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If you are located in WNY and love lapping terrain parks, Northampton Park (NHP) should be on your radar. It has the essentials covered: a small ski lodge with a cozy wood burning stove, single tow rope, and a bunch of park features. This past Sunday NHP had their first event of 2025 - “ROC...

Picture I found on their FB page

Love seeing it packed at Lock Stock Bar & Grill!

I believe the shed came down, with the new lift in the same spot

Holiday Valley scored another lake effect storm, with a 5 day total reaching into the 25” range. A majority of the snowfall happened prior to our visit, but 5" had fallen overnight and made for great conditions. Tiff and I were committed to making the most out of the day, we left the house...

Skinning has never appealed to me, but people really enjoy it at Swain and makes me consider it... someday!

Although very small ski areas, in the Rochester area there is also Northampton and Powder Mills. Both are rope tow.

As it looks like this may be the final weekend of skiing for most of WNY, I wanted to head north east for better conditions. Gore scored some good snow from the storm last weekend, and I was interested in skiing there for the first time. I reached out to @Robert and he was also headed there...

It was a beautiful 60° sunny day in WNY, and I hadn’t made it to Swain yet this year. Being one of the closer ski areas to home I regret not going more frequently. The few weekends this season I had Swain in mind there was rain, such as last weekend with their Spring Carnival and pond skim that...