Checking the Telluride webcams every few days. Nothing yet.....

Try to get out West a few times a year, and around the midwest when things are right...

+1

not in the last 2 yrs, my last runs took me to Utah.
While stationed in Germany..every weekend.
and the Hintertux (Austria) glacier ..every 4th July
As for gear...PX made this stuff dirt cheap.
Between my lady and self...
10 pair ski's,5 pair booth's,at least 20 pr gloves..
my motto...
go as fast as your willing to crash..
tested this concept in Utah ,
while laying there..ok..your hands & feet still wiggle,
O my..white gloves turning red..
yellow tunic at elbow's doing same..
X-ray's negative, my body was spitting gravel for a yr.

Rika

snowboarding since 1985. i ride a 1991 burton air, just got new boots two seasons ago to replace the sorels. i purchased a never used 1997 burton factory prime (same board used in the olympics in the late '90's) and some head hard boots for this season. i can't wait to switch it up mid-day when the groomed runs are all carved up.

My first day last year was November 23rd and my last was April 2nd, I went out 27 times with a highlight of snowboarding at Squaw for the first time. This year I should make it out more often as I got a membership at a hill 30 minutes away. I am also planning on a trip to Tremblant with my wife and hopefully a trip out to Banff with a buddy of mine.

Oh $hit! Killington is opening @ 10 am sunday.

It's gonna be a zoo!

From what I've heard ticket prices are 65 dollars for adults.....not worth it for one or two "trials" that are just WROD.

Had an S.O.S college pass last season and made it out 24 times with a combo of skiing and boarding. I'm going to get a Wachusett bronze pass and a Sunapee/Gunstock/Wildcat college pass this year and have four day trip over spring break planned for Stowe with my dad. Hoping to get at least 30 days this season.

I'm only about 20 minutes from Wachusett and I've never skied there. How is it? I typically hike to Mt Snow, but the Wachusett Bronze pass at $199 is enticing.

Busy all of the time, which also means that the snow can suck and the lines at the lifts suck and the lodge is always packed and the slopes are filled with gapers. Other wise its not bad and its a great place to take someone who is learning how to ski or ride. I'm mostly getting the bronze pass because I'm in college and can get one for $129 and will have a lot of free time to ski/ride at night and during the weekends I go farther north so the no weekends restriction on the bronze pass doesn't bother me. It will also be nice to have somewhere close by to make some morning turns on the weekdays if my class schedule allows next semester. The trails aren't that bad, mostly groomed cruisers without much character and with two high speed quads you can rack up some decent vertical if there aren't any lines.

Any of you New England guys skiied Stratton in recent years? I haven't been there since the 80's. Worth a trip this winter?

used to ski stratton in the 90's... used to be my favorite 'single mountain' resort, but the quaintness that appealed to me may be gone by now.

Skier since the early 80s, snowboarder for the past 2 seasons.

Went there a day last year. Most of it seemed to be intermediate groomers. Lots of uphill capacity with all the six packs, but it sucks that the only way to the top non stop is the gondola. Compares well to Okemo but with more stuff for the non-skier wife at the base, it also seemed like Okemo has more character, but that just might be because I've logged a few more days there.

You mean Flatton ??? Waste of time and money,, intermediate at best and WAY overpriced ( most expensive in the country I believe). Save your money for a hotel and go to Jay, or Cannon, the only hills in New England worth skiing..
Not that I ski the east anymore but my 2 cents

from the stratton web page:

Stratton Mountain, Vermont is committed to delivering the best skiing and snowboarding experience in New England. Fourteen lifts including a high-speed base-to-summit gondola and four six-passenger lifts, 90% snowmaking, 2003 feet of vertical.

that is almost the same vertical as solitude here in utah. not bad.

Uhm clearly you've never skied/ridden there,, to compare Flatten to Solitude is a joke... Oh and you can't get a $20 burger at Solitude,, but you can at Flatten!! LOL

I have a mountain in the backyard basically. PLus, I work for Tecnica/Blizzard. Ready for snow. All this talk about snowmaking it's 60 in Lebanon, NH. right now.

RCM, I lived in Lebanon for almost 9 years ( on Poverty Lane) and was one of the founders of Creonics ( not there anymore on Etna Road).. kids learned to ski at Whaleback

I grew up skiing in Ontario.
700 hundred feet elevation. If you could read a terrain maps thru 6 inches of blue ice we considered that "machine groomed". A nice day was only 30 below zero with the 40 mph wind coming off the lake.
I moved to LA 23 years ago and I sure do like skiing here better

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Steve

hey, i was just surprised that they have that much vertical. that's it. i am sure that the snow is much better here, etc., etc. however, you CAN get a $20 burger at deer valley in park city. (wanker valley)