Video shots are too short - too many changes to next shot. Let the drone footage flow as if you were actually flying over the mountain yourself. Even linger a bit over interesting terrain.
Skied here many times when I was younger and had some great days here, provided you storm chase the mountain. If not, it's usually icy with thin cover. It is a well laid out area with classical NE trails. And historic. But like all mountains in the east, never seems to get enough natural snow.
Ski resorts are amazing at how they can manufacture from thin air a high figure of trails. For example, I learned to ski at Sugarloaf in the early 80's. As I look at the footage at 0:20 I count across the mountain about 30 or so "trails" and a few glade areas. Yet somehow they get 160. Laughable.
another great ski area that's almost never mentioned in the anglophone ski media - great steeps, phenomenal trees, lotta hot drops, like a smaller Jay Peak - brutally cold midwinter, but they usually have really nice corn snow late season
Just visited orford for the first time-MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY- a smaller Jay Peak😂😅. The Glades at orford felt very similar to Jay, and you can’t beat the value for a 63$ student ticket!!! Almost prefer it to Tremblant as well
@@zacharylaroza1124 Yeah that makes sense. Tremblant is the closest 'big' mountain to me in Ottawa, but it's well worth the extra hour to drive to the Eastern Townships!
some of the best treees around - nearly half the mountain is some form of gladed terrain (gets steeper and more interesting as you go uphill) - cheap tickets, highly recommended, and it's easy to get to from the US
i love on how this video really shows the true scale of the mountain, beacuse the mountain looks to be small from almost all images but it a pretty decent sized mountain. i dont beilive the vertical is acurate beacuse ive seen other ones and they are roughpfly the same size. but they say they have a bigger vert if i had to guess id say around 700-750vert . but a great mountain would reconmend
My first year in grad school on the Yale Ski Team (1999/2000), our USCSA Nationals were held at Stowe. I prefer Jay Peak & Mad River Glen the MOST overall in terms of Northern Vermont 🏔️'s; but Stowe is pretty awesome too. 😎
For NJ, Mountain Creek (I knew it as Vernon Valley/Great Gorge back in the day) isn't a bad 🏔️, it just doesn't have the height, vertical and terrain that the bigger upstate NY & New England 🏔️'s all have. I supervised a post-USCSA Nationals Ski Retreat here of my Alma Mater's ⛷️/🏂 team (which I was Founder/Head Coach of) the year after I graduated because it was the new Head Coach's home 🏔️, and it was fun. Not SUPER challenging like a bigger and more serious skier's 🏔️ would be, but it's a fun & relaxed place to ski/ride & play. 👍 It's VERY similar to skiing in Pennsylvania actually.
I just hit Sugarbush for the first time a few weeks ago. This place really let us push our skiing to the max. Big mountain, tons of glades, awesome terrain park. the downside: it cost $236 US for a one day lift ticket!
Used to ❤️ skiing against the New England College Pilgrims Ski 🎿 team @ Pat's Peak, which is their home turf. Great small-mid sized 🏞️ to 🎿 @! We'd go back and forth with the NEC team each season doing invitationals. They'd host us up on their campus in Henniker; we'd host them down on our campus in Amherst. We'd ⛷️ with then at Pat's Peak, they'd ⛷️ with us at Berkshire East. They liked us more than either the Amherst College & UMass/Amherst ⛷️ teams which were our local: "Five-College" competition.😅
@@Youcallthesebagels_ OBVIOUSLY, I didn't say Sunapee was better than Mt. Snow or Stratton, I said it was good if you wanted to experience a decent regional Southern NH 🏔️ that's close to Southern VT. Sunapee is just a bit easier to get to without the long drive up to the White Mountains; that's all.
I went racing here once during my college years with my ⛷️ team. As a downhill racing coach I have to say, Black Mountain was pretty cool. It wasn't as crowded as Sunday River or Saddleback which is where we'd usually USCSA race when we'd come up to Maine. The race course run was Upper/Lower Rapid, which was pretty standard, but completely navigable. We then spent the rest of the day recreationally ⛷️, and checking out the 🗻 (which actually reminded us a great deal of our team's "home mountain" Berkshire East down in Charlemont, MA) before driving down to Portland.
