So, as the 23/24 season starts wrapping up (got 1 more weekend planned then a monthly visit to the "Big Ramp" in the Meadowlands - another subject, another day) I'm at a very interesting time in my skiing life. Our plans for the future have us spending our winters out in Colorado where we have purchased a condo in ski country. However, that is not going to take place till the 25/26 season. So I have 1 more season based here in the Northeast and I've started thinking about how to spend it and make it a little special.
Born and raised in Northern New Jersey, I was lucky enough to have a father that was into the sport and introduced me to skiing. Living in the NY area has had its advantages and one of them is Northern New England ski country is a reasonable drive and Vermont and New Hampshire became my play ground. I later went to school and then College up in New Hampshire, so I have skied all of the major resorts (exception N Maine) and most of the small/medium size mountains, not just once, but multiple times. So I definitely have Northeast Skiing in my blood.
This has been brought on by having spent the last weekend up in NNE skiing, having fun and stirring up memories, but also other things as well. Being the ski nut I was as a child, I have quite the collection of old ski area brochures that I got a ski shows, ski shops etc. I recently stumbled upon the box I have them stored in and of course had to take a look which gave me an kind of bucket list idea..
One of the brochures I found is back from 1972-73 and features 5 ski areas under the umbrella of the name SKI 93.
The White Mountains of New Hampshire are some of the most beautiful mountains in the East, however, life for these ski areas has not always been easy. Vermont's Green Mountains have the benefit of more natural snow but still in a decent winter they get good snow. 3 of the areas have been very successful but 2 of the five have had to cease operations at some point of their lives. But thanks to the State of New Hampshire and other investors they are all operational again and so for a quasi bucket list item and god willing with decent snow I going to look into a good old time visit to the old Ski 93 and try to bag all 5.
. Spend a winter skiing somewhere in central Europe. (Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, Hungary. e.g.). I'd settle for a few more years of continued improvement and a few other NE larger areas. Hope the knees hold out.
