NY Times article on small ski areas

[Ski Diva]

Interesting article on small ski areas in the NY Times. It's good to see that some of these are making a comeback.

 

[Warp Daddy]

great article these feeder hills are great -- in my area BIG Tupper just came back on line (Big Tupper Facebook)

 

[severine]

Nice that they included Magic in their listing at the end!

 

[riverc0il]

Nice that they included Magic in their listing at the end!

That might actually be bad press. Magic has no business being included in that type of list amongst feeder hills. Whaleback does not really fit in either but including Magic in a list of feeder hills is at the least offensive and at worst completely misleading. Lesser known, yes! But Magic is not a "smaller ski area".

 

[severine]

That might actually be bad press. Magic has no business being included in that type of list amongst feeder hills. Whaleback does not really fit in either but including Magic in a list of feeder hills is at the least offensive and at worst completely misleading. Lesser known, yes! But Magic is not a "smaller ski area".

I agree that it didn't qualify as a small feeder hill in the category of that one that's 250 vert, for example. On the other hand, it is listed as not being such (acreage was included) and the mention could bring some much-needed traffic to the mountain.

Magic Mountain (Londonderry, Vt.; 802-824-5645; magicmtn.com; $56).

Among the larger of the reopened resorts, Magic has two chairlifts and 135 skiable acres.

 

[4aprice]

Very interesting article. I used to ski Whaleback on a almost daily basis when I attended boarding school at Kimball Union Academy in the late 70's. I have to disagree with the fellow they interviewed who described it as not much fun. I guess I was lucky that I spent my time there during some really good snow years at a time that Whaleback had little to almost no snow making. I still have some great memories of that place.

2 runs, The Face, and Blowhole right next to it always had great moguls on them. Honed alot of my mogul skiing skills on them. I was also lucky enough to be there on a day when they opened up what was a new trail at that time down the northwest flank of the mountain. I do not recall the name but I remember clearly skiing hip deep powder and enjoying one of the most epic powder runs of my life. Those kind of memories don't fade. If the natural snow is good, a day at Whaleback can be very entertaining.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[BushMogulMaster]

I didn't read the article, but just want to throw out there: within the ski industry, discussing size isn't always just about vert, trails, snow, etc. Magic would be considered a very small ski area based on skier visits.

 

[legalskier]

Campgaw rocks!

 

[Glenn]

Blandford Ski Area (Blandford, Mass.; 413-848-2860; skiblandford.org; $45)

This larger community ski area has what few others do — two terrain parks and five lifts for its 22 trails.

This is where I grew up skiing. No terrain parks, but they did have an old school rope tow up until the early 1990's I learned to ski on that tow.

 

[jrmagic]

Given the size of the marketing budget I will take any press Magic can get..... of course as long as it isnt negative.