Where do you stay when you ski/ride?

[gmcunni]

Where do you usually stay when you go to the mountains?

 

[gmcunni]

i mostly drive for day trips around New England. try to get in a few weekends with a hotel/motel rental.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Living on the St Lawrence River near the Dacks and the Laurentians we primarily day trip to our regional hills. We make monthly 2/3 day trips to Tremblant ,Gore, or WF and occasionally President's weeklong excursions with our grandkids at others in NH /MA.

 

[frameitinskis]

Live, work, and play in Ludlow VT!

 

[o3jeff]

Day tripper

 

[billski]

I also vote for:

Mooch off friends who have places up there.

 

[4aprice]

For me I have 3 basic destinations and 3 seperate responses. The Pocono's and Camelback are what I consider my backyard thus I sleep in my own bed and commute. Other day trip options for me would be the Catskills and Berkshires which I hit from time to time. My trips to the Northern NY(north of Albany), Vermont, and New Hampshire require an overnight. I will usually try to find a room at one of the chain hotels near by but not at where I want to ski. I'm perfectly happy to stay in such places as St Albans, Burlington, Rutland, Glens Falls, White River, etc. If the wife is coming I usually try to find one with an indoor pool. On our trips to Utah we stay at my BIL's condo in Cottonwood Hieghts smack dab between BCC and LCC.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[jrmagic]

We have a condo slopeside at Magic. If I'm travelling to another mountain, its usually a day trip from there.

 

[Vortex]

Grew up as a mountain rat, became a day tripper as a parent, then bought off mountain, with kids influence bought on mountain for ease and social life for the kids.

Will be off mountain when kids leave.

 

[St. Bear]

I also vote for:

Mooch off friends who have places up there.

Replace friends with family, and you have 90% of my ski trips.

 

[2sons]

We joined a ski club this year, otherwise crash at a relative's house up in Burlington or stay stay wherever it's cheap.

 

[gmcunni]

I also vote for:

Mooch off friends who have places up there.

funny, i had that as an option when i first thought of the poll but forget to add it, EDIT wouldn't let me change when i remembered.

 

[emmaurice2]

I rarely stay on-mountain unless there's a really good deal. I usually find chain hotels, occasionally b&b's within a 45 minute drive of where I want to ski. Day trip to Mass and So. VT unless I'm making a weekend of it.

I need to find friends who live near mountains.

 

[hammer]

Day tripper with a few trips using timeshare exchanges and one ski vacation week. May want to look into a condo in the mountains once we're empty nesters, but we will want a location that will work for more than one season.

 

[bheemsoth]

My family has a cabin in southeastern New Hampshire (near Keene) so we usually head there on Friday nights and use that as our base, then day trip to Magic, Stratton, Snow, Okemo, or Killington on Saturday morning.

It's a little bit far from those mountains, but the 75 minute drive doesn't bother me, and it's nice to have somewhere to get away for the weekend rather than just day tripping from CT.

 

[SkiFanE]

Off mountain home, 10min drive to mt., on free shuttle (invaluable for tween/teens). It'd be hard to be a skiing family w/o our own place, IMO. But it's truly a second 'home' and we're thinking it could be a potential retirement home.

 

[xwhaler]

We have done different things in past years but this year our plans revolve around staying at my uncles place in Proctorsville VT (just outside Ludlow)
It's a 2 hr drive form our house in Southern NH and gives us options to ski Okemo, Magic, K, Pico, Bromley, etc.
Also, beyond that I planned 4 wknds that we wouldn;t be there: B+B for Cannon, Hotel for Bush/Smuggs next wknd, Condo at Burke, and then the AZ Summit.

Once April hits we likely will scale back to doing more day trips into NH as I will prob ski one day and get the boat ready for the season.

 

[drjeff]

I have a condo in the complex directly across rte 100 from the main entrance of Mount Snow. Walk out the door in the morning, stand next to the back of my car, wait for the shuttle bus that's painted like a cow to pick me up(loops by every 15 minutes), and about 4 minutes later i'm dropped off next to the main base lodge

 

[deadheadskier]

Day tripper and or stay with friends / family in Vermont. I lived in Stowe for 6 years and have good friends I can stay with up there whenever I want. My brother lives in Woodstock, VT for Southern VT visits.

 

[frapcap]

Hotels/motels. Starts to add up if you do it alone, but at least it adds points to my southwest airlines card.
Priceline helps a lot. Staying in a hilton for $80 instead of a hole in the wall for the same price.