Your MLK 2025 Ski Plans

[jimk]

Coldest ever for me was patrolling @ The Cat in approx 2005ish. -30 w/ 90-100mph winds.
We were stranded up top, hunkering down in the shack for 2-3 hours until they brought up a bully for the 3 of us and shut the place down.

OK, old guys breaking out their cold stories... One morning over Prez Weekend 1979 I drove by a bank in Rutland and thermometer read -37F. Went skiing with a buddy at Killington and saw a thermometer later during the day there that it warmed to -17. It was sunny and I was age 25. Skied a full day, but I did make a concession and bought a face mask.

After 50 years of skiing primarily in the East, now last 10 years primarily in the Rockies I still have to force myself not to dress as warm for western skiing as eastern skiing. 30 degs out there feels like 45 does back east. I guess it's the dampness East and sunshine West that makes the difference?

PS: growing up in Virginia, everything north of Richmond is Yankee territory I always considered NJ, NY and PA to be Northeast. DMV (DE, MD, VA) is it's own thing, but I'd consider those in the mid-Atlantic. I went to U of MD when it was in the Atlantic Coast Conference with Clemson, UNC etc. for southern orientation.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

im really trying to prepare my friend for everything she should expect this weekend. shes an intermediate snowboarder but she lived in the bay area the past 6 years and rode at squaw and alpine. she's been with me to killington like a decade ago but i think shes in for a fairly rude awakening. she also sees me posting untouched powder shots in the woods every weekend, but she has no fucking clue how to find snow like that on killington, during a holiday weekend, with temps dropping to around 0 on monday. have fun girlfrind.

 

[4aprice]

It all depends where you get your definition. I've heard both as well, although personally I'd say I've more commonly heard NJ and PA referred to as "Northeast".

The US Census Bureau defines the Northeast as all the New England states plus NY, NJ, and PA.

To have a little more fun with the definitions. You could really cut PA in half. The mountains out by Pittsburgh connect with WV, Maryland, and Virginia and that is really the heart of Mid Atlantic skiing. There's not much in the middle but the Northeastern mountains connect with the Catskills and the mountain ranges that spread to the Northeast.

 

[jimk]

I could be wrong, but my sense is relatively few LDS seem to ski.

I think they tend to ski the front range more than PC and DV. They are generally very low key, but I've ridden chairs with some fun/interesting ones. Don't want to hijack thread, but we've done business with many for home improvement stuff for ten years and I generally like them. Straight shooters and I share a lot of common family/social values with them. Except I only keep one wife

 

[BenedictGomez]

People in the northeast don’t consider either northeast.

You're the only person I've ever heard claim PA isnt the northeast. The US government's definition of "the northeast" literally includes PA.

 

[Hawk]

I don't consider PA northeast either.

 

[BenedictGomez]

I don't consider PA northeast either.

You can consider an aardvark an elephant, but it wont change the fact it's an aardvark.

 

[LuckyStrike]

Magic Sat / Bromley Sun

Midwest begins at the Dunkin Donuts in West Saratoga.

 

[Hawk]

Whatever. I only consider what is right in my mind. After all in this day and age there are alternate facts that are considered the truth. So what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

 

[2Planker]

NorthEast is New England and maybe NY/NJ...
Penn is NOT "Northeast".

I went to college in Ohio and spent plenty time in Penn.....
It is way more MidWest "Rust Belt" than NorthEast.

 

[SkiingInABlueDream]

LoL. When you live in New England it's easy to regard a state that is mainly to the west and south of you as not being in the northeast. And if you look at a map of the continental US is easy to see that PA is generally towards the northeast.
Captain obvious?

 

[Edd]

Many times I've heard NY referenced as part of New England and that annoys me for no good reason.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

NorthEast is New England and maybe NY/NJ...
Penn is NOT "Northeast".

I went to college in Ohio and spent plenty time in Penn.....
It is way more MidWest "Rust Belt" than NorthEast.

maybe out by pittsburgh but philadelphia and northeast pa are absolutely part of the northeast with much stronger ties to NY and NJ than the midwest

 

[BenedictGomez]

After all in this day and age there are alternate facts that are considered the truth.

Personally I cant wait for some recent Division II grad, 6 foot 8 inch guy, to dominate the WNBA with monster windmill jams.

 

[BenedictGomez]

LoL. When you live in New England it's easy to regard a state that is mainly to the west and south of you as not being in the northeast. And if you look at a map of the continental US is easy to see that PA is generally towards the northeast.
Captain obvious?

Yeah. By their logic I'm going to start calling Vermont through Maine, "barely America", or maybe "proximally Canada".

 

[Zand]

I think looking at it by city rather than by state makes more sense. It's almost hard to consider Buffalo the northeast as it aligns a bit more with the rust belt, but New York as a state would definitely be considered the northeast. Meanwhile Pennsylvania as a whole kind of has different regional feelings as you go west, but Philly is definitely still Northeast seeing as it is culturally tied in with South Jersey a bit. You can have two cities in the same state that are totally in different regions like Philly and Pittsburgh. I mean look at El Paso and Houston...just because they're in the same state doesn't make them in the same region.

That said, I'm not planning on taking geography classes this MLK weekend so that's enough from me.

 

[2Planker]

Personally I cant wait for some recent Division II grad, 6 foot 8 inch guy, to dominate the WNBA with monster windmill jams.

How about 7' 9"
He even makes Shaq look small

 

[jaytrem]

If the New England states are the only ones in the Northeast, is there any Norteast? Wouldn't it just be New England?

And yhe Epic Northest pass is good in PA, correct? If Vail says it's Northeast, it's Northeast

 

[BenedictGomez]

If the New England states are the only ones in the Northeast, is there any Norteast? Wouldn't it just be New England?

Only Maine is New England now per their logic.

 

[SenorQuesadilla]

If the New England states are the only ones in the Northeast, is there any Norteast? Wouldn't it just be New England?

And yhe Epic Northest pass is good in PA, correct? If Vail says it's Northeast, it's Northeast

From their Northeast value pass page:

NORTHEAST

• Mount Sunapee, NH
• Attitash Mountain Resort, NH
• Wildcat Mountain, NH
• Crotched Mountain, NH

MIDATLANTIC

• Liberty Mountain Resort, PA
• Roundtop Mountain Resort, PA
• Whitetail Resort, PA
• Jack Frost, PA
• Big Boulder, PA
• Seven Springs, PA
• Laurel Mountain, PA
• Hidden Valley, PA

MIDWEST

• Mt Brighton, MI
• Alpine Valley, OH
• Boston Mills, OH
• Brandywine, OH
• Mad River Mountain, OH