Home ski area?

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AlpineZone

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What would you consider your "home" ski mountain? For me, it's probably Jiminy Peak as it's about 1:45 away. I plan to visit Ski Sundown quite a bit this season though as it's closer at probably only 30 minutes, tops. At one hour, I also visit Butternut quite a bit.
 
Cannon or Ragged, depend upon where the storm dumped the snow....

As I am not outsie of boston though, stuck without a car, I'm going to have to ride the bus to concord and then get my car, makes things a lot more complicated. Hopefully, I will still be able to get to the ski areas on most weekends. Plus I have almost the whole month of January off, I can't wait.

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AlpineZone":2gfxiz2o said:
For me, it's probably Jiminy Peak as it's about 1:45 away. I plan to visit Ski Sundown quite a bit this season though as it's closer at probably only 30 minutes, tops. At one hour, I also visit Butternut quite a bit.
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Greg, have you given Bousquet a shot? Sure, at 750 verts it's smaller than Jiminy, but it's got a real down-home feel with some good, albeit short, advanced-intermediate terrain that's nearly as challenging as Jiminy's. It's also 30 minutes closer, and $15 for a night ticket and $25 for a day ticket any day of the season. My wife and I buzzed over there 3 or 4 nights this past season and enjoyed every one.
 
Blue "Mountain" or Talisman.

Neither one offers much in the way of height or terrain, but they have white and you can make turns
 
Getting my gore/whiteface pass next week. Will be calling whiteface and the dack's bc home but plan on hitting gore a few times too cause I havn't been there yet and why not it's covered by my pass.
 
I used to ski Hunter Mtn and Killington as a kid, and then the last 4 winters it was Tremblant (I dont know too much about the trails there... we always tried to stick to the woods), but now I'm in Stockholm in cow pasture country unfortunately.... Theres a 60m hill here, and thats the best thing unless i drive 6 hrs away (but im only stuck here one winter!) So I guess now my "home mountain" is Hammarbybacken, 7 subway stops away with that whopping 60m of vertical that I crave... and well I used to make a pilgrimage to Mt. Washington but I guess thats not exactly my home mountain

Sven
 
Mad River Glen

Who cares if it's a 3 1/2 hour drive?

I'm hoping for them to open by mid-december, and to stay open till early april. But when there's snow, it can't be beat.

When there's not, there's always Jay.
 
Shawnee Peak for me. It is just 15 mins away, and has night skiing also. I usually get 50 or so days there each season. But I also bought an ASC bronze pass this year, so will be going to their mountains some also. Especially Sugarloaf, SR, and Attitash. :D
 
Years gone by I'd say Mad River, even for the mere half dozen visits it would get, but now that I live less than 20 minutes from mighty Wawa and finally broke down to get a Century Pass, I'll have to face reality and admit that I'm just another Wawa gaper. Who knows? Maybe it will snow enough that I can call the local b/c my home.
 
Mammoth is viewed as "home" by most serious SoCal skiers, despite being a 5-6 hour drive. At 4+ million vertical skied, it's as good a definition as any for me.

Mt. Baldy is more in the keeping of this thread, as it is an hour from home and the site of 3 of my top 10 lifetime powder days. My next day there will put me over 1 million lifetime vertical. For more info:
http://webpages.charter.net/tcrocker818/bldyguid.htm Resort Guide
http://members.aol.com/BACrocker/bldy2141.htm Pics after 7-foot storm
http://216.250.243.13/discus2/messages/ ... 1078296771 FTO report and pics from the only good weekend of the past 3 seasons.
 
Jonny D":3nfenya3 said:
Blue "Mountain" or Talisman.

Neither one offers much in the way of height or terrain, but they have white and you can make turns
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You poor b****rd. Try to get "invited" to Devil's Glen, Beaver or Alpine (all private clubs) All 3 have somewhat better terrain.

Formerly my "home" hill was Mansfield Ski Club, now it's Sugarloaf.
 
Actually, it's really Alta (in Quebec) with La Réserve as a 2nd home

Those are the 2 real die-hard extreme skiers ski areas north of Montreal, so it's sure that it's the 2 mountains where I'm sticking, especially after a snowstorm !

(My avatar = La Réserve with 16" of very fluff virgin pow on december 19, 2003)
 
It's not in my top10 favorites in the East, maybe I know the area too much.

But there is only one mountain that I can call home and it's Tremblant.

It's the place I have skiied the most in my life.

My dad was an instructor there in the 50s, my mother is from the area (although they meet at Glen :? in the 60s), her father grommed the runs by snowshoeing up the trails in the 40s, we had a cottage 20 miles away and one year (1980) we even had a season pass.

Since I started keeping stats (1981-82 at 16yr), Tremblant is the place I skiied the most (93 times), however it only represents 14% of the ski days (Killington is third with 44 times).

However, because of my daughter my Ottawa Home Ski Area is Vorlage.

US Home Areas: Whiteface (only US area I love within a day trip from home) AND Mad River Glen (the place I love to go back to).
 
The Loaf. Wish I lived closer though.
On days when I can't make the drive, I'll throw the skis and dog in the car and hike up Mt Jefferson. It's only 20 miles from where I live. Takes 15 minutes to skin up. Moxie loves it too :D Occassionally they open for a day and run the t-bar. But with no snowmaking, those days are far and few between. 450 feet of vert, not too shabby if you're jonesing bad.
 
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