Ski's Top 10 East Prediction Thread

[highpeaksdrifter]

Here’s Ski Magazines Top 10 East resorts from 2006/2007 voted on by a sampling of their readers. How do you think the list will read for 2007/2008?

Tremblant, Quebec, Canada;
Smugglers Notch, Vt.,;
Whiteface, Lake Placid, N.Y.;
Killington, Vt.;
Sugarloaf, Maine;
Stowe, Vt.;
Sunday River, Maine;
Okemo, Vt.;
Holiday Valley, N.Y.,
Bretton Woods, N.H.

Here’s how I think it will read, not necessarily what my personal opinion is.

1.Whiteface – yes I’m a homer, but I’ve got a good feeling this year
2.Stowe – lots of upgrades the general public will like
3.Tremblant – from what I’ve read, infrastructure is going down hill and skier visits are off
4.Sugarbush – always near the top
5.Smuggs – great place, but I think they’ll be lower then last year
6.Killington – too many skier visits not to get votes, even though expectations for coming season seem low
7. Okemo – the masses love it
8. Sugarloaf – location hurts this great mountains appeal to the masses
9. Sunday River – always in the top 10
10. Stratton – big time destination for NYC and Jersey

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Whiteface ahead of Stowe..that's crazy..they get half as much snow and have about 1/3 of the terrain..crazy Ski readers/./

 

[skiNEwhere]

smuggs has got to be in the top 3, they always are cuz of their great family atmosphere

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

smuggs has got to be in the top 3, they always are cuz of their great family atmosphere

Smuggs has great terrain..but antequated lifts and snowmaking..I miss skiing over there from Stowe back when Smuggs let you ride the lifts with a Stowe pass..

What about Jay Peak???

 

[ctenidae]

1) Wildcat
2) Ragged
3) Mt Sunapee
4) Gunstock
5) Pat's Peak
6) Butternut
7) Berkshire East
8] Wachusett
9) Cranmore
10) Magic

My order may be off a bit.

 

[Grassi21]

3.Tremblant – from what I’ve read, infrastructure is going down hill and skier visits are off

I was over on Tremblant-Insider the other day and read about this. Kind of scary. Regardless, with free lodging in the mix I'm still looking forward to our visit this season.

 

[wa-loaf]

1) Wildcat
2) Ragged
3) Mt Sunapee
4) Gunstock
5) Pat's Peak
6) Butternut
7) Berkshire East
8] Wachusett
9) Cranmore
10) Magic

My order may be off a bit.

Nice! that's like the JV list. :lol:

 

[JimG]

Most of the places I consider top 10 would never make this list.

 

[drewfidelic]

Count the ads for each of the resorts in the 06-07 issues of Ski. Is the advertising directly related to survey placement? Not officially. Is there going to be a correlation? I'm sure there will be.
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[highpeaksdrifter]

1) Wildcat
2) Ragged
3) Mt Sunapee
4) Gunstock
5) Pat's Peak
6) Butternut
7) Berkshire East
8] Wachusett
9) Cranmore
10) Magic

My order may be off a bit.

Brah, u crazy brah.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Count the ads for each of the resorts in the 06-07 issues of Ski. Is the advertising directly related to survey placement? Not officially. Is there going to be a correlation? I'm sure there will be.

Where are ski resorts suppose to advertise, Car and Driver?

 

[JimG]

Where are ski resorts suppose to advertise, Car and Driver?

Funny you should say that...Killington used to run regional ads for their BMW high performance driving experience in Car & Driver.

But the ads were for driving, not skiing.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Funny you should say that...Killington used to run regional ads for their BMW high performance driving experience in Car & Driver.

But the ads were for driving, not skiing.

You are truly a wealth of knowledge.

 

[Dr Skimeister]

Count the ads for each of the resorts in the 06-07 issues of Ski. Is the advertising directly related to survey placement? Not officially. Is there going to be a correlation? I'm sure there will be.

Good point....

 

[JimG]

You are truly a wealth of knowledge.

A veritable font of wisdom.

 

[ctenidae]

Seriously, though- those Top 10 lists are most useful as "Top 10 Places I Will Try to Avoid" lists. I really don't need a luxury suite or fancy restaurants when I ski. If it's got a bed and a shower and there's a greasy spoon for breakfast and a pizza joint for dinner, I'm happy. I'm not there to sleep in a feather bed.

 

[JD]

I like where we are on that list. I'd love it if J was on their ahead of us as "the place to go for powder". They areally are BTW. Huge POW at J. Always. And the woods at Killington ROCKS.






It really does.

 

[koreshot]

Why people want their favorite hills to be in this useless gaper Top Ten listing is beyond me. The higher a hill ranks in this list, the higher the chance that it will be overrun by a bunch of Range Rover driving, ski gear color coordinating, "oh my god, look at your nails! they came out so nice!" saying New Jersey losers named Court and Brittany. Trust me, I know cause I live in this horrible state.

Besides, how many skiers who's opinions you actually value do you know that vote in these things? 95% of votes that make up this list come from people that care more about the quality of the creppes and the french wine in the nearby resaturants than they do about the quality of the tree skiing.

Ski mag should do us all a favor and stop publishing.

 

[ctenidae]

Ski mag should do us all a favor and stop publishing.

But they do have pretty pictures. And I've learned a lot from the Instructor articles. And without the lists, I wouldn't know where to get the best crepes.

 

[koreshot]

But they do have pretty pictures. And I've learned a lot from the Instructor articles. And without the lists, I wouldn't know where to get the best crepes.

I remember flipping through an issue in the airport about a year ago and seeing an intstructor article about how to go from skid to carve. Found this a bit humorous. Carving has been around for over a decade, if a reader still hasn't learned how to carve by now, I don't think a 3 step one-pager with a couple of pictures would help. Fools....