Royal Conditions

So Harv, McCauley is great and as I have said, is one of my wife's favs, now you need to venture to Royal. A place where there are no ski boundaries and a family run Mountain that is a labor of love.

PeeTex wrote

So Harv, McCauley is great and as I have said, is one of my wife's favs, now you need to venture to Royal. A place where there are no ski boundaries and a family run Mountain that is a labor of love.

Boy it sure is convenient on a Sunday escape south.

Would like to check it out, website is minimal, which is ok. I'll start watching it on the radar.

You will find a lodge heated by a big wood stove, a yummy egg, bacon & cheese Sami with a cup of Joe for $5 and a very friendly bunch of peeps. Not a big place, but a very friendly one.

Any tree skiing?

Sounds decent !! Love retro vibe , family run feeder hills

Lots and lots

Will you two quit pitching woo and just go for it. Neither one of ya is getting younger.  

Peetex, take Harv out and give him Royal tour sometime soon.

He PT would you contribute +/- 400 words to the directory:

http://directory.nyskiblog.com/Royal-Mountain-tp4642426.html

?

Here's Gore as an example:

http://directory.nyskiblog.com/Gore-Mountain-tp4642438p4642440.html

Seriously need someone who knows the place.

The bar is called the Velcro Lounge, tell them Francois sent you!!

Harvey wrote

Seriously need someone who knows the place.

Harv, I have been there about 6 times but I would hardly say "I know the place". I get down to Royal about once a year. It is almost a 2 hour drive from my place in the wilderness. So, although I would be more than happy to write something up for you, I would suggest you go and experience the hill for yourself.

 Skied Royal Friday for the first time, a fun little mountain, about 1 hour northwest from Albany. Royal  has 3 chairs, one for beginners and two basically next to each other, they only ran one of those Friday since there were no lifelines. We counted 5 different runs from the top and few additional ones that break off those lower. The snow on the trails was excellent, i don't think we saw any ice the whole day,  they get a bunch of Lake effect that way and the coverage was excellent. The mountain also features a number of nice looking glades and their policy is you can ski anywhere. We saw a few folks in the woods but it was a little too crusty on top for our taste after the freezing rain they had a couple of days before. The trails are all short just 500' vertical but a couple offer a few short steep pitches.

 I'd like to go back when the woods are in better shape.  It was a very inexpensive day especially with our Gore passes, food was very inexpensive and it looked like they had a nice bar also.

Nice?    Inexpensive with the Gore passes?  What’s up with that?

Harvey wrote

He PT would you contribute +/- 400 words to the directory:

https://nyskiblog.com/directory/alpine-ski-areas/adirondacks/royal-mountain/

?

Here's Gore as an example:

https://nyskiblog.com/directory/alpine-ski-areas/adirondacks/gore-mountain/

Seriously need someone who knows the place.

Still looking for a volunteer.

Hoser wrote

Nice?    Inexpensive with the Gore passes?  What’s up with that?

Looks like can get $10 off a lift ticket with a season pass from any other mountain.

A friend is a local at Mt. Royal.  I may want to plan a "tourist" ski safari in NY at some point.  Have different context after checking out ski areas in NH and MA in recent years.

Royal was cool before cool overtook  ski areas, been a long time , may have to hit that sometime

Moglmike wrote

Royal was cool before cool overtook  ski areas, been a long time , may have to hit that sometime

I'm down with that.