PICO?

[Sparky]

I only found one trip report for Pico in all 9 pages. That report was faltering, but the fact that I could not find any others makes me wonder. Is there something intrinsically wrong with Pico? I was thinking of planning a little three day trip there this year with my wife and another couple. Should I be looking elsewhere?

 

[Greg]

Just an FYI. You can easily find trip reports posted here for all Northeast resorts under the ski area profiles. Look for the "Search for Forum Member Skiing Trip Reports" link under Snow Conditions & Ski Reports. Unfortunately, Pico is lumped under Killington so that wouldn't have helped in this instance, but you can modify the search_keywords variable in the URL for Killington to search on it:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/search...terms=all&search_fields=2&show_results=topics

Change "killington" to "pico" as shown below:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/search...terms=all&search_fields=2&show_results=topics

Hope this helps.

 

[Talisman]

Pico is a fun mid-sized ski area with two quads, a couple of other double chairs, intersting terrain and gets decent natural snow. Pico suffers from some benign neglect so the snow making isn't agressive, the spring season is short and the lodge is dowdy. I ski Pico several times a season and it is at its best after a major snowstorm. I enjoy skiing the glades and the old style summit blck diamond trails Summits Glades, Giant Killer and Sunset. Doing laps off of the summit Quad on apowder day is awesome.

I do hear intermediates complain about only one route from the summit. Pico rarely has crowds and compared to Killington or Okemo is never crowded.

 

[tirolerpeter]

Pico

I did a trip report on Pico this past winter. Check through my postings. It is a nice "family oriented" place. For those of you with kids, it lets you leave them (assuming adequate skill level) for runs of your own, but still lets you meet them at the base since all trails lead back to the one base area. At K you risk losing your kids and wasting a day (not to mention dealing with the anxiety) looking for them.

 

[thetrailboss]

I really, really liked Pico when I skied it in 2000-2001. Great sized mountain...tall with lots of good variety, but the one intermediate route off of the top (maybe two) can become boring for those non-experts. Two Express Quads. Good glade skiing and old New England Terrain. Facilities were badly shopworn when I was there...but the terrain is good and the crowds are non-existent. Skied there on Superbowl weekend and the crowds cleared by like 11 or 12 on a SATURDAY. :blink:

The Outback Area is a favorite...terrain reminiscent of like MRG. Good beginner terrain at the bottom. One can still ski the ORIGINAL Pico which is that small peak at far left as you look up the mountain...think they have a double or triple there now. Steep stuff.

Favorite runs include Birches (semi-trail, glade), Summit Glades (cool narrow run), Upper KA and Sunset '71 (narrow runs). Giant Killer sucked when I skied it and it was tough :x The Outback Area was lots of fun...did loops over there.

 

[Tyrolean_skier]

Pico is a nice little mountain when there is sufficient snow on it. If there is not enough snow it can get boring pretty fast. I too like the Outback area especially the trees. It is a great place to be right after a snow storm because it does not get tracked out as fast because there are less people skiing there.

 

[riverc0il]

two thumbs up for pico.

 

[deadheadskier]

I haven't skied Pico in probably 10 years, but based upon my memory, I'd ski it over K'mart any day of the week.

I loved the short triple looking up the mountain to the left with I believe the trails off of it were called A-slope and B-Slope. Other's mentioned the 'Outback' area. Is that the tree skiing lift/peak area looking up the mountain to the right? There are some fun runs in there. It's kind of like a mini Castlerock?

As for Upper Giant Killer. Years ago, unless I'm hallucinating, there used to be a T-bar or Poma Lift to the skiers left of Upper Giant Killer essentially only servicing that trail. The last time I skied Pico was in High School on a march day and I recall doing a number of laps down Upper Giant Killer enjoying perfect bumps.

 

[Talisman]

Years ago, unless I'm hallucinating, there used to be a T-bar or Poma Lift to the skiers left of Upper Giant Killer essentially only servicing that trail. The last time I skied Pico was in High School on a march day and I recall doing a number of laps down Upper Giant Killer enjoying perfect bumps.

The Upper Giant Killer T-bar has now faded into skiing history. The T-Bar line is poached from time to time, but if you get caught it is loss of ticket.

 

[Sparky]

Thanks everbody.