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Your #1 Reason in choosing a Mtn/Resort

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ciscokid Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Oct 09, 2006 Posts: 2080 Location:west Mi.	Posted: Feb 01, 2007 - 3:54 PM GMT For those of you who live fairly close(within the timeframe discussed on the day trip limits thread)to several mountains, what is the main reason in selecting the one you do for that particular day?Of course there are a multitude of answers to this question,(vertical,skiable acres,#/type of lifts,$of lift ticket,service,snowmaking,and this year especially amount and type of open terrain,price of cheeseburgers,ha ha,etc.)This question is aimed primarily at those of you who are not season pass holders and can choose between a handfull of highly rated mountains in the same general vicinity.For example,how do you choose between Sugarbush,MRG,Stowe,or Smuggs?Or how do you decide between Stratton,Bromley.Mt Snow,Magic,Okemo,or Kmart for that matter? Here in Michigan,I choose Crystal Mtn.over Caberfae because of the terrain selection.Although a shorter vertical Crystal has a glacier valley naturally gladed area which draws me back again and again! __________

igneousodc Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Feb 11, 2005 Posts: 259 Location:	Posted: Feb 01, 2007 - 5:12 PM GMT Snow baby, it's all about the snow! (You obviously have to have the terrain also).

BeastPatroller Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Nov 18, 2003 Posts: 697 Location:Enfield, CT	Posted: Feb 01, 2007 - 10:58 PM GMT Obviously snow cover & trail count is important! Besides that I look for terrain and the cost of a lift ticket. There are certain occasions when I'll go to a smaller area just for the nostalgia or to help keep them off the NELSAP list! __________ Ski the Beast - Berkshire East

jimk Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Aug 27, 2004 Posts: 1066 Location:Wash DC area	Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 1:39 AM GMT Quote: This question is aimed primarily at those of you who are not season pass holders and can choose between a handfull of highly rated mountains in the same general vicinity.! That's me, although my choices are not exactly highly rated. Crowds is a pretty big factor for me and I'll frequently choose a lesser mtn if I know it will be far less crowded. Not coincedentially, the less crowded places are also often less expensive. When I travel to big mtns out of my region, terrain and reputation is often the driver, but again crowds or lack thereof can be important determinant if other things are fairly equal.

joshua segal Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jul 12, 2004 Posts: 5940 Location:NH	Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 3:31 AM GMT In the days before I taught, my objective was variety and toward that goal, I rarely skied the same area twice in a single season. My idea of a perfect ski week back then: 7 days-7-different areas. The ones I didn't like didn't see me the next season. Naturally, I gave some preference to the ones closer to home. When in college, price was important, but post-college, cost was less of an issue. __________ Joshua Segal

mapnut Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jul 31, 2002 Posts: 5060 Location:New York City	Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 1:44 PM GMT Looks like not many people can pick just one factor; neither can I. Cost is always a factor for me. Being from S.W. Connecticut, distance is also important. Conditions is maybe third; I hate ice. I don't mind crowds, within reason. I wish I could make terrain No. 1 but it doesn't work out that way. I'd love to ski Stowe and Sugarbush but the cost and distance factors haven't let that happen yet. I wouldn't have thought of Sunapee but for traveling by way of Boston to pick up my skiing buddy, my daughter.

katbennett Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Nov 14, 2001 Posts: 680 Location:Madison, NH	Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 1:51 PM GMT The ski areas I work for conduct extensive customer satisfaction surveys. We do ask customers what factors influence where they want to ski. The top answers are snow quality and terrain variety. The NSAA also conducts a lot of surveys and they claim cleanliness of bathrooms is an important indicator of whether or not a guest will return to the mountain. Cost of a ticket doesn't make the the top of the list. Issues like crowding are a distraction but obviously, this isn't keeping people from going to popular resorts. As the saying goes "it's so crowded, no one goes there anymore."

rickbolger Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Mar 14, 2005 Posts: 2294 Location:Great Gorge, NJ	Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 3:43 PM GMT My decision factors, in order: 1. Open terrain/variety/conditions 50% 2. Crowd size 30% 3. Drive time 15% 4. Total cost 5%

dmc Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Feb 17, 2005 Posts: 376 Location:Hunter, NY	Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 3:46 PM GMT terrain and snow quality... __________ DMCs Interactive Tuckerman Ravine Map

bobbutts Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Nov 20, 2006 Posts: 609 Location:Central NH	Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 3:58 PM GMT split it in 1/2 for me close and cheap for most of the time and if the time and money is available terrain and snow

loudergood Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Dec 09, 2006 Posts: 21 Location:Burlington, Vt	Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 10:53 PM GMT Close and cheap, I tend to get a season pass, and the one year I had one at Jay while living in the New North End of Burlington it was just too far after several seasons with Bolton or Smuggs passes. This year I have one at Burke and live in Lyndonville..it's so easy to just go up for an hour or two even if I have classes the same day.

Jimme Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jan 25, 2002 Posts: 1208 Location:6 miles West of Jiminy Peak, MA	Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 11:46 PM GMT Edited: Feb 02, 2007 - 11:47 PM GMT 1. Snow conditions Open terrain Driving Cost for the day __________ The Artful Dodger

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