The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[retirwntm]

Ah, that takes me back. Night skiing was a hangout. And a good party at that. Pound some bumps hit some jumps, burn some cheeb and too many grits.

Grab some room temp beers you stashed in your season locker with your buddies and post up on the bench outside by the lift to make out with your girl.

FM on the PA system, the sound of skis carving on 259 vertical feet of powder/packedpowder/ice/corn/rocks, and someone screaming “YARD SALE” from the fixed triple.

Night skiing was skiing, sure, but it was how Midwesterners, and Upstaters, and MidAtlanticians learned how to après.

Night skiing out west just doesn’t hold the same caché. There’s no youthful romance to it.

Your loss Ben, I’m sorry.

Good times right there. A little guns n’ roses or AC/DC on the PA and talking shit to your friends on the chair in front of you.

If you can ski glare ice at night you can ski anything.


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[riser4]

There's night skiing in the northeast too. Bolton Valley FKNA and FTW!!! And shit, even Stowe lit up the Gondola for a few years. That's actually legit terrain with decent vertical. I never rode it at night, but I imagine it was a party while it lasted.

[Aldo]

So that’s west mtn, huh. Nice looking pitch - I’d hit it for sure.


Been night skiing forever. Parents volunteered on patrol - punched our tickets for a few nights a week , first Milton snow bowl then they were on patrol at hidden valley up in Jersey alps when they first opened- I remember riding home with a blank trail map after a refresher pre opening season - trail naming contest!

Night racing in high school - careful balance between getting totally fucked up and actually trying to compete.

I think it’s time to make some lemonade.

Need to look into this.


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[huckbucket]

I took my son up for his school's ski club. Since I tore my ACL and am out for the season I sat in the parking lot with what seemed like 100 + non skiing parents. West has a great low key mom and pop vibe and the kids have a ball.

I've driven by it 1000+ times heading to Gore but never skied there until my kids joined ski club.

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I literally just got back from night skiing. Dropped my daughter at ski club at Bristol and I lapped the nordic loop at the top of the mountain. Was bliss. Am now consuming everything in the house.

[muted]

Ah, that takes me back. Night skiing was a hangout. And a good party at that. Pound some bumps hit some jumps, burn some cheeb and too many grits.

Grab some room temp beers you stashed in your season locker with your buddies and post up on the bench outside by the lift to make out with your girl.

FM on the PA system, the sound of skis carving on 259 vertical feet of powder/packedpowder/ice/corn/rocks, and someone screaming “YARD SALE” from the fixed triple.

Night skiing was skiing, sure, but it was how Midwesterners, and Upstaters, and MidAtlanticians learned how to après.

Night skiing out west just doesn’t hold the same caché. There’s no youthful romance to it.

Your loss Ben, I’m sorry.

Wait, you southern skiers ate grits between runs??

Midwest night skiing was a blast growing up. I had no idea ski edges sprayed sparks when hitting rocks until i saw it happen one night at Cascade Mountain.

[BmillsSkier]

Wait, you southern skiers ate grits between runs??

Midwest night skiing was a blast growing up. I had no idea ski edges sprayed sparks when hitting rocks until i saw it happen one night at Cascade Mountain.

At our particular Midwest bump it took exactly the amount of time to burn one grit to get to the top of the fixed triple.

That or one can of Busch Light.

[ötzi]

Boston Mills Represent!

[Aldo]

Did they have trash drops in the Midwest?


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[muted]

Did they have trash drops in the Midwest?


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Garbage cans under the lifts? yes

i have no idea what a grit is apparently

[BC13]

I literally just got back from night skiing. Dropped my daughter at ski club at Bristol and I lapped the nordic loop at the top of the mountain. Was bliss. Am now consuming everything in the house.

Those Bristol liftees and patrollers did a good job catching the girl who fell off the lift last week.

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[huckbucket]

Those Bristol liftees and patrollers did a good job catching the girl who fell off the lift last week.

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Yeah, that was little too close to home for comfort. Just as easily could have been my daughter.

[ötzi]

Wait, night Nordic skiing?

[Aldo]

Well it’s practically at the North Pole so make sense. But I agree it shows a lot of grit to night Nordic.


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[BmillsSkier]

Boston Mills Represent!

WOOT, WOOT!!!

[NOW OWNED BY VAIL! Shityeah!]

Did they have trash drops in the Midwest?


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Yep. The lifties were supposed to clean it up/empty as they rotated downhill but they always chose to ignore it and ride the shovel downhill.

Garbage cans under the lifts? yes

i have no idea what a grit is apparently

A heater, dart, Marb medium, camel light...?

[ötzi]

or Reds for true Americans like this guy right here. fuck I smoked a shitload of those things in my life. wait, what are we talking about?

[huckbucket]

Wait, night Nordic skiing?

Indeed. Just over 1 K nicely groomed and lit. Man made snow. Turn your brain off kinda stuff. But it's all yours at that hour.
Then there's another 2K unlit and groomed without snow making that we use headlamps for when there's coverage.

[RShea]

Gore was about 40 minutes more. C'mon.

Edit: Glen Plake shamed me when he dropped in and did a day there when he was doing his small ski hill tour.

Glen hit probably every ski hill in Western NY a few years back. He probably had already skied all the Mountain Resorts.

[ötzi]

Is he from there? Or is he just a masochist?

[Benny Profane]

Bringing Elan skis to the unwashed masses

[BmillsSkier]

Is he from there? Or is he just a masochist?

Lol. Or a true devotee.


I got to take a few laps down Tiger and North Bowl at the previously mentioned Boston Mills with Glen on his Down Home Tour in 93.

Thought I posted about it somewhere and found this post instead. I don’t know who this mag is, but apparently we skied together a lot and even that same day.

https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...805#post938805

[RShea]

Bringing Elan skis to the unwashed masses

The last tour he did also was PSIA ski schools connection from what I heard.

https://www.mensjournal.com/adventur...s-ski-culture/

https://www.snewsnet.com/press-relea...reas-in-the-us

And Powder Mag:

Plake is bringing back the Down Home Tour!
That’s right folks, everyone favorite mohawk will be hitting the road again in the newly renovated Glen Plake Down Home Tour. Wildly popular for years, the tour visited small ski areas throughout the U.S., skiing iconic trails with locals and generally spreading good shred vibes nationwide. This iteration will do much of the same, but, instead of a set schedule, Plake’s motorhome will roll wherever it damn pleases, operating without a set schedule and urging fans to merely “be in the right place, at the right time.” That’s one campaign tour I can definitely get behind. Plake for Powder President!

[Benny Profane]

I follow him on Instagram. I thought this recent post was funny.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJP78Yup...d=he96co99j0y3

[RShea]

I follow him on Instagram. I thought this recent post was funny.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJP78Yup...d=he96co99j0y3

Where those houses and Christmas lights somewhere in Upstate NY??

[Benny Profane]

Plake is a world traveler, but he's 100% California boy.

[Brownski]

I got to ski and chat with him at Plattekill last time around, shared a lift ride. Very cool guy.
https://nyskiblog.com/chasing-glen-plake/
He got a kick out of my old skis too