Seeing the thread with everyone helping the guy out with skis for his girlfriend I was surprised to see how many skiers there are on this forum…pretty cool.
Post your home mountain where you usually ski and if they are open yet. Also say if you’ve been on snow yet this year.
I’ll start—my home mountain is Sugarbush here in Vermont. They opened last week but I have not been on snow yet.
Home resort - K-mart (that’s Killington for you west coasters), open and apparently it looks like an ant farm
Haven’t skied yet and since I have a business trip the first half of Dec, I’m guessing first tracks will be in Steamboat over Christmas. May get a second trip west to UT if I’m lucky.
Beautiful Mt. Brighton here in the Detroit area! 300 verticle feet of land fill. If you have ever seen Aspen Extreme is the POS hill that they work at the beginning of the movie.
It’s true, though, if you can ski this inclined Ice Rink you can handle pretty much anything.
Steamboat is awesome! In Utah Park City is my favorite.
Heading to Colorado in a few weeks for a long weekend to ski. I’m sure one of those days will be Vail (ah the bowls)! Breck is supposed to be opening a new lift/terrain.
Scratch above…in Utah ALTA is my favorite.
I have to agree that Steamboat is the shit. When you go swim at rec center’s outdoor pool which is heated by hotsprings----really sweet. Also go up to the strawberry park hot springs (i think that’s what it’s called)
That’s better, you’re forgiven.
Was in Alta the last two Christmas’ and had tons of fresh (first time I ever choked on powder, so that was nice). I have to admit though, the new collins lift is a bad idea. The Germania lift kept a bunch of people down low, so you could ski under the G Lift without going all the way down.
Haven’t skied CO yet, so I’m looking forward to it.
There are a lot of naked people at Strawberry Springs…wait a mintue…I think I was naked!
Oh how I miss the moutains. Home used to be Marmot basin in Jasper Alberta. Now I am hitting the big peaks of Calibogie in Ontario, just not the same. Fav though is West ridge on Canoe mountain. Just hop on a bell 212 to get to the top, stay in the hut for a week. There is nothing like earning your turns in 20 feet of untouched snow. I am guessing the hut is empty right now, but there would be lots of snow up there.
East Coaster here. I was on the Natinal Ski Patrol for 5 years at Wintergreen, VA. Not big…but big enough. 1,000 ft of vertical : ) I’m moving to Sedona AZ, in January and will be skiing at SnowBowl starting in February. I didn’t realize the damn mountain gets 250 inches of snow per year and sits at over 11,000 feet. COOL!!!
My son lives in Golden, BC. The skiing there is awesome. Banpff is also only an hour away. Where I live it’s X-country. Somehow Calibogie doesn’t just cut it despite that I’m not that far away. When I lived in Kingston we used to go to Tupper in upstate NY regularly and Lake Placid once in awhile.
Nothing like switching from MI ski slopes - http://www.skipineknob.com/slope.asp to the Carpathian mountains - http://www.skiresorts.ro/index.php?pn=show_resort&res=1&PHPSESSID=098a216758c85a169f44eb47aa775587&lang=eng in Romania (eastern Europe)… this ski-resort is just 8 miles away on a winding road (1500Ft elevation gain, from city to resort).
Grew up skiing in Tahoe, but my stomping ground now is the Colorado Rockies. Spent a lot of time at Vail and Breck in my college days, but I claim Winter Park and specifically Mary Jane as my “home” mountain now. I am also a volunteer ski instructor at the National Sports Center for the Disabled up in Winter Park as well.
Winter Park opened last week and already has a 45 inch base mid-mountain and it is not even December yet!! Keep on doing the snow dance!
Not open yet 
Between Windham and Utah 29 days on the snow last year. A personal record that is likely to stand for a while.
Me: Alpine and Telemark
Wife: Alpine, snowboard and Telemark - tripple threat
Kids: Board, Ski/Board and Ski
Skiing does nothing for my racing. Or maybe my racing does nothing for my skiing…
We ski at Lake Tahoe, all over the North Shore. My secret spot is Homewood. No snow yet. Heading up at Christmas.
Yeah baby, that’s where I learned to ski. Do they still have that late night deal on the weekends? God I remember freezing my ass off with -20 wind chill on that mountain er hill, er uh bump but you are right, if you can ski bumps on that ice slope you can ski anything. =)
I probably have two home mountains now: loveland and winter park. Both are open with about a 3’ base.
rub it in why don’t you.
Alpine skiing = Lots of expensive gear + $80 a day lift tickets.
Triathlon = Lots of expensive gear + $150 for Oly distance tri.
This looks like a natural fit for triathletes. As a matter of fact, most will think it is a bargain.
Spindogg - a friend of mine has a house in Fayston so I spend a fair bit of time up there during the year. I typically ski Mad River or Mt Ellen and I actually picked up my Elite at Fit werx a couple of years ago. anyway - i could never figure out where to swim when i am up there - where do you suggest? i did check out one of two of the fitness centres on the sugarbush acces road but the pools were minute!
any info would be great -keep us posted on the powder!
Hey there-
Today is actually a powder day!!! I wish I was on the mountain. Fitwerx is awesome; they have helped me with everything from fit to orthotics and made me a lot faster.
Places to swim—I swim at First in Fitness in Berlin. It’s about 30 minutes from Sugarbush. Stowe has a really really nice pool called the Swimming hole. It’s closed right now as they are putting additions on. Burlington has several good pools about an hour from Sugarbush.—Go to the YMCA if you do that.
There is a very significant triathlon, cycling and running community here. Starting in the spring there is wed night TT through stowe bike club and mondays an open water group swim at waterbury resevoir. In the summer you could do a sprint triathlon practically every weekend here if you wanted or training crit or running road race.