Recent content by Talisman

My wife and I are making our first ski trip to CO over the holdays and will be staying in Breckenridge and have passes good at Keystone, Arapahoe Basin and Breckenridge. i enjoy more challenging terrain than my wife does, but she is game for steeps and bumps, just not all day long. I realize...

Was at Sugarbush on Saturday 1/7 for the first time this season. The parking lot at South isn't improved by the enormous construction project on my usual parking spot. Saturday was sunny, cool with a crisp wind, but there was new snow. The snow guns were blazing on Rip Cord and Stein's, but...

If you have rock skis, grab them and head to Magic as there is lots of winding, narrow and classic New England trails there. The natural snow base is thin so ski damage is just about certain. Last weekend I skied natural snow trails in So VT and there is enough snow for great skiing. A back...

If it was me driving from Cleveland for a weekend of uncrowded skiing in VT, I would head directly to the Mad River Valley. If the natural snow is abundant hit Mad River Glen one day and Sugarbush the next. With a well planned driving route there is a negligible difference in drive time going...

I can't comment on what Janice is like, but Joe's review of Loon is very accurate in all respects. When these new trails were cut ten years ago, Loon used to encourage then look the other way if the trails were poached. There was a shuttle bus that would stop and bring you back to the base...

This past Sunday was Okemo's last day of lift operation and the snow pack was in excellent shape on most trails. Some trails with Easterly or Sotherly exposure had taken a beating, but there was always a path down. Okemo had soft corn groomers at 8:00 AM on the sunny trails. The bumps had...

Bumps glorious bumps! Saturday was a fabulous ski day in Vermont as it was sunny, no wind and long views. Started the day at Sugarbush South and found the sun had already softened the groomers by 8:30 but the ungroomed was firm. North Lynx softened up quickly for spring corn snow moguls. At...

Of your list I would pick Attitash and Loon as tops for fall line skiing & grooming, and have some interesting terrain. I wouldn't go out of my way to ski Sunapee, Waterville or Bretton Woods but all three do good a good job with grooming. A caveat though, in the Spring it isn't always...

Another vote for Cannon, Wildcat and Burke for fall line cruising. As was said above Wildcat is awesome in the Spring and with a HSQ with 2100 feet of verts you can get a days skiing in 3 hours. IMHO, Bretton Woods has cruising but not much fall line. Waterville has the fall line but skis...

Thanks for getting this back up on line. My two posts about Stowe and MRG were lost, which isn't much compared to the work you went through.

Wow March has been fabulous for skiing. Killington on Friday, 3/11 was pretty busy. The K-1 went down before 8:50 for several hours so I started the day on the Snowdon Quad and North Peak nee Glades triple. For all the snow in their report the base was pretty firm, but lots of snow in the...

Sharon, Twilight Zone and Goniff are the two glades on the trail map. Twilight Zone had better coverage than Goniff for what ever reason. Red Line was skiable, but the big headwall had been scraped clean to ice, moss and rocks. The only comment I make about the off map glades, lots of untracked.

Hit Magic on Saturday hoping it would deliver some powder a few days after the storms and it did. The mountain had done more grooming than I like on some of the Black Diamond trails with a groomed swath on the likes of Talisman, Heart of the Magician and Broomstick. The groomed snow skied like...

Thanks for the review. I was planning to ski Magic on Saturday and now I'm excited. The snow at Magic the past two seasons has been spotty.

The bad news: Castle Rock and North Lynx were both closed and a competition kept half of Down Spout restricted (as though 'Death Spout' isn't congested enogh. The good news there was some fresh snow, many trails were open and the conditions were pretty good. Rip Cord was open and offered bumps...