Ski travel plans?

[abc]

Now that Thanksgiving has past, has anyone else made ski travel plans? Let's hear about it and let the virtual fun starts?

I usually make my Christmas travel plan (to ski, of course) before Thanksgiving, to take advantage of lower prices. But I hadn't gotten my act together soon enough this year. So I'm only starting to finalize it. I figure some of you are more organized than me...

(Yes, I know some of you have started skiing locally too)

 

[ss20]

I'll be teaching weekends...if those days count...

Max pass days now through mid-March. I'll hit Stratton, Okemo, Killington, Pico for sure. I want to do a Gore/Whiteface trip...not sure about the timing on that though. I also want to do a Sugarbush/MRG trip as well, again, not sure about the timing. Stowe over St. Patty's weekend for the council weekend if I have the $$$. After mid-March I will probably buy a Killington Spring pass for $200. That will complete my season.

Daytrips to Windham/Bellayre on the Max Pass. Free skiing at Catamount and Berkshire East for PSIA members. Sprinkle in an $29 Magic Thursday and a few days at Mount Snow and that will be my season...

The only booked trip is a midweek NH getaway with 2 days at Bretton Woods bookended by Sunappee and Loon or preferably Cannon.

I looked at the calendar, did the math, and I think I'll be able to get 75+ days in . That's insane for me.

 

[crank]

Christmas plans are last minute and completely snow dependent. We may hop a flight to SLC. We may drive to VT or Quebec. We may stay home and buy expensive, stub hub, tickets to String Cheese Incident at the Cap.

Going to Taos for a week end of January, SLC for 5 days beginning of March, Telluride third week of March. Have MCP pass so will hit Sugarbush at some point. Plan to ski Jay and Burke with my ski club in Feb as well.

 

[abc]

I'm on Max Pass this year. So the hope is:

1) A lot of days in the northeast, if the weather cooperates. Fingers crossed. Gore & Killington high on the list. Bellyear, Pico, maybe even Whiteface possible too.

I always take Christmas to either CO or UT. Haven't been disappointed so far. Hope this year is no exception. Since I have place to crash at part of my stay out there, the risk is smaller.

2) I got the ok to work remotely during Christmas-New York. So I'm actually taking my "official" vacation AFTER New Year. But I'll be spending the whole holiday period in Colorado, burning my pass days on the weekend/holidays first, followed by a full week of skiing at Steamboat. Still trying to line up the best price for flight, rental car and lodging at Steamboat.

3) 2nd trip will be late Feb/early March in UT plus Big Sky. That I hope will be the highlight of the season (at Big Sky). My stay at Salt Lake overlaps with the Pugski gathering. May drop in for a day if schedule allows.

4) Not sure if I have time (and stamina) to pull one last trip in April, probably in Sugarloaf if I do.

Looking at somewhere between 40-50 days. Not quite the number of my ski-bumming season of last winter. But then, a lot less driving and while maintaining an income stream.

 

[benski]

Off to Innsbruck Thursday for 4 days of skiing. I see 7 inches forecasted for tommorrow and I here they don't have powder skiers. I am renting skis so hoping they have 100 under foot skis.

 

[Smellytele]

Only skiing VT and NH this year. A few extended weekends in North Conway and a week up there. Also an extended weekend at Jay and many day trips.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

dec 15-23 in Utah but will probably audible to Big Sky
dec 25-28 wherever the getting is best back east on max pass
jan 12-15 in Washington, probably crystal, maybe a day at alpental. May drive to bachelor instead
late feb-early march 10-14 day crested butte winter park copper trip
all weekends in northeastern max pass and skiVT 5 pack spots
probably an April weekend in CO

 

[Whitey]

Maxx Pass again this year for me and 1 of my sons. So a lot of days at Killington, Stratton, Loon, Sunapee, Sunday River, Sugarloaf, etc.

But the trip I am PUMPED for is my February school vacation trip to Big Sky. We've rented a nice ski in and ski out place and I am going to be there for 10 days total. Stoked! Never skied Big Sky before, can't wait. Already saying my prayers for good snow.

 

[Jcb890]

Still trying to figure that out since money is really tight as is time off, especially after the New Year. Right now, time off is the bigger hurdle since I have the travel points to both fly us and rent a car, so the only big cost would be lodging... assuming we picked somewhere on the MAX Pass.

I am trying to talk my wife into a trip in January or February. We did Big Sky last year and absolutely loved it, but debating trying to do Bachelor this season.

We HAD plans to do Copper in Colorado again the week of Christmas, but my family waited too long to commit and now plane tickets are astronomical, so Christmas week is probably out unless we travel locally. That is still an option, but I'm worried about crowds during Christmas week on the East Coast. Out West the terrain wasn't nearly as crowded on a holiday weekend.

Otherwise, we'll be day-tripping all over New England using our MAX Pass and Peak Pass. Hoping to get to try Sugarloaf this season for the first time, but that might require a weekend trip... ~5 hours one way is too long to day-trip for me.

 

[redwinger]

Also on the max pass this year. Booked a UT trip for the last week of January. Lookin forward to it. Hoping for some deep days!


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[Jully]

Have a week in Utah planned in late January and also a week in Winter Park in February. Depending on how the seasons work out, will maybe put together a last minute trip to Bachelor for spring skiing in April (I have lots of time off right now).

A few weekend trips here and there crashing on couches for most of the northeast season. Thinking of taking a big crew of friends up to Tremblant over MLK weekend. Need to hit Whiteface at some point too.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Ski plans are something I don't make far out. In fact, it's the only vacation planning I intentionally delay, because I want to be sure of reasonably good odds for snow success.

Last year I did Utah, and I booked about 1 month out. This year I did Colorado, and I booked 1.5 months out, which is FAR for me, and about as far in advance as I'd ever book a ski vacation. For weekend trips, it's not unusual for me on a Thursday afternoon to have no idea where I'll be skiing that weekend, Cats, ADK, or n.VT depending on a potential storm.

 

[drjeff]

No Western trips planned this year due to my kids racing schedule and work + school schedules for the entire family just being ridiculously out of sync... Ugh!!!

If all goes as I think it will, come seasons end I will have made turns at Mount Snow, The Hermitage Club, Stratton, Bromley, Magic, Killington, Pico, Middlebury, Wachusett, Crotched, and Willard Mtn, NY looking at the my kids racing and training calendars for the season.

So lots of road miles, but unfortunately no air miles is what my season is looking like on paper right now

 

[kingslug]

Snowbird Dec 13th..praying it snows or I'll be playing shuffleboard.
Vail Jan 20 to 27
Revelstoke Feb 24 to March 3
The rest of the time East coast, probably a lot at Stowe and Sugarbush, Killington.

 

[benski]

I am living near Amsterdam this fall so no USA for me till January

11/30-12/3 innsbruck
12/24-12/29 Zermatt.

 

[TheArchitect]

I have the MCP. I'll be spending a weekend at Sugarbush in February and then 4 days in UT in early March. Anyone here attending the Pugski Gathering this year?

Other than a bunch of day trips I'm going to try to fit in a weekend at Jay in mid to late March.

 

[crank]

Yep, going to The Gathering in UT.

 

[TheArchitect]

It's going to be great. Hopefully it'll start snowing out there.

 

[bdfreetuna]

Baby on the way in maybe less than a week -- first one for our family so I expect to focus less on skiing.

That said... have 8 total VT passes, unlimited 50% off at Pico & Killington and a few other passes and BOGOs, so I'll probably focus on hitting prime midweek days and making the most of a less intensive season.

As for travel, my parents live nearby and are already talking about doing a ski vacation this year and, at least my mom who doesn't ski, can watch the baby. This could mean a trip to Le Massif / Mont St Anne at some point.

And there is always the situation of sister and brother-in-law living near Lake Tahoe, but probably not this year.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

congrats man