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I'm skiing she's not, where to go in Vermont?
SSIA,
My GF has some healing to do and can't ski next weekend when we're visiting Vermont. I'm only going to get one day of skiing in, so I would prefer to find a place with a nice day lodge, maybe with internet access or some other niceties. Any suggestions? I haven't been to vermont in about 10 years so I'm not up to date with this sort of thing. Thanks in advance. R |
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I'm skiing she's not, where to go in Vermont?
Ray wrote:
SSIA, My GF has some healing to do and can't ski next weekend when we're visiting Vermont. I'm only going to get one day of skiing in, so I would prefer to find a place with a nice day lodge, maybe with internet access or some other niceties. Any suggestions? I haven't been to vermont in about 10 years so I'm not up to date with this sort of thing. Thanks in advance. R Even though I'm a Killington skier, I'd have to recommend Okemo or Stowe. Both of them have really neat villages at their base with lots to do. I'm not familiar enough with Stowe to know what the base lodges are like but Okemo has enough lodges with areas for someone to relax all day if necessary. Otherwise go to the nearby villages and look through the shops and have a nice lunch at a local restaurant. |
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I'm skiing she's not, where to go in Vermont?
If you go to Stowe (great skiing, nice village) be careful to check
directions to avoid seasonally closed roads. Don't blindly follow GPS. Depending on which direction you're coming from, GPSs often will attempt to take you through roads open only during the summer. "VtSkier" wrote in message ... Ray wrote: SSIA, My GF has some healing to do and can't ski next weekend when we're visiting Vermont. I'm only going to get one day of skiing in, so I would prefer to find a place with a nice day lodge, maybe with internet access or some other niceties. Any suggestions? I haven't been to vermont in about 10 years so I'm not up to date with this sort of thing. Thanks in advance. R Even though I'm a Killington skier, I'd have to recommend Okemo or Stowe. Both of them have really neat villages at their base with lots to do. I'm not familiar enough with Stowe to know what the base lodges are like but Okemo has enough lodges with areas for someone to relax all day if necessary. Otherwise go to the nearby villages and look through the shops and have a nice lunch at a local restaurant. |
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I'm skiing she's not, where to go in Vermont?
DZN wrote:
If you go to Stowe (great skiing, nice village) be careful to check directions to avoid seasonally closed roads. Don't blindly follow GPS. Depending on which direction you're coming from, GPSs often will attempt to take you through roads open only during the summer. There is nothing like a map. My house is somewhat on the edge of nowhere. If you plug in my address into a GPS (or mapquest for that matter) coming from due north of here, you will be brought down roads that are NEVER open. And yes Smuggler's Notch between Stowe and Jeffersonville IS only open in summer. But only that part known as Smuggler's Notch. Each end of that road are the access roads for each of the two ski areas on it. "VtSkier" wrote in message ... Ray wrote: SSIA, My GF has some healing to do and can't ski next weekend when we're visiting Vermont. I'm only going to get one day of skiing in, so I would prefer to find a place with a nice day lodge, maybe with internet access or some other niceties. Any suggestions? I haven't been to vermont in about 10 years so I'm not up to date with this sort of thing. Thanks in advance. R Even though I'm a Killington skier, I'd have to recommend Okemo or Stowe. Both of them have really neat villages at their base with lots to do. I'm not familiar enough with Stowe to know what the base lodges are like but Okemo has enough lodges with areas for someone to relax all day if necessary. Otherwise go to the nearby villages and look through the shops and have a nice lunch at a local restaurant. |
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I'm skiing she's not, where to go in Vermont?
On Jan 13, 8:56*am, VtSkier wrote:
DZN wrote: If you go to Stowe (great skiing, nice village) be careful to check directions to avoid seasonally closed roads. * Don't blindly follow GPS. Depending on which direction you're coming from, GPSs often will attempt to take you through roads open only during the summer. There is nothing like a map. My house is somewhat on the edge of nowhere. If you plug in my address into a GPS (or mapquest for that matter) coming from due north of here, you will be brought down roads that are NEVER open. And yes Smuggler's Notch between Stowe and Jeffersonville IS only open in summer. But only that part known as Smuggler's Notch. Each end of that road are the access roads for each of the two ski areas on it. "VtSkier" wrote in message ... Ray wrote: SSIA, My GF has some healing to do and can't ski next weekend when we're visiting Vermont. I'm only going to get one day of skiing in, so I would prefer to find a place with a nice day lodge, maybe with internet access or some other niceties. Any suggestions? I haven't been to vermont in about 10 years so I'm not up to date with this sort of thing. Thanks in advance. R Even though I'm a Killington skier, I'd have to recommend Okemo or Stowe. Both of them have really neat villages at their base with lots to do. I'm not familiar enough with Stowe to know what the base lodges are like but Okemo has enough lodges with areas for someone to relax all day if necessary. Otherwise go to the nearby villages and look through the shops and have a nice lunch at a local restaurant.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think Stowe is a little too far North for a day trip, we're starting out in Saratoga NY (We're dropping her daughter off at school) so I am going to take a look at Okemo because that's more central/southern. Thanks for the tip. Oh, and I totally to not trust GPS / Mapquest without I look at a map first. I like maps they seem much more reliable. |
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I'm skiing she's not, where to go in Vermont?
Ray wrote:
On Jan 13, 8:56 am, VtSkier wrote: DZN wrote: If you go to Stowe (great skiing, nice village) be careful to check directions to avoid seasonally closed roads. Don't blindly follow GPS. Depending on which direction you're coming from, GPSs often will attempt to take you through roads open only during the summer. There is nothing like a map. My house is somewhat on the edge of nowhere. If you plug in my address into a GPS (or mapquest for that matter) coming from due north of here, you will be brought down roads that are NEVER open. And yes Smuggler's Notch between Stowe and Jeffersonville IS only open in summer. But only that part known as Smuggler's Notch. Each end of that road are the access roads for each of the two ski areas on it. "VtSkier" wrote in message ... Ray wrote: SSIA, My GF has some healing to do and can't ski next weekend when we're visiting Vermont. I'm only going to get one day of skiing in, so I would prefer to find a place with a nice day lodge, maybe with internet access or some other niceties. Any suggestions? I haven't been to vermont in about 10 years so I'm not up to date with this sort of thing. Thanks in advance. R Even though I'm a Killington skier, I'd have to recommend Okemo or Stowe. Both of them have really neat villages at their base with lots to do. I'm not familiar enough with Stowe to know what the base lodges are like but Okemo has enough lodges with areas for someone to relax all day if necessary. Otherwise go to the nearby villages and look through the shops and have a nice lunch at a local restaurant.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think Stowe is a little too far North for a day trip, we're starting out in Saratoga NY (We're dropping her daughter off at school) so I am going to take a look at Okemo because that's more central/southern. Thanks for the tip. Oh, and I totally to not trust GPS / Mapquest without I look at a map first. I like maps they seem much more reliable. Okemo is on the order of 2 hours from Saratoga (Springs), at least that's what I figure when driving from just east of Killington to my brother-in-law's house near Syracuse. We stop at the Starbucks there for 'refreshement'. Take the Northway (87 north) to the Lake George/Rte 149 exit. Take Rte 149 east to Ft. Anne, pick up US4 (east or north, I'm not sure) and stay on it all the way to Rutland, It becomes a divided highway at the VT border. In (really south of) Rutland, take US7 south to VT103 (also south) which takes you neatly into Ludlow. Don't be confused by the 'south' listing on 103, It's really going east. I'm sure there is a way to come directly east from Saratoga to Arlington, then up US7 to Manchester, then VT11 to Londonderry and VT100 to Ludlow. But what I described will be the fastest with the least hassle. |
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I'm skiing she's not, where to go in Vermont?
On Jan 13, 12:43*pm, VtSkier wrote:
Ray wrote: On Jan 13, 8:56 am, VtSkier wrote: DZN wrote: If you go to Stowe (great skiing, nice village) be careful to check directions to avoid seasonally closed roads. * Don't blindly follow GPS. Depending on which direction you're coming from, GPSs often will attempt to take you through roads open only during the summer. There is nothing like a map. My house is somewhat on the edge of nowhere. If you plug in my address into a GPS (or mapquest for that matter) coming from due north of here, you will be brought down roads that are NEVER open. And yes Smuggler's Notch between Stowe and Jeffersonville IS only open in summer. But only that part known as Smuggler's Notch. Each end of that road are the access roads for each of the two ski areas on it. "VtSkier" wrote in message ... Ray wrote: SSIA, My GF has some healing to do and can't ski next weekend when we're visiting Vermont. I'm only going to get one day of skiing in, so I would prefer to find a place with a nice day lodge, maybe with internet access or some other niceties. Any suggestions? I haven't been to vermont in about 10 years so I'm not up to date with this sort of thing. Thanks in advance. R Even though I'm a Killington skier, I'd have to recommend Okemo or Stowe. Both of them have really neat villages at their base with lots to do. I'm not familiar enough with Stowe to know what the base lodges are like but Okemo has enough lodges with areas for someone to relax all day if necessary. Otherwise go to the nearby villages and look through the shops and have a nice lunch at a local restaurant.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think Stowe is a little too far North for a day trip, we're starting out in Saratoga NY (We're dropping her daughter off at school) so I am going to take a look at Okemo because that's more central/southern. Thanks for the tip. Oh, and I totally to not trust GPS / Mapquest without I look at a map first. I like maps they seem much more reliable. Okemo is on the order of 2 hours from Saratoga (Springs), at least that's what I figure when driving from just east of Killington to my brother-in-law's house near Syracuse. We stop at the Starbucks there for 'refreshement'. Take the Northway (87 north) to the Lake George/Rte 149 exit. Take Rte 149 east to Ft. Anne, pick up US4 (east or north, I'm not sure) and stay on it all the way to Rutland, It becomes a divided highway at the VT border. In (really south of) Rutland, take US7 south to VT103 (also south) which takes you neatly into Ludlow. Don't be confused by the 'south' listing on 103, It's really going east. I'm sure there is a way to come directly east from Saratoga to Arlington, then up US7 to Manchester, then VT11 to Londonderry and VT100 to Ludlow. But what I described will be the fastest with the least hassle.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - As it turned out we had snow on Sunday, this made the trip a little slower so we got as far as Rutland and I decided I needed to be skiing sooner rather than later. So I changed plans, we went to Pico. Great skiing, no lift lines and it was cheaper than I expected. Now the only problem I have is, how do you pronounce Pico? I need to tell people about this place and I don't know if it's Pike-Oh or Peek- Oh. |
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I'm skiing she's not, where to go in Vermont?
Ray wrote:
Now the only problem I have is, how do you pronounce Pico? I need to tell people about this place and I don't know if it's Pike-Oh or Peek- Oh. It's spelled P-I-C-O, but it's pronounced "Throat-warbler mangrove." HTH HAND. //Walt |
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I'm skiing she's not, where to go in Vermont?
Ray wrote:
On Jan 13, 12:43 pm, VtSkier wrote: Ray wrote: On Jan 13, 8:56 am, VtSkier wrote: DZN wrote: If you go to Stowe (great skiing, nice village) be careful to check directions to avoid seasonally closed roads. Don't blindly follow GPS. Depending on which direction you're coming from, GPSs often will attempt to take you through roads open only during the summer. There is nothing like a map. My house is somewhat on the edge of nowhere. If you plug in my address into a GPS (or mapquest for that matter) coming from due north of here, you will be brought down roads that are NEVER open. And yes Smuggler's Notch between Stowe and Jeffersonville IS only open in summer. But only that part known as Smuggler's Notch. Each end of that road are the access roads for each of the two ski areas on it. "VtSkier" wrote in message ... Ray wrote: SSIA, My GF has some healing to do and can't ski next weekend when we're visiting Vermont. I'm only going to get one day of skiing in, so I would prefer to find a place with a nice day lodge, maybe with internet access or some other niceties. Any suggestions? I haven't been to vermont in about 10 years so I'm not up to date with this sort of thing. Thanks in advance. R Even though I'm a Killington skier, I'd have to recommend Okemo or Stowe. Both of them have really neat villages at their base with lots to do. I'm not familiar enough with Stowe to know what the base lodges are like but Okemo has enough lodges with areas for someone to relax all day if necessary. Otherwise go to the nearby villages and look through the shops and have a nice lunch at a local restaurant.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think Stowe is a little too far North for a day trip, we're starting out in Saratoga NY (We're dropping her daughter off at school) so I am going to take a look at Okemo because that's more central/southern. Thanks for the tip. Oh, and I totally to not trust GPS / Mapquest without I look at a map first. I like maps they seem much more reliable. Okemo is on the order of 2 hours from Saratoga (Springs), at least that's what I figure when driving from just east of Killington to my brother-in-law's house near Syracuse. We stop at the Starbucks there for 'refreshement'. Take the Northway (87 north) to the Lake George/Rte 149 exit. Take Rte 149 east to Ft. Anne, pick up US4 (east or north, I'm not sure) and stay on it all the way to Rutland, It becomes a divided highway at the VT border. In (really south of) Rutland, take US7 south to VT103 (also south) which takes you neatly into Ludlow. Don't be confused by the 'south' listing on 103, It's really going east. I'm sure there is a way to come directly east from Saratoga to Arlington, then up US7 to Manchester, then VT11 to Londonderry and VT100 to Ludlow. But what I described will be the fastest with the least hassle.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - As it turned out we had snow on Sunday, this made the trip a little slower so we got as far as Rutland and I decided I needed to be skiing sooner rather than later. So I changed plans, we went to Pico. Great skiing, no lift lines and it was cheaper than I expected. Now the only problem I have is, how do you pronounce Pico? I need to tell people about this place and I don't know if it's Pike-Oh or Peek- Oh. Glad you enjoyed one of my favorites. It's "Pike-Oh" or maybe "Pie-Koh" And yes, from Rutland Pico is less than half the distance to Okemo, Maybe 7 or 8 miles versus 22 or so. |
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