<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“NewEnglandSkier13”><blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“z1000307470”><blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“NewEnglandSkier13”><blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“z1000307470”><blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“NewEnglandSkier13”><blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“newpylong”>“An Eastern area with a 800 foot total vertical….It also means that you will not enjoy much variety during your visit. ”
Huge and incorrect assumption imho.</blockquote>
Agreed; look at Whaleback, Dartmouth, & Big Rock for examples of mountains in that vertical drop range with great variety.</blockquote>
3 examples? I stand corrected (sarcasm).</blockquote>
I think the easier list to make would be of areas with 600 to 1,100 vertical feet in New England that don’t offer a wide variety of terrain. I think that would only include Wachusett, Butternut, Mohawk, and Quechee.</blockquote>
How about every place in PA, minus Blue Knob, 1 run at Denton and maybe Elk; in NJ, Mountain Creek and the former Hidden Valley; most of the areas south and west of Syracuse in NYS; most of the areas in the Laurentians in Canada that are on auto route 15; probably most of the Midwestern areas. I love skiing and I have spent a lot of time at many of these areas. I will always have fun at these areas, but the lack of vertical is a clear limit to the scope of the skiing.There is a reason most of us laugh when Holiday Valley and Seven Springs find their way into Eastern ski area top 20 lists while places like Gore, Burke, Pico, Bromley and the Eastern Township areas in Quebec never get a sniff of the top 20. If you have 5 hours to drive are you headed to Holiday Valley and its max 700 vertical feet or do you drive 5 hours to Gore with its 2538 max vertical feet? In fact, I would drive to any of the places I just mentioned before I would drive to Holiday Valley - and you can add Magic to that list.</blockquote>
The lack of terrain variety in that area is not because of the lack of vertical, it is because those mountains simply don’t have as much interesting terrain. Even at Veterans Memorial, with less than 300 vertical feet, there is a huge amount of variety.</blockquote>
Agreed- just funny to see how some places push it for marketing. The couple-hundred vert at NE Slopes was more fun than I have had at many much larger places (ice, crowded trails and lodge, lift lines, etc).
