Why does your home/favorate mountain rock?

[Grassi21]

Ah heck....the little local home mountain, Ski Sundown is cool too:

I think Greg just likes posting that pic. ;-) All kidding aside, its a great shot. I need a cool action pic for my avatar this season...

 

[Greg]

I think Greg just likes posting that pic. ;-)

Ha! You're right, especially since it makes me look like I ski bumps better then I do. Timing is key!

 

[Grassi21]

Ha! You're right, especially since it makes me look like I ski bumps better then I do. Timing is key!

What course did you tee it up at on the Cape? The weather appears great in your golf pic.

 

[Greg]

What course did you tee it up at on the Cape? The weather appears great in your golf pic.

Quashnet Valley Country Club in Mashpee. It's a pretty challenging course (slope of 129). My feeble score of 116 proves that. I suck at golf.

 

[Grassi21]

Quashnet Valley Country Club in Mashpee. It's a pretty challenging course (slope of 129). My feeble score of 116 proves that. I suck at golf.

Sounds like we could have some battles on the links.

 

[bvibert]

I'm sorry I didn't visit this topic earlier. Great thread idea Austin. I purposely didn't check it out because I didn't want to read a bunch of lengthy description on why one area is better than the others, and that's exactly what this thread was meant to avoid.:idea:

There is some awesome pics in here guys! Makes me want this winter to arrive even more now!

I wish I had a bunch of great shots from a 'cool' home mountain like you guys! Here's the best that I could come up with from my home mountain on a particularly nice day early last year:

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Bev, the snow in those shots look great. If only conditions conditions could be like that everyday.

BTW- whose the poser in the first 2 pixs? Dude has no game.

 

[thetrailboss]

BTW- whose the poser in the first 2 pixs? Dude has no game.

Yeah, really. And I heard that his posting skills aren't as good either :wink:

 

[bvibert]

Bev, the snow in those shots look great. If only conditions conditions could be like that everyday.

BTW- whose the poser in the first 2 pixs? Dude has no game.

The snow was awesome that day, especially for Dec 9th in CT!

I don't know who that gaper is, he kept trying to follow me around all day.

 

[Greg]

This is a pretty stokey thread. Bump!

 

[mattchuck2]

Okay, I guess I'll get in on this. . .

Most of these are from the Gore Website:

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

MCJr., I like Gore alot, but you didn't post one picture that would make me want to ski there. A picture is worth a 1000 words only if it is a picture that says something.

 

[mattchuck2]

MCJr., I like Gore alot, but you didn't post one picture that would make me want to ski there. A picture is worth a 1000 words only if it is a picture that says something.

Yeah, I wish I had some :-(

You have a couple of them, don't you? Toss some in!

Most of the time, when conditions are good, I don't really want to stop to take pictures of other people skiing . . . And nobody takes pictures of me skiing because I'm usually too far ahead of them. ;-)

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Yeah, I wish I had some :-(

You have a couple of them, don't you? Toss some in ;-)

Dang Jr. I'm always doing stuff for my own kids, now I have to take care of you too? :grin:

I have a few, but I don't feel like uploading and copying them here. Maybe later.

Most of the time, when conditions are good, I don't really want to stop to take pictures of other people skiing . . . And nobody takes pictures of me skiing because I'm usually too far ahead of them. ;-)

Well give me a head start sometime and I'll get some of you. A Slide day maybe.

 

[Birdman829]

this one is out my window

not a bad view to wake up to

These are a couple I stole from K2Trav's site (I don't ski with my camera)

backside

front face

Pipe Cleaner

Gondi

 

[Greg]

this one is out my window

not a bad view to wake up to

I hate you.

 

[JD]

Stowe

Here.

 

[John84]

Why does my home mountain rock?

1. It's 3 hours from the D.C. area on a good day, meaning a HUGE amount of people are filtered out long before they get here.
2. It averages 150 inches of snow a year, which isn't much compared to up north in VT/NH/ME/NY, but compared to the resorts that are within an 1.5 hour drive, it's up to 7 times as much snow
3. Like I said before, crowds are very minimal
4. Limited lift capacity; two fixed grip triples serving 34 trails keeps the trails uncrowded
5. Laid back feeling
6. If the crowds do get to be too much there is another ski area 2 miles down the road of similar quality that I can escape to.
7. Located in a ridiculous sub-climate. I've left the D.C. area when the temperature was pushing 50 and arrived here to temps in the 25-28 degree range.
8. 1000 foot vertical which is fairly large for the Mid-A

I'm talking about Timberline in West Virginia. Unfortunately I don't have any pics that I've taken, but here's one taken from a USDA webcam.

Ski resort on the left is Timberline, on the right is Canaan Valley. There are a few additional trails to the left of where this picture cuts off.

 

[JD]

and

 

[from_the_NEK]

Sweet Picks from Stowe JD. This is why the northern Green Mtns rock! :beer: DEEEP Powder (on occation :smile: )