Gunstock Mountain Resort (The final GTNS post!)

Gunstock Mountain Resort. My home mountain, where I work, where I spend most of my time in the winter, where I essentially learned to ski. Here is my GTNS entry for my home mountain.

Tuckerman Ravine

Tuckerman Ravine - A right of passage for the East Coast Skier

Bolton Valley

Welcome to part two of my 3 day adventure into northern Vermont! Bolton Valley!

Mad River Glen

Mad River Glen - Why so Mad?

Jay Peak - 3/2/14

Jay Peak - Still my favorite mountain.

Wildcat Mountain - 2/17/14

 Wildcat Mountain - Meow with even more wind!

Smugglers' Notch - 2/12/14

Smugglers's Notch - The east coasts only triple black diamond.

Burke Mountain

Burke Mountain - A pleasant surprise.

Summit of Burke

Mount Snow with Ian Compton - 2/7/14

Mount Snow with Ian Compton!

A sure sign of a good day to come

Killington - The Beast of the East - 2/5/14

Killington - The Beast of the East - 2/5/14

First tracks on an (East Coast) powder day.

Sunday River - 2/2/14

Sunday River on Superbowl Sunday, because skiing is better than football!

Cranmore & Attitash - 1/26/14

Time for another double feature, this time with bigger mountains! Cranmore and Attitash back to back!

Mt. Washington from Cranmore.

Mt. Washington from Attitash .

Okemo - 1/22/14

Ever wonder what is was like to be on Hoth, from Star Wars? Well I think I know after skiing Okemo Mountain this week.

Okemo's Summit

A wonderful little winding trail at Okemo.

Loon Mountain Revisited - NEWSCHOOLERS MEETUP - 1/18/14

This weekend was special, this weekend was the Newschoolers meet at Loon Mountain Resort!

Banner credit - Newschoolers.com

Pat's Peak - 1/15/14

Time to hit up another mountain, this time not all alone like usual. Its Pat's Peak!

Best view on the mountain. Pat's Peak.

The Lodge at Pat's Peak. 

Stratton - 1/5/14

Now that the new year is upon us, its time to really kick this tour of New England up a notch! New mountains every Wednesday and Sunday! Lets start off with something pretty big, Stratton Mountain Resort!

Summit of Stratton

Summit of Stratton

Crotched Mountain - 12/15/13

Welcome to the first 'real' entry in my Grand Tour! No more super early season stuff! A mountain that is totally open! Crotched Mountain.

Loon Mountain - Early Season Visit

Time to knock another mountain off the list, early season style!

Golden snow showers, facing east, late afternoon at Loon Mountain. 

Surprise update! I got another day of early season runs in on Tuesday (11/19/13). I was not exactly planning on hitting up any other mountains until after Gunstock opens (on Dec 6th, if anyone is wondering), but Loon Mountain was offering 29 dollar lift tickets, and I just so happened to have nothing to do, so I figured what the hell. Again, I do feel like I am cheating a little bit, but I have been to Loon many times, and I know that its one of Newschoolers favorite locations, so it will get plenty of coverage anyway from other people later on in the season

Opening Day - Bretton Woods!

Welcome to the first mountain post/review!

This past weekend (11/9/13), my season began! Bretton Woods was the first mountain to both open within a reasonable driving distance to me, and have a reasonable price for such early season conditions. They were celebrating their 40th anniversary so a ticket was about 20 dollars. I will admit, I do feel I am kind of cheating on my list here, counting this as my visit to Bretton Woods, but considering how tight I am on time to get everything done, I am going to count it. If I have a chance, I will return here, but seeing as I visited it late last season, I think we will be alright.

The Grand Tour of New England Skiing!

The Grand Tour of New England Skiing!

Whats up Internet?

I would like to introduce everyone to my version of the Grand Tour of New England Skiing (GTNS). I will be (hopefully) hitting 30 of New England's biggest ski resorts, in a single season. This all started as just something I was going to do this winter. I figure this will likely be the last season I have before I have a real, full time job, so I might as well abuse my ski-instructor reciprocity privileges I get from being a full time ski-instructor. I have never been to many of the mountains in ME or VT, and being able to say I did everything 'major' in New England in one season seems like something I want to say I did in my life. Doing it for close to free is even better!