Random NYSkiBlog Stuff That You Might Not Care About

[MarzNC]

New Hampshire and Massachusetts are at least as or more relevant than Quebec. Even New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Berkshires for sure.

 

[Harvey]

What are the variables that determine relevance?

 

[Brownski]

Likelihood of NYers and NYSB’ers skiing there. Berkshires, PA, CT & NJ are full of day trippers from NY.

 

[MarzNC]

What are the variables that determine relevance?

For a regional forum, driving distance from the majority of regular readers and posters is a major factor for which ski areas/resorts are of greatest interest. Given how small the states in New England are from NJ to the north and east, CT, Berkshires, and southern NH seem as relevant as NJ and eastern PA.

SkiSoutheast started as SkiNC in the mid-1990s. Expanded to include a few other states in the region by 2004 or so. The core members who have been around for 20+ years mostly live in NC, eastern TN, or Atlanta. WV resorts are included even though the drive is 6+ hours because Snowshoe is the only "destination resort" with more than 150 acres in the region. VA is included mostly for Wintergreen because the drive time is about the same as the NC mountains for folks in the NC Triangle metropolitan area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). The Triangle has a lot of transplants from other regions who grew up skiing. People drive from FL to ski in NC or WV, but they rarely post.

DCSki covers VA, WV, and all of PA. Pittsburgh folks often make the drive to WV to ski at Timberline, Canaan Valley, Whitegrass (nordic), and Snowshoe. Nobody on DCSki bothers to drive south to ski Winterplace in WV or the NC ski areas/resorts. While a few venture to Vermont once a year, there is little interest driving to the Catskills.

Size of a ski area/resort, vertical, or the number of lifts doesn't matter for a regional forum.

 

[Harvey]

Ok so distance.

I've always felt that from a pure skiing perspective all that matters is cost of travel (distance or time or expense) and snow quality. (Yes terrain, but I'd rather ski pow laps all day at Snow Ridge vs riding hardpacked groomers at Gore.)

From a writing perspective I believe the editor/writers passion for the subject matter is also a crucial variable.

For me, in order of interest, in the east, regardless of distance:

NY
VT
Quebec/Maine (tie)
WV
Massachusetts
Tux, Wildcat and Cannon
New Jersey
Rest of NH
CT, PA
Alabama

To me Quebec is like Catskills, except it never rains.

I know a Catskill ski family that treats Tremblant like their second home mountain. Christmas rain? Tremblant!

One other factor I should point out, I've made promises about travel to Quebec, and I intend to keep them.