How far away is your home mountain?

[ski_resort_observer]

Let's see, there I am standing on the side of the trail, in a very visible area (two lessons lost on boarders), and some twit hucks right into me, taking me out from behind, which is how my achilles gets stretched.

Now, how does that translate into learning how to ski?

Lemme guess, your mensa membership card never seems to arrive in the mail, right?

Originally Posted by tjf67 View Post
Well that sounds like an accident to me. But hey let me guess you are jewish right

Huh? What does being Jewish have to do with this at all?

Methinks tjfg7 is abit confused, MENSA is the largest, oldest, and best-known high-IQ society in the world. The organization restricts its membership to people with high testable IQs. Specifically, potential members must score within the top 2% (above the 98th percentile) of any approved standardized intelligence test.

 

[Rob A]

25 miles or about 45 min from Mtn Creek.

 

[madskier6]

Recently my home mountain(s) has been Sugarbush/MRG. That is a 3 hour (200 miles) drive in non-snowy weather. Since I now have to sell my condo in the MRV, my home mountain will change this year to Berkshire East, which is only a 1 hour drive from home.

I have done day trips of 3 to 3.5 hours each way when the snow was good and the mountain was worth the drive. Otherwise though, anything over 3 hours includes an overnight stay of some sort. Overnights are practically required when skiing with the wife and children at a mountain more than 2 hours away.

 

[WWF-VT]

Approximately 3 hours from Boston suburbs to Sugarbush and the MRV.

 

[millerm277]

My home mountains are Hunter and Killington...2 1/2 for Hunter and 4-5 for Killington, Hunter's a day trip, but Killington usually isn't (although, if you leave at 5AM, it you get there by 10AM or so...)

 

[Tyrolean_skier]

I did not read all the replies so if SkiDork already posted I apologize for the double post in advance. However, if he has not posted, our home mountain is Killington/Pico since we own a condo up there. The trip is usually 6+ hours on Friday night going up and sometimes 5-51/2 hours on the way back on Sunday night. SkiDork and I split the driving.

 

[Lostone]

In the old days, I used to belong to a ski club that was close to half an hour from my home mountain. The ski club was about 3 hours from my real home.

Now... Please don't hate me.

I walk over to the mountain, if I need to get there for first lifts. If not, I walk around 100 yards, click into my skis, and then ski down to the Village chair.

 

[smootharc]

We're just shy of 5 hrs...

...to Mad River Valley. 45 days skied last winter. Probably another 40+ summer/fall days hiking, biking, swimming.

The summer skiing (ie: downhill mountain biking) has been superb, with 6 days "on piste" so far. If you don't want to become addicted, then don't try lift served riding. Mud, dirt, rocks....fun !

http://www.sugarbush.com/summersports/cm.asp?pn=mountainbiking&pid=229

 

[Zand]

About 35-40 minutes from Wachusett, all back roads. I'm about 30 from Ward and Pine Ridge, but I haven't skied PR since 2000 and Ward since 2001.

I'm about 4 hours from Sugarbush, my future home.

 

[thebigo]

Killington has been our home mountain for the last few years, the best time we ever made was exactly two hours to the skyeship. If driving to KBL, 2:20 was more accurate.

This year Sunday River will be our home mountain and the ride is just about the same as Kmart. About 2:15 - 2:20 depending on how the slow parts of 26 flow.

2:15 is about the maximum distance for a day-trip for us. This puts all of new hampshire, sr, killington and burke within day trip distance form the nh seacoast. Anything further or when skiing consecutive days we either stay with friends or get a room.

 

[eastcoastpowderhound]

35 min to sunday river...10 to Shawnee Peak.

 

[lloyd braun]

6 blocks to the Aspen Mountain Gondola

2 miles to Aspen Highlands

 

[riverc0il]

Yeah, it was just Dec. Jan and Feb (or 75% of the season) that sucked as I remember, right?

lol. You must have been out west if you thought February sucked, heh! I think we did better than Utah did in February this year oddly enough. Certainly not normal, but I do remember a few weeks this season when the West wasn't getting much snow while the East was killing it. Hey, I am not saying the East is better, just saying get your facts straight before you start flaming people Out of my 47 days this season, almost half were powder days so you do the math.

 

[Lostone]

Naw... You don't know what you're talking about. There was no snow in February! And March? Fagetaboutit! April? No... Winter was long over by then.

And of course it didn't start in January.

I do have a few pix from January, but they must be from out west, as we know there was no snow on this side. :argue:

Jan 20?

2/11

2/14

4/01

Nobody having any fun in the east. All pix from Sugarbush

:beer:

 

[big_vert]

lol. You must have been out west if you thought February sucked, heh! I think we did better than Utah did in February this year oddly enough. Certainly not normal, but I do remember a few weeks this season when the West wasn't getting much snow while the East was killing it. Hey, I am not saying the East is better, just saying get your facts straight before you start flaming people Out of my 47 days this season, almost half were powder days so you do the math.

A few weeks - that would essentially be starting at the beginning of March, at least as far as Utah. Everything died in March in Utah.

Yes I was out west at Steamboat and Vail, for the Valentines day storm. I really don't think I missed much, as we had 4 days of significant "champagne powder" at Steamboat then. OK, fine, it was a great year in the East - happy now?

Of my 37 days, the 5 in VT were the worst - you do the math. Easy to call everything a powder day - just depends on your definition. If it's white and not bulletproof, I've seen people call it "packed powder". Come to think of it, even when it was bulletproof, I've seen it called packed powder.

And thanks to you Lostone for those compelling pictures with all the "powder" and all those dark spots, which I would assume would be - well, nah, it couldn't be......

 

[awf170]

And thanks to you Lostone for those compelling pictures with all the "powder" and all those dark spots, which I would assume would be - well, nah, it couldn't be......

Heh.

Yeah... Lostone those pics basically confirm everything big-vert is saying. Quick someone get some east coast powder shots up!

Oh yeah!

Riverc0il really needs to fix his website...

 

[MadPadraic]

Last year I treated myself to Cannon (2 1/2 hrs), but I often made the shorter trip to Sunapee. I've done a lot of thinking, and I've decided that I can't justify that much driving unless their is fresh or spring snow. Hence, this year my "home mountain" will be a local hill about a half hour away. If there was a train to Bethel, or a good connection to the Vermonter, it would be a different story.

 

[Greg]

Of my 37 days, the 5 in VT were the worst - you do the math.

So again, what brings you to a Northeast ski forum then?

 

[ski_resort_observer]

The Bush in mid March

 

[millerm277]

Of my 37 days, the 5 in VT were the worst - you do the math. Easy to call everything a powder day - just depends on your definition. If it's white and not bulletproof, I've seen people call it "packed powder". Come to think of it, even when it was bulletproof, I've seen it called packed powder.

Well, I skied around 15 days between V-day and Easter, and except for one day at Mountain Creek, all of them involved fresh powder that was deeper than my boot, and some of the stuff at K was probably 4 feet deep. I would define that as powder.

And thanks to you Lostone for those compelling pictures with all the "powder" and all those dark spots, which I would assume would be - well, nah, it couldn't be......

Go look at all the TR's from Feb/April, you'll see lots of pics of deep powder.