EdBacon Posted January 2 Report Share Posted January 2 Hi. I will be home alone by myself for three weeks when my wife (God bless her) is out of the country. What should I do for three weeks/ I want to go use my snowboard. I have Ikon pass. Have to stay in NE though. Where should I go? Are motels safe to stay in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 2 Report Share Posted January 2 Wow Ed, you have a wife? And are you off work? Why wouldn’t motels be safe to stay in? Id stick to cheaper chain hotels though because they have to meet a certain standard. Id try to hit these places for a skifari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RidgeRacer Posted January 2 Report Share Posted January 2 Way back, pre PASR I think, i had a weekend like that so i went to Killington. I even met and skied with peeps from epic ski. That's was fun. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 1 hour ago, EdBacon said: @saltyant when I drove to Montana in 2002 I stayed in a motel in Toledo Ohio that was $22.99 a night and most to and from were in the $30s and $40s…I used to get hotel coupon books and stayed at one outside Princeton called the Novotel for only $69… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 40 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said: Way back, pre PASR I think, i had a weekend like that so i went to Killington. I even met and skied with peeps from epic ski. That's was fun. I met a few people from alpine zone back in the day..mainly at belleayre and stowe also killington. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Law Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 6 hours ago, EdBacon said: Hi. I will be home alone by myself for three weeks when my wife (God bless her) is out of the country. What should I do for three weeks/ I want to go use my snowboard. I have Ikon pass. Have to stay in NE though. Where should I go? Are motels safe to stay in? 3 weeks you can get to CO easy and once your there it's at worst the same if not cheaper than say VT. How many times do you get this chance ? Giving your parameters I would get in the car and start heading north, you could go up 100vt and hit them all and just keep going up to Tremblant/St Anne or duck off into the real out there stuff in ME. The real answer is to follow the snow but pretty much anywhere in the NE is a days drive so I would skip the bs and start pretty far north. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 3 minutes ago, Johnny Law said: 3 weeks you can get to CO easy and once your there it's at worst the same if not cheaper than say VT. How many times do you get this chance ? Giving your parameters I would get in the car and start heading north, you could go up 100vt and hit them all and just keep going up to Tremblant/St Anne or duck off into the real out there stuff in ME. The real answer is to follow the snow but pretty much anywhere in the NE is a days drive so I would skip the bs and start pretty far north. Yeah I was wondering why only the northeast if three weeks..but id fly out west and rent a car…life is a highway I wanna ride it all night long. Welcome back Johnny law!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdBacon Posted January 3 Author Report Share Posted January 3 (edited) I can duck into the lab in Philly or Boston as long as I'm a reasonable distance drive away. I'll be working remote on off days from wherever. Not going to use up all my vacation days without my wife. But it does mean I can't go too far out. I probably won't get interrupted and could just say tough if they need me back on short notice but I'd rather not tempt fate. Edited January 3 by EdBacon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 5 minutes ago, EdBacon said: I can duck into the lab in Philly or Boston as long as I'm a reasonable distance drive away. I'll be working remote on off days from wherever. Not going to use up all my vacation days without my wife. But it does mean I can't go too far out. I probably won't get interrupted and could just say tough if they need me back on short notice but I'd rather not tempt fate. Loon is only two hours from Boston..pretty easy to do a 10-11 day trip and work a few of them remote take a few days off and lump together two weekends for skifari. I always thought by now I could take a month off to ski out west but I’m actually needed at work pretty much..and usually by the end of a week long ski trip I’ve had my fill and ready to get back to making money. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgrwilco Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 This might be windhams last year on ikon, so I would check that place out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFskiDan Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 On 1/3/2024 at 12:07 PM, rgrwilco said: This might be windhams last year on ikon, so I would check that place out. I just saw this. looks like every weekend reservation for Ikon is taken at Windham Jan/Feb. So, yeah, i would agree windham is leaving the chat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdBacon Posted January 5 Author Report Share Posted January 5 I have zero desire to visit Windham anyway. If I stop by in the Catskills I will just go to Plattekill anyway, even though it not on any pass system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbike-ski Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 Windham is like Okemo, I've ski'd both a few times and can't remember a damn thing about either one, good or bad. That in itself makes we never want to go back 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadows Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 I don't remember an entire state. But I'll go back 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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