I don't know why I keep going back. Oh, yes I do; a friend with a house nearby and another with a condo on Sachem trail, plus cheap lift tickets from the ski club. But every time I go, I swear I'll never go back. I think this weekend clinched it.

While I acknowledge it might just be boredom, I don't really ride there that often so I don't think it's that. It's more the challenge. Or lack of it. The most challenging thing at Okemo are the crowds. I never really felt I got any good runs in this weekend, I was just dodging ducklings, noobs and one-trip-a-year ski-MILFS doing slow, wiiiiiide turns across the entire trail on my way to the next liftline to hell.

And it's always like this. On my only other trip to Okemo this year it was raining/sleeting/snowing on various parts of the mountain throughout the day, and it was still a pain in the ass, just spent all day avoiding people instead of actually riding.

Okemos lift ticket prices are ridiculous (I even had a ski club discount and it was still $49, when most other mountains offer ski club tix for $29-35) and the lifts SUCKED. The lifts -- every one of them -- stopped so often, for so long, that I thought I was Killington!

Riding ANYWHERE is better than riding nowhere, so I'm sure I'll be back at Okemo next year. My friends still have their houses there after all. But I won't like it, dammit.

>rant  off<

[Edited by Karma_Orphan on 3/9/2009 at 5:12 PM]

those days suck dont they ... thats how i feel about stratton, it only took one visit to realize ill never bother with it again ... okemo isnt too awful like u said, especially if your boys got a place close by, its big acres wise, but not super gnarly for the most part .... i really need to start hitting the upper half of vermont .... whats your favorite place to ride/stay'n'ride?

Thats why I haven't ridden Okemo since Highschool '00. and stratton i've only hiked during the summer. Apparently too many yuppie NY'ers

Posted by effin_stoked
those days suck dont they ... thats how i feel about stratton, it only took one visit to realize ill never bother with it again ... okemo isnt too awful like u said, especially if your boys got a place close by, its big acres wise, but not super gnarly for the most part .... i really need to start hitting the upper half of vermont .... whats your favorite place to ride/stay'n'ride?

Whiteface ftw!

^ ^ yup ......  WF + VT = ftw (w stands for west) haha ... hey the underdogs gotta poke fun

im going to WF this weekend to use the rest of my price chopper passes

im trying to decide where to stay, so im trolling around, after a few days of only the snowboard colonies being down, wtf is that




[Edited by effin_stoked on 3/13/2009 at 11:19 AM]

I have had that Sunapee, Okemo, Stratton pass for the last 4 years. 3 mountains that cose to me for under 6 bills is a deal......that being said reluctantly I have decided that I will renew for year 5. According to my log, of my 184 days on snow (all over the place), I have been to Mt. Sunapee 72 days, Okemo 59 days, and Stratton 11 days since December 2005. Think I need a change of venue? I think I may have burnt myself out of my home mountain is why I am totally understanding what Karma is saying. Atthe same time, I like the fact tat my mountain is is under 70 minutes away. If I had a place to stay around like stowe or something, I would switch to tha pass.If I had a place to stay on Okemo thst would pacify me a lil longer. I heard the crowd situation at Loon/Waterville isnt any better.