Mt Snow Thread

[Smellytele]

Plenty of good skiing there.

There is more about places than the actual skiing...

I can have fun there just like any ski area but would I choose to go there over some where else with all things considered?

 

[Kevin Schultz]

There is more about places than the actual skiing...

I can have fun there just like any ski area but would I choose to go there over some where else with all things considered?

Drive time. Mount Snow, Stratton, Okemo and Magic are the limit of what I can do for a weekend trip from NYC with two kids under 5.

When I lived further north I had a season pass to Sugarbush and that was obviously better skiing, but it's just not in the cards these days. Among those 4 options Mount Snow was the best option for us, though a big part of it was the relative price of houses at Stratton and Mount Snow at the time. If I were just choosing Epic vs Ikon and staying in hotels / AirBnB, I'd choose Ikon and ski Stratton after the last few years.

So often when talking about where to ski people ignore the off the hill factors.

 

[drjeff]

Drive time. Mount Snow, Stratton, Okemo and Magic are the limit of what I can do for a weekend trip from NYC with two kids under 5.

When I lived further north I had a season pass to Sugarbush and that was obviously better skiing, but it's just not in the cards these days. Among those 4 options Mount Snow was the best option for us, though a big part of it was the relative price of houses at Stratton and Mount Snow at the time. If I were just choosing Epic vs Ikon and staying in hotels / AirBnB, I'd choose Ikon and ski Stratton after the last few years.

So often when talking about where to ski people ignore the off the hill factors.

Agree 100%, especially if you have young kids in the mix and drive time is a factor.

Plus you often find out that there are plenty of other like minded parents, doing the same thing for the same reasons, and then you become friends with those parents and your kids become friends with their kids and other families kids to that are just as much into the ski culture/skiing way of life all Winter as you are, and you have a great community of families that make the overall "weekend warrior" skiing experience that many of us in the East in particular do, even better.

Honestly, even after owning our condo at Mount Snow for over 15 years now, if my wife and I ever decide to sell it, leaving the community of great, like minded skiing friends and families up there, would easily be the part that we'd miss the most. And most of that network of friends that we have met up there we met through 1 of 2 main ways, either our kids involvement in various kids programs (the way we've met most of our ski family friends) or at our favorite base lodge bar (often waiting for our kids ski programs to finish up for the day and you find out your sitting next to parents doing the same thing )

 

[Ski2LiveLive2Ski]

Drive time. Mount Snow, Stratton, Okemo and Magic are the limit of what I can do for a weekend trip from NYC with two kids under 5.

When I lived further north I had a season pass to Sugarbush and that was obviously better skiing, but it's just not in the cards these days. Among those 4 options Mount Snow was the best option for us, though a big part of it was the relative price of houses at Stratton and Mount Snow at the time. If I were just choosing Epic vs Ikon and staying in hotels / AirBnB, I'd choose Ikon and ski Stratton after the last few years.

So often when talking about where to ski people ignore the off the hill factors.

Bromley would also be closer than at least 3 of those. And arguably the sweetest spot geographically as being by Bromley you are 15 minutes from Stratton and Magic and 45 from Okemo while Mount Snow is more of an outlier.

 

[jaytrem]

I've been here about 50 years. It's home and I do love it here. I skied trees and bumps all day. Lift lines are easily avoidable. Shared a lunch table a Sundance with some nice strangers, just like yesterday. Rode lifts with more friendly strangers. Staff has been great. Ran into a couple old friends. Great day!

 

[Sandman30]

For anyone who has been there this week, what are early thoughts on conditions for Monday? Day tripping due to blackout dates. Looks like tough weather Saturday to Sunday, but maybe they can pull through?

 

[jaytrem]

For anyone who has been there this week, what are early thoughts on conditions for Monday? Day tripping due to blackout dates. Looks like tough weather Saturday to Sunday, but maybe they can pull through?

Surfaces might be a little firm, hard to tell at this point. Plenty of coverage though. I suspect it will be a bit quieter that day. Crowd's have been building all week. Lines not bad at all except for Bluebird. I don't get it, half of chairs had the bubble up today??? New Sunbrook chair so far seems to be able to handle all the skier coming down to it. Did a number of runs on it during prime time today and it was basically ski on. Not sure if it stayed that way all day though.

 

[MidnightJester]

Mount Snow Opens Two New Chairlifts

Over the past couple of weeks, Mount Snow in Vermont has opened their two major Epic Lift Upgrades. The first grand opening was for the new Sundance

unofficialnetworks.com

 

[drjeff]

Mount Snow Opens Two New Chairlifts

Over the past couple of weeks, Mount Snow in Vermont has opened their two major Epic Lift Upgrades. The first grand opening was for the new Sundance

unofficialnetworks.com

I get a kick out the the Sunbrook Quad 1st chair through the banner photo as it's my wife and my very good friends boys who are the 2 on the chair closest to the base terminal concrete support pylon!

 

[SLyardsale]

with holiday commitments, today was the 1st day I skied the two new lifts sundance & sunbrook in combo. with both of them running, you can avoid the main base for an extended period. you can lap sundance with ridge, hop, southbowl and with natural uncles and shoot out. you can lap all the options at sunbrook without the long slog back up or the one way route using bear trap. your group can now easily split up - some can ski north face and then re-unite at the top of sunbrook. one new lift at either location would have been nice. both lifts in combination change the whole way you can ski the place. having an option for a beer at sundance lodge is a nice addition too.

 

[SLyardsale]

A glimmer of winter in the morning melted away in the afternoon. Still ugly here. Could you sink your edge in? Yes. That is the highlight.

Sundance exp


Sunbrook

 

[ctdubl07]

Hiked up this morning at 6, slightly foggy, no wind, mid twenties and some decent groomed snow. Sadly some random turds popped up and ground in here and there. Looks like about 3 inches fell. Can't tell if they topped up overnight or not. Rode quickly down Inferno and looks like they killed the jumps to farm snow.

 

[SLyardsale]

1/7/2023. rotd was beartrap.

 

[drjeff]

Hiked up this morning at 6, slightly foggy, no wind, mid twenties and some decent groomed snow. Sadly some random turds popped up and ground in here and there. Looks like about 3 inches fell. Can't tell if they topped up overnight or not. Rode quickly down Inferno and looks like they killed the jumps to farm snow.

Inferno hasn't been built up this season, and now won't be for the near future, if at all this season.

Jumps on Gulch were knocked down today, and are under a heavy fan gun assault for the foreseeable future to get it ready (if mother nature feels cooperative enough) to host the USASA Futures Tour freestyle/freeride comp in less than 2 weeks.

The sound of fan guns humming away for the 1st time since before Christmas is filling the air right now. Hopefully that will continue for multiple days!

 

[ctdubl07]

Hiked up this morning at 6, slightly foggy, no wind, mid twenties and some decent groomed snow. Sadly some random turds popped up and ground in here and there. Looks like about 3 inches fell. Can't tell if they topped up overnight or not. Rode quickly down Inferno and looks like they killed the jumps to farm snow.

I meant Nitro.....they killed some jumps/features to farm the snow.
Some primary blues have guns still blowing this morning.

 

[SLyardsale]

1/8/2023 rotd was beartrap

edit - no music still - Vail Sucks!

proof

 

[Smellytele]

1/8/2023 rotd was beartrap

edit - no music still - Vail Sucks!

proof
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What is that proof of? How homogenous Mt Snow is?

 

[Newpylong]

Broomfield doesn't give two sh*ts if there's music or not on a trail at Mount Snow, that's a local management issue. Not that it really matters, it's just a flat groomer like everything else now. If and when it fills in with nice soft bumps, then it's time to take issue with it. Bumps on Beartrap listening to Guns N Roses is a right of passage lol.

 

[SLyardsale]

What is that proof of? How homogenous Mt Snow is?

yes, pretty much (currently)

 

[ThatGuy]

How much vert is Beartrap, ~300-500?
That lift’ll give your legs bruises if you don’t pay attention.