VTKilarney
Well-known member
I skied Jay Peak today for the first time in about 25 years. After skiing it today, I don't really get the hype.
I appreciate that they get a lot of snow, and I may be missing something since I'm not a glades skier, but I felt much more frustrated with the mountain than impressed.
The lifts are absurdly ancient. How can they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on hotels and a waterpark but still have such slow and old lifts? The high speed quad that goes almost to the summit was closed today. My opinion might have changed had that been open.
The tram is a terrible lift. It moves VERY few people up the hill and the ride itself isn't so great. Once you get up there, you quickly realize that the upper tram house was put in a really lousy spot.
I also got the feeling that the mountain itself wasn't an ideal mountain to build a ski area on. One example is the runouts. Holy cow can they be flat!
I want to like Jay, and I am going to go back and try to figure out what I did wrong today. I have a feeling that I just had an off day, and that there is a decent mountain for me to uncover. But I have to admit that I am more excited to go back to Burke. I thought it would be just the opposite.
I appreciate that they get a lot of snow, and I may be missing something since I'm not a glades skier, but I felt much more frustrated with the mountain than impressed.
The lifts are absurdly ancient. How can they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on hotels and a waterpark but still have such slow and old lifts? The high speed quad that goes almost to the summit was closed today. My opinion might have changed had that been open.
The tram is a terrible lift. It moves VERY few people up the hill and the ride itself isn't so great. Once you get up there, you quickly realize that the upper tram house was put in a really lousy spot.
I also got the feeling that the mountain itself wasn't an ideal mountain to build a ski area on. One example is the runouts. Holy cow can they be flat!
I want to like Jay, and I am going to go back and try to figure out what I did wrong today. I have a feeling that I just had an off day, and that there is a decent mountain for me to uncover. But I have to admit that I am more excited to go back to Burke. I thought it would be just the opposite.