r/icecoast

That's what we called it. You go on the north peak quad, go down like 100 feet and find a trail. You unstrap and trek for half hour or so. You can see the whole mountain from there. We set up some trees to see it from the lift. Then ride for 20-30 minutes through the woods. We luckily had powder up to our thighs. Drank from a river halfway down. Has anyone else done this?

Sorry for the long rant but I’d love some serious advice

I spent 4 years in NH as a local ice coaster then moved west to slc to show those posers what’s up.

So if you understand I’ve had world class skiing within 30 mins of me for 6 years now with little employment in the winter like 3 days a week skiing as much as possible.

Well I have relocated to NJ for a serious career but am commited to still being a bum skier.

Meaning skiing whenever I can in upstate NY Vermont or NH.

Being in NJ it’s about 4-6 hours driving for serious skiing east coast. Maybe 3-3.5 if I’m lucky in Vermont.

How realistic is it for me to chase these storms or just lines out east getting out of work on Friday and back in office Monday.

Some firdays we get out 2 or 4 pm.

Im commited to do it in my head. But I’d love to hear some thoughts .

Skiing is the one thing that brings me true joy!

I’m excited to come back to the ice coast and ski some sick tight trees that I loved when I lived up north. And chasing the coldest of cold pow!

Looking for advice.

I’m a 25 year old single male with a very reliable vehicle.

TIA

Early this year, I booked a cruise with my wife for the last week of October leaving out of NYC.

A month ago she tells me she cheated on me and wants a divorce.

Turns out the round trip plane tickets are non-refundable, non-changeable so I am flying to NYC on Oct 23 and put on Nov 1.

Where should I go? I've been snowboarding a couple times at Snowbird in SLC, but live in the great flat plains of flyover country.

ps Also looking for non-snow related recommendations as well.

Edit... Turns out a guy from the Middle of nowhere has no idea what weather is like in a place he's never been.

I’ve been looking for some big dunes to take my rock board down to scratch the snowboarding itch. The only possible place I have managed to find (but haven’t gotten the time to make the trip yet) is Dunes de Tadoussac in Quebec. Are there any other places? Also has anyone sandboarded that place in Quebec?

First full season snowboarding!!! I do plan on visiting a few resorts (VT,MA,CT) but am also wondering if there are any special events that you guys are looking forward to that you think would be worth a trip.

Any resorts or stores with:
big athletic events
Demo days
Themed days ( that usually draws a crowd)
Any other cool things at the resort.

Just looking at ways to learn more about the sport and meeting new people.

To all of you who responded and still are responding on my post about NJ north for the winter.

You all rock and are the exact meaning of being an east coast skier!

You all got me stoked for this season!

See ya up there!

I have bought ski boots from Nick's before, but do I need to go to a touring specialist for AT boots? E.g. White Mountain Ski Co.

I've looked through a bunch of posts on here, but I'm wondering if anyone has any more recent experience with boot fitting at Ski Haus in Woburn. I'm trying to potentially capitalize on slightly better deals before the new season starts up, and I would rather not go too far out of my way up north since I can't actually do any skiing yet.

Does anyone have updated recommendations, ideally in the Massachusetts area, or experience with Ski Haus? Also looking into Strands, just a bit further out of the way.

What would you do….looking for something on more of the fun side!! Trying to choose between the 4frnt MSP 99 or something from the Moment lineup. Deathwish 96 or Wildcat 98. Gonna hang up my J- Masterblasters and looking for something similar! Skiing Killington ~50 days a year. Winter is coming.

We are a group of eight 40 yo dudes. We do a long weekend trip on the ice Coast every year. Apres is not that big a deal because we try to rent a big old house and just cook at the house and drink and take edibles and play card and listen to music till about 1030 then crash, wake up early and get to the mountain. A bar or two right after skiing can be fun, but we don't go out for dinner or after dinner. We always go last weekend in February (we learned to avoid the Vermont school holiday)

I need help choosing between Killington and Gore. Ive skied Killington a few times so I know what it's about. Never skied Gore. Gore is cheaper ($1400 for an Airbnb, roughly $250 for a two day lift ticket. Killington is $2000 for Airbnb and $350 for a two day lift ticket) Gore is 5 hours drive and Killington is 6 hour drive.

I like skiing everything Killington has, but the rest of my group isn't as advanced. Three of the group are at greens and easy blues (Whiteface blues were too advanced last year for em). The rest are good blues, but not really good, ungroomed black skiers. Some do a few runs and hit the bar, few runs hit the bar. Others ski all day, skipping lunch if the conditions are good.

Would we be wasting money skiing Killington (not for me, I love Killington and will get to challenge myself) when we could just do Gore, or would Gore get boring? We're doing two days of skiing.

This sounds trivial, but we look forward to this trip every year.

Any and all comments, questions, and opinions are warranted as I'm the one who is always in charge of picking the place.

Edit: Thanks a million for these responses. I sent this post to the group and I think the consensus is we're going to Gore. Half our group did Killington two years ago, and none of us have done Gore. The price is a big selling point. This won't be my only ski trip this year so if it's not the best weekend skiing wise, it's not the end of the season (for me anyway). Gore also is the biggest mountain we haven't skied thats within 7 hour drive for us.

Hi everyone. I know the season is way over, but now is a good time to ask for ski boot bag recs since you've had all season to test yours out and give some advice.

I'm looking for a ski boot bag that can also fit my helmet, goggles, and ideally some other little things and maybe, just maybe some base layers. In case it helps, my ski boots are women's size 260/265 mondopoint (41EU/9.5 US) and my Smith helmet is a size small. I know people with larger boots and helmets have a more challenging time with fitting their gear.

Big requirements/hopes for the bag:
•durable/made well (I've seen people show horror story pics of straps coming off after one use and etc.)
•backpack straps (ideally can be tucked away)
•structured so that if I pull my ski boots out the whole bag doesn't collapse
•drainage
•padded
•the ski boots are in their own area (whether together or they each have their own individual pocket/section) so it's not touching my other gear.
•a warranty would be nice plus to have a little comfort if something goes wrong.
•not the largest in size. It would be cool if I can make it a personal item as a carry-on (fit under the seat in front of me), but not essential if the above is met

I know this was super detailed, but I figured I'd map out what I'm hoping to find, even though I know the above is a lot, but when I buy something I see it as an investment and don't feel like buying something and then it doesn't last and have to buy something new again. It's wasteful and then concerning because I want to protect my gear.

Oh and separately, does anyone recommend a hard shell goggles case that can fit an extra lens or two. I have Smith IO Mag goggles for reference.

Really appreciate any recs!

I was on the chairlift at Hunter Mountain on Feb 5, 1978 when there was a brake failure on the Hunter West lift. The chairlift stopped and then reversed direction and went backward faster and faster until it finally stopped. It traveled at least the distance between two towers before it stopped, gaining speed each second. I don't know if the brakes finally caught, or if the cable jammed and caused it to finally stop.

We were lowered to the ground with ropes by the ski patrol. I skied to the bottom and saw the carnage. There was blood on the snow. Chairs at the bottom were all bent up because they whipped around the bullwheel at high speed. The back roof of the lift under the bottom bullwheel was torn off. We heard sirens and saw ambulances. They had a bus there to take us around to the front side of the mountain. There was only one lift on that side of the mountain in those years.

My two best friends were also on the lift, on the chair in front of me. We were two thirds up the lift, so not in immediate danger of being whipped around the bottom bullwheel.

Hunter West was closed the rest of the season.

Twenty years later when my brother skied there and mentioned this accident, the employee adamantly denied it even happened.

Here is the only news report of the incident I was able to find. I take issue with the statement in this news report that says no one was seriously injured. If the hospital lists a patient in "fair" condition, that's a serious injury. I heard some people broke bones jumping from the lift.

Someone reported on here they were knocked unconscious going around the bullwheel at the bottom, and another tore a kidney.

I'd love to hear from others who were on this lift at the time.

Chairlift Accident Injures Dozen At Hunter Mountain Ski Resort

SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES FEB. 6, 1978

A chairlift accident injured more than a dozen people yesterday at the Hunter Mountain Ski Resort in the northern Catskills, according to the State Police in Hunter. N.Y. None of the victims was seriously injured. Seven of them were taken to three hospitals in the area, where they were reported as in fair to good condition.

The police said that chairs on the resort's 3,800-foot "Z-lift" apparently rolled backward, tossing a number of skiers to the snow below. A spokesman for the resort, Paul Pepe, said the lift was capable of carrying 1,000 skier an hour up 1,400-foot rise. He added he did not know how many were on the lift at the time.

My 5-7 lifelong friends from PA get together once a year to spend 4-5 days on a ski trip in the North East. In the past we have done Jay multiple times, Okemo, Killington multiple times, Stowe, Sugarloaf, Sugarbush, Okemo, and Whiteface.

Killington was always the easy option if we were only going to be able to fit in a shorter trip, grab some decently priced K-tickets, plenty of people renting out houses so housing cost was always reasonable. I looked this year and was shocked at the 2025/26 K ticket prices, and then searching quickly on AirBnB (which is probably not the play anymore) I was shocked again.

So that had me thinking, I know for sure there are other mountains that would give us a great time that aren't maybe on that typical "top 10 in the NE" type list. Where should I be looking for this year? Does anyone have any suggestions for where I should be looking for lodging these days?

When my gf and I go skiing, we usually bring a thermos of soup to have for lunch. The soups we make ourselves are awesome but take prep time. A lot of the canned soups we’ve tried get old after like a day or just aren’t that good. Chicken noodle is usually pretty good but it also doesn’t have as good sustenance as other soups.

Any one have any canned soup recommendations that are filling and great tasting?

so, I wanted to see if it was possible to quantitatively identify a "good" or "bad" ski season using publicly available data; so, I pulled NOAA daily station records for a couple resorts from 2010 (Killington, Stowe, Sugarbush, Sunday River, and Loon) and scored every season on four things: natural snowfall, how many days the base held above 12 inches, rain and thaw days, and cold nights (for snowmaking).

Stowe, 2023-24: 110 inches of natural snow. but the base held above a foot on exactly 1 day all winter, and there were 21 days between mid-December and mid-March that were either rain or never got below freezing overnight.

Stowe, 2016-17: 142 inches, 17 days with a real base, 8 damage days.

similar ballpark on snowfall, but completely different winter.

when I scored all 15 seasons, the bottom four came out nearly identical at every mountain: 2011-12 and 2015-16 as the two disasters, then 2022-23 and 2023-24 as "not good." Sunday River is the one exception, where 2012-13 sneaks in and 2022-23 does not, since Maine held a base that year while southern Vermont didn't.

so, a question: does that match with how you remember it?

for context: I'm curious if there is a defensible model for "hedging" a season (especially as climate change worsens). the idea is to craft a payout rule for bad seasons that actually fires on a bad season. I made a simple site (www.skihedge.com) where you can pick a mountain and walk through the last 15 winters, with a short survey at the end asking whether the bad years look right to you. the scoring methodology is also available, if you're curious.

nothing is for sale, and you don't have to signup for anything. just trying to work out whether the idea has merit.