How Diverse was your season

Agreed. I once went all the way across 80- Truckee to NYC- and it was brutal. My wife wants to retire to Nashville which is at least a day or so closer to where I want to be. It's still pretty far off so I have plenty of time for negotiations. I'm making the case for northwest AZ

Not super diverse and not a lot of days (maybe 18), which has become about typical for me.

Whiteface maybe 9 days.
Plattekill 2 days.
Whistler Blackcomb 3 days at one of my new resorts.
Breckinridge and A Basin 1 day each.
Zermatt 1 day at my other new resort.
Bagged my first ADK backcountry slide on Wilmington (Cooper Kiln)

Amongst those days there were 2 full on backcountry days, 4 good side-country days, 2 inbounds days that included skinning, one day in the Whiteface Slides, 3 separate hikes on the Whiteface summit, 12 of 18 days involved 6 inches of powder or better, 2 international ski experiences, my latest ever lift served skiing (Ski-o de Mayo), and in a ski life that’s seen a lot of good days perhaps the single best run of my life (so far)....



Great season, and a lot of great people met and skied with.

I lost track of the number of days, but this Max Pass year was a lot more than usual for me.

Okemo
Stratton
Belleayre
Whiteface
Gore
Mount St. Anne
Stoneham
Windham
Killington

Lateski wrote

I lost track of the number of days

Mission accomplished.

Sweet photo JT.

It was more of a quality season than a quantity one.  18 ski days from Thanksgiving to Easter.

Greek Peak - 14
Sunday River - 2
Plattekill - 1
Belleayre- 1

Memorable days were a powder day at Plattekill, about 4 powder days at GP, and an April 1st corn harvest at Sunday River to close out the season.  My only regret was not getting back to Plattekill for the March snowstorms.

My year was less diverse than my past couple seasons

Whiteface
Gore
Killington
Bolton Valley - my new resort for the season
Solitude
Grand Targhee
Stowe

More races to watch and more quality skiing this year.

I don't keep track of days, so these are mostly guesses:

10 Killington
3 Okemo
3 Pico
6 Gore
0 Whiteface (didn't miss it at all)
15ish Plattekill
1 Belleayre
1 Greek Peak
2 Sugarbush
2 Crested Butte
3 Steamboat Springs
5 Various Backcountry

So, 50ish days means less skiing that I have done in about 25 years (if I kept up a previous job, I would have added 14 West Mountain days to these numbers, but I'm fine with missing those). I don't regret not skiing on a couple of brutally cold days or rainy days, but I missed a couple of good ones with injury/work responsibilities. I also would have preferred to get to Sugarloaf/Sunday River, but I never made it out. Hopefully I'll get back up around 65-75ish next year. I'd like to save some vacation days up for an IKON tour next March.

A fair amount of diversity, very little community:

26 Days
2 Arosa/Lenzerheide, CH
1 Pizol, CH
1 Toggenburg, CH
1 Atzmännig, CH
1 Plattekill, NY
2 Windham, NY
2 Camelback, PA
2 Isola, FR
1 Auron, FR
1 Roubion, FR
2 Valberg, FR
1 Seignus, FR
1 La Foux/Pra Loup, FR
1 Ebenalp, CH
1 Tschiertschen, CH
1 Hasliberg, CH
1 Axalp, CH
1 Grindelwald/Wengen, CH
1 Schilthorn/Mürren, CH
2 Belleayre, NY

I had a very diverse season.  I skied at:

Whiteface: 21
Belleayre: 10
Gore: 8
Tremblant: 4
Windham: 4
Stratton: 3
Okemo: 3
Mont Sainte Anne: 3
Killington: 2
Pico: 2
Mountain Creek: 2
Loon: 2
Blue Mountain, PA: 1
Titus: 1

I have 66 days now, and I will likely get one more Killington Superstar day.  

I lost count at 40, but not very diverse:
Gore
West
Aspen
Kitzbuhl
Jay
MRG
but overall a good season.

47 days across:

Gore
Whiteface
West Mountain
Killington
Pico
Tremblant
Sunapee
Stratton
Okemo
Kicking Horse
Panorama
Fernie

The MAX Pass allowed for us to ski near and/or with various family members who live in other states, which was nice. Purchasing the pass was worth it alone for giving me the inspiration for a Kicking Horse (& friends) trip. We had some really great days. I would have probably had 10-15 more, but I banged up my knee and was nursing it through the end of the season.

Blue Mountain, PA 39
XC                         4
Killington, VT         4
Jackson Hole, WY 4
Plattekill, NY         1
Greek Peak, NY         1

It felt more diverse than it actually was with some spring skiing in winter, winter in spring, improved tele sunday ski's and skills, some nice pow days (2 in JH), new bucket list mountain - JH, two new great bcXcd discoveries  - Blue Mountain Lakes NJ and Moosalamoo VT, and a few nice juicy spring bump/party days. We had planned on a few more superstar trips but MrsSnoBunski has been battling some killer sciatica for the last  four weeks

Got to ski with alot of friends and family and meet some more NYSkiBloggers, although missed skiing with the CNY peeps... it was hard justifying travel with the southern track of some of the storms we had this year

gorgonzola wrote

Blue Mountain, PA 39
XC                         4
Killington, VT         4
Jackson Hole, WY 4
Plattekill, NY         1
Greek Peak, NY         1

It felt more diverse than it actually was with some spring skiing in winter, winter in spring, improved tele sunday ski's and skills, some nice pow days (2 in JH), new bucket list mountain - JH, two new great bcXcd discoveries  - Blue Mountain Lakes NJ and Moosalamoo VT, and a few nice juicy spring bump/party days. We had planned on a few more superstar trips but MrsSnoBunski has been battling some killer sciatica for the last  four weeks

Got to ski with alot of friends and family and meet some more NYSkiBloggers, although missed skiing with the CNY peeps... it was hard justifying travel with the southern track of some of the storms we had this year

Gorgonzola, my wife and I skied Blue Mountain Lake in NJ years ago.  I don't remember much about the experience or even where it's located.  What was it like?

Gunny J wrote

Now that Lift served season has ended in NY, how diverse was your season?

My season was more diverse than expected.  Skied in four regions: Mid-Atlantic, northeast, Rockies, west coast (OR, CA).  The extra locations were based mostly on the Mountain Collective Pass.  Helps to have a ski buddy who is willing to do a lot of driving, especially since my husband is a non-skier.  He is a schoolmate who lives in Albuquerque but is willing to meet up in SLC or elsewhere in the ski country out west.  Traveled with him for Taos and Telluride, met up at Alta, and added a late, late season ski safari in early May.  We will definitely go back to Bachelor and Mt. Hood in the future when there is more snow.

Details in the 2017-18 Ski Tracking thread.

Massanutten, VA  12/15, January long weekends - home mountain
Montage, PA  12/16 - first time

Killington, VT  11/20 - first time
Belleayre, NY  12/17 - first time on tele skis, 2-hour lesson
Berkshire East, MA  12/18 - first time
Wachusett, MA  12/19, 1/30, 1/31, 2/1
Jiminy Peak, MA 1/28, 1/29, 3/7, 3/8 - first time, March storm
Tenney Mountain, NH, 3/9 - first time (14" storm total)

Taos Ski Valley, NM (MCP) Feb. 10-16 - Ski Week lessons (4" Sun, 11" Thu)
Telluride, CO (MCP) Feb. 18-20 - first time (9" Mon)
Alta, UT, (MCP) 3/26 thru 4/8, except 4/4 - caught part of two storms
Snowbird, UT, (MCP) 4/4

Bachelor, OR, 5/3, 5/5, 5/6 - first time
Mt. Hood Meadows, OR, 5/4 - first time
Squaw, CA (MCP) 5/7 - first time on upper mountain
Mammoth, CA (MCP) 5/8, 5/9 - first time

marznc wrote

Massanutten, VA  12/15, January - home mountain
Montage, PA  12/16 - first time

Killington, VT  11/20 - first time
Belleayre, NY  12/17 - first time on tele skis, 2-hour lesson
Berkshire East, MA  12/18 - first time
Wachusett, MA  12/19, 1/30, 1/31, 2/1
Jiminy Peak, MA 1/28, 1/29, 3/7, 3/8 - first time, March storm
Tenney Mountain, NH, 3/9 - first time (14" storm total)

Taos Ski Valley, NM (MCP) Feb. 10-16 - Ski Week lessons (4" Sun, 11" Thu)
Telluride, CO (MCP) Feb. 18-20 - first time (9" Mon)
Alta, UT, (MCP) 3/26 thru 4/8, except 4/4 - caught part of two storms
Snowbird, UT, (MCP) 4/4

Bachelor, OR, 5/3, 5/5, 5/6 - first time
Mt. Hood Meadows, OR, 5/4 - first time
Squaw, CA (MCP) 5/7 - first time on upper mountain
Mammoth, CA (MCP) 5/8, 5/9 - first time

Sweet year. I'd say the only thing missing is Plattekill.

Harvey wrote

Sweet year. I'd say the only thing missing is Plattekill.

Now that I'm driving to Boston and not Lake Placid, I had to settle for Jiminy Peak and Tenney. :-)

Peter Minde wrote

Gorgonzola, my wife and I skied Blue Mountain Lake in NJ years ago.  I don't remember much about the experience or even where it's located.  What was it like?

While we got decent snowfall in PA this year, it didn't stick around long and it was a challenge to find localized snow and elevation to find decent skiing within an hour of the Lehigh Valley. The storm that occurred the first week of March fell well East of us so I figured I'd give the Jerz a shot and had read about BML in an old AMC newsletter. It's located on the Jersey side of the Delaware Water Gap National Park near Blairstown.

My expectations were kind of low as I had read that the trails were actually road beds of a housing development that never came to be and there were no signs of any significant snow until I started stated the climb within a few miles of the park. Once I got there I found 18" or so of great snow that had not seen any freeze thaw in the 2-3 days since the storm. There’s no grooming there but there was a set track that had seen decent traffic.  

It would have been a helluva development as the "roads" were turny with decent elevation changes. They were grown in pretty well and it was definitely not the wide, straight, flat trails I had imagined.  Nice forest with some great vistas back along the gap to pa along with some cool geology.



There was also some potential for some bc tree lines given the right conditions. I was pressed for time and only did the inner of the stacked loops (4’ish mi.) back along the lake.



Next season I’ll explore the outer loops and lakes as well as the Crater Lake trail connection.



https://www.nps.gov/dewa/planyourvisit/blue-mountain-lake-trail.htm

Nice TR Gorgo. Post that stuff up when you do it!

gorgonzola wrote

What boots are you rockin the BC? Is that a zipper?

Got in by far the most days ever this season... 81 so far and might hit Killington on Fri. 5/11.

60 - Greek Peak
2- McCauley
1- Snowridge
4- Hunter
3- Belleayre
1- Plattekill
1- Windham
1- Gore
1- Sugarbush/Mt. Ellen
1- Whiteface
1- Bristol
1- Mt. Snow
2- Wildcat
2- Killington

2 pics from Wildcat:
Me at Summit of Wildcat. Skied the Cat on Thurs. & Fri., April 19 & 20 and the trails were 100% open:


View of Mt. Washington and Tuckermans from Wildcat:


Got free lift tickets to Sugarbush, good for 1 midweek lift ticket from the Warren Miller movie voucher and got to ride the traverse high-speed quad that connects Sugarbush to Mt. Ellen. Lift is 2 miles long:

Nice work. What was your previous high number?

LOVE Wildcat, including the views of George.