Most western skiing in East

Once again, looks pretty good to me.

On a scale with Mountain Creek being the most easternlike and western skiing on the other, Jay Peak falls way closer to the Mountain Creek side.  Also at :43 in the second video, the wind looks to be blowing all the powder away.  I also noticed that none of the powder shots in either video are taken on an actual trail, and are only in the tight trees.  Don't want to sound too Powass, but he was correct here.

^ Haha. This guy thinks the trees at Jay are tight!  

snoloco wrote

Mountain Creek being the most easternlike

What?

I actually think Jay may be in trouble in the next 20 years unless they do something to regen the trees.

snoloco wrote

On a scale with Mountain Creek being the most easternlike and western skiing on the other, Jay Peak falls way closer to the Mountain Creek side.  

Said no one ever! Just stop with know it all attitude. Please. You are just showing your ignorance.

mattchuck2 wrote

^ Haha. This guy thinks the trees at Jay are tight!  

 Yeah right. Someone  should drag that kid in some Adirondack trees. He needs a dose of some adk fun

snoloco wrote

There have been some mornings at Hunter after they blew snow all night and blew it dry that the conditions felt westernlike

mattchuck2 wrote

^ Haha. This guy thinks the trees at Jay are tight!  

I know, right? Widest open trees in the entire northeast.

snoloco wrote

On a scale with Mountain Creek being the most easternlike and western skiing on the other, Jay Peak falls way closer to the Mountain Creek side.  Also at :43 in the second video, the wind looks to be blowing all the powder away.  I also noticed that none of the powder shots in either video are taken on an actual trail, and are only in the tight trees.  Don't want to sound too Powass, but he was correct here.

Have you been to Jay more than once?

And you've been out west once.

Dude - quiet down and listen to those who have more experience once in a while. You seem like an ok kid, but you really don't have that much experience - and you won't understand that until you do.

Guess what? Some of the best skiing in the west is in the trees too. We skied Brighton twice last year and found great powder stashes in the trees even two days after a storm. Winter Park has some of the most fun tree skiing I've ever had. Even Deer VAlley - which a lot of people love to hate - has some fantastic tree skiing if you know where to look - and it's usually very lightly skied. If you don't learn to go off trail you are missing out on a lot.

As for crowds, I've skied a lot of places in the east and quite a few in the west, and I have never seen anything like the lineup at Alta on a big powder day. It's a freakin mob scene.

Can I say like?

skimore wrote

mattchuck2 wrote

^ Haha. This guy thinks the trees at Jay are tight!  

 Yeah right. Someone  should drag that kid in some Adirondack trees. He needs a dose of some adk fun

Ok, I take it back.  WOW those ADK trees are tight.  I don't know how anyone could get through there.

Thacheronix wrote

Be fun to see a debate between sno2015 and sno2016

Opening day at Mountain Creek today, sno meetup for first chair at noon?

I would have said whiteface but I've never skied Jay. Looks like I'll need to run up there before I give my final verdict. I think I should also head out west to refresh my memory now that I think of it.

This glade near the top of the la Soleil pod at Tremblant reminded me of Steamboat, although the surface wasn't quite as good.

Le Massif. Wow.  Just wow. Really thought I was transplanted to Sacramento I mean British Columbia or Alberta, not Quebec.

Tuckermans

Gotta have snow + terrain for western type skiing. I still hold my opinion on Stowe/Smugglers Notch for all of that. Between the two ski areas and the adjoining side country you can't really beat this combo in the eastern USA.