Here we go - the annual ski mag. ranking of eastern resorts

[fbrissette]

http://www.skinet.com/ski/galleries/2015s-top-ranked-eastern-ski-resorts?dom=fb&pub=ski

 

[deadheadskier]

Saddleback pulling in #20 and may not open. Wonder if that's ever happened in the history of these lists

 

[from_the_NEK]

Jay plummeted pretty hard from last year. I wonder if the ridiculous cold had an effect on their score.

 

[BenedictGomez]

God how I loathe this thing.

I need to start a social media campaign next year and get Katy Perry & Kim Kardashian to tweet their zombie minions to vote Cambelback #1 in every category and kill this farce once-and-for-all.

 

[ss20]

That is last year's.

http://www.skinet.com/ski/article/resort-guide-2014-15

Thought the blurbs looked familliar :lol:

Lock thread perhaps?

 

[gmcunni]

magic snubbed? wtf!

 

[gmcunni]

i've only skied 9 of the top 20. i fail

 

[Not Sure]

11. ..........Mount Tremblant? as #1 ? I put Smugg's over Tremblant !....Who voted?

 

[steamboat1]

Don't think I've missed much. Loon, Bretton Woods (although I've been there several times, didn't ski, picked up a pin one time) & Holiday Valley are the only ones I've missed. I guess Tremblant wins because of their little village. It's certainly not their terrain.

 

[joshua segal]

For those who don't want to hit the link:
1. Mt. Tremblant
2. Smugglers'
3. Stowe
4. Killington
5. Holiday Valley
6. Whiteface
7. Sugarloaf
8. Brtton Woods
9. Sunday River
10. Okemo
11. Sugarbush
12. Jay Peak
13. Stratton
14. Waterville Valley
15. Loon
16. Mt. Snow
17. Cannon
18. Mad River Glen
19. Bromley
20. Saddleback

A few notes: Holiday Valley only makes the list because of its location and accessibility to many of the voters.

Two areas that never get much love that should both be in this list are Le Massif and Mt. St. Anne. I suspect distance from any place but Quebec City is the reason.

I think Gore belongs on this list too.

 

[WWF-VT]

For those who don't want to hit the link:
1. Mt. Tremblant
2. Smugglers'
3. Stowe
4. Killington
5. Holiday Valley
6. Whiteface
7. Sugarloaf
8. Brtton Woods
9. Sunday River
10. Okemo
11. Sugarbush
12. Jay Peak
13. Stratton
14. Waterville Valley
15. Loon
16. Mt. Snow
17. Cannon
18. Mad River Glen
19. Bromley
20. Saddleback

A few notes: Holiday Valley only makes the list because of its location and accessibility to many of the voters.

Two areas that never get much love that should both be in this list are Le Massif and Mt. St. Anne. I suspect distance from any place but Quebec City is the reason.

I think Gore belongs on this list too.

Once again this is from 2014-15 and was posted on 11/13/2014

 

[RustyGroomer]

Jay plummeted pretty hard from last year. I wonder if the ridiculous WATER SLIDE had an effect on their score.

 

[Highway Star]

Where is SUNDOWN in this list?!!?!!

 

[skiNEwhere]

Where is SUNDOWN in this list?!!?!!

LMAO

HS made a funny!

 

[thetrailboss]

For those who don't want to hit the link:
1. Mt. Tremblant
2. Smugglers'
3. Stowe
4. Killington
5. Holiday Valley
6. Whiteface
7. Sugarloaf
8. Brtton Woods
9. Sunday River
10. Okemo
11. Sugarbush
12. Jay Peak
13. Stratton
14. Waterville Valley
15. Loon
16. Mt. Snow
17. Cannon
18. Mad River Glen
19. Bromley
20. Saddleback

A few notes: Holiday Valley only makes the list because of its location and accessibility to many of the voters.

Two areas that never get much love that should both be in this list are Le Massif and Mt. St. Anne. I suspect distance from any place but Quebec City is the reason.

I think Gore belongs on this list too.

No surprises.

 

[fbrissette]

Once again this is from 2014-15 and was posted on 11/13/2014

Yep it appears you are right. They were not very clear in their Facebook post.

Good news it that the 2015-2016 results will be out in a week or so !

 

[raisingarizona]

Is there a correlation between the top 3 or 5 or 10 listed to the magazines most regular or invested advertisers?

 

[xlr8r]

Here we go with 11-20 for 2016. 1-10 will be released next week

http://www.skinet.com/ski/galleries/2016s-top-ranked-eastern-ski-resorts

11 Sugarloaf
12 Sugarbush
13 Bretton Woods
14 Attitash
15 MRG
16 Wildcat
17 Stratton
18 Cannon
19 Loon
20 Waterville

So far I conclude that Attitash is much higher than expected, and Loon, Sugarbush, Sugarloaf and Stratton are lower than expected. Sugarbush and Sugarloaf you would expect to be in the top 10 based on previous years. I guess that leaves these 8 as locks for top 10.

Tremblant
Smuggs
Stowe
Killington
Jay
Sunday River
Whiteface
Okemo

the other 2 could be

Holiday Valley?
Mt Snow?
Saddleback?
Gore?

 

[cdskier]

Thanks xlr8r. To be honest I'm not surprised to see Sugarbush just miss the top 10. It was #11 last year and resorts that I would personally rank lower often rank much higher. According to the blurb on the article, it lost points for lack of night-life and wind-holds. I personally could care less about night-life. There's enough choices if you really want to go out. I'm just fine having a nice dinner out and then relaxing at my condo and getting to bed at a reasonable time so I can be up early to ski first thing.

Knowing where all resorts ranked in all the individual categories would be interesting to see. The overall rankings are taking into account things I don't care about myself (such as night-life).

I can almost guarantee that Holiday Valley will be in the top 10. Somehow it always is. If I had to guess on the other top 10, I would say Mt Snow, although I don't know why it would have moved up 6 or more spots from last year. I'd love to say Gore should be in the top 10, but they didn't even make the top 20 last year so I think that is unlikely.

Out of the resorts in this year's 11-20 spots, 7 of them dropped in rankings from last year (SL -4, SB -1, BW -5, Stratton -4, Cannon -1, Loon -4, Waterville -6), 1 jumped in rankings (MRG +3), and 2 new resorts appeared (Attitash and Wildcat) that didn't make the cut last year.

 

[thetrailboss]

Here we go with 11-20 for 2016. 1-10 will be released next week

http://www.skinet.com/ski/galleries/2016s-top-ranked-eastern-ski-resorts

11 Sugarloaf
12 Sugarbush
13 Bretton Woods
14 Attitash
15 MRG
16 Wildcat
17 Stratton
18 Cannon
19 Loon
20 Waterville

So far I conclude that Attitash is much higher than expected, and Loon, Sugarbush, Sugarloaf and Stratton are lower than expected. Sugarbush and Sugarloaf you would expect to be in the top 10 based on previous years. I guess that leaves these 8 as locks for top 10.

Tremblant
Smuggs
Stowe
Killington
Jay
Sunday River
Whiteface
Okemo

the other 2 could be

Holiday Valley?
Mt Snow?
Saddleback?
Gore?

Wow. Sugarbush is much lower than it should be.


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