What are your goals for the 2020/21 ski season?

[Benny Profane]

Just use points....if you have them to use. You are doing much better than me, it seems!

Yeah....Crystal is Crystal, but not much here compares to the Alps or the Dolomites. You been to Crystal?

By the same standards (Alta and Crystal both have 2,600 acres and 2,500+ vertical) you’d have to say the same thing about Alta!

Dude, it's 2020. Get a points card, no fee, and churn your money through it. Just don't carry a balance. Free airfare!

Well, I've only been to the French Alps, four different "complexes", (can't even call them ski hills), and yeah, better than Alta, except for snow quality. I mean, to understand the scale of a place like Tres Valee, connect all the SLC mountains with chairlifts, and add more acerage. It's jaw dropping at times. And the food! [Benny kisses fingers and spreads to the air]

 

[JTG]

Dude, it's 2020. Get a points card, no fee, and churn your money through it. Just don't carry a balance. Free airfare!

Well, I've only been to the French Alps, four different "complexes", (can't even call them ski hills), and yeah, better than Alta, except for snow quality. I mean, to understand the scale of a place like Tres Valee, connect all the SLC mountains with chairlifts, and add more acerage. It's jaw dropping at times. And the food! [Benny kisses fingers and spreads to the air]

Yeah, I have a SkyMiles Amex and we run most of our expenses thru that....but you must be doing much better than me to accumulate the kind of miles you need to fly to Europe. Yeah, we’ve been to Zermatt, so I understand the scale. Getting back to Switzerland is something we’d love to do...some day.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

I pulled the trigger on a Loveland season pass (with reciprocal three days each at a pile of independent ski areas) and will pick it up on Dec 8. For me, there's no substitute to going to the Alps; however, given that Europe is likely off-limits in 2020-21, this will be a good consolation prize. I've received press season passes to a couple ski areas in the past but this is the first one I've ever purchased. In a perfect world, I'd combine it with the Indy Pass to go on multiple road trips throughout the west; however, my realistic hope across four-ish visits to and through Colorado is to get 22-25 days at the following ski areas supplemented with family day trips in the Poconos and Catskills:

CO: Loveland, Monarch, Cooper, Sunlight, Powderhorn
NM: Angel Fire, Pajarito, Sipapu
ID: Schweitzer, Silver

It's always entertaining to post your plans for the season beforehand and then go back post-season to see how much of it panned out. I recall the Yiddish proverb that I heard while learning German: "Mann tracht un Gott lacht" (man plans; God laughs). COVID and how soon I can get a vaccine will add an additional variable.

 

[Harvey]

I'm certainly not sure what's possible.

To start I am going to aim high:

• 30 days (normal 35) including lifts, Vandy WF, Siamese Wilderness, our property
• 5+ powder days
• Midweek
• Gore, Plattekill, McCauley, Snow Ridge, Greek, WF
• 2+ new mountains in New York
• 1+ extended period (week) staying at our cabin, during a snowy cycle

Minimum:

• Lift served season not cancelled
• Travel to NY allowed

I had another thought.

Since overnights may be out of the question for me anywhere but our cabin... maybe I say

• 12 days total
• All NY
• All powder

Maybe crazy, but if everything is a day trip, limit them, and make them count.

?

 

[ScottySkis]

I hope for days at Platty

 

[Brownski]

I hope for days at Platty

Me too. Plus at least five new NYS resorts. Hopefully 20 days total

 

[jasonwx]

I pulled the trigger on a Loveland season pass (with reciprocal three days each at a pile of independent ski areas) and will pick it up on Dec 8. For me, there's no substitute to going to the Alps; however, given that Europe is likely off-limits in 2020-21, this will be a good consolation prize. I've received press season passes to a couple ski areas in the past but this is the first one I've ever purchased. In a perfect world, I'd combine it with the Indy Pass to go on multiple road trips throughout the west; however, my realistic hope across four-ish visits to and through Colorado is to get 22-25 days at the following ski areas supplemented with family day trips in the Poconos and Catskills:

CO: Loveland, Monarch, Cooper, Sunlight, Powderhorn
NM: Angel Fire, Pajarito, Sipapu
ID: Schweitzer, Silver

It's always entertaining to post your plans for the season beforehand and then go back post-season to see how much of it panned out. I recall the Yiddish proverb that I heard while learning German: "Mann tracht un Gott lacht" (man plans; God laughs). COVID and how soon I can get a vaccine will add an additional variable.

here's another yiddish saying for those who bought season passes.. Meshuggeneh....

 

[Harvey]

Little help please.

 

[tirolski]

Goals= Stay healthy, enjoy the local mountains, get exercise, have fun, keep it simple, get to Gore enough to make good use of frequent skier card.
Looks likes more extended ski trips would be unneeded at this time.

 

[Sick Bird Rider]

me·shug·ge·neh (mə-sho͝og′ə-nə) or me·shug·ge·ner(-nər)
adj.
Crazy; senseless.
n.
One who is crazy.

As far as goals go, I hope it snows and I get to ski. Vermont looks off the table for this winter and local lift-service is iffy. I'm sticking to the woods.