Whitetail Mountain

[momskeeztoo]

I’m heading out that way this week, and thought we would give it a try. Anyone ever been? I did notice they have some high speed lifts. 

[saltyant]

Ive never skied at White Tail

[saltyant]

Maybe @Ski2Live Live2Ski has a $5 coupon off White Tail for MomSkiz2??

[momskeeztoo]

I got a 3 day Epic NE pass. 

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

Whitetail is pretty nice - been there 4x. Modern facilities and terrain is segregated by level of difficulty, with less crowds in expert area

But it does get crowded on prime weekends and holidays

Nice place to go for warmer weather turns when it is frigid elsewhere but southern exposure slope does not make for a long season

[momskeeztoo]

It’s supposed to be cold Thursday, so I think conditions will be good. Midweek so hoping not too crowded.

[Icecoast]

I went to whitetail the year before it was sold to vail (RIP peaks). It was cold for weeks leading up to my visit and with peak resorts snowmaking efforts, conditions were some of the best I’ve ridden in PA. That being said, I’ve heard rumors that vail does not use snowmax in their water like peaks did, so they make a wetter denser product now. Not sure if true or not, but having ridden hunter pre and post vail, I can say the snow is definitely worse under vail.

The mountain layout is really genius. The trail map makes it look kind of boring, but even though the trails are straight down the fall line, there is some really fun character to them. The blues are steeper than most blues elsewhere, which is really fun. I really enjoyed my day there. 

the only downside I can see is if anyone your going with is a park rider. Like what vail did to boulder, they did to whitetail. They removed the park lift, and moved the park over to this super tiny side trail with room for like 2 features. This move isn’t shown on their map yet, but its happened.

I posted a trip report from back then

 

[momskeeztoo]

Thanks for the info. I’m going with someone who rode strictly park for years. Now kinda aged out, and has skis with edges now. 😂

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

52 minutes ago, momskeeztoo said:

Thanks for the info. I’m going with someone who rode strictly park for years. Now kinda aged out, and has skis with edges now. 😂

Reminds me I need to get my skis tuned up…the other day was doing the Tokyo drift a few times in the corners..but the park rats with detuned edges just do a shimmy shuffle skid straightline which half of us do on an average day at blue.  
 

have fun with your son at whitetail and post a report. I’ve never visited but intrigued as it’s one of the newer ski areas in the country