Mount Snow 11/24/07

[GolfingOwl]

I was at Snow on Friday afternoon and had a somewhat similar, though not as bad, experience. Green from the top was ridiculously crowded and icy but that's what happens when you have one green run from the top. The blue runs being wider were much better. I had two young kids in tow and was very concerned for their safety. Many idiots on the slopes. These are the days when passes should be pulled. I like to ski fast too, but not when there are tons of people on icy slopes. I don't like to stereotype but nearly every near-miss of my kids were from snowboarders including the two that ended up crashing into each other as they both almost crashed into my 6-year old.

We hit Stratton on Saturday hoping for less crowds and better conditions but it was actually icier thatn Snow and very crowded in spots, though we did find some runs that were not that crowded so we stuck to them.

[reefer]

I've skied Mt. Snow every Thanksgiving Saturday the last seven years and this was the busiest! Heard many employee spout "word got out" and it certainly did. Chute (along with several other trails as Zand explained) was dangerous, not necessarily because of people being rude, but amateurs going where they shouldn't. Only did a few runs over there and got out before someone nailed me. After investigating the hill, I found the best skiing right under the Canyon Quad. Lapped that about ten times to get a great work-out. Snow was all pushed over there on skiers left. It was like my own personal trail because everyone else stayed in the middle! Made the boundary polls into "gates". Hit the single line and never waited over a minute. So in short, I made the best of a bad situation, and left feeling pretty good about the skiing I did. Then again, I'm not paying $52.00. I actually thought I saw tickets at $63.00 Saturday!
I'd wait until they can make some more snow before I venture off to Mt. Snow.................

[drjeff]

One of the best things that I've noticed that Mount Snow did in its opening of terrain this year is to effectively segregate the majority of park users from the majority of skiers, even if they weren't really trying to. Basically, I REALLY enjoyed as a non park skier, having essentially the entire main lodge side of the mountain (Upper Canyon/Standard, Snowdance, River Run and Chute) free of the park crowd, and I'm sure that the park crowd appreciated not having to weave in and out of as many non park folks over at the carinthia side. The "mixing pot" area was the portion of Long John from the top of Nitro Quad down to where the Heavy Metal double ended at the top of the Vermonster Park. This is where it got interesting with a scraped trail filled with a mix of park users who wanted to ride Nitro quad instead of Heavy Metal Double and many lower level non park users on Deer Run coming off the top.

In the future when the snowmaking coverage goes up, the ability to cover Deer Run which runs paralell but slightly uphill of Long John in that area could really help keep the beginers from being overwhelmed.

All in all, Saturday was a very big November crowd.

[Greg]

Originally Posted by reefer

Chute (along with several other trails as Zand explained) was dangerous, not necessarily because of people being rude, but amateurs going where they shouldn't.

Hunter was pretty crowded yesterday since they only had one WROD open, but it seemed that the majority of the people there were pretty accomplished skiers so I never felt that uncomfortable. That makes all the difference. The low intermediates aren't the problem. It's those that think they can ski well that ski too fast and out of control.