Every Weekend Travelers

[drjeff]

2:40 each way to Mount Snow and back Friday afternoon/Monday PM (most weekends). No matter which of the 3 basic ways I go from my house in NE CT to the I-91/Mass Pike junction it always seems like the trip is within 5 minutes of each other (even though there's upto a 10 mile difference on the odometer)

Record run time for me was just roughly 2:25 Longest was in a storm on the way home with part of I-91 shut down by Greenfield for de-icing/plowing/carnage removal where it was just over 6 hours door to door

 

[MonkeyBrook]

4 hours to Sunday River as many weekends as possible...feel great on Sunday night...feel even better the following afternoon.

 

[midd]

2:10-2:25 depending on time of departure to/from chocorua

30 minutes or so in the AM to Attitash.

 

[MommaBear]

Better question I think would be, who's home mountain IS their home mountain, because it's the closest. :-D

Exactly. Home mountain is Mount Snow BECAUSE it is 2 hours door to door and it had the less expensive pass when ASC sold off the mountains, otherwise it would have been Killington. And then we found an affordable condo in the Mt Snow area that works for us. Looked for several years around the Killington area but couldn't touch anything we liked.

Now that we've discovered Sugarbush...and find out that kids under 12 ski free!...I wish we had gone in that direction instead. Older two are now 13 and 17 - would have saved us some cash. :-( But I don't think we would have been able to handle the 4 hour commute with 3 kids who typically fell apart in the Ludlow area on the way to Killington.

So, Mount Snow it is.

 

[x10003q]

3 hours to Gore on Friday night and 3:15 home on Sunday night. It is all highway except for the first 4 miles and the last 20 miles.

 

[xwhaler]

We have a winter rental in Rangeley ME this season
Drive time to the cabin is 3 hrs w/o any traffic/accidents/stops right after work on a Friday afternoon.
Drive time to Saddleback in the AM is another 20-25 mins going around the lake and up the 7 mile access road

I work in Portsmouth and live in Epping so what has been making a lot of sense of us is to just stay at the cabin Sunday night and leave early Monday AM. Leave Rangeley at 5, at desk by 8am
4:30am wakeup is a bit rough but I like saving 50 mins of driving avoiding backtracking Monday AM to work and has helped to extend out the wknd a little bit as we aren't rushing to get off the slopes Sunday afternoon.

Have done it the last 6 wknds and so far so good....helps that the skiing has been so nice!

 

[jaywbigred]

3.5-4 hours most weekends, door to door, with stops. Record is 3:20 (going up) and 5:45 (coming back).

Going up is actually quicker than coming back, average around 3:40 going up and about 10 minutes longer than that coming home. This is all based on about 10 trips so far.

And Mt. Snow is our home mountain partially for this reason. And partially for snow making. and partially for a good management team. and so on.

 

[maineskier69]

I used to sympathize with all you weekend warriors...I was living 25 miles from my home mt, Sunday River, and working in Bethel...so my skiing commute was the same as my work commute...my car seemed to know the road and put itself on autopilot. Two years ago we ended up moving to SoNH for work...so now my drive to the "home" mtn is ~2.5hrs...we fortunately have two family places to stay nearby, one on a lake 25 miles south of SR...2hrs from home, the other up at the mtn. However, I spend a lot more time on the road in the winter now and we're not able to get to SR every weekend...but the upside is about half of my travel is out west and involves skiing. While I wish we were still living up in the western ME mtns, I don't mind the commute to get there on the weekends...especially since my home mtn skiing is supplemented with many days out west.

At least you now don't have to enjoy Maine's income tax....

We used to do mostly day trips (1.5 hours from Portland) to Sunday River, but in the last year that has changed. We have found reasonable accomodations that allow us to stay over Saturday nights which has increased our skier visits substantially. My neighbors here think we have left town or something since we havent been home on a Saturday night since the 2nd week of November...

 

[2Planker]

175 miles door to door Boston to SR. Drive up on Thursday night. ski all day Fri, Sat., and a 1/2 day on Sunday. Usually on the road by 1pm, home by 5. "On Call" for work Sunday nights 6pm to 6am, and yes I usually do get called in. So my work day on Sunday/Monday can be 20+ hours w/ minimal sleep.... Luckily there are now state mandated guidelines about pulling those shifts on back to back days. At least w/ 20 years seniority I don't have to do Fri. or Sat. night On Call shifts anymore. Those wreck your ski weekends !

 

[abc]

I'm not crazy enough about skiing to do it EVERY weekend. So no home at the mountains.

I do a mixture of day trips and weekenders.

For day trips, 2+ hr each way, that's 5 hours a day on top of skiing. That's enough for the weekend that I can't do it 2 days in a roll. I need a day to rest up before or rest after.

So if I want to ski for 2 days, I do a weekender. I would drive up on Friday, up to 5 hours easy. Ski Saturday and early to bed Saturday. That leaves me well rested for Sunday's ski and drive home. I found I'm less tired after a weekender. The only bad thing is I don't get ANY chore done. But that's what those "half weekend" day trips are for, a day to catch up on chores.

Predictably, I would get tired of the ice and hardpack half way through the winter. That's what the annual trip out west are for. Real snow.

 

[dmc]

Weekenders are in it for more then just skiing... There's a whole social scene too..

 

[bigbog]

Until FT being a regular isn't in the cards. Always on one of the special days at either Sugarloaf or Saddleback.

 

[gladerider]

to VT normally 4.5 hours. we also do many Whiteface trips which takes about 5.5 hours. this weekend we are leaving on friday around 6. will get to lake placid around midnight. we leave whiteface on monday around 4:30. grab dinner around 7 at kingston. we're home by around 11. i'm tired on monday morning, but trips like these gets me going.