Ski Areas that People Love and Hate

[bousquet19]

Back to the thread. I like and dislike Whitetail, PA (but the former greatly outweighs the latter, so I have a season's pass).

Likes:

• HSQ moves skiers quickly up the mountain
• Continuous slope from top to bottom (almost), without long runouts
• Modern, attractive facilities well kept
• They do snowmaking right. Grooming too.
• Pass is good at all 3 Snowtime areas. Discounts at 12 others (Mountains of Distinction program)
• Close to home!

Dislikes:

• Unimaginative trails -- uniform width
• Ditto for the layout -- short traverse, then boom down the fall line. Repeat on the next trail.
• Conveys no sense of history, nature or place

Woody

 

[WWF-VT]

I despise the courtyard itself. Ugh. Don't even get me going. It is too bad because I think the skier services building and cafeteria is a great building. Claybrook, that roundish bar, and that paved courtyard area where the heated pool is... that whole package makes me think I showed up at the wrong area every time. It just doesn't feel right to me, though that is obviously a VERY subjective statement. But I did want to say that if they hadn't built claybrook and just built the skier service building it would have been perfect from my eyes.

I might never have the money or desire to stay at Claybrook but the courtyard is actually well designed for multiple seasons and uses. On sunny spring days there is a band outdoors and they serve beers from the Timbers patio. I recall a few hundred people gathered there on a sunny Saturday in March. I just got back from a visit this weekend and they have flower and full vegetable gardens growing there in the summer. Yesterday there was a salsa band / dancing in the courtyard. In the dead and cold of winter it may just be a place to pass through to get to the lodge and lifts but i think its meeting its design purpose as a plaza for outdoor activities.

 

[thetrailboss]

I might never have the money or desire to stay at Claybrook but the courtyard is actually well designed for multiple seasons and uses. On sunny spring days there is a band outdoors and they serve beers from the Timbers patio. I recall a few hundred people gathered there on a sunny Saturday in March. I just got back from a visit this weekend and they have flower and full vegetable gardens growing there in the summer. Yesterday there was a salsa band / dancing in the courtyard. In the dead and cold of winter it may just be a place to pass through to get to the lodge and lifts but i think its meeting its design purpose as a plaza for outdoor activities.

Again, better than Les Otten's "fake town."

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Again, better than Les Otten's "fake town."

please explain..