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Skiing Mount Washington's Valley with Kevin Clarke: New England Terrain, History, and Four Mountains

  • John Morgan
  • Jan 28
  • 20 min read

Updated: Aug 6

North Conway, NH
North Conway, NH - the center of the action



When skiers talk about destinations in the Northeast, Mount Washington Valley belongs at the top of the list. Centered around the town of North Conway, New Hampshire, this compact region delivers something rare in modern skiing: four distinct ski areas — Attitash, Cranmore, Wildcat, and Black Mountain — all within about 15 minutes of town, each with its own personality, history, and terrain. There's a reason North Conway is listed by USA Today as the best ski town beating the likes of Jackson, Aspen, and Ketchum.


In this episode of Where to Ski, host John Morgan sits down with longtime local, ski coach, and World Pro Ski Tour announcer Kevin Clarke to unpack why Mount Washington Valley remains one of the most rewarding ski regions in New England.



Cranmore in 1930
Cranmore in 1930

Skiing in Mount Washington Valley dates back to the 1920s, when local farmers welcomed winter visitors to supplement their income. By the 1930s, investment followed — lifts, lodges, and ski schools transforming the valley into a Northeast hub.

One of the most influential figures in American skiing, Hannes Schneider, fled Austria during World War II and landed at Cranmore Mountain, where he ran the ski school and resort operations until his death in 1955. Schneider’s techniques helped shape modern ski instruction, making Cranmore a historic cornerstone of American skiing.


Attitash: A Modern Mountain with Old-School Roots

Attitash offers one of the most balanced ski experiences in the valley. Expanded years ago to include Bear Peak, the mountain now blends excellent beginner terrain, strong intermediate cruising, and legitimately challenging expert runs.

Advanced skiers gravitate to Illusion — an FIS-homologated race trail — and the steep, rolling pitch of Avenger, both on Bear Peak. Meanwhile, the Attitash base area features learning zones and progression terrain ideal for developing skiers. Recent infrastructure investments, including snowmaking upgrades and new lifts, have elevated Attitash into a reliable all-level destination.


Mt. Cranmore: Sun, History, and Community

Located right in downtown North Conway, Cranmore Mountain is known for its sunny exposure — locals joke it should be called “Tanmore.” With wide, forgiving trails and excellent race programs, Cranmore is especially friendly to families and intermediates.

The mountain’s modern upgrades contrast beautifully with its legacy, from historic photos of 1930s ski crowds to lively traditions like the Mountain Meister race series, where generations of former racers gather for competition, beers, and bragging rights.


Wildcat: Views, Vert, and New England Grit

If you want dramatic scenery and pure New England skiing, Wildcat Mountain delivers. Sitting directly across from Tuckerman Ravine, Wildcat boasts some of the most stunning views in the eastern United States.

With over 2,100 vertical feet per lap and a high-speed quad to the summit, Wildcat skis fast and hard. Its narrow, winding trails and cold temperatures help preserve snow, making it a favorite for spring skiing. Tree skiing and off-piste terrain shine after natural snowfalls — though Kevin warns that adventurous lines can come with core shots and consequences.


Black Mountain: Revival, Character, and Late-Season Energy

Once on the brink, Black Mountain has found new life under innovative ownership. With upgraded snowmaking, creative events, and a buzzing mid-mountain bar scene, Black Mountain has become a local favorite.

In recent seasons, the mountain has stayed open into May, concentrating snowmaking on key trails and creating a festive spring atmosphere complete with music, beach chairs, and après gatherings that feel distinctly New England.


Why

What makes Mount Washington Valley special isn’t just one mountain — it’s the density of choice. Skiers can chase sun at Cranmore, lap vertical at Wildcat, explore terrain variety at Attitash, and soak up character at Black Mountain, all without long drives.

Add in easy access from Boston, strong snowmaking, deep ski history, and a vibrant après scene in North Conway, and the valley offers one of the most complete ski experiences in the Northeast. North Conway offers more than just skiing. Charming shops, restaurants and bars, as well as multiple cozy hotels and B&Bs are scattered through this valley.


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Best Breakfast - Gemini Cafe & Bakery

Best Tune - Pro Tune



Episode Transcript

Welcome to Where to Ski. I'm John Morgan, your host. Today's episode takes us to New Hampshire in the Northeast US.

 

Grab your skis. Let's check out the Mount Washington Valley. You may have heard about Mount Washington.

 

It's over 6,200 feet, the biggest in the eastern US. Windy, snowy, and skiable really mostly in spring when hordes of people visit Tuckerman Ravine for that unique New England ritual of climbing up and skiing down in the sun. Right in the middle of the White Mountains, this area has attracted climbers and visitors since the 1800s and skiers since the 1920s.

 

We're going down the valley just a little bit to the town of North Conway to check out four ski areas that are all within spitting distance of this quaint town. Aditash, Cranmore, Wildcat, and Black Mountain. All are within like 15 minutes of town, and they all have their own unique personality and some real skiing.

 

Skiing started around here in the 1920s as a way for farmers to make some money in the winter. By the 1930s, these mom-and-pop skiers started attracting some visitors from Boston and New York, and these visitors prompted some investment in hotels, lifts, people, all contributing to building this out as sort of a megacenter. Mount Cranmore opened Skimobile in 1938.

 

In 1939, Hannes Schneider, the father of modern skiing for Austria's Aalburg, fled the Nazi regime and landed at Cranmore and ran the ski school and the resort until he died in 1955. Wildcat was just behind Cranmore, opening the first gondola in the U.S. in 1958. Black Mountain and Aditash are relative newcomers, but all four have history, charm, and skiing.

 

Why do skiers make the effort to come here? It's only a couple hours from Boston, so it's a long day trip, but not a bad drive. It's beautiful. There's lots of skiing, lots of charm, and lots of terrain to hit.

 

Today's guest is Kevin Clark. I've known Kevin for a long time. We met racing on the Pro Tour, grew up in New York, moved to Maine to be closer to skiing in the winter, and lives not far from North Conway.

 

Aside from his own skiing, Kevin's the on-hill and TV announcer for the World Pro Ski Tour. He also coaches on-hill every day at Aditash, and he also owns the Pro Tune in Glen, NH. So after a short break, we're going to talk to Kevin and find out about these areas and how they ski.

 

Kevin, welcome to Where to Ski. Thanks for joining us today. John, great to be here with you.

 

I've got 16 days under my belt this winter, so we've got a lot to talk about. Yeah, I'm sure we do. Now, let's talk a little bit about the area first.

 

This is really the Mount Washington Valley we're talking about. There's a lot of ski areas in that part of the world. You've got like four or five within 15 minutes of like North Conway.

 

Yeah, I moved here about, oh, going on 50 years ago now, just for that reason. You know, we have Mount Cranmore right downtown, which is, you know, so famous for Hannah Schneider and, you know, the program there. And then in the 60s, they developed Aditash, where it's my home out now.

 

And now Aditash and Wildcat are part of the Vale family. So our past gets you both of those mountains. So it's great for our race program to be able to choose where you want to ski in the weekends.

 

Yeah, what ski program are you working on? I'm with the Aditash Alpine Education Foundation, the Aditash race team. So fantastic little program. We've got about over 100 athletes now.

 

And I've been at Aditash since I moved here when I was 21, left for a little while to do some other ski related deals. I was with the Paralympic team for a long time. That was that was fun.

 

But I've been back here for about 10 years at Aditash. So just wrapped up four days of coaching, a couple of midweek days, Monday, Tuesday. We only had two U16 athletes, which was outstanding private coaching.

 

Nobody on the mountain. The snow was just perfect for race training. Oh, that's awesome.

 

That sounds like a blast. Yeah, it's you know, I look forward to it every day, going out with 14, 15 year old kids and teach them how to go fast. Super fun.

 

So what other mountains you got? Well, you've got Aditash. You've got Conway. You've got Cannon.

 

You've got Wildcat. And you've got Black Mountain, which has gone through, you know, rebirth with the folks up there. They've done a fantastic job of helping some of these small ski areas survive in New England.

 

And it's been a challenge. But everybody's excited about, you know, Black Mountain. And then I also have an Icon Pass.

 

So Sunday River is only 40 miles up the road from my house in Freiburg and also gets me Loon. And my closest ski area is Pleasant Mountain, formerly known as Shawnee Peak, which is in Bridgeton, Maine, right on Moose Pond. Beautiful view back towards Portland and off to the western region mountains in Maine.

 

So I've skied Sunday River, Aditash, Wildcat, Brenton Woods. Brenton Woods is only another 30 miles up the road from Aditash, not even that, 20 miles maybe, where all the folks from Mount Washington Valley, the over-70 club, like to go ski because it's groomed wall-to-wall, nice, gentle, wide-open slopes. We had a U.S. Ski and Snowboard Clinic up there two weeks ago, and the snow was always great up there.

 

And you got the goods this year. No one else has got the goods anywhere pretty much in the world except New England. So you got some snow going on.

 

Well, over Vermont, man, they got hammered early season. Jay Peak, Stowe, you know, right down the center of Vermont, picked up four or five feet of snow, which is absolutely unheard of in New England, you know, in early December. So, yeah, skiing's good.

 

All right. Let's start off, let's talk about Aditash for a minute. I haven't skied Aditash in like a long, long time.

 

What's it like skiing there? Is there good stuff for, you know, intermediates or is it advanced? What's, how would you do it? It's got a great mix of all. You know, Aditash started out with just Aditash Mountain. They expanded to Bear Peak many years ago, which opened up a lot of new, more challenging terrain.

 

We have an FIS homologated race hill illusion. But back over at Aditash, the learning center where I've spent a lot of time with our young athletes early season, honing their skills over in that learning center. And the progression quad is a lift that accesses that whole side of the mountain.

 

Thad's Choice, Spillway, Thad Thorne was, of course, the surveyor and one of the original owners of Aditash. And those folks were there when I first arrived back in 1977 and just steady improvements. We've had a lot of owners over the years, some good and bad.

 

And now we're under the watchful eye of the folks at Vail. We've improved the infrastructure, some new lifts, snowmaking has seen some increased capabilities. So it's a great all around mountain for all levels.

 

And of course, we got a great program. We just built a brand new team building, full on tuning room and lockers downstairs, giant open space upstairs for the kids to have lunch, coaches room, video room, you know, offices. And what great families we have in the Aditash Alpine Education Foundation.

 

Last week, we did our coaches breakfast and then we had our potluck supper and fun times where we link up the U8s with the U16s. They all get buddies. And it's such a fun night where those young kids get to meet the older kids.

 

And throughout the season, they'll be their buddies and they'll connect and, you know, give the young kids support throughout the year. So that's pretty cool. They help bring them along.

 

That's big. Yeah, it's been a part of the program for so many years. So and all these kids that are now U16s, most of these families have been with the program since the kids were U8s, which is under eight years old, U12s, 14s and 16s.

 

So they've all had buddies and now they are the big buddies. And, you know, our program is pretty, pretty cool that so many of these kids, once they go off, go to college, they end up coming back as junior coaches. So continue to build our coaching staff from within the athletes.

 

And then I'm the old dog on the hill. Experienced, experienced, experienced, seasoned, seasoned, well-seasoned, John. Well-seasoned.

 

So, okay, back to Attitash. If you were going to go take some runs there, you know, you're a good skier, what would you go hit at Attitash when you want to take some really good runs? Well, I'd go right to Bear Peak and ski Illusion or Avenger, which are, you know, really wide and got some great terrain. It rolls, it turns, there's off-camber.

 

There's some great challenges, you know, on Illusion, which is our fist homologated trails I mentioned earlier, then Avengers next to it, which is really super steep. Got some great rollers, good terrain again. You know, then you go off there, there's Wandering Skis, which is a more intermediate run off the summit of Bear Peak.

 

So they're just finishing off, getting that ready to groom out. Yesterday, watched the guys, you know, set the guns up and put down that man-made, which is so durable, so needed here. Yeah, that's okay though.

 

That's okay though. And how far is that from like North Conway? Like 10 minutes? Yeah, it's about 10 minutes. Any tricks on getting there or parking up there? No, there's plenty of parking, you know, both areas.

 

Attitas, you got the highway to cross, but we have a tunnel so you can get across the highway, but it's pretty convenient. You know, Bear Peak's got its own dedicated parking lot, which is within the other side of Route 16, Route 302, as it passes through Bartlett and on up towards Branton Woods. But yeah, things are, you know, two separate lodges.

 

They're about a mile apart. There's a shuttle that runs back and forth between two mountains, but they're interlinked, of course, so you can, you know, make your way between the two mountains. That sounds awesome.

 

So let's move on. Let's go to Cranmore. Cranmore has been there forever.

 

I think they started skiing there like in the 20s, right? Yeah, it was, geez, I think 20s or early 30s. I've got a cool poster of Cranmore. Not a poster, a black and white picture on my wall in my kitchen.

 

My wife found it at a yard sale of all places, and it's giant. It's probably, you know, three by four, giant, black and white, and it's an aerial shot, and it shows, you know, the parking lot and just throngs of skiers all over the hill, instructors on the bottom. It's a faraway shot from the air, black and white, all the old 1930s vehicles lined up around the parking lot.

 

So we say about Cranmore is Tanmore at Cranmore, because Tanmore has that beautiful exposure where the sun just bakes it all day long, and it's always a favorite when we go racing. Attitas, unfortunately, is in the shade early in the season, and it takes a while. You can find some sun, you know, as you move around the compass and move from Attitas to Bear Peak, but Cranmore you can be guaranteed of, you know, bright sunshine and, you know, bring your sunscreen.

 

They've got one high-speed quad to the top, so, you know, quick turnaround there and great race hill, great staff. What about the skiing? Is it more intermediate than some of the others? Yeah, Cranmore is much more intermediate. They have ledges and a middle trail, which have a little bit of a pitch for a while.

 

The new ownership there, the Fairbanks family have really put a ton of money into it, developing a brand-new base lodge, a bunch of condominiums right at the bottom of the mountain. They've been very controversial as you pull up, you don't see the mountain anymore, you know, you drive into the condos. They're very popular, great place for, you know, a new family, new to skiing, to get your feet wet or get your skis sliding.

 

There's actually a Marriott now off to the right side of the mountain as you approach it at Cranmore. Some really nice, beautiful big townhouses have been developed as you approach the ski area, but those guys have done fantastic things. Upgraded, you know, snowmaking, great programs, big Mountain Meister race series.

 

So every Wednesday, hundreds of old ski racers get together and battle it out for beers and bragging rights. Are these night races? It starts, you know, first thing in the morning and it goes under the lights. So the fast guys wait till nighttime to show up.

 

That's when the snow gets hard. That's when the snow gets hard and fast. Even Tyler Palmer gets out there and gets on the race hill.

 

My good friend Tyler. Take a couple runs, coos some gates, have a beer. There you go.

 

Into Zipp's pub, which has been so famous over the years. A gathering place for, you know, skiers after a day on the slopes. Yeah, that's cool.

 

You mentioned a little while ago that Hannes Schneider was there. You know, we talked about him on an episode in the Arlberg. He started off in St. Christoph at the school there and then came over, I think, right in the beginning of the war, World War II.

 

Yeah, with so many Austrians that came. I grew up in Pauling, New York, where I was blessed to learn to ski with Tony Matt. And Tony Matt was, you know, along with that wave of Austrians.

 

Tony was the guy that shushed the headwall at Tuckerman Ravine back in 1930s to set the record, which has never been beaten. And his son, Richie, and I grew up together. And Richie just got his dad inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for that feat, which was pretty cool.

 

I didn't know that. That is pretty cool. You've got to be some kind of crazy to take that in a tuck.

 

Well, it was a mistake. He missed his, you know, his checkup before he went over the headwall. And he was fully committed.

 

And it was game on then. They figure it was over 80 miles an hour over the headwall. And I can't remember what the record is, but it's, you know, seven minutes or something from top to bottom.

 

And it's like four miles down the Sherbourne Trail. And the conditions were just right that day. But a journalist named Lowell Thomas, you may remember Lowell Thomas.

 

I remember that name, yeah. So Lowell Thomas was instrumental in getting all those Austrians into the United States. He was a skier himself and spent a lot of time in Austria.

 

And he saw the need, you know, to get these guys some help and get them out of, you know, the war. And so Lowell had a rope tow on a piece of property he owned in town. And that's where they used to bring all the youth in our community to ski for free when we got some natural snow.

 

Had an old Model A pickup truck with wheels off the rim. And the rope went around the rim of the truck. Telephone poles for towers, Model A rims to guide the rope up the hill.

 

And there we would ski with Tony Matt as our ski instructor. And we didn't know anything about how famous Tony was. So it was pretty cool for me to be part of that.

 

And I didn't realize how significant he was in the history of, you know, the sport of skiing and racing until I moved to North Conway. And learned about his record rundown. Talked to him in a ravine.

 

Yeah, you talk about all these Austrians that came over. Some came over right at the beginning of World War II and trying to get out of Austria before the Anschluss. And then a lot right after World War II, when things were really tough in Austria, they came over to try and make money.

 

They really helped found a lot of the basis of skiing in the U.S., everywhere from Colorado all the way through New England mostly, and even like Montana and Wyoming. So when I got, when I left my hometown when I was 19, I had a great desire to chase my ski racing dream. And while I was at private school, we had one of my fellow teammates on the ski team, Scott Greenberg, whose family is AIG.

 

And Thanksgiving, our sophomore year or junior year, I think it was, we went to Stowe and stayed in the family house at Mansfield. And started skiing there on Thanksgiving with our ski team from Trinity Pauling School. Well, I knew right away that's exactly where I wanted to go when I was done with school, was to Stowe.

 

So I moved to Stowe and started working there when I was 19 years old. And I used his name as a reference to get a job. Well, I had, you know, the opportunity to choose whatever I wanted to do.

 

And I took a job as trail crew, scything National and Star and Goat, walking down the mountain with a scythe and a stone, sharpening that scythe and cutting down the blackberry bushes that would grow. The good old boys from Vermont would warn me, say, be careful, he says, make a lot of noise because the bears like to get in the blackberries. They'll run away.

 

That didn't take me long, but that's not the job I wanted. But anyhow, it was a great transition. I ended up being a houseman at the Lodge, which is that very last hotel as you drive up the, you know, the auto road or the road to get to the ski areas.

 

Well, part of my job was at night to deliver dinner to Sepp Rusch. Well, Sepp was part of that Austrian, you know, wave of instructors. Well, at the time he was retired from the ski school and his son Peter was the head of the ski school at Mount Mansfield.

 

So I used to deliver him dinner and he would love to tell stories. He was very excited that I was a ski racer and, you know, very passionate about the sport. So I sit there listening intently in his broken English.

 

So then I moved over here and, you know, learned even more about the rest of the Austrians with Schneider and Matt and so forth. Yeah, it's a pretty cool story the way that all played out. And I think we've all been hit by the Austrian influence somewhere in there.

 

All right. Let's keep going on the mountains around there. We digress.

 

Let's try Wildcat. You spent a lot of time there. I remember going to Wildcat and it being just blisteringly cold.

 

Oh, yeah. Wildcat's notorious. It sits right straight across from Tuckerman Ravine.

 

I've been doing a lot of posting on Facebook and Instagram, my pursuits this winter, you know, getting my days of skiing. And I've got some incredible videos of Tuckerman Ravine watching the snow fill in from the summit of Wildcat. I think top 10 views of any ski area here in the United States is from the summit of Wildcat.

 

When you're at the summit, you can look back towards North Conway, which is pretty cool. There's a little hollow that looks back towards the valley. And you can see Attitas from there.

 

You can't see Black Mountain from there. But, yeah, pretty cool mountain. Classic New England trails, narrow winding through the woods.

 

High speed quad to the summit. I think it's like six, seven minutes. Really? 2100 vertical each run.

 

You can get some real laps in there then. Yeah, 75 minutes last week, I knocked out six runs, which was like over a little over, you know, 12,000 vertical. Jeez.

 

So you can get after it there. Because it's cold, it holds the snow pretty well. It does.

 

It's classic spring skiing in New England. It stays open super late. And, you know, there's a thing called C-Lot.

 

So in the springtime, everybody goes to C-Lot, which is you got to go past the main parking lot, down around the back, and come in the back way to where they keep all the groomers and the, you know, snowmaking emanates from that area there. Big dirt parking lot out back there. Serious tailgating going on at C-Lot in the springtime at Wildcat when the snow is so soft and nice.

 

But, yeah, great skiing at the Cat. Where do you ski at Wildcat? You know, again, if you take off and go take some laps, where are you going? The Wildcat Trail links to Polecat is good. Tree skiing at Wildcat is really good, really good.

 

The glades off the backside. So if you're a guy that likes to get off-piste, once we get enough good natural snow, and they've been out in the woods already at Wildcat, getting some early powder in there was earlier in the season. And, unfortunately, that comes with consequences when you venture off-piste and core shots and destroyed skis.

 

Yeah, that's the chance you take when you do it. You know, it's sort of like you take your chances and that's it. Can you get stuck back there if you go take a wrong turn? And to possibly destroy.

 

Can you get stuck back there if you take a wrong turn? It kind of just leads down to, you know, a brook trail. It's off the backside. As you go down, I believe, links to Polecat, you drop in to the Burlingorum side of the mountain.

 

You come up out of Glen to get to Wildcat. You go by the AMC, famous hiking point. Of course, the Appalachian Trail going over top of the Presidential Range.

 

You got a lot going on up there. There's a lot to do. There's so much to do in the Mount Washington Valley.

 

So many great ski areas that are, you know, within, like you said, you know, 10, 15 miles of one another. So what are we missing? We're missing Black Mountain. Tell me about Black Mountain.

 

I haven't been there since our buddy Paul Lodi used to run that place. Oh, boy. Boy, now you're going way back.

 

Yeah, I know. I got the capability of doing that. Yeah, there's new ownership up there.

 

And the guy's last name escapes me, Eric, but he owns that Entenabi, the automatic ticket scanning system. And, you know, he's really done wonders for the place. He's got a super cool little mid-mountain, you know, bar-restaurant scene going on now.

 

So that has turned into the hot spot. And he went until May this year with skiing. So he just kept blasting this one trail off the summit.

 

And, of course, he goes right by that, you know, little mid-mountain, you know, bar situation there. And they've got beach chairs out and music blaring. And it's a super cool scene.

 

He's done all kinds of special events, you know, just bringing a lot of attention to the mountain. In so many different ways, parties and functions and cool things going on at the Black Mountain. You know, that was the shovel handle pub named after the lift that, you know, originally had a shovel handle as what you held on to when you went up the lift.

 

That beats tearing up your gloves. Right, the old classic rope toes, the old mittens, as we know, with the red linings and the extra padding across the hand. But, yeah, good things at Black Mountain.

 

The local folks are really excited about it. What's it like skiing there? What's good to ski there? You know, I'm not real familiar with the names of the trails. I don't spend a lot of time there.

 

But it's very much like a little miniature Wildcat, windy, twisty trails through the woods. Bunch of snowmaking upgrades and grooming. So, you know, that really gave them the ability to make this marketing statement stay open until May.

 

That's huge, especially, you know, in New England. I mean, it's really only been the Beast that does that. Yeah, and, you know, being as small as it is, you know, he was able to concentrate, you know, just a ton of snowmaking on that one trail to make it happen.

 

Everybody was up there. So where else are we missing here in the Mount Washington Valley? We've hit— Shawnee Peak. We didn't talk much about Shawnee.

 

Okay. Shawnee is now part of the Boeing Group. Yep.

 

And Steve Kircher picking up Pleasant Mountain has been outstanding. They just put a new high-speed quad in there and upgraded the snowmaking. And they opened last weekend.

 

So I jumped over there midweek and took a bunch of runs. And, you know, Shawnee Peak is the mecca for high school ski racing in Maine. So you go there on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday afternoon.

 

It's calm and quiet, 3 o'clock in the afternoon. There's, you know, not a lot of folks there midweek. And then the buses start to roll in.

 

There must be 20, 30 busloads of kids that show up at, like, you know, however long it takes you to get from Falmouth and Yarmouth and all the surrounding communities. Because it's the only place with night skiing, so it's where the Maine Principals Association and the athletics take place for our alpine ski racing. I used to coach the Freiburg Academy, so spent a lot of time on what used to be Shawnee Peak, now Pleasant Mountain.

 

And it overlooks Moose Pond and back towards the Western Mountains in Maine. Just spectacular views. And with their new snowmaking and upgraded lift, you know, I think it was like four minutes to the summit.

 

They've widened a lot of trails. You know, the snow was like it is at all the Boyne resorts, whether it's Sunday River or Sugarloaf or Loon here in the region. They just pound the snowmaking.

 

You know, those guys are leading the way, you know, in our region with snow cover. In my opinion, having skied Sunday River, they've got the most snow. I've been up to Sugarloaf yet this winter.

 

It's a bit of a truck from here. It's like 117 miles from door to door. Yeah, we'll leave that one alone.

 

Yeah. You know, that's one thing you mentioned, that the snowmaking and the snow farming in general, the snowmaking and the grooming in this area has gotten really good because they have to to be able to keep the snow in those light years. They've gotten really good at that.

 

Yes. These new groomers are so sophisticated now with their GPS technology to know what the actual elevation is under the snow cap so that while you're grooming, you're not blading too thin in some places and too much in others. And, you know, winch cats and just the technology that's been built into these things is amazing that, you know, they can keep surfaces.

 

I mean, we were really, you know, bumped out when it rained last week, of course. And it was just unbelievable when we went out, you know, the day after rain, I was expecting, you know, unskiable terrain, you know, moon type surface. But Attitash did a great job, as did everybody in the region where we've skied since then.

 

It's hard. You better have some sharp skis, but it's totally skiable. And, you know, no bare spots, no rocks coming through.

 

Hey, and you got more snow coming


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