How would you "rank" your ski season?

[Greg]

The three days at Sugarloaf made it an official 16. Overall a pretty good season for me. I rediscovered a great area in Berkshire East and I now have a new favorite in Sugarloaf! 8)

 

[MrMagic]

woodbury ct-1 new area
okeamo-1
powder ridge- 1
berkshire east- 1
pico peak- 2 new area, if ypu havent skied here do so!
mt snow-5
magic mtn- 2
crotche-1- new area, really great night skiing
sugarloaf/usa-3
saddleback-1
killington-1

 

[Tyrolean_skier]

So far I have skied 48 days. If Killington stays open until Memorial Day, I will be skiing 5 more days.

The breakdown is as follows:
45 days at Killington
1 day at Pico
1 day at Windham
1 day at Plattekill

 

[Charlie Schuessler]

So far I have skied 48 days. If Killington stays open until Memorial Day, I will be skiing 5 more days.

The breakdown is as follows:
45 days at Killington
1 day at Pico
1 day at Windham
1 day at Plattekill

I have not skied Killington since 4/25...How is Superstar? Is the headwall still open?

 

[Greg]

I have not skied Killington since 4/25...How is Superstar? Is the headwall still open?

Do I smell one more day out for Mr. Schuessler? :wink:

 

[Charlie Schuessler]

Well I don't know yet.....I have been fond of skiing Killington on June 1 in past years.

Let's see what May weather does to the mountain. I've been throwing flies at the fish in the stream behind my house, and "that skiing feeling" is becoming a fast memory...

 

[Tyrolean_skier]

So far I have skied 48 days. If Killington stays open until Memorial Day, I will be skiing 5 more days.

The breakdown is as follows:
45 days at Killington
1 day at Pico
1 day at Windham
1 day at Plattekill

I have not skied Killington since 4/25...How is Superstar? Is the headwall still open?

Unfortunately the warm temperatures and the rain did a lot of damage over the weekend and by Sunday morning you had to hike down a bit to get to snow. Some people who didn't care what happened to their skis did ski down to the snow. However, they got 2.8 inches of snow last night so today it is probably skiable again. We alternated between Superstar, Skylark-Bitter and Skyhawk to keep us going during the day. On Saturday, I hiked over to Needles Eye and then hiked over to the top of the Glades area. The snow was sweet in both areas (including East Fall) but I was not properly prepared for the hike so my shoulders are still hurting from carrying the skis. Here is a link to some pictures that were taken during the hike that we did to the Glades area.

http://community.webshots.com/scripts/show.fcgi?t=slideshow&ID=140045532&key=rWDvhZ

 

[Charlie Schuessler]

Nice job working the mountain and with the slide show!

We skied East Fall on 4/25 and thought it was the best trail that day.

Have fun and thanks for the information.

 

[Greg]

...and with the slide show!

Slideshows? We got Slideshows! CLICK!

 

[CP]

I skied roughly 25+ days this season at Stratton exclusively (pass + condo there). It started out well with reasonable temps and lots of snow in Nov/Dec. Then Xmas hit and the season went to the crapper. Mostly the sub-zero temps killed the season. The snow makers kept the trails covered, but there was very little natural snow falling. I made it into the woods once all season due to insufficient cover. March and April were pretty good, with closing weekend having the best snow all season imo. Hopefully next year will be a good one, as was the 2002/2003 season.

 

[Tyrolean_skier]

Since today is the last day for Killington and I have to work, my total count stops at 50 days for this season. I am going up this weekend to attend the owners annual meeting for the condo association. I was hoping to get some skiing in before going to the meeting. If the lift is not running, I wonder if I could hike up and do a few runs that way. We will see.

 

[AlpinForum|LSAP]

I skied about 47 days this year, its a lot, because the next resort from my home is about 1 and a half hour away, and this is a small one (3 lifts). the next alpine zone i skied is about 2.5 hours away.
but the season isn't finished yet, i hope to come up to 50 at least, 3 - 5 days on a glacier (www.bergbahn.tv www.zugspitze.de www.stubai-gletscher.com ) and some days on the Indoor Ski Arenas: www.allrounder.de

for the interested in you (links have mostly english pages!)
[.at means austria, .de germany and .ch switzerland, gletscher is german for glacier]
My Season:

- 3 days Hintertuxer Gletscher - http://www.hintertuxergletscher.at/
- 1 day Kaunertaler Gletscher - www.gletscher.at
- 1 day Skigebiet Fendels - http://www.bergfex.at/fendels/
- 8 days Hochjoch - www.hochjochbahnen.at
- 11 days Golm - www.golm.at
- 2 days Gargellen - www.schafbergbahnen.at
- 3 days Silvretta Nova - www.silvrettanova.at
- 2 days Skigebiet Brand - www.bergbahnen-brandnertal.at
- 1 evening toboggann Abendrodeln Skigebiet Golm - www.golm.at
- 1 day GO! Ofterschwang Gunzesried - www.go-ofterschwang.de
- 1/2 day Freizeitzentrum Großerlach - no url
- 1 day Skilifte Juxkopf (2*1/2 day!) - no url
- 1 day Skilift Zuflucht, Black forest inkl. Snowgrooming - no url
- 1 day Mehliskopf black forest - www.mehliskopf.de
- 3 days Liftbetriebe Unterstmatt, black forest - www.skizirkus-unterstmatt.de
- 2 days Skilifts Dottingen, Swabian Highlands - www.skilifte-dottingen.de
- 1 day "Skizentrum" Kaltenbronn, black forest - www.kaltenbronn.de
- 1 day Sonnenkopf, Klostertal - www.skiregion-sonnenkopf.com
- 1 day Bavarian Zugspitzbahn (Glacier) www.zugspitze.de (germany's highest mountain, ~3000m above sea level!)
- 1 day Obergurgl/Hochgurgl www.hochgurl.at
- 1 day Pitztaler Gletscher www.bergbahn.tv
- 1 day Stubaier Gletscher www.stubai-gletscher.com

what was good, what bad?
good: skiin is always good, sometimes some things make it probably worse, but thats no problem, skiin is always fun!
The Peak for me this season was the visit at the Pitztaler Gletscher, on a sea level on about 3500 metres. The highest Lift in Austria!!!

bad:
to have to leave the resorts all the time after skiing, and to drive home again

I hope that i have given you some interesting infos. If you want me to, i can also post some pictured reports of our trips in the forum, just tell me!

 

[David Metsky]

MRG - 9
Cannon - 2
Okemo - 3
Jay - 1
Wachusetts - 1 (teaching)
Blue Hills - 1 (skinning up)
Hale (backcountry) - 1
Mansfield (backcountry) - 1
Misc Vt (backcountry) - 2
Misc NH (backcountry) - 2
Cardigan (backcountry) - 2
Moosilauke (backcountry) - 3

I think that's about it. I'm sure I'm missing some lift days.

The best lift skiing was Dec at MRG, we had some amazing snow and no one was there. You could ski anywhere and anything, plus I was with some locals that took me to some nice hidden stashes.

The best backcountry was the Teardrop trail on Mansfield in mid-Feb. Amazing conditions and no one had skied in the trees to the side of the trail. Nothing like knee deep in untracked trees.

-dave-

 

[Skier75]

Yes as UK(uphillklimber) said we really had a great time in Germany skiing. Would absolutely love to go back! Maybe someday we will. I think in total we skied 19 days total, including May 1 at Sunday River(a first for the both of us). Besides Germany, I think one of best ski days was just before Christmas at Sunday River right after it snowed and got on the mountain early with still some fresh snow coming down!
Other mountains we hit during the season included Sugarloaf, Saddleback, Mt. Abram, Shawnee Peak in Maine and Attitash in NH. Funny that's all we hit this year, some mountains didn't do so well this year we would've liked to hit was Big Squaw in Maine and kinda missed going to Vermont to Sugarbush and Killington. Well that's about it for now.

 

[AlpinForum|LSAP]

hey, if you are interested in coming back to germany and to do some skiin' just let me know, i would love to be your guide and show you some areas that you will never see as a tourist .

I mean, Zugspitze is the so called "standard programme" when tourists visit germany. same as the castle of neuschwanstein etc.
most of the people don't even think of better skiin in germany than on the zugspitze (tourists i mean!). but, there is the nebelhorn and the fellhorn in oberstdorf, for example. the fellhorn is the biggest german alpine skiresort!
www.fellhorn.de or www.nebelhorn.de

ok, enough off topic, sorry for this!

 

[AlpinForum|LSAP]

what i see at the moment:

you wrote: "look at this little electric car" ... it's not electric its a normal car, that is selling very good because it's kind of a "city fighter" you get ALWAYS a parking lot

aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh ... this is NOT a typical german home . This is kind of a typical home a) in the black forest or b) in bavaria. we in baden-württemberg don't build houses like those this is a "regional" house ...


and now i will be calm and quiet

 

[Mr MRG]

Rate The Season

Here's my view of the season in obviously with a Mad River Glen slant to it.

2003-04 was a great winter with some fantastic powder days in December and late March, some surprisingly good conditions for those willing to brave the arctic temperatures in January and one of the sunniest Februarys on record! We received a total of 237 inches of snow this winter, which is just about average for us. There were many incredible days that were far above average (espescially in December) that will be the ones that stick out for me.

# of Days? Gosh I'm not really sure but I would guess in the neighborhood of 90. Many of these include 1 and 2 run sessions espescially in January if anyone is a stickler for this kind of thing. I am not! I'd be interested to know how I rate among ski area marketing directors in terms of vertical feet skied. I'd like to think that I would be in the upper tier. It is a key reason to be in the position, certainly isn't the 6 figure salary!

Here's a run down of where I skied in 2003-04

Mad river Glen - 60 plus days
Sugarbush - 8 days
Mt. Tremblant - 3 days
Stowe - 2 days
Smuggler's Notch - 1 Day
Killington - 1 Day
Saddleback - 1 Day
Telluride - 6 Days
Backyard in VT - 2 days

I suppose I won't get too much sympathy from this group about my ski time, but figured I'd give my two cents. Enjoy the summer all.

:beer:

 

[Tyrolean_skier]

I hiked up Superstar at Killington this past Saturday and got some turns in including some grass skiing. My count for this season is now 51 days.

 

[Greg]

I hiked up Superstar at Killington this past Saturday and got some turns in including some grass skiing. My count for this season is now 51 days.

You're hard core, Ty...

 

[Terry]

skiing and riding discussion

I skied 61 days this season. Mostly at shawnee Peak in Me. Had a great weekend at sugarloaf in Feb. But it was a mostly cold and snowless winter. We can always hope for next year though. :beer: