Pro-Okemo Comment Thread

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Originally Posted by reefer

Food drive is Sunday, December 7th this year, $30.00. Parley that with Mt. Snow Saturday for the first double-shot of the year for a nice early season warm-up with lots of Vert. I'll miss doing this on Thanksgiving weekend for the first time it eight years however, a little sad.
There is enough stuff at Okemo to keep you going enough to have a good time.
High speed Lifts get you everywhere fast.
Love the Sitting Bull. Nice staff! Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich with Long Trail on tap rocks.......can't wait for December 7th!

Wow the food drive is later this year..yikes...by December 7th..Blue mountain the true mountain should be open..It's a tradition for me to ski in Vermont Thanksgiving weekend..last year was Sunday and Monday..at Okemo and Killington.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Originally Posted by highpeaksdrifter

There are some things about this comment that I find hard to believe.

#1 That you would let a can of food leave your possession.

#2 Why go back to Okemo once you’ve established you don’t like it there.

#3 Even Whiteface detractors will admit that taken as a whole the mountain skis relatively steep by Eastern standards and I’ve never heard that about Okemo.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again, I don’t believe you’ve ever been to Whiteface.

Early season at Okemo is way better than Stowe..at Stowe there's one or maybe two routes down and Okemo has several routes down. If I'm going to ski some WROD..I might as well make a shorter drive. I'm not saying I dislike Okemo..I actually think it's a great place to ease into the season at...my first few days of the season are all about high speed cruisers..I'm not into bashing bumps on day 1..

As for canned food day..saving $30 off a lift ticket to give $2 worth of food for a good cause is a good ROI..Return on Investment. If Whiteface was in the Catskills..I'd ski there more..or if they received the kind of snow Stowe gets..

And again HighPeaksDrifter..I skied Whiteface in 1994 and 1997 with my high school ski club. We stayed at the Comfort Inn..in Plattsburgh..the one with the indoor waterslide..and skied a Saturday and a Sunday at Whiteface. I enjoyed it..but the amount of terrain is small compared to my favorite Vermont ski area.....

[highpeaksdrifter]

Originally Posted by GrilledSteezeSandwich

..Okemo is sort of like Whiteface because it's mostly Groomers and I've only skied Whiteface 4 days all in the 90s..

Originally Posted by GrilledSteezeSandwich

We stayed at the Comfort Inn..in Plattsburgh..the one with the indoor waterslide..and skied a Saturday and a Sunday at Whiteface. I enjoyed it..but the amount of terrain is small compared to my favorite Vermont ski area.....

Dude, I'm not telling you what to like or where to ski. I thought we where having a conversatio about Okemo, then you throw that WF take in to bait me.

[WWF-VT]

Skiing at Okemo is a big boost for your ego

If you like groomed, mellow terrain it's the place to be

Black diamond trail designations scare away many of the skiers/riders there so the "expert" terrain is often uncrowded

Owners know their clientele and target market and that is reflected in the grooming, lodging, etc.

Closest ski area in VT to Harry's Cafe in Mount Holley

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Originally Posted by highpeaksdrifter

Dude, I'm not telling you what to like or where to ski. I thought we where having a conversatio about Okemo, then you throw that WF take in to bait me.

duh

[tree_skier]

Lets see what's to like about pokemo.

once out of the base area plenty of HS lifts as not much need to rest the legs after pounding all the cruisers.

Grooming, I love everything being groomed as natural snow is for wusses.

Snowmaking, Lots of great claimes but with 251 super pole cats a few miles south can't really back them up.

Love all the double black trails, I don't need to worry about my family on those and they can brag in the lodge afterwords about how they made the double blacks look easy.

Also love how they were behind the term "condo stop" in instuctor lingo.

sums it up for me

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

They have really friendly parking lot attendants..

[Greg]

Originally Posted by tree_skier

Grooming, I love everything being groomed as natural snow is for wusses.

[drjeff]

Pro-kemo comment:

One of the guys I goto Patriots games with has a condo within walking distance of the base area and his fridge is ALWAYS stocked with really good, really cold beer whenever I go there!

Their golf course is a fun 18 to play

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Good Irish Pub at the base of the access road..Killarneys..