Recent content by highpeaksdrifter

Kerry, I’m a teacher and I took my ski club to the Round Hearth for years. I did the research and there is nothing that compares to it for high school groups. They have an excellent staff and a lot for kids to do after skiing. It is a great choice for a group like yours.

1. Location of Lookout Mountain Northeast of the Whiteface Summit Or Skiers left of The Slides Reclaiming the old Cloudsplitter Trail that was part of Whiteface in the 1950’s 2. Lookout Mountain Triple Chair Lift...

I’m not trying to be a wise guy, but my curiosity is getting the better of me. If 90% of your skiing is done in trees and you’ve never found anything worthwhile at Whiteface, why have you skied there 40 times? They may have to cut some trees, as I stated before I don’t know, but if they do so what?

I agree with you that they are pretty easy glades relatively speaking, but if you don’t rate them black then they have to be blue. IMO a true blue skier would find those glades difficult. When trees and rocks are involved you pretty much have to up the rating a notch out of safety concerns for...

Looks like you're a Western skier so relative is the key word here. I think we had around 235 inches last season and over 260 the year before. We can't ski our trees every day the mountain is open, but they're officially open alot and unoffically alot more.

I don't know Skimore, he may be a WF regular, but if not I don't know how he could give some of the authoritative answers he has. For instance, I don’t know anyone who has gone over to the other side of Lookout where the glades will be that can answer the density question for sure. Like I said...

I like the tree skiing we already have, but I have to agree with the above statement. This new section may change that though. We'll see.

I hiked up the intermediate trail last fall. We went off trail into where the new glades will be. In the small area we explored we where suprised that it was less dense then they appear when looking up at them from Wilmington. That said, I have a feeling some thinning will be required.

yeah man summer is great here. I either hike, bike or kayak, or swim pretty much everyday. I don't think you'll find them too wide at all.

I agree, for sheer beauty I don’t think it gets any better in the East then the High Peaks of the ADKs. I do understand why many people like on mountain lodging, and some resorts do it well, but at some they look like condo ghettos.

The latest I've heard is the chair for sure, the long intermediate trail for sure, the expert trail cut last season will only be open when natural snow allows, the expert trail cut this season has a better then even chance of getting snowmaking and lastly I've heard different scenarios about the...

From a business stand point you know Chris is right. ORDA is trying to get Gore into the destination resort category and they're taking big steps toward that goal.

Thanks, this is a good forum. It was the Whiteface/Slides links you posted on SKIADK that got me over here. As you know I like talking about that stuff. :D

Yep. the soulless suburban wasteland of Clifton Park. We own a place in Wilmington too. Someday we’ll live there full time, but we can’t right now.

Sorry, but that is not true. It's about 30 more minutes from exit 23 (Gore) to exit 30 (WF), then another 30 minutes to WF. I live off exit 8 on 87. It takes me about an hour and 15 minutes to drive to Gore and 2 hours to drive to WF.