Ski Magazine Top 20 Eastern Ski Areas

Noah John wrote

PowderAssassin wrote

. But hey keep thinking NVT gets as much snow as telluride

 Actually, dipshit, it gets more.  Much more.

Anyone who's been skiing for more than about 15 minutes knows that Telluride isn't known for its snow.  Why is it so hard for you to understand that not every ski area out west gets more snow than every ski area in the east?

Why are you so butthurt by the face that NVT in my opinion and with a ton of facts behind it doesn't get as much snow as they claim. Out west has official NWS reporting stations backing up with 30 year climate normals what the resorts claim. Jay peaks own ncdc climate station at the base of the mountain averages nothing even close to what is reported. The tug hill has numerous climate stations back up what they report. FOLLOW yourself every day/radar/snow reports and you'll see tug hill smokes NVT and snow ridge averages mid 200s. Climate station right at boonville, ny.

 But hey around in circles we go.

It's SOOOO obvious that this bothers people so much because NVT is the east coasts claim to fame for powder. Well guess what? The east coast sucks for pow. That's reality. You have to be ON IT and watch the forecasts constantly and pray to the snow gods and unless you live by a Vermont resort or have a condo and ass rich and can get out of work at a moments notice, your pow days will be limited. There's a reason most ec skiers have never skied powder and most rocky mountain skiers have.

 So according to the link that was given to me, telluride gets less snow than mt snow? LOL So you should have more pow days at mt snow than telluride last year at least?

MOAR Powderass!  Dance for me monkeyboy!

ml242 wrote

THERE ARE NO SOUTH FACING SKI AREAS

Even if you yell it all in caps, Bromley still exists....ie Bromley. LMFAO Notice me mentioning that place in a few posts?

Glade Runner wrote

What is most funny is even on their own site Bromley claims 145" annual snow and Mount Snow claims 156".  So idk where Powderassassin comes up with 200" at Mt Snow.  If you are all about powder I would think 145" facing south wouldn't be the place to be.  Even if Jay is inflated, 350" is more than double that.

When did I say 200 at mt snow?

Keep it coming butthurt boys....all your stats are from ski areas themselves. A complete joke.
These are official stations. Not from a ski area. It becomes clear that the nws stations match up closely to western areas, but once you head east(other than the tug hill) it becomes a joke.
Wolf creek
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?co9181

Jay peak climate station
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets/GHCND/stations/GHCND:USC00434189/detail

Mt mansfield average(highest mtn in vermont right on the spine)
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?vt5416

Alta
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ut0072

Boonville, ny(tug hill a few miles south of snow ridge)
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ny0785

Monthly normals at numerous stations throughout the us
http://ggweather.com/normals/snow.html

Monthly normals at numerous stations in Vermont
http://ggweather.com/normals/VT.html

Mount washington, nh at the summit...over 6000 feet averages 281 inches a year. 100% manned official weather station 24/7. At that average is including every month of the year. It snows almost all year long. lol
http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/normals.php

PowderAssassin wrote

Keep it coming butthurt boys....all your stats are from ski areas themselves. A complete joke.
These are official stations. Not from a ski area. It becomes clear that the nws stations match up closely to western areas, but once you head east(other than the tug hill) it becomes a joke.
Wolf creek
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?co9181

Jay peak climate station
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets/GHCND/stations/GHCND:USC00434189/detail

Mt mansfield average(highest mtn in vermont right on the spine)
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?vt5416

Alta
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ut0072

Boonville, ny(tug hill a few miles south of snow ridge)
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ny0785

Monthly normals at numerous stations throughout the us
http://ggweather.com/normals/snow.html

Monthly normals at numerous stations in Vermont
http://ggweather.com/normals/VT.html

Mount washington, nh at the summit...over 6000 feet averages 281 inches a year. 100% manned official weather station 24/7. At that average is including every month of the year. It snows almost all year long. lol
http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/normals.php

But you guys won't listen to any of this....2+2= 5 right? If you're emotional about it, then yeah I guess.

NJ- he's easier than Zilligan.

Sure some stations might be missing a little data, some a little hard to measure in the wind ect. But the reality is when you look at the entire picture and start understanding the snowfall climatology of the northeast and watching closely every storm, storms totals, radar data, it becomes readily apparent what the real deal is.

PowderAssassin wrote

Noah John wrote

PowderAssassin wrote

. But hey keep thinking NVT gets as much snow as telluride

 Actually, dipshit, it gets more.  Much more.

Anyone who's been skiing for more than about 15 minutes knows that Telluride isn't known for its snow.  Why is it so hard for you to understand that not every ski area out west gets more snow than every ski area in the east?

Why are you so butthurt by the face that NVT in my opinion and with a ton of facts behind it doesn't get as much snow as they claim. Out west has official NWS reporting stations backing up with 30 year climate normals what the resorts claim. Jay peaks own ncdc climate station at the base of the mountain averages nothing even close to what is reported. The tug hill has numerous climate stations back up what they report. FOLLOW yourself every day/radar/snow reports and you'll see tug hill smokes NVT and snow ridge averages mid 200s. Climate station right at boonville, ny.

 But hey around in circles we go.

You do realize the base at jay gets way less than the peak i hope.

This thread is totally off the rails.

That video was boring until the train came off, was that your point?

Bromley faces southeast you can look it up.

Noah I could find some truth in what he Pow said, but after the most recent foray I can't put in the time. So I will concede to your superior debate skillz.

And once again: Not motivated by the pageviews created in this thread.  If you want to build something successful it's about producing something of value. On the signal-to-noise ratio meter this thread is low. (Also this thread was about 5% of pageviews yesterday - not that much really).  If I wanted to use that kind of strategy I'd post my crazy ideas in HPDs politics thread.

But he's on a lot of threads, Harv.  This isn't the only one he's been throwing up in.  I think he's livened the place up quite nicely.  Moar PowderAss!

I guess I just don't get why you feel you need to treat such an obvious nut-job so deferentially.  He's fun because he's a nut-job - not in spite of it.  

Harvey wrote

That video was boring until the train came off, was that your point?

My point was that the this thread is completely off topic and now another one of the many flaming wars that exist here.

snoloco wrote

 
My point was that the this thread is completely off topic and now another one of the many flaming wars that exist here.

I truly don't care about this thread or Powder Puff ---- but there hasn't been what I would call a "flame war" on Harvey Road.

I see a lot of chit that get's missed by the majority, and it's rare that I actually out anyone.

I try to treat all the nut-jobs equally.  I see that as my role.

Seems like this year someone at SKI finally got the message that including Seven Springs, Holiday Valley, or Hunter just made skiers not take their ratings seriously.  Maybe they added SS and HV to the Midwest where they really belonged anyway?

All in all they seem to have done a good job this year for the most part.  Top 5 are in order

1) Tremblant - skied their last spring and I get it now though their lack of anything remotely steep and the long run outs are not my cup of tea I get where the masses would like this place.  They nail the resort part of the experience.

2) Stowe - Always has a place in the conversation for the top in the east with some of the best skiing for all abilities but their prices are much too high.

3) Whiteface - Best skiing for experts period in the east and LP is the whole vacation package

4) Killington - certainly belongs in the top 5 just do to its size and snowmaking capacity alone - too crowded for my tastes but its a party scene for NYC and Jersey

5) Smuggs - I've only skied it a few times but they were memorable days - I would think intermediates might get bored and the lifts are not in the same class as the rest of the top 10.  Sugarbush at 6 could have a case to be 5

I would agree with this rating but thought JP would be higher on the list.  I only skied Smuggs once and it was pretty slushy spring conditions so its tough to say how would be if the conditions were equal.  Anyone have any thoughts on how they compare?  

Also has anyone been to Le Massif and knows how that compares to the others on the top 10 list.  I have never been but have friends who have and they said it was amazing.

I did get a chuckle out of this quote for Okemo:
Orange is the new black. With the installation of its second orange high-speed bubble chair, the first six-pack with—ooh-la-la—heated seats, Okemo repeats as top dog for Lifts. “Adding the bubble chairs was a game changer,” says one satisfied skier.

Claude

Lol how is whiteface hands down the best in the east for experts?

Massif > tremblant - amenities