Which resort gets skied out the slowest?

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Originally Posted by bad_roo

My votes go to La Plagne and Flaine. Huge lift systems with a family-friendly focus which means that it's always easy to find covershot pow straight off the top of a lift. Yee-has rarely go to these places.

Cue the "I know a place but I'm not letting on" crew...

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I havent been to La Plagne, but i agree with you about Flaine. my first time there was a pow day of sorts and even though i arrived at mid-day I still skiing powder lines all day; some of it right under the chair.

that's the way it should be!

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Originally Posted by fubar

Ooooh yeah! SnowBasin was all used up when I was there last winter, yet Powder Mountain next door still had a ton of freshies.

BTW, Alpental gets skied out in a hurry.

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Snowbasin used up? I thought it wouldn't be mentioned on this thread because it's titled "Which resort gets skied out the slowest," not "Which resort never get skied out." You must not have been skiing with any of the Meats family. I was blown away there how much fresh was to be found at the end of the day on a weekend. Amazed.

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Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Powder Mountain. It's the place to go after you go to Snowbasin after you go to Alta.

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Then you can still find 50% of Beaver Mountain up Logan Canyon untracked.

Especially if you know where to go. :biggrin:

Snowbasin? The elevation is so low it only rains there.

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Originally Posted by Buzzworthy

Then you can still find 50% of Beaver Mountain up Logan Canyon untracked.

Especially if you know where to go. :biggrin:

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You better stop right there if you know what is good for you.....

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Originally Posted by Snow Ranger

Snowbasin? The elevation is so low it only rains there.

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Unfortunatley, this is true.

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Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Powder Mountain. It's the place to go after you go to Snowbasin after you go to Alta.

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you missed a step

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Originally Posted by TBone

I like what shmerman has to say, although I've never hauled my new york ass up to saddleback. Jay trees do tend to get skied out because everyone knows about them, and Stowe's tend to stay under the radar longer. However, i bestow the prize upon PLATTEKILL. The lifts only spin fri-sun. leaving snow to accumulate all week. And even when they are open no one's ever there. I showed up once on a sunny friday (albeit no new snow) at 10am and got first and seconds tracks off the t-bar. It's in the middle of nowhere though.

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I think you need to put an asterisk by Plattekill. They seemed to get killed in those thaw/freeze cycles in a way Northern VT/ Maine doesn't. Two feet of untracked fresh is great but two feet of untracked fresh hiding rocks and other crap is another story.

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Originally Posted by Buzzworthy

Then you can still find 50% of Beaver Mountain up Logan Canyon untracked.

Especially if you know where to go. :biggrin:

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But by then it has snowed again at Alta. :biggrin:

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Originally Posted by sea2ski

I think you need to put an asterisk by Plattekill. They seemed to get killed in those thaw/freeze cycles in a way Northern VT/ Maine doesn't. Two feet of untracked fresh is great but two feet of untracked fresh hiding rocks and other crap is another story.

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Point taken, but I just always seem to hit Plattekill at a good time. And VT and Maine are certainly not immune to the mid-winter shitty thaw. Like Jay for the first two weeks of January this year. Sucked.