predictable cluster of grungy male packs of teens being jerky and yelling "awesome!" every five seconds.
If seeing no one 'walking the walk', you mean no expert skiers who impressed you, that serves no purpose for me, personally. |