Best resort for a non-skier

[Warp Daddy]

skiing at Tremblant vs Whiteface = NO comparison . Been to both MANY timess and have been to North Conway too as mentioned in my previous post .

Whiteface is 3200 vert and MORE if THE SLIDES are open - Tremblant about 2100 vert ------------- WF hosted the Olympics and other WC events -- got the picture .

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

no arguement there and i did not mean it was a shopping heaven. what i meant was that i don't have to drive outside of the resort because all the amenities are all in walking distance so it is convenient. if i want to drink some beer, i can just walk outside the hotel to grab a six pak at a convenience store. in the morning, i can walk a few minutes to get buy fresh baked bread. after dinner, you just walk home. most of the village lodging is ski in ski out so when you have young children, it is really convenient. no loading and unloading the car every morning. that's huge.

maybe it's just me, but i loved not driving for a week.

Everything you say is true, but the main reason you’re there is to ski. The thread is about the best place for the non skier. After they pick up the fresh bread, get a 6 pack, walk around the shops then what do they do?

IMO there is nothing you can find to do recreationally in any other ski resort in the NE that you can’t find in WF/LP. There are lots of things to do in WF/LP that you can’t find anywhere else. Just sayin.

 

[gladerider]

Everything you say is true, but the main reason you’re there is to ski. The thread is about the best place for the non skier. After they pick up the fresh bread, get a 6 pack, walk around the shops then what do they do?

IMO there is nothing you can find to do recreationally in any other ski resort in the NE that you can’t find in WF/LP. There are lots of things to do in WF/LP that you can’t find anywhere else. Just sayin.

ah, everything but ski? i don't disagree. i think i said WF/LP is hard to beat.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Whiteface just put up a new website

http://www.whiteface.com/

Check out the Olympic Facilities, Activities and Events (which change year round) and these don't include shopping, nite life and resturant options.

 

[dropKickMurphy]

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

This.

Quebec City is a World Class tourist destination. For atmosphere, architecture, history, museums, culture, dining, shopping, etc. you can't compare it to any of the previously mentioned ski towns.

Also, some of the very best, and least crowded ski slopes in the East are within an easy drive.

While you're skiing Le Massif, she can take the drive with you and spend the day exploring the shops and galleries of nearby Baie-Saint-Paul.

The ski areas around QC might not get the snow totals of northern VT, but they seem to maintain their snow very well. They don't seem to be as affected by the rain/thaw/freeze cycles that so often ruin the conditions in the northeast. As long as you're prepared for the COLD, you stand a pretty decent chance of finding very good snow conditions at these areas.

 

[dropKickMurphy]

Quebec City in terms of food/variety will have LP beat, no doubt. What is the exchange rate these days? But to your sons comment, WF has ~3.2k of vertical. Thats more then many western resorts (e.g., Alta).

An excellent illustration of why vert is such an overrated stat.

Cover WF with Alta's powder and you'd have something really special. Hell, if WF had Jay or Stowe's snow, it would be king of the northeast.

Snow quality, snow quantity, steeps, and quantity/variety of terrain are, to me, more important than vertical.

 

[Robbski]

This.

Quebec City is a World Class tourist destination. For atmosphere, architecture, history, museums, culture, dining, shopping, etc. you can't compare it to any of the previously mentioned ski towns.

Also, some of the very best, and least crowded ski slopes in the East are within an easy drive.

While you're skiing Le Massif, she can take the drive with you and spend the day exploring the shops and galleries of nearby Baie-Saint-Paul.

The ski areas around QC might not get the snow totals of northern VT, but they seem to maintain their snow very well. They don't seem to be as affected by the rain/thaw/freeze cycles that so often ruin the conditions in the northeast. As long as you're prepared for the COLD, you stand a pretty decent chance of finding very good snow conditions at these areas.

This is the solution. Maybe not the best skiing in the Northeast but pretty damn good and the best that is near a first class non-skier vacation destination.

(Exchange is close to par and not likely to improve from the USD perspective.)

 

[tarponhead]

An excellent illustration of why vert is such an overrated stat.

Cover WF with Alta's powder and you'd have something really special. Hell, if WF had Jay or Stowe's snow, it would be king of the northeast.

Snow quality, snow quantity, steeps, and quantity/variety of terrain are, to me, more important than vertical.

Agreed. But my point was to the OPs comment about his son saying trails were limited. WF is pretty large.

 

[Beast_Ed]

Heavenly Valley - bring money

 

[jaywbigred]

An excellent illustration of why vert is such an overrated stat.

Cover WF with Alta's powder and you'd have something really special. Hell, if WF had Jay or Stowe's snow, it would be king of the northeast.

Snow quality, snow quantity, steeps, and quantity/variety of terrain are, to me, more important than vertical.

Having never skied the Slides, Whiteface does lack true, knee-buckling steeps. But the flipside is that I don't think there is a mountain on the east coast that can match WF when it comes to sustained pitch. In other words, the steepest stuff at Stowe is certainly steeper than anything I've skied at Whiteface (again, having never been there when the slides were open) but, I found WF much more relentless in overall pitch/top to bottom runs that sustained that pitch. It tuckered me out.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Having never skied the Slides, Whiteface does lack true, knee-buckling steeps. But the flipside is that I don't think there is a mountain on the east coast that can match WF when it comes to sustained pitch. In other words, the steepest stuff at Stowe is certainly steeper than anything I've skied at Whiteface (again, having never been there when the slides were open) but, I found WF much more relentless in overall pitch/top to bottom runs that sustained that pitch. It tuckered me out.

Did you get a chance to ski Lookout Mt. last season? Lookout Below is steep. Hoyt's High has some very steep parts too, although it never officially opened last season because of no snow making on it yet.

Also this season the Sugar Valley Glades will open and some of those sections are steep as well.