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Introduction It was time for another “bucket list” trip … Fernie Alpine Resort in British Columbia. I had booked the trip with the ski club I've travelled with a few times over the past few years which is based out of New York City. For this trip, I booked my air travel separately from the...

Does it bother you when you get BS'd? Of course this isn't something that's limited to skiing, but since this is a ski forum ... We all know that ski resorts "embellish" snowfall totals. This is nothing new. But it seems that the BS just keeps expanding into other areas as well. For example...

A Bucket List Item Completed For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to ski in Europe. The opportunity finally presented itself this past September. A friend from work runs a ski club out of New York City. They had a trip to Val Thorens, France planned for late January of 2022. This was a...

It got my attention ... :)

... I made the posts above in another thread, and I've been reading a lot of the posts about the changes at Gore, and I've been thinking a lot about my skiing future. That has led me to this post. In the mid to late nineties, I had all but given up skiing. I lived in the Lower Hudson Valley...

Day 4 The final day of my tour had me traveling back towards my home with a morning stop at Plattekill Mountain. The last time I skied Plattekill was about thirty years ago, a day of skiing in the rain, that resulted in a nasty fall at the bottom of Blockbuster and a broken ski! Plattekill was...

Day 3 Day 3 of my adventure was going to be a busy one, with the plan to ski three mountains today, spending about two hours at each one. The first stop of the day was Labrador Mountain. Labrador definitely meets my definition of a "neighborhood" mountain. Labrador Mountain Labrador Mountain...

Day 2 The weather forecast was calling for snow, and I awoke on day 2 to find about six inches of fresh powder on top of my car! This was going to be a great day. I had contacted @Campgottagopee the day before I left on this adventure to tell him I was coming to Greek Peak, to see whether...

I decided that I would do a tour of central New York and Pennsylvania ski areas that I've never been to. The original plan was to ski ten mountains in five days, however, a snow storm on the day of my planned departure forced me to modify my plan, and leave a day later, adjusting the trip to...

Got to Lake Placid at about 3:30 AM. Slept for a few hours, woke up at 7:00 and was at the mountain at 8:00. Booted up at Kids Kampus (lots were already filling up at 8:00!!!!) and made my way over to the Gondola to be there at opening. Skies were overcast and was expecting another cloudy day...