Holiday Valley with Pics

skiadikt · Oct 20, 2014

mbedle said:
Looks like its happened more than once. Also, this perspective doesn't make it look so steep. http://www.nspwny.org/pic-hv avalanche 20021214.jpg

agree with dr jeff, in some cases those "slides" are due to poor technique, which is probably the case with the above. it doesn't look that steep. killington has had slides on vertigo, ovation and double dipper all of which are very steep.

Blanton · Oct 20, 2014

skiadikt said:
agree with dr jeff, in some cases those "slides" are due to poor technique, which is probably the case with the above. it doesn't look that steep. killington has had slides on vertigo, ovation and double dipper all of which are very steep.

The section that slid is about 38 degrees depending on how it is groomed.

The majority of this was filmed at Holiday Valley for those looking for visuals *unfortunately all mogul skiing

http://vimeo.com/77557786

http://vimeo.com/83341673

Domeskier · Oct 21, 2014

^^ Nice. Looks like Holiday Valley deserves the Ski Sundown award for western NY.

p_levert · Oct 21, 2014

The first part of the Joe Riders video was not filmed at HV. Where is that?

Blanton · Oct 21, 2014

p_levert said:
The first part of the Joe Riders video was not filmed at HV. Where is that?

Boston Mills. Halfway between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio

Mariovntr · Oct 21, 2014

Blanton said:
Boston Mills. Halfway between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio

Tiger! Grew up on that hill.

Ski Till I Die · Oct 22, 2014

skiadikt said:
agree with dr jeff, in some cases those "slides" are due to poor technique, which is probably the case with the above. it doesn't look that steep. killington has had slides on vertigo, ovation and double dipper all of which are very steep.

Im tragically from Ohio too... so HV growing up was all I had until I came out east.

A couple things from my perspective...

1) the apres scene is the best I have experienced besides Killington (although Ive never been to Tremblant)
2) the mountain itself is a lot of fun, albeit not much of a challenge... the Tannenbaum (sp?) area is really nice
3) the Wall is super short but the pitch is steeper than any of KTowns double diamond headwalls

Blanton · Oct 22, 2014

Ski Till I Die said:
Im tragically from Ohio too... so HV growing up was all I had until I came out east.

A couple things from my perspective...

1) the apres scene is the best I have experienced besides Killington (although Ive never been to Tremblant)
2) the mountain itself is a lot of fun, albeit not much of a challenge... the Tannenbaum (sp?) area is really nice
3) the Wall is super short but the pitch is steeper than any of KTowns double diamond headwalls

Killington rocks out- however I still give the nod to EVL due to the fact that once you are there you can walk to all of the bars without having to drive. The Killington Mountain Road on the other hand is quite spread out and full of cops.

One other thing that has yet to be mentioned is the quality of night skiing offered. Great visibility, and unlike VT/NH/ME/ADK locations the temperatures don't take a massive plummet as soon as the sun goes down. When I moved to Burlington for school it blew me away that only one ski area offered night skiing... after trying it once I quickly realized why.

SIKSKIER · Oct 23, 2014

skiadikt said:
agree with dr jeff, in some cases those "slides" are due to poor technique, which is probably the case with the above. it doesn't look that steep. killington has had slides on vertigo, ovation and double dipper all of which are very steep.

This reminds me of when Cannon had one of these on Paulies Folly.Except a cat was pushing out the whale and he went for quite a ride.

catskills · Oct 23, 2014

For the avalanche they even got the Avalanche dogs out. Yes they have Avalanche trained dogs in western NY.

http://www.nspwny.org/avalanche.htm

http://nitrogoldens.com/index.asp?ID=25

MadMadWorld · Oct 23, 2014

People don't always understand that slides generally happen in the 30-35 degree range. Anything less than that can be attributed to poor snowmaking

MadMadWorld · Oct 23, 2014

catskills said:
For the avalanche they even got the Avalanche dogs out. Yes they have Avalanche trained dogs in western NY.

http://www.nspwny.org/avalanche.htm

http://nitrogoldens.com/index.asp?ID=25

Judging by those pictures they caused it intentionally.

catskills · Oct 23, 2014

MadMadWorld said:
Judging by those pictures they caused it intentionally.

Not all the photos were taken at the Holiday Avalanche event.

This Holiday Snow slide was not intentional. Smaller slides often happen in the North East when snowmaking of very wet heavy snow blown on the right slippery surface. Small slides from new snow-making happen more than you think.

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