My New Mountain History

I was bored, so I decided to find out when I skied all the mountains I have been to for the first time.  This was the result.  If you can remember this information, post it.


03-04:  Hidden Valley
04-05:  Hunter, Whiteface, Mount Peter
05-06:  Gore, Windham
06-07:  Killington, Shawnee, Mountain Creek, Belleayre
07-08:  No New Mountains
08-09:  Mount Snow, Tuxedo Ridge
09-10:  Pico, Plattekill
10-11:  No New Mountains
11-12:  Jay Peak
12-13:  No New Mountains
13-14:  Stratton

To find this information, I needed to consult my ski map collection which is pictured below.

To the best of my knowledge and dates unavailable:

Greek Peak
Elk
Song
Whiteface
Bristol
Toggenburg
Gore
Windham
Belleayre
Labrador
Killington
Hunter
Sugarbush
Holiday Valley
Montage (Sno)
Plattekill
Jay Peak
Smuggler's Notch
Sugarbush (Lincoln Peak)
Snow Ridge
Pico
Cannon & Mittersill
Burke

A: This thread has already happened.
B: Maybe you should go outside and make some friends.

hahahahahhahahahahahahha  brutal bro but funny as hell.   I mean heck - sorry benny SoPlain......

YUKON CORNELIUS wrote

A: This thread has already happened.
B: Maybe you should go outside and make some friends.

why, when he has so many on the interwebz

Can't even begin to remember dates;
Ski Shawnee
Camelback
Mountain Creek
Hunta
Greek Peak
Song
Labrador
Toggenburg
Snow Ridge
Holiday Valley
Whiteface
Elk
Smugglers Notch
Sugarbush
Jay Peak
Sugarbush
Stowe
Gore
Belleayre
Plattekill
Okemo
Killington
Windham
Cannon
Burke

Greek peak
killington
bellayre
stow
jiminy peak
song
labrador
plattekill
windham

In approximate order
Mt Pisgah 1970-73
Some place on Long Island...yes, there was once  a hill with snow making, T bars and a rope tow on long Island
whiteface 1973 for my 10th birthday
Birkshire East
Mount Tom
Magic Mountain 74-75
Vernon Valley on Friday Nights in High School
Camelback
Kissingbridge
Shawnee
Hunter
Belleaire (Sunday's in HS after leaving my Bus Boy job at the 7 Hills Restaurant in Bloomfield at 2 AM
Killington
Keystone
A Basin
Mary Jane
Telluride
Breckenridge
Aspen Highlands
Vail  (the dr i dated paid for the lodging
Aspen  here too
Winterpark
Loveland
that place near vail that is more expensive than vail
that place next to route 70
Eldura
Hidden Valley
Blue Mountain
Big Boulder (ski trade show)
Jack Frost  (ski trade show)
the place in PA off of route 81 North
Cannon
Sugar Bowl in CA
Kirkwood in CA
Alpine Meadows in CA
Squaw Valley
Pico
Sugarbush
Stowe
Stratton-  winter of 93-94   a good ski year
Bromely
Okemo
Mount Snow
then we had kids
Tuxedo Ridge
Mt Peter
Plattikill
Belleayre with the kids-  
Sutton
Jay
Big Mountain in Montana- no kids for this day of fun
Gore
West Mountain
whiteface
whiteface
repeat whiteface approx 200 times

I forgot MOUNTAIN CREEK....sorry Sno

MOUNTAIN  CREEK still eludes my list

Ski club group leaders dinner meeting on the hill, flyers v devils on the tube and mc on nysb  life is good!

Lake Como
Greek Peak
Song
Labrador
Whiteface
Some private club near Rochester
Vail
Beaver Creek

Pretty short list...gonna have to do something about that!

List for first time for east coast only.

Whiteface, NY 1968-69
Stowe, VT 1970

Sugar, NC 1980-81

Massanutten, VA 2004-05 - became home mountain in 2009-10
Wintergreen, VA 2008
Winterplace, WV 2008
Snowshoe, WV 2008
Beech, NC 2008-09

2013-14 - *more than 1 day
St. Sauveur
Tremblant
Whitetail
Plattekill
* Elk
* Whiteface (first time as advanced skier)
* Gore
* Stowe (first time as advanced skier)
Smuggs
Belleayre

I love reading this stuff, would dig seeing pics of skiing in NC. I like Pro's list too.

But do think this thread should probably be attached to the other one.  

If anyone knows where it it post a link.

WindhamBellHunterPlattyCatamountJiminyButternutBrodieGoreWhitefaceWestKillington/PicoSmuggsVernon Valley/ GGMount Tone (PA)Whistler, BC

Sno - I hope you have picture of all these - you might want to remember them one day because honestly I can't. I do have sketchy memories of being huddled around a Christmas tree one bright and early morning when my Dad - grinning from ear to ear brought out new skis and boots for all of us (except himself and my Mom who had been waiting for this moment to return to skiing once us kids got old enough and the finances were right). All the kids got bright yellow skis (I think they were Harts), metal edges and cable bindings and leather boots with buckles. The skis were sized such that with your arm fully extended upward you could just hook your wrist on the tip.

On a crisp sunny morning during Christmas break we all got in the big blue ford station wagon and drove some where to a rope tow and I got my first taste, and it tasted awful. But I got the hang of it after awhile. However I never really got proficient until hard plastic 4 buckle boots and good bindings were available on my 200 Olins. Once I went to wide and shaped (The first year they introduced the Salamon X-Mountain) I went from ski under crud to bursting through it, wow - what a change.

Then I noticed there were these guys running around on skis with broken bindings, skiing stuff I couldn't reach. Then the fun really began. I only wish at the beginning I had the equipment I have now and I wish I had the stamina now I had then, ah but youth is wasted on the young.

I can't remember how old I was, where my first hill was and I can't remember the dates or even years of my first visit to all the places I have skied, but so far it has been a hell of a ride. It's good you are writing this stuff down but take some pictures, buy a patch or pin and in 50 years you can pull out your scrap book and talk about the good old days of skiing.

Great story.

Great story Ptex

My parents never skied so we had to beg to get started but once they found out they could drop off my brother and I and then go have a kid free Saturday it became an every week thing all winter long.  Today you would not drop off a 8 and 6 year old and run but times were different.  That led to me working in a ski shop and then working for a ski tour company for college ski trips and now 26 years of teaching skiing later raising a ripping racer.  

It would be much easier to tell you where I haven't skied.  My biggest places I still want to get to are Squaw Valley, Taos, Mammouth, Zermatt, and the biggie CMH.  I've been pretty much everywhere else.

My first attempt at downhill skiing was on cross country skis at greenwood park, they have a 50' hill on the backside of the lake, would try to ski down it, plow into a snowbank, dig my self out and repeat, needless to say id didnt work well, but was enough to infect me with whatever virus caulses skiiers to keep going back, 5 or 6years later I bought a used pair of rosis and went to song mountain to play on the bunny slope, the chair loft was the only thing I did right, the rest was falling down..... later that year armed with a pass at lab, I learned to ski for real, then relised that skiing needs to be done as much as possable, tog, greek, jimminy peak, stow song lab, and now I cant stop skiing and thinking about it

YUKON CORNELIUS wrote

A: This thread has already happened.
B: Maybe you should go outside and make some friends.

Yeah, I posted this 2 years ago:

http://nyskiblog.com/forums/#nabble-td4021394i40|a4021551

When was my first for each? I dunno. I first smoked weed in 1970. Everything is a blur since then