The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[Timberridge]

Same in Brooklyn

That's Downstate. This is the Upstate thread Benny.

Anyway, as long as they keep it to themselves...

[BmillsSkier]

It's understandable how Benny could get confused though. I mean, we've gone 35 pages and launched an expedition and no one is any closer to understanding where Upstate is.

[fhw]

It's understandable how Benny could get confused though. I mean, we've gone 35 pages and launched an expedition and no one is any closer to understanding where Upstate is.

The answer is 42

[Woodsy]

Even before I lived here, I always felt upstate NY was any part of NY farther North than the top of CT & PA.
Speaking of, anyone headed up to Plattekilll this weekend to glade & lop under the double?!?

[huckbucket]

Even before I lived here, I always felt upstate NY was any part of NY farther North than the top of CT & PA.
Speaking of, anyone headed up to Plattekilll this weekend to glade & lop under the double?!?

Is that english son?

[BmillsSkier]

Is it customary to cut your own ski trails in the Upstate?

[Woodsy]

Is that english son?

glade
/ɡlād/
noun
an open space in a forest.
"a forest glade"
verb
to create an open space in a forest

lop
ˈläp
verb
lopped; lopping

1a(1): to cut off branches or twigs from
(2): to sever from a woody plant
b(1)archaic : to cut off the head or limbs of
(2): to cut from a person
2a: to remove superfluous parts from
b: to eliminate as unnecessary or undesirable —usually used with off

[Timberridge]

Is it customary to cut your own ski trails in the Upstate?

I suggested years ago in the Magic thread that they get a herd of goats.

[BmillsSkier]

I suggested years ago in the Magic thread that they get a herd of goats.

I can only assume how such a pragmatic suggestion was received.

[Timberridge]

Perhaps the Plattekillians are more open to such ideas?

[gravitylover]

Is it customary to cut your own ski trails in the Upstate?

As I'm driving around I see what looks like trail cuts all over the place. Sometimes it'll be in the kind of place where you can see the house or property at the bottom and you get the feeling from looking around (quickly as you drive by) that it could very well be. Over the last few months I've talked to a bunch of people that spent their Coronacation clearing ski lines on their or their friends property. There's going to be a lot of local backcountry skiing going on this winter if it snows.

Just over the line into Mass there's a work day this weekend to clear the Thunderbolt, a CCC hand cut trail off the top of the highest peak in the state.

[BmillsSkier]

I don't blame em if they've got the ability and the property to do it. I'm sure everyone here has driven past a slope at one time or another and said to themselves, "that would make a nice run".

Having a personal ski run is also a very nice status symbol.

[Timberridge]

Western vs. Eastern Massachusetts is a whole other thread.

[BmillsSkier]

I don't think we want to wade into that here.

There's already too much to unpack.

[Timberridge]

I don't blame em if they've got the ability and the property to do it. I'm sure everyone here has driven past a slope at one time or another and said to themselves, "that would make a nice run".

Having a personal ski run is also a very nice status symbol.

Back when I owned the Branch Covidian compound, I briefly waded into personal trail cutting. After many long weekends of labor followed by a subpar snow year, I came to the realization that $500 for a season pass was a bargain.

[riser4]

Western vs. Eastern Massachusetts is a whole other thread.

Oh no you don't!!!

[BmillsSkier]

Back when I owned the Branch Covidian compound, I briefly waded into personal trail cutting. After many long weekends of labor followed by a subpar snow year, I came to the realization that $500 for a season pass was a bargain.

That would have been a nice way to drive up parishionership too.

[Woodsy]

Perhaps the Plattekillians are more open to such ideas?

they just give out free tickets to folks that come help....

[Benny Profane]

It's understandable how Benny could get confused though. I mean, we've gone 35 pages and launched an expedition and no one is any closer to understanding where Upstate is.

I'm not confused. Brooklyn is where the "upstate" hasidim come from, because theres only so much room in Brooklyn.

[Benny Profane]

Western vs. Eastern Massachusetts is a whole other thread.

Catamount actually straddles the border of NY and MA. That's a whole other thread.

[Benny Profane]

Is it customary to cut your own ski trails in the Upstate?

It rains here. Shit grows. If you want ski trails, you have to lop a lot. Not like the west, where stuff doesnt grow on dry rock.

[gravitylover]

Catamount actually straddles the border of NY and MA. That's a whole other thread.

There used to be another ski area that straddled the border too but I doubt you'd remember it.

[Brownski]

I’m planning on being at Plattekill but I just got an email that it was moved to Sunday for weather. Spread the word.

[huckbucket]

The rats figured it out. Woodchucks can't be far behind.

https://www.syracuse.com/state/2020/...hot-spots.html

[BmillsSkier]

Dang woodchucks.