Anywhere worth skiing near NYC

White Plains actually. I never ski closer than southern Vermont since my
last few experiences with Hunter and Vernon Valley were awful. Lousy
conditions, long lines etc. That was, however, 25 years ago. It occurs to
me that things might have changed. So, is there any place worthy of a day
trip from White Plains. My family and I like to stay on blue and single
black groomers. Any place worthy on a weekend that is within 2 hours or so
of White Plains (just outside of NYC)? Weekdays?

DZN wrote:

White Plains actually. I never ski closer than southern Vermont since my
last few experiences with Hunter and Vernon Valley were awful. Lousy
conditions, long lines etc. That was, however, 25 years ago. It occurs to
me that things might have changed. So, is there any place worthy of a day
trip from White Plains. My family and I like to stay on blue and single
black groomers. Any place worthy on a weekend that is within 2 hours or so
of White Plains (just outside of NYC)? Weekdays?

Well, there are certainly plenty of choices - over 50 within a
reasonable day-trip distance and about 25 within 2 hours according to
skideweeb:

http://www.skidweeb.com/index.cgi?dweeb_id=mjfqvrwgkkw1126639850&v=all&z=1 0601&s=drive&o=0

Give the mass of humanity in the NYC area, I'd expect that most of them
would be either crowded or lousy or both. Especially on a weekend. Of
course, I'd go anyway...

//Walt

The only decent places are Ski Windham and Hunter Mt. everything else
is in NH and VT, which are sketchy, at best.

Ski Windham is nice and quite civilized. Hunter is neither.

Richard

Hunter's terrain only makes it respectable. But it's ALWAYS jam, and I
mean JAM packed. Packed with the biggest assholes on the face of the
earth.

Dick and Barb are right. Stick with Windham for a 'short'-drive place.

http://www.plattekill.com/winter/
"DZN" wrote in message
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White Plains actually. I never ski closer than southern Vermont since my
last few experiences with Hunter and Vernon Valley were awful. Lousy
conditions, long lines etc. That was, however, 25 years ago. It occurs
to me that things might have changed. So, is there any place worthy of
a day trip from White Plains. My family and I like to stay on blue and
single black groomers. Any place worthy on a weekend that is within 2
hours or so of White Plains (just outside of NYC)? Weekdays?

http://www.plattekill.com/winter/
"Chriggity" wrote in message
oups.com...
Hunter's terrain only makes it respectable. But it's ALWAYS jam, and I
mean JAM packed. Packed with the biggest assholes on the face of the
earth.

Dick and Barb are right. Stick with Windham for a 'short'-drive place.

http://www.plattekill.com/winter/
"Richard and Barbara" wrote in message
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Ski Windham is nice and quite civilized. Hunter is neither.

Richard

Hey DZN,

Platekill is lucky if it gets enough snow to keep you off the rocks.
If we get any good dumps, get there fast and bring your old fattys that
you can pick up on ebay (not new ones cuz they are gonna get some good
base gouges).

For the past few years, my family and I do about 25 days per winter at
Belleayre.

We like Belleayre for family skiing for the following reasons:
1. Takes us a reasonable amount of time to drive there from Central NJ.
2. Season tickets and children's alpine development and race programs
are a bargain and they do a good job. (But stay away from the regular
daily lesson program for kids because it is overly expensive and time
consuming for registration and kid pick-up.)
3. The lower mountain keeps the beginners away from people who can ski.
4. If you avoid the holidays and eat early, you can avoid lift line
waits.
5. They groom enough of the mountain and leave enough ungroomed to make
things a little interesting.
6. The upper mountain is still at least 80% skiers, and the skiers are
better in the park than the snowboarders, and the kids program is
heavily ski-racing based, so my kids don't even like snowboarders let
alone want to snowboard.
7. You can pack a lunch and leave it in the lodge unattended, along
with all your other unattended stuff, and not worry about it.
8. If you don't have brand spankin new skis, you don't have to lock
them.
9. You can drive right up to the lodge drop zone without a hassle - as
long as you ignore the 16-year-old parking people - it is OK, because
they really don't care at minimum wage.
10. There are gonna be follow-up posts about how bad Belleayre is, like
the old lodge and because it IS a state-run ski area after all and has
no high-speed lifts; and that is fine, it will keep people away!

DZN wrote:
White Plains actually. I never ski closer than southern Vermont since my
last few experiences with Hunter and Vernon Valley were awful. Lousy
conditions, long lines etc. That was, however, 25 years ago. It occurs to
me that things might have changed. So, is there any place worthy of a day
trip from White Plains. My family and I like to stay on blue and single
black groomers. Any place worthy on a weekend that is within 2 hours or so
of White Plains (just outside of NYC)? Weekdays?

thinnmann wrote:
Platekill is lucky if it gets enough snow to keep you off the rocks.

'Way back in 1980, I was in NYC on mid-February. Over the weekend, I
was going to ski at Plattekill with some friends, but we had to cancel
because all the snow got washed away by the rain.