Mountains A or B or C?? When you are limited to choosing between mountains on a Weekend or Day!!

[MidnightJester]

Sometimes its the Tickets you have. Sometimes it the Skiing and Riding partners you are with. Hopefully its due to a better SNOW storm or SNOW conditions at certain mountains and not crappy conditions. Here is where other can throw a little help or ideas?

This is a interesting weekend and Storm system to say the least. Have someone coming and meeting me up in VT to ride on SAT and SUN. The Sunday is open for Sothern VT.
If you had to ride between Stratton and Okemo and Mt Snow on Sunday. We are probably going to Killington on Sat. He wants to be near lower VT so he has a easier ride home. I am doing Magic on Friday hopefully.

I have never checked out most of Stratton's listed glades? Opinions on their glades? They should be in OK shape I hope after this Snow storm if it preforms.

 

[skiur]

Sometimes its the Tickets you have. Sometimes it the Skiing and Riding partners you are with. Hopefully its due to a better SNOW storm or SNOW conditions at certain mountains and not crappy conditions. Here is where other can throw a little help or ideas?

This is a interesting weekend and Storm system to say the least. Have someone coming and meeting me up in VT to ride on SAT and SUN. The Sunday is open for Sothern VT.
If you had to ride between Stratton and Okemo and Mt Snow on Sunday. We are probably going to Killington on Sat. He wants to be near lower VT so he has a easier ride home. I am doing Magic on Friday hopefully.

I have never checked out most of Stratton's listed glades? Opinions on their glades? They should be in OK shape I hope after this Snow storm if it preforms.

I haven't skied Stratton in close to 20 years, but I e thing I do remember is they had some pretty good woods when they get the snow, and very little traffic in them.

 

[drjeff]

Sometimes its the Tickets you have. Sometimes it the Skiing and Riding partners you are with. Hopefully its due to a better SNOW storm or SNOW conditions at certain mountains and not crappy conditions. Here is where other can throw a little help or ideas?

This is a interesting weekend and Storm system to say the least. Have someone coming and meeting me up in VT to ride on SAT and SUN. The Sunday is open for Sothern VT.
If you had to ride between Stratton and Okemo and Mt Snow on Sunday. We are probably going to Killington on Sat. He wants to be near lower VT so he has a easier ride home. I am doing Magic on Friday hopefully.

I have never checked out most of Stratton's listed glades? Opinions on their glades? They should be in OK shape I hope after this Snow storm if it preforms.

Just as an FYI, this storm will NEED to perform to get the glades in decent shape. There wasn't a ton of base in them, across Southern VT, last weekend. The majority of what fell 2 weeks ago melted already, so you will need to get atleast 12", if not closer to 18" to get most of the under brush/water bars/etc covered with enough to not have to worry about causing a decent fall should you encounter something.

The storms of the last month or so across Southern VT, while they certainly made a BIG difference in keeping the season going, also melted a bit in between storms, and basically fell on little to no base on the natural snow terrain especially.

Just keep that in mind and be realistic, as you don't need to destroy a body part

 

[MidnightJester]

Just as an FYI, this storm will NEED to perform to get the glades in decent shape. There wasn't a ton of base in them, across Southern VT, last weekend. The majority of what fell 2 weeks ago melted already, so you will need to get atleast 12", if not closer to 18" to get most of the under brush/water bars/etc covered with enough to not have to worry about causing a decent fall should you encounter something.

Last storms of the last month or so across Southern VT, while they certainly made a BIG difference in keeping the season going, also melted a bit in between storms, and basically fell on little to no base on the natural snow terrain especially.

Just keep that in mind and be realistic, as you don't need to destroy a body part

I am realizing that they really need near the 18" to get most the glades in play. Southern VT is 80"-100" less then Middle-ish (Killington's 209")

Mount Snow 102"
Okemo 111"
Magic 113"
Stratton 127"

 

[LuckyStrike]

I was at Stratton last Saturday and the woods were holding snow better then the trails (esp those ones facing south). I didn't go in beacuse they were frozen when I got there and I had no interest in them late in the day. I think there's a good chance you'll be ok in marked glades. I wouldn't do too much bushwhacking however.

 

[Snowplow Skip]

Ok, so, when I joined I saw the Alpine Zone part; but missed the whole northeast thing. Now my Mom was born and raised in Saugus, MA, My Aunt (her sister) and Uncle had a 50 acre farm in Lee, NH, outside Durham. I have driven in the area twice as an adult. The only time I was ever in Vermont was on a bus from Montreal, CA to Boston in the summer when I was 10. The only time I remember being in Maine was when my Aunt & Uncle took me and my girlfriend on a day trip from the farm to Bar Harbor, and yes, we went to a seaside restaurant for lobster, again in the summer.
I have been in New England in the summer and fall; but never in the winter.
If I am ever in Vermont during ski season, I will ski there; but if I travel to ski anytime soon it will be destinations in the Rockies (Sun Valley, ID; Jackson Hole, WY; Park City/ Alta/Snowbird/Deer Valley, UT; Heavenly Valley/Palisades/Kirkwood/Northstar, Tahoe, Colorado [Aspen/Vail/Crested Butte/Telluride/ Arapahoe Basin/Winter Park/Breckenridge/Beaver Creek] or one of the various BC Canada areas like Revelstoke, Sun Peaks, Big White, Silver Star and I haven't skied Whistler Mountain since 1979 [before Blackcomb was even built and 18 years before Whistler-Blackcomb merged.]

I live on the Left Coast in the PNW. The main areas I ski are Crystal Mountain, WA, Alpental, Silver Fir and Summit Central all located at The Summit at Snoqualmie. (pronounced sno Quall me but not too pronounced of an accent on the middle syllable)

I live in the Seattle area about 65 miles from Snoqualmie Pass, which has four ski areas [Alpental 3140 base/5420 summit (2280 vertical,) Summit West aka Snoqualmie Pass 3000 base/3765 summit (765 vert,) Summit Central aka Ski Acres 2840 base/3865 summit (1025 vert,) Silver Fir 2610 base/3832 summit (1222 vert) Summit East aka Hyak 2610 base/3710 summit (1100 vert.) Tge avg snowfall from 2019/20 to 2024/25 is 367 inches w/ a high of 464 inches. Alpental has averaged 384 in since 2019/20, w/ a 367in average at the pass. Mid-week it is one hour garage to parking lot.
My other main hill is Crystal Mountain which is roughly 100 miles/ 2hr drive, the top of the gondola is 6872/4400 base (2472 vert,) avg snowfall since 2020 is 384 w/ a high of 447 in.
We consider it a bad year if we get less than 300 inches, but partly because it isn't as cold here and we always have melt offs and rain at some point each season. Getting 300" would be fine if the mountain temps stayed between 20-30F from Nov-mid-Apr.
Other regional areas: Stevens Pass 4061 base/5845 summit (1784 vert,) 80 mi. 2+ hr drive Mt Baker 3500 base/5089 summit (1500 vert) 125 mi, 2 1/2-3 hr drive. White Pass 155 mi 3+ hr drive.
I haven't skied Stevens or White Pass in over 30 years, and have yet to ski Baker. [The record annual snowfall at Mt. Baker Ski Area is 1,140 inches (95 feet), which occurred during the 1998-99 season. This is the highest snowfall ever recorded in a single season in the U.S. and is also considered the world record.] The 2020/25 Mt Baker avg is 612 in w/ a high of 704 in.
1st Choice: Crystal Mountain, WA
2nd: Alpental at The Summit at Snoqualmie
3rd: Silver Fir/Summit Central at The Summit at Snoqualmie