How far would you drive solo to ski/board?

[Cannonball]

I did one solo trip that was 12+hrs round trip travel, but that was extenuating circumstances. I'm OK with 4-ish one way for the right conditions. I never thought to worry about emergency retrieval....now I probably won't be able to get it out of my head.

 

[abc]

Day trip? I limit it to about 2 hr each way.

Weekend trip? 5 hrs

Long weekend? Maine, here I come!

Nothing to do with retrieval. If your SO grips about having to retrieve your broken body from a few hours away, I wonder how she'll feel about taking care of you for the next couple of months (simple stuff like knees, ribs)! Better not think about the more serious possibilities.

 

[ceo]

We have only one car, so if something happens where I can't drive home, wifey would have to find a friend willing to drive her up (which actually wouldn't be that hard; we have awesome friends) so as to get both me and the car home. If I was concerned enough about that possibility to have it affect my decisions, I basically wouldn't ski at all, so I'm not.

 

[Rowsdower]

I've done three hours one way, but its not ideal. Anything more than that and I'm spending more time in the car than I am on the mountain.

 

[fahz]

Under 4 one way for a day trip

 

[steamboat1]

I drive 5 hrs to VT. solo routinely. I've done the Eastern Townships & Sugarloaf too. Broke down early Jan. near Pico, not to much of a hassle. Would've been worse if I broke down closer to home in the middle of nowhere. Broke my ankle & blew ACL in my driving leg at Stratton two years ago. Drove myself home. Haven't done day trips in years.

 

[Old Duderino]

A couple of years ago I drove all night for 8 1/2 hours from DC to Killington with my teenage daughter after our flight to Albany was cancelled. I could hear my daughter on her cell phone saying to my wife while we were still in the airport, "don't try to talk him out of it." When I eventually did talk to my wife as we were driving I just said, "I'm too pissed at that crappy commuter airline for cancelling our flight to sleep." I was tired the next day but my daughter and I had a blast that weekend at K and Pico.

 

[CoolMike]

Solo drive times for me are shorter than when its me and the wife. Whenever I have a chance for a mid-week ski day on my lonesome I drive to one of the nearby mountains: Crotched, Ragged, or even Sunapee.

For the right conditions I suppose I could drive up to Loon or Attitash but not much further.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

did a solo trek to Stowe from Boston earlier this year for a Saturday, took about 4 1/2 hours, I would've normally gone somewhere closer (around the 3 hour range) but I had a deal on a lift ticket and they had just gotten dumped on so the circumstances were such that it was worth the extra distance. I try not to think about the what ifs, if I make plans and get it in my head that I'm shredding somewhere there's little that will get in my way of making that happen.

 

[Madroch]

I do 4 each way a couple of times a year- my wife is on record that i am on my own if anything happens.

Edit- the wife talked me out if 12+ round trip one night in December where it was supposed to puke at the loaf- "talked" is used liberally here