Your 2012-13 Ski-Day Ledger

Slackers you all!! 97 and counting, heading to the Big K again tomorrow for the second time this week, so that makes:
Whiteface- 1
Killington-2
Gore and the surrounding Adirondacks backcountry that I am very proud to call my home-90+

Once again this season was a great example of if you want to ski then you must live in ski country

Its not over yet but here's my current tally:
Gore - 45
Sugarbush - 3
WF - 2

Gonna try to hit WF this week.  Kids have been sick the past couple weekends so we haven't been able to make it up to Gore.  Hoping to get at least one day up there this weekend.  Our best "spring days" were March 8-10 and March 30th.  It hasn't been a huge snow year but the cold temps and strategic snowmaking by Gore have made it a great year IMO.  Mother nature sure helped out by dumping 8-12 inches on us every few weeks or so.  Being close has made it much easier to hit the good snow days.  There was only one day I skied right around Pres weekend that was nasty cold hard wind blown.  Even the day the chalkboard at the gondola said "-40 wind chill at the summit" was a good day.  It was -10 in the parking lot.  When I was living in NJ I always felt depressed this time of year and bummed that I didn't get more days.  This year I feel pretty content.  I could get some more days but I don't feel like I have to.

Shaman how is the big K compared to WF last week?  Might have to make a trip over there before its all done.

Danzilla wrote

Its not over yet but here's my current tally:
Gore - 45
Sugarbush - 3
WF - 2

Sounds like the move upstate worked out pretty well for you...

8 days at Maple Ski Ridge and what is in my signature = 25.  Stilll hoping to make it to Killington one last time this season

Dan, the Big K has been stellar this week as I hit it Monday and today and the conditions and coverage are fantastic for mid April! They give you a $29 ticket with any mt's season pass or just show them ANY lift ticket from the '12-'13 season, the caveat is they are only running the K1 Gondi and the Superstar chair. If you don't mind hiking a little as we did there is a lot of spring freshies to be had. Today we parked a car over at Bear and finished up with a most enjoyable rip of rain groomed spring corn

25 Gore
4 Alta
2 Snowbird
1 Deer Valley
3 Jackson Hole
3 Targhee
1 Smuggs
1 West
1 Catamount
1 Darrow's

37gore +2 this wkend
1  stowe
1  jay
1  mrg
1  xc moreau lake
couple kicking around out back like this

5 or 6 skating on the pond

mattchuck2 wrote

Sounds like the move upstate worked out pretty well for you...

To say its been life changing would be big understatement.  Quality of life change is better than I dreamed.  The ski days were a nice extra:)

Thanks Shaman for the beta on the big K.  I didn't make it over there last week.  Maybe this week unless life gets in the way. I might be done.

Final Tally - 61

Greek Peak 55
Song 4
Whiteface 2

45 days...all at Whiteface....wish I didnt live 276 miles south of there.  I had hoped for 50, but life got in the way. Maybe next year.

Good job Grillman!

Grillman wrote

...276 miles..

The precise distance we are from Gore.

Jack Frost - 5
Camelback - 4
Hunter - 3
Blue Mt - 3
Mt. Snow - 2
Elk Mt. - 2
Big Boulder - 2
Killington - 1
Okemo - 1

I need to make it up to NY more!

Adding 1 day at Gore to my count.  Closed the place up last Sunday.  Ski Patrol followed me down last run.
I noticed a couple of real good tele-dudes on the hill - must have been members of this blog.

One was me (i'm okay). Others were the normal Gore crew. I always say you can tell how good a mountain is by the ratio of Telemarkers to Snowlerbladers. Gore has a solid ratio.

31 days so far:

Gore Mountain - 17
Plattekill - 3
North Creek Ski Bowl - 2
Harvey Woods - 2
Windham - 1
Adk BC - 1
Hunter - 1
Garnet Hill Lodge - 1
Killington - 1
Mad River Glen - 1
Sugarbush - 1

New areas are Windham and Sugarbush.

Regrets include not getting to Greek Peak or Snow Ridge for the first time.

So far?

Are you planning that Portillio trip?

Coach Z wrote

So far?

Killington is hoping to make it to June 2.

I'm at 40 so far...it was reached at St-Sauveur last Sunday, hoping to detour on my retour trip to Montreal tomorrow. It's better than last year, but below par for this time of the year for the 8 seasons.

Very little days away from the local areas for me this season due to daughter's racing and work situation. Off the top of my head I've gotten 3 days in the Townships (Sutton, Orford, Owl's Head), 2 days in VT (MRG), 1 day in the Laurentians (MSS)...and 2 days in West Virginia (Timberline and White Grass). The other 32 days are within 55 miles from my house (Ste-Marie, Calabogie Peaks, Fortune, Edelweiss, Vorlage and Cascades).

+2 belleayre hiking
+2 killington
Might hit killington again Sunday...

YTD: 80
Alta 45
Touring 13 - ADKs, Front Range, and Wasatch
Gore 7
Whiteface 4
Killington 2
Smuggs 2
A Basin 2
Breck 1
Beaver Creek 1
Brighton 1
Copper 1
Snowbird 1

Could have gotten 100+ pretty easily if I wasn't such a bum (ironic, I know.)
Still hoping for a day or two at Killington and a Day at Tuckerman

I got to 80.  The breakdown is below

Hunter: 12/1 (opening day and 1st day of my season), 12/9, 12/15, 12/23, 12/27, 12/28, 1/1, 1/13, 1/20, 1/21, 2/3, 2/24, 3/16, 3/23, 4/6, 4/13, and 4/14 (closing day).
Gore: 12/30, 2/10, 2/16, 2/17, 3/3, 4/7, 4/20, and 4/21 (closing day).
Whiteface: 3/2.
Windham: 1/26 and 3/30.
Tuxedo Ridge: 12/31, 1/4, 1/7, 1/8, and 2/28.
Mount Peter: 12/26 (opening day), 12/29, 1/2, 1/3, 1/3, 1/10, 1/11, 1/12, 1/14, 1/15, 1/16, 1/17, 1/18, 1/19, 1/22, 1/23, 1/24, 1/28, 1/31, 2/1, 2/2, 2/4, 2/5, 2/13, 2/15, 2/20, 2/25, 3/5, 3/15, and 3/28.
Mountain Creek: 1/6, 1/27, 2/8, 2/9, 2/22, 2/23, 3/4, 3/8, 3/9, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/25, 3/26, and 3/29.
Killington: 4/28 and 5/18 (last day of my season).