Does anyone really care about a Greek Peak TR?

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If you do, I will keep posting. It tends to get boring. It is not the most exciting of places and no one in their right mind would make a trip to ski at Greek Peak, let alone on a holiday weekend.

It was a gorgeous sunny day, so we made a meeting time at 11am at Chair 5. A bunch of people showed up. I set up my chairs and stuck the beer in the snow.

We went out and skied all over the mountain. Ran into lots of friends a long the way. Woods are thin, but skiiing well. Everything was open except for Arethusa...which didn't even look rewarding enough to poach today, so we left it alone. For a holiday weekend, it wasn't even too crowded. It was busy, and at times lines formed where they had to use the lift corrals. I think it was the first time all season I saw the corrals with people in them at all the lifts. Never was the wait more than 5 minutes, so it wasn't too bad. On the slopes, everyone was well spread out, and the kids were in the "park". The line for chair 2 was the longest, as that is where the park is and a nice easy green trail. There is also a nice glade up there, so we rode that lift a couple of times to ski Aesop's Glade, which was in good condition, even with the razzleberries.

We took a break around 2pm and let the dogs out to play and drank a few beers and ate some snacks. Went back out for a few more before the sun dipped behind the mountain, shadowing the east side.

On my way home, I decided to catch the sunset from Hammond Hill State Forest. I had the xc gear in the car and the dogs were up for a trail romp, so we went up to the sunny side and enjoyed the sunset and skied into the twilight as the soft snow crusted up. Great day of skiing. BTW, GP got 2" this morning and it's still snowing.
 
I sure do, PQ. Sitting here in my drab little corporate cube in Rochester, at least I get to live vicariously reading about your adventure in the snow. Besides, when I do finally get back to GP, I'll feel like I know the trails a little. I was there once for a first-timer's deal. Three days - the middle one it poured rain the whole day, so we went into Ithaca. The third day it froze solid and I learned what ice is. I mean ICE. Like, put on the figure skates ice. Can't break through it ice.

To this day I think of that when some people complain that conditions are 'icy'.

At least I expect to get to Bristol tomorrow night.

Keep 'em coming!

Tom
 
Powderqueen":3a0pklsy said:
no one in their right mind would make a trip to ski at Greek Peak, let alone on a holiday weekend.
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It might have been 4 years now since my last visit, but I've flown thousands of miles to ski at 'the peak'. In the rain, through the 2" of snirt and rocks on Illiad on opening day (I forget which year that was where opening day was also the ski for free day on Dec 24th - INSANE crowding on the one open trail).

Of course I get occasional updates on GP's season from the family. But septuagenarians tend to not ski it or sometimes like the conditions or certain trails the way you would.

And you know I'm always up for a Big Al sighting or story :lol: :lol:
 
Welcome to my world PDQ.

That's why I started one thread .. the Harvey Gore Thread. I want to post that stuff and eventually the folks who ski Gore will comment, and then get alerted to new stuff. It got kind of embarrassing having 10 threads with no input.

I always read your stuff. I don't have anything to say because I know zip about GP. The odds of me getting there are slim, as its probably as far from me as Gore. But you NEVER know.

More pics please.

I liked the shot last week from the lift with the sun washing out most of the photo:

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Ski NY! :-D
 
Keep the updates coming. I rediscovered GP last year after growing up at Greek and always wanting that bigger and better mountain. Having moved out of the area, I spent the last dozen years or more sitting in the traffic enroute to New England every other weekend or so. Quite honestly, I much prefer the slow chairs and no lines at GP over the long lines and fast chairs at the New England resorts. Sure, I do my handful of treks to CO and UT every year, but also realize that I can be at GP in three hours and with less hassles than seven hours to VT. So please keep the updates coming.
 
PDQ, I apologize for the hijack, but TT, I see you're from Pennsylvania. A good friend of mine is a patroller at Swain. They've been leased for the season by the operators of Ski Denton. Have you been to either of those places?

Swain is another small, somewhat neglected hill with out much vertical, but tons of charm and good memories. It's way smaller than GP, and doesn't have glades, but does have a few natural-snow-only trails through the woods.

Tom
 
thanks for the feedback everyone. it's nice to know people are really interested.

will be heading to Vt this weekend. So no Greek Peak reports for a while.

maybe Acidchrist can at least give you a little update while I'm away.
 
Tom, it's been a dozen or so years since I've been to Swain. I barely remember it. In terms of Denton, I never tried it. I actually headed to Blue Knob last weekend for the first time (central PA--3 hours). It's another area in need of some capital improvements, but has a 1K vertical and no lines to speak of. We did 29K vertical on slow clunky chairs on Saturday, which isn't too shabby. Good skiing and 2 minute lift lines at the most. Considering it was ML weekend, I didn't have a thing to complain about. I'm sort of having fun hitting some of the ski areas that are off the beaten path.

After a few days at Deer Valley last month, we gave Sundance a try. Similarly, it has fixed chairs, but no lines and great terrain. We were totally shocked at the grooming. A whole new world is opening up to me. :-D
 
Hey PDQ ... did you see the lift ticket in Admins Alta report on the West Side? It's from Greek Peak 12/20/08. That was the great powder day we skied at Gore (your avatar!) ... did Greek get good snow that weekend?

EDIT: Holy cow that was my 1000th FTO post. I was hoping for something a little more... something?
 
Harvey44":16fwjq9m said:
EDIT: Holy cow that was my 1000th FTO post. I was hoping for something a little more... something?
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How anti-climactic! :lol:

Welcome to the Big Time.
 
The thread title is relevant to me, because Belleayre is the place I go the most (though many fewer days than PDQ goes to GP), and people from outside the area might not be interested in knowing how it was every single time I go.

Moving forward, I'm planning to post uneventful reports about conditions (I skied today and here's how it was) in one dedicated thread, and save noteworthy days (powder, meeting an interesting person, unique experiences, etc.) for individual TRs.
 
Sharon, Love the reports. Brings back fond memories of my 4 years at GP from 81-85. They really didn't let you ski the tres back then.
 
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