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Well, one leg by boat. I have an old friend that does a superbowl thing up near Whiteface every year. Coming from Boston that's kind of a long ride and you drive by a lot of ski areas to get there. One of my other friends and I have been breaking up the the trip to Whiteface and back...

I am more of a downhill skier but I used to do a decent amount of cross country skiing too. I was thinking about getting back into it more. I have an older pair of back country skis (metal edges, a little wider, fish scales under foot, meant for cutting your own trails - not really for...

Went for the 1st night last night. Well attended, good time. You could tell everyone was pumped for the upcoming season. I didn't think the deals on ski gear were that great but some of the lift tix deals were OK. They were offering: 4 pack of mt sno/attitash/wildcat/crotched tix good...

I was tied up all weekend and unable to ski so I grabbed an afternoon at Cannon on Friday. The heavy rain on the way up was concerning but by the time we got there it had ended and it looked to be OK on the mountain. Light crowds on the mountain. The skiing was soft all over. There...

I know this subject gets kicked around a lot on this forum, but I think some of the snow report "embellishment" that's gone on this last week is really out of control this time. Jay reporting almost 3 feet of new snow in the last 7 days. Burke saying 31" of new snow. Cannon claiming 19" of...

We broke up the trip from Boston up to Jay for the weekend by driving to Burke on the way up and skiing there before continuing on to Jay after skiing. I can get to Burke in about 2.5 hrs and then it's a little over an hr to get to Jay from Burke. I had a free lift tix from my Champlain...

Well, I finally hit one. Years of planning trips ahead and showing up to find only ice or rain. We finally got some payback. I had booked a couple of days in a ski in/out condo at Jay a couple of weeks ago to spend some time with my oldest son skiing while he was off from school. We got...

Had a great day at Ragged Mountain yesterday. It was dumping snow all day. I would guess it was 4-5”s total by the time the snow was done. Was hoping for more, but we’ll take ankle deep. Skied with my oldest (19) and youngest (16) sons. Even with snow during the last ½ hr of our...

Took the family out to Big Sky for school vacation week. Splurged and got on-mtn ski-in/out place. I've got 10 days out here so I'll probably be posting a lot of pics. Big Sky has been on my bucket list for a long time. All my skiing friends who have gone there have raved about it...

Being a parent I am hostage to my kid's school schedule and I have to synch my schedule to their vacation schedule. One thing that our town's school system does that's kind of unique is give our kids an extra day off for MLK weekend. So they not only get Monday off but they get either the...

As much as I love hanging and watching bowl games on New Year's day - it's also a great day to ski because most of the week and weekender skiers don't go out that day. So me and my boys decided to day trip from Boston to Okemo. Okemo isn't usually my 1st choice as skiing groomers all day...

Went to Crotched on Wednesday for their 3-9PM ticket. A couple of hours of daylight skiing followed by a couple of hours of night skiing. Neither me nor my boys had been out yet and we needed to get out and get on our gear to be sure everything was working OK. I don't have any pics (too cold...

I've been itching to get out and do some "real skiing" since my work schedule has prevented me from going yet. Decided to take the day off from work, grab my boys and day trip from Boston to Killington. I also figured that the cold would keep all but the hard-core off of the slopes...

Maybe it's because I am viewing it in light of the accolades and adulation that Burns' Civil War documentary got, but I am kind of surprised that there isn't more discussion and praise for his most recent documentary about the Vietnam war. I just got done watching all 10 episodes, 18 hrs...

We followed our plan and went to Winter Park on our last day. We had a red-eye flight out of Denver so we could ski to the end of the day. That came in handy as between getting out of the condo at Steamboat and driving to WP, we didn't get there until lunchtime. The drive was pretty easy...

We are skiing Steamboat for the next couple of days. Got our 1st day there on Tuesday. Relatively uncrowded, never waited on liftlines. I can see why it is known as a family mountain. Tons of kids and ski school all over the place. Not a bad thing - got to get the next generation of...

We made it to CO for our school vacation trip. Got to our hotel in Golden CO at about midnight, so an early launch wasn't happening for us. Plus the one downside of shipping your stuff ahead of your trip is that when you get there - there's a lot of unpacking and sorting out to do. Drove to...

Went to Loon on Monday with my boys. We haven't been able to do much more than day trips so far this ski season due to work/holidays/colds/etc. That will change next week. But with Max Passes and living north of Boston - Loon is a good day trip mountain for us. I figured that the last...

Been making noise about doing a western ski trip for a couple of years now. Both of my boys, ages 14 & 17, are good skiers who have never skied anywhere but the northeast. I've been wanting to take them out west as they are both aggressive, confident skiers who will mess around in the...

I thought that since the weather is so god-awful for skiing that I’d start a thread about awful weather you experienced when you went for a ski trip. Mine is from about 10 yrs ago when a buddy of mine and I went to Sugarloaf. We both took Monday off of work so that we would have a 3 day...