Head to Canada?

I usually take my son over to VT for a day or two to ski before Chirstmas.  Once we get to the holidays I probably won't get to ski with him again until his race season is over in late March.  I had planned to head to Stowe Dec 23-24.  The weather forecast is looking pretty dire with a T-storm forecast for Xmas eve.

I'm thinking that Tremblant might be above of all this warmth.  They say they have 12k it trails open.  It's only about a 3 to 3:30 drive for us.  

Has anyone skied up there pre Christmas in recent years?  How busy would it be then?

Any lodging suggestions?  Not willing to drop big $ to stay in the village.  There is a Comfort Inn in the town for $87 usd per night.  What is that town like?

Coach you could go to JamesBay...NO cold air anywhere.. This map is valid Xmas eve..

From the looks of things weatherwise right thru the holidays you might as well take your son golfing

SLC, stay in Sandy, or somewhere close to the Cottonwood canyons, eat Mexican in the strip malls, which is awesome and cheap. Sorry, best I can do right now.

I just spent two weeks in Italy, and did not expect I would get back on the second of December and do another two hundred miles on the road bike. Thought I'd be getting my first turns at KMart or Stowe. Oh well, at least I'm burning Italy off before the real skiing starts.

Jason

Looks like the 24th us going to be a terrible day to ski

23rd looks ok.  Do you agree?

Coach
I can't tell you exactly what day will be better this far out..Just saying around that time frame it looks bad..

When I saw the thread I thought you were gonna go to Canada to get away from US politics, give their socialized healthcare a try.....

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they'll have limited terrain open on manmade snow only.

edit: I guess "limited terrain" would mean more than anyplace except killington or SR.

Right now I think we will just shoot to go over to Burlington stay one night and ski maybe Stowe which looks to have the most open on the 23rd.  The 24th now looks to be a gully washer just in time for Christmas.

I need to stay one more night in a Starwood hotel to requalify for Platinum status for next year.   Maybe we will go see Star Wars on the 24th

warp daddy wrote

From the looks of things weatherwise right thru the holidays you might as well take your son golfing

The golf course along my road is still opening, still folks out there golfing. Even during years when we had no natural snow the ground was already frozen rock solid by now. I've never seen that course open this late!

Coach, Give your son a really nice Christmas present, splurge, if you want to ski in Canada take him to Whistler, they have the goods. Dream big.

Nice, but takes forever to get to Whistler. Besides, it rains there in the winter, too. Albany has reasonable flights to SLC by way of Baltimore.

Coach Z wrote

Right now I think we will just shoot to go over to Burlington stay one night and ski maybe Stowe which looks to have the most open on the 23rd.  The 24th now looks to be a gully washer just in time for Christmas.

I need to stay one more night in a Starwood hotel to requalify for Platinum status for next year.   Maybe we will go see Star Wars on the 24th

Man I recall a hauntingly familiar post from 2014...  Well at least this year we didn't get lulled into believing in a deep white Christmas....   

Jezuz, don't look at the Killington webcams. Just, don't.

Benny Profane wrote

Jezuz, don't look at the Killington webcams. Just, don't.

They don't look bad at all.

For mid-June.

http://www.estski.ca/webcams/

That's a great web site ..thanks

the places that do have snow.. a million miles north..unfortunately too far to drive

This guy gives +/- weekly updates for the Laurentians throughout the season, including a good percentage of earn-your-turns reports:
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11948

That was what I needed to hear not worth the drive to Tremblant

I don't have the money or time to fly somewhere before Xmas when the airfares are so high

Maybe I will drive to Albany or Glens Falls and play golf.  I might even be able to do that in LP the way it is going.