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Oftentimes priorities change when areas start building projects. They take their eyes off the ball and focus elsewhere (a glaring example is Les Otten's little adventure). I noticed that not a single NASTAR race was logged there this year. So I called to check and they admitted to not...

P. S., 2 for 1 Tix on Tues-Wed-Thursday.

Great day, tad bit chilly, minor gusts of wind. Similar conditions to last Thursday. Scratchy on top, packed powder on lower mountain. With school cancelled, place was hoppin' with collegiate types. No problem, lots of room, no lines, etc. Went with my two teen daughters who preferred blues...

The good news is that most of our management is "flatlanders". That is, they are clueless as to the real reason for "skiitis" No reasonable person would ever want to be outside in the frigid cold, chancing frostbite, waking before the sun rises for a chance to go up and down a hill...

In the last few years, every day trip I take out of Boston right after a little bit of precip. always starts with encounting one or more SUV rollover incidents. Thursday was no different. 10mph slower gets you there 15-20 minutes later - no big loss, slow down folks! Anyways... Picked...

Considering a daytrip tommorrow. 3" of fresh pow is better than nuttin' Anyone been to Loon or WV over the past week (since rain ceased...) Thanks.

20} WHALEBACK_INTRO An Upper Valley ski area will soon be welcoming skiers back to the slopes. Whaleback Mountain has been closed since 2001. But a former Olympic skier from Vermont says the small resort along Interstate 89 offers a unique opportunity. Kate Duffy spoke with the man who's...

Boston Globe: <BR>200 stranded on chairlift at ski mountain in N.H. <BR>Crews use ropes to evacuate riders <BR>2/16/2004 <BR> <BR>Nearly 200 skiers and snowboarders at the Gunstock ski area in Gilford, N.H., were left stranded in the frigid February air for up to three hours yesterday when a...

You keep up reports like that and I might just fix-up to leave cozy New England and visit GP.... ;)

Man, I can attest to the Western NY snow belt. Lived there from '65 to '80. The only thing missing is more vertical. Used to go to those resorts south of Buffalo - Peek and Peek, Holiday Valley, learned my craft the hard way, in the deep stuff. We almost never said the word "icey." <BR>Had...

Sorry, We didn't get to those trails, but I heard from others who did run them that they were variable - some sections were great, then you'd run into exposed terrain and scratchy solid stuff. Where it was ungroomed it was always scratchy. Many of the ungroomed areas that bumped up /moguled...

STOWE <BR>Mt. Mansfield was a delight on Sunday. Temps nearing 20, a veritable heat wave, no wind, beautiful blue sky. <BR>Lot of people there early, many gone by 1pm. <BR> <BR>Blacks. Nosedive, Hayride, Centerline were groomed flat. Cats had pulverized the surface to ping-pong ball sized...

Seems to me that skiers are not nearly as religious as they should be. We all should be in church weekly (Thursday's are best) PRAYING for that white stuff. Perhaps if we all got a set of those worry beads, rename them SNOW BEADS and knock off a couple rounds of prayers during those times we...

You're probably safe early march, but not so late march.

Putting the truth into the hands of us consumer skiers is much easier than 25 years ago when I started in this sport. <BR>The reports were entirely subjective and subject to massive marketing department abuse. <BR>Just as green-blue-black is relative to a specific area, so the terms powder...

Okemo has much deeper pockets. It's a real money machine for them. They've carved out their niche - wide, blue trails, lots of amenities, things a yuppie boomer family is happy to drop a couple of G's at. <BR> <BR>One of my ski bud's grew up on the backside of Okemo - Belmont, VT. We still...

I skied Loon until the mid 80s. It was wonderful in the "olden days" before the place got popular. Once tix sales began selling out by 8:30am (read: they already sold far more tix than the mountain could handle), I bagged it. <BR> <BR>I would only go now on a Warren Miller midweek "powder...

While the non-New England behavior may be a bit of stretch, I couldn't help but notice how accurately the NE behavior was described. Yes, my daughter was out selling cookies last week at -10F. <BR> <BR>I grew up in Massena, NY where below 0 temps were ordinary for weeks at a time. I do...

I used to go there a lot 4-5 years ago with my family when they were all still pretty low-end skiers. At that time it had just been bought out by a couple from NY. The skiing was fine then and the infrastructure was good, but the service wasn't. <BR> <BR>I am getting the sense now that the...

Guess you had a bad day, huh? Or shall we say, guess you had a bad ski area? <BR> <BR>Well, now that you've vented, head up to N. Vt. as you plan. Wonderful conditions. I'm just back from 3 days at Stowe, it was heaven, though even some of the blue trails had low coverage, the constant...