Mount Sunapee

[Newpylong]

Okemo of New Hampshire, which is good for some I guess... : )

 

[snowmonster]

I learned to ski at Sunapee and take my students there every year for our annual ski trip. So, given the busloads of skiers I tow around, Sunapee is probably the eastern ski area I support the most financially. It is a convenient drive from Boston, has a good-sized separate learning area and has consistent grooming and snow-making. Plus, the views of the lake make for great photos on the school website. That being said, I have outgrown this place. The same things that make it work for a beginner or intermediate make it unappealing to skiers of a higher skill-level (not tooting my own horn here but just saying). Sorry, but other than that annual pilgrimage I take with my students, I find no other reason to ski Sunapee.

To the OP: It sounds like you work for Sunapee. Do you?

 

[WWF-VT]

Okemo of New Hampshire, which is good for some I guess... : )

IMHO Loon is the Okemo of New Hampshire....

 

[steamboat1]

Sounds to me like NH has a few Okemo like ski areas.

Sunapee, Loon, Bretton Woods & if Balsams ever opens again you can add that.

Am I missing any?

 

[Puck it]

Sounds to me like NH has a few Okemo like ski areas.

Sunapee, Loon, Bretton Woods & if Balsams ever opens again you can add that.

Am I missing any?

As does Vermont!

 

[steamboat1]

As does Vermont!

Not really.

Even Stratton has some difficult terrain.

Where else?

 

[Puck it]

Not really.

Even Stratton has some difficult terrain.

Where else?

As does Sunapee!

 

[gmcunni]

i love the not very subtle okemo bashing. did i read they had another record breaking sales year last season despite the crappy winter?

 

[hammer]

I thought that at this time of the year we would not be engaging in ski area snobbery...any more ski areas we would like to kick around? :roll:

 

[Puck it]

I thought that at this time of the year we would not be engaging in ski area snobbery...any more ski areas we would like to kick around? :roll:

Maybe, Killington!!!!

 

[Boston Bulldog]

To the OP: It sounds like you work for Sunapee. Do you?

No I don't work at Sunapee. I'm just a college kid who has skied the mountain for fourteen years. I used to be on the ski team for six years, so I was up every weekend for those six years. I know a whole lot about the mountain, like the secret trails, Tin Can and Outer Lynx.

Tin can is probably the best kept secret of the mountain. At the flatter top section of Goosebumps you can see a small opening. Follow that into the woods and soon you find yourself on a tight glade created by the ski team, with a huge rocky headwall at the top. It then dumps out at the top of the Duckling double. The lower section of Tin can is easier to find. In between Eggbeater and Flying goose there is a thin chute that is visible from the Triple. More people ski this, but upper Tin Can is a wild ride. For those of you that go to Sunapee again, you should check it out. It's incredible, plus all the snow that blows off North Peak settles there so on a good day you can get some nice face shots.

 

[ScottySkis]

No I don't work at Sunapee. I'm just a college kid who has skied the mountain for fourteen years. I used to be on the ski team for six years, so I was up every weekend for those six years. I know a whole lot about the mountain, like the secret trails, Tin Can and Outer Lynx.

Tin can is probably the best kept secret of the mountain. At the flatter top section of Goosebumps you can see a small opening. Follow that into the woods and soon you find yourself on a tight glade created by the ski team, with a huge rocky headwall at the top. It then dumps out at the top of the Duckling double. The lower section of Tin can is easier to find. In between Eggbeater and Flying goose there is a thin chute that is visible from the Triple. More people ski this, but upper Tin Can is a wild ride. For those of you that go to Sunapee again, you should check it out. It's incredible, plus all the snow that blows off North Peak settles there so on a good day you can get some nice face shots.

If those are really secret glades why are you talking about them online, not so secret anymore.

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[MadPadraic]

Sounds to me like NH has a few Okemo like ski areas.

Sunapee, Loon, Bretton Woods & if Balsams ever opens again you can add that.

Am I missing any?

Not really.

Even Stratton has some difficult terrain.

Where else?

Don't hate on Loon. Flume and Ripsaw are every bit as steep as anything at Cannon that's ever actually open. Oh, and Flume's surface is usually much scarier than Paulie's.

 

[Newpylong]

i love the not very subtle okemo bashing. did i read they had another record breaking sales year last season despite the crappy winter?

Lol no they didn't... I don't know of anyone on the East coast who did. I don't see any Okemo bashing though - just people saying there are lots of other mountains like it.

 

[Newpylong]

As does Sunapee!

If Sunapee has difficult terrain my name is Mickey Mouse

 

[Puck it]

If Sunapee has difficult terrain my name is Mickey Mouse

As compared to Stratton and Okemo, Mickey!!!!

 

[Newpylong]

lol

 

[bobbutts]

Nice character and fun lowish angle runs. Great groomed snow, often fails to cash in on natural storms, many of the glades are too flat or bad double fall lines. I only go on weekdays, and the demographic is usually dominated young racers and seniors.

 

[snowmonster]

Tin can is probably the best kept secret of the mountain. At the flatter top section of Goosebumps you can see a small opening. Follow that into the woods and soon you find yourself on a tight glade created by the ski team, with a huge rocky headwall at the top. It then dumps out at the top of the Duckling double. The lower section of Tin can is easier to find. In between Eggbeater and Flying goose there is a thin chute that is visible from the Triple. More people ski this, but upper Tin Can is a wild ride. For those of you that go to Sunapee again, you should check it out. It's incredible, plus all the snow that blows off North Peak settles there so on a good day you can get some nice face shots.

Thanks for the information. I think I've stumbled on to the lower portion of this secret stash.=) Hope to see you there when I make my annual Sunapee trip.

 

[riverc0il]

As compared to Stratton and Okemo, Mickey!!!!

I'd rather ski Stratton than Sunapee. But Sunapee rather than Okemo. But the point is moot, as I'll never ski any of these three again. :lol: