How far away is your home mountain?

[loafer89]

My "home" mountain is 299 miles away. Sugarloaf was, is and will always be my home mountain.

 

[nhski]

Thank you Trail Boss.

I've been skiing in the east for just about exactly 40 years, so I think I have a fairly good idea what's available. It's just that after being exposed to what else is available in the US and Canada, I find some of the comments to be a little humorous.

I hope to be able to make a positive contribution to your forum.

Like you i take a decent amount of trips out west, specifically UT, because it is just so god damn good out there. But i really don't think you do know whats available in the East if you think VT has garbage snow.

 

[nhski]

Look, I've been doing this a long time, and know how to read the tea leaves.

Remember the little - Big Dump in February? Not the Valentines dump, but a later one with about 18 inches worth. Well, at Mt. Snow, when I went to catch some of that, as soon as you bit into some fresh it would slide away and you'd lose any type of grip with the ice not letting the freshies stick. Really nasty.

Now this was alleged to be (by everyone) one of the best VT weekends but ended up being fairly nasty with lots of injuries judging by the number of sleds on the North Face. Patrol said no way to Ripcord, since the first guy that went down slid everything off of it and it was a sheet of ice. Who would've thunk? By all accounts this was going to be good.

Notwithstanding how many precautions you take, reports you read, etc. etc, things change on a daily basis (hourly basis sometimes), and if you've had a weekend planned with the guys, kids, spouse or whatever, sometimes it sucks, and staying in the lodge becomes the only viable alternative, and I'm rarely one who'll not go out because of weather.

Further evidence that you don't know whats available in the east if on the little big dump day you decided to go to Mt. Snow.

 

[campgottagopee]

Well I certainly can't hold a candle to Big Vert because I guess I'm one of those east coast yo yo skiers. But here it goes. I've skied Greek Peak (900) vert for 40 yrs, and infact it's only 100 yards from my house. I feel VERY lucky to have this place in my back yard. Greek Peak skiers are a very loyal bunch, as with any home mt skier, and just love to ride the snow no matter what the conditions are or how you ride it. Within a 20 min drive of my house there are 3 other yo yo hills, Song Mountain, Labrador Mountain and Toggenburg. All 900 +/- vert depending on where you're standing. We do make day trips to Gore (1.5 hrs away) and mid week "sleep overs" to Whiteface (2.5 hrs).

Sorry to bore you big vert but that's how I roll.8)

 

[loafer89]

There was tons of powder available in Maine this April with areas closing with 100% snowcover and no customers:

 

[Greg]

April 6 at MRG really sucked.

 

[C2H5OH]

Whiteface is about 3:55 drive from Fair Lawn, NJ.
It's usually a weekend/holiday trip for me, except last day of this season, when I went back home same afternoon.

 

[jimmer]

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:

how can you boast about snow conditions, then show a pic with them big ole bare spots ?

 

[jimmer]

my home hill is gore, about 40 min with a good tail wind. gore is a great little hill and gettin better all the time, its got some good steeps, nice woods [and gettin better all the time]. i may be the odd man here but i love man made snow, you should come up and ski rummor after they blow on it for 6 or 7 days. man theres not much better.

my second home would be whiteface, about 70 mins.

 

[2knees]

Well, I skied around 15 days between V-day and Easter,

Lol, maybe you should update your signature then.

 

[millerm277]

Lol, maybe you should update your signature then.

Yeah, I forgot about that...

 

[nhski]

Used to be an hour but it is going to be two hours. Two hours is a day trip to me even when skiing two days in a row unless there is a $15 hostel in town.

Or know a buddy who has a place at Jay ;-)

 

[Lostone]

how can you boast about snow conditions, then show a pic with them big ole bare spots ?

Note the dates: The first with bare spots was in the woods, on a very warm day. The next pic was 3 days later. Did you see the bare spots?

The last pic with bare spots was 4/1. For your info, in both of the pix with bare spots, the snow was great! It was spring snow. It was heavy and corny. The skiers out that day weren't whining that they could have had fun if only they were out west.

Yes, it is New England. The weather does funny things. Elsewhere, today, I posted some pix from 5/5 & 5/6. We had whole trails that were bare, and in one of the pix, there is a snowboarder going across grass, with snow right next to him. We were open. It was May. There wasn't a frown on the mountain.

I guess my point was that we had know how to have fun, with what is there, and those who don't are certainly welcome to go elsewhere and whine. Because whine is what you're destined to do.

 

[SIKSKIER]

I'll chime in on this.My home mountain is Cannon and I'm lucky to be close enough to throw a rock at it from my skihouse.Home is only 1 1/2 hours away.Franconia is a very central area to be able to reach the best moutains in Vermont and Maine with a reasonable 1-2 hour drive.Great location and hardly any of the glitz associated with many large resorts which is just the way I like it.

 

[jimmer]

Note the dates: The first with bare spots was in the woods, on a very warm day. The next pic was 3 days later. Did you see the bare spots?

The last pic with bare spots was 4/1. For your info, in both of the pix with bare spots, the snow was great! It was spring snow. It was heavy and corny. The skiers out that day weren't whining that they could have had fun if only they were out west.

Yes, it is New England. The weather does funny things. Elsewhere, today, I posted some pix from 5/5 & 5/6. We had whole trails that were bare, and in one of the pix, there is a snowboarder going across grass, with snow right next to him. We were open. It was May. There wasn't a frown on the mountain.

I guess my point was that we had know how to have fun, with what is there, and those who don't are certainly welcome to go elsewhere and whine. Because whine is what you're destined to do.

easy there girl. aint nobody whinng, just found your spots kinda funny, and i didnt see the dates you had for each pic , all in all i thought they were pretty good. so chill out there girl.

 

[dmc]

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?

I'd take a nice day of western crud with steeps and trees over an east coast powder day... Anyday...

I had friends blasting me cause i missed a POW day when i was out in Kicking Horse... i laughed at them...

 

[eastcoastpowderhound]

I'd take a nice day of western crud with steeps and trees over an east coast powder day... Anyday...

I had friends blasting me cause i missed a POW day when i was out in Kicking Horse... i laughed at them...

I can't argue with that at all. All about terrain...when it comes to seriously great terrain we're geographically challenged here in the east...wish I could move the Wasatch to western Maine.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

I'm 2 hours from my house in Wilmington, Whiteface is 4.5 miles from it.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

2,500 miles.

06-07 season VT - 5 days, Whistler, 14.
05-06 season VT 9 days, Whistler, 14
Previous 5 seasons are similar

Life's too short to ski small yo-yo vertical and garbage "snow".

Cough Cough Ski Snob...

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

April 6 at MRG really sucked.

Awesome video..I was skiing Stowe on the Phenomanal Friday..