$19 reduced down to ten dollars
 

Hey, here's a price reduction for cross country skiing at Waterville Valley. The www.waterville.com 75 kilometers of groomed-double tracked cross country ski trails price has been reduced down from nineteen to ten dollars on the weekdays for the rest of the season. Saturday-Sunday continues to cost $19. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday now costs ten dollars.

Today, Wednesday March 9 is a big manufactorers demo day at WV cross country.

So.......where have all the cross country skiers gone.....what happened.....has everyone switched over to playing 'go fish' and checkers, and wearing depenz:laugh:?

It sure seems like the number of people out using the cross country trails at WV have become an endangered species because it is pretty much a standard operating procedure for the xc trails to be very underused and empty of skiers and the 75-k trail system is still a terrific facility.

O.....where have all the cross country skiers gone.....long time passing.....where have all the cross country skiers gone ....from long ago...seems like it was just yesterday that all the trails were so full....but that was yesterday....and yesterday is gone.....so where have all the cross country skiers gone....anybody know?:D:confused::)

Waterville's alpine tickets are now $25 on Wednesday and Thursday.

Wildcat has $35 Fridays in March, also $17 on the 17th, St Patrick's Day.
:cheers::cheers:

Just a reminder
Wildcat has $17 ticket for tomorrow! Good conditions, 100% open along with good weather forecast for tomorrow. Perhaps a little more snow today! Friday will have $35 tickets also.

One Buck - No Fool'n!
 

Just one dollar to go skiing today at WV, and a lot of people are showing up, mostly snowboarders, snow storm or no snow storm; probably local kids who had their school day cancelled. It just started snowing at about 6-am so there hasn't been very much snow yet and with a temp of 30, who knows what's gonna happen; rain, snow, or a wintry precipitate mix. It's not too late to grab that board and go hit the mountain for just one buck! Tomorrow, Saturday, the same WV ride will cost you $69 plus the mountain will probably get mobbed with wealthy Bostonians arriving in their BMW's and Range Rover's who think it's perfectly ok to ski right over your skis while in the lift line.....good grief!

Wv
 

Temperature tuesdays :)

Cannon Mountain is "Two-Fer" for the rest of the season. $67 for two tickets till April 17'th, or $33.50 a piece. Just yell "single" when in the ticket line if there yourself.
http://www.cannonmt.com/snowreport.html

Just one dollar to ski the mountain on Friday, April 8 @ www.waterville.com!

Sunday, April 10 is probably the last day of the season. There's lots and lots of snow still on the trails and especially on the snowboard fun-run on Exhibition Trail but the ski season just seems to run out of paying customers way before it runs out of snow on the trails. It snowed here about 2-4" on Monday, April 4, before changing over to rain and turning into a slushy yucky mess.

One dollar - wv - friday
 

This is such a bargain deal that it's worth repeating it......just one dollar to ski the entire mountain....Friday, April 8, at www.waterville.com.

Monday and Tuesday saw about 4 inches of new snow and the ski area has lots of snow still on a lot of trails.


Could be the best one dollar bargain you ever spent.....unless you break your leg or something....which would not be a good thing....but considering the weather forcast it should be getting a big turnout of snow, ski & sun worshippers!:coolsm::):coolsm:

Belknap County Deal and Lodging
 

I was going to bring up the Belknap county discount, but it looks like everyone beat me to the punch. It is a great deal for Gunstock tickets though, especially if you buy them super early.

If you have any friends or family that visit from time to time and want to ski with you I know that Steele Hill offers some serious ski and stay packages and they are a great choice for Gunstock lodging.

Yup,they beat you by at least a year and a half.:laugh:

Gunstock Belknap Tuesdays
 

Does anyone know what Gunstock requires for proof of residency? I am a Florida resident but own property in Laconia. If I show my tax bill will that work? TIA.

I am almost certain that Gunstock eliminated the discount passes for Belknap County taxpayers. When they did offer the discount, all that was needed was a copy of a tax bill from a town in Belknap County. There was no residency requirement, only a requirement to be a taxpayer. But again, I don't think they offer it any more.

They still show the Tuesday discount that was asked about:
http://www.gunstock.com/winter/tickets/

The former season pass discount for residents is no longer offered except for age 70+.

Suggest a call to Gunstock to get an official answer as to what proof is required.

www.liftopia.com .... has anyone here purchased a discounted, one day NH ski lift ticket through liftopia and were you happy with this service? Apparently, you pay online at least one day in advance at a deep discount, and then pick up your lift ticket at the ski area ticket window on the specified day ..... does this seem illogical or something....but then again like who cares....if it works, then it works?

ski discount websites
 

Liftopia is popular in the Rockies. The site been around for years. I have yet to use it when I ski on the east coast.

Skinh.com is another website that will post discounts. You can also check the resorts websites as well as chamber of commerce websites for additional discounts. I never pay full price!

It is actually cheaper for me to ski out West, the mountains are huge and with discount tickets, you get more bang for the buck.

I use to ski Gunstock since I was four. When they did away with the residence pass and jack the prices sky high, the mountain itself went from awesome experience to a bunny slope. You don't see to many regulars from years ago ski there. Bill promise us the moon and exciting things will happen. All I see was a 3 million dollar expansion of the beginner's quad and a zip line that does not turn me on. If they can bring back Fletcher Hale and the Precipice, maybe I will come back. Wildcat and Cannon remind me of Gunstock of the past. Today the only Gunstock rival is Bretton Woods as King of the bunny slopes.

Ragged Mountain has better value. Even Gunstock competitor for the Boston market, Wachusetts is a better value.

Bretton Woods $12 on 12/12/12
 

If you like chilly skiing on 15 trails of loose granular, Bretton Woods has a $12 special on 12/12/12 (tomorrow). http://brettonwoods.com/specials/spe...ffers#12121212

I use Liftopia frequently. I've purchased tickets for Sunapee, Gunstock, Waterville and Cranmore in the past 2 years. No issues.

Liftopia is totally legit FLL.

It works if you know you are going that day. They are not transferable to someone else and you cannot get a refund. Just something to keep in mind.

Sorry for being late and changing subject
 

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www.realconditions.com has some big internet discounts for Waterville Valley and other NH areas......anyone here ever use realconditions.com?

I have used it once for Wildcat. Skied on a Sunday for $27.99!

$20 - Ski WV - Tuesday, Jan 8
 

Could be a big turn-out day at Waterville what with some pretty decent conditions and some 31-high & partly cloudy Tuesday predictions; $20- ski WV, Tuesday-January 8, 2013, 9am - 4pm, www.waterville.com


Must be some other similar deals up at Cannon & Wildcat or somewhere? Cannon and Wildcat are mountains, while Waterville is pretty much just a big intermediate hill and at twenty dollars is not a bad deal. Reg price would be $63, except there's probably almost nobody who actually pays the full daily rate what with all the different deals out there..... ?

If anyone reading this has ever actually paid the full $63 price and is not a foreign ski-tourist from China or Venezuela or Massachusetts or some foreign country, then they must be too rich to know or care?

WV-ten dollars-Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013
 

....ski today at www.waterville.com all lifts, all-day for just ten dollars....10-dollars is the minimum price.....weather prediction says 5-degrees(?) ......... "temperature tuesday's"....Tuesday el cheapo promo day from now till end of season excluding the February vacation Tuesday, February 19 ($73.00).....maybe they should be paying people just to show up?:rolleye2:


....say hey.....maybe I can ski all day for ten bucks and then get a refund at the end of the day for the Saturday price of $73 due to it being a little cold in this first week of February or something like that........like (D)uh!:idea:

A lot of ski areas do have the FLL deal where you can ski for the first hour and get a ticket for another day for any reason.

Waterville Valley, NH - Yesterday's March 12 rainstorm closed about 25% of the trails for the rest of the season with the trail count going from 52 open trails down to 38.

Will the ski area go spend the big money and build a new chairlift and trails on the neighboring Green Peak area? Who knows but maybe those deep money connections of the Sununu's will go and get it done this year? The last trails addition was the Sunnyside Slopes in 1972 so for the last 40-years, building out the Green Peak has just been a lot of talk. So, will the big money be talking this construction year?

WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. —The White Mountain National Forest is expected to release a decision in April on a major expansion of Waterville Valley ski area
It would be the first such expansion of the resort's terrain in 25 years.
Waterville Valley's Green Peak Expansion Project would increase beginner and intermediate terrain and glade skiing lower down the mountain along the driver's left of the access road and mean a new detachable quad chair connecting in the area near the Sunnyside Triple.
It would occur entirely on lands designated in the 750,000-acre forest's essential master plan, or its current "Forest Plan" for use as an alpine ski area, according to the Scoping Report prepared by the Forest Service's Eastern Region Winter Sports Team.
It's expected implementation date is June 2013.
The project was identified in the previously-approved master development plan of 1999.
Owned by Waterville Valley Holdings, LLC, Executive Councilor Chris Sununu and the Sununu family hold a majority share of the group, which purchased it a little more than two years ago from Booth Creek of California.
Last year was a particularly poor snow winter but this year is looking up.
The ski area operates under a special use permit of the forest which authorizes 3,010 acres, including Mount Tecumseh for alpine skiing and has another 2,154 permitted acres for Nordic skiing and mountain biking terrain.
The current special use permit for the ski area at Waterville Valley expires in 2050.



Read more: http://www.wmur.com/escape-outside/M...#ixzz2NRLyD5h9

....well, the ice went out of the lake yesterday, but it is still a little cold to be working on your dock and boat ...... so.........say-hey......the www.waterville.com just got about one to two inches of icy snow last night, and it is about 33-degrees now......last two days of the season.....ski today for 43-dollars, on-line price, ....and probably for less on tomorrow, Sunday!

Bretton Woods
 

$29 for the rest of this season. Patriots Day is $17.76 plus a voucher for a free ticket good for the rest of the year. You can use it next season before Dec 31.

At Gunstock, is there a season pass, super low price deal for 60+ year old skiers, or for residents of Belknap County for 2014-2015? Like, what's the locals deal at Gunstock that doesn't get shown in their website?

Gunstock doesn't offer that . . .
 

any longer. There is a Sr discount, and free for those over a certain age or real minimum. There are no deals for the Belknap residents any more who put up the bond money for the wonderful zip line. Best deal is to purchase is in April, $429 (up from the previous years). Worth it if you ride/ski more than 10 times a year. Two'fer deals on Monday's, at least they have in the past.

I smell snow. ❄ ❄ ❄

...boo-hoo....that's too bad... I was thinking about joining the Gilford Hills Tennis club plus skiing Gunstock too and doing both tennis and skiing this winter but without the super Belknap County discount.....anymore ....it is totally out of the question! U-know if people want to go zip-lining why don't they get serious about it and just go sky-diving from a plane which doesn't require all those very expensive towers and cables running up and down the mountain ... for just a 60-second slide down the cable?

...so does that mean the Belknap County "local's" price has gone from $129 to $429 for residents to ski Gunstock on weekdays and Sunday....holidays excluded...or something....not too good?

...will have to stay cross country skiing on the five or so free miles of U.S. Forest Service multiple use trails that start at the Depot Camp parking lot in Waterville Valley, and shovel the snow off the public tennis courts for tennis. The trail leading up to Greeley Ponds got a serious rebuild this summer and is now basically a sand and gravel road so smooth and even, that it could be driv'n in a 1952 Buick ... except for the steel gate there.... yikes


....tennis raquets and skis....both made by Head.....wonder if they make a Swiss Army version of the "Head tennis-ski" ..... www.head.com ..... that can be used for both sports...on the cheap....something like an el cheapo showshoe design usable for both skiing the mountain, and wacking a tennis ball around the court .... hmmmmm? .... what-a-concept .... and then go hit the freebie public town courts and the freebie federal public trails...hopefully it makes a SCHUSS sound when it smacks a tennis ball.....SCHUSS.....made in Switzerland.....dont'a-u-know-it......yodell!

Gunstock Discounts
 

Misha888 & Fatlazyless....

According to the Gunstpock website, they're stil offering Belknap County Club Tuesday: $25 Prime Time lift tickets for Belknap County Residents. Proof of residency is required.
http://www.gunstock.com/winter/ticke....GErNjCOh.dpuf

See bottom of page under title: Ticket Specials and Deals:

I checked the site today, and this is still referencing the 2014-2015 season ! :)
States 'Rates are valid through April 2015' !

Unless of course, they haven't updated their website with changes?

Bigdog

Great if you are retired or have a seasonal business. So don't expect this deal to bust the gates.

The price for NASTAR racing has also gone up! In the past racers use to get a good discount for night skiing. It got to the point it is actually cheaper for us weekday warriors to head to Pat's Peak. Speaking of Pat's Peak, they have tons of discounts to put Gunstock to bed. So does Gunstock rival for the Boston, Conn. and RI markets, Wa Wa Wachusetts!

I think it would be fair to say that Gunstock -- given its size/terrain -- indeed competes with Wachusett as well as Nashoba Valley for weekend business. Anyone living along the 495 belt could easily choose amongst the three for that caliber mountain/ terrain -- given ones location they are all between 1 to 2 hours drive. I think equally importantly, all three probably survive off night skiing, which requires a more local clientele (under an hours drive?).




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Wachusetts
 

Actually got the college crowd from Worcester and Fitchburg. Night skiing is as busy if not busier than day skiing. The racing trail is definitely more challenging than what Gunrock has to offer. They hosted the professional women tour for years! Every year the mountain hosted the PSIA instructor training course with instructors from all over the world! Every 10 years I actually attend to keep up with the latest and greatest skiing as well as instructions. Wachusetts racing program is second to none. Many of the NASTAR top guns from New England graduate from the program. Many of the top racers on the masters program as well as the White Mountain Race League are graduates. I may be a Gunstock 'graduate', but I learn a lot more at Wachusetts. Gunstock should take advantage of the Crowley family success.

Tuesday, November 25 - ten dollars - WV
 

Not too sure about what's open....probably just a wet and soggy trail away up top on High Country....at www.waterville.com ....for their Tuesday super-duper deal .... and Saturday, Nov 22 was their opening day.

...such a deal!
 

For the diehard cross country skier, WV got about one new inch of natural snow cover yesterday, what with the early 4" of snowfall that turned into a long day of rain. With temps at about 27 right now Sunday morning, it has froze pretty hard making for some decent(?) natural cover.

$20 gets you a WV cross-country ticket for a weekend day today, Sunday.

Almost free of charge: Having a $20, annual, White Mt Nat'l Forest parking sticker on the windshield, or purchasing a three dollar day pass from the self-serve post-in-the-ground Forest Service dispenser at the Waterville Valley Depot Camp parking lot, up at the north end of town puts you on the 5-miles or so of WMNF multiple use trails; Livermore Trail up about two miles to the bridge, Greeley Ponds Trail, and Tripoli Road. And, the Forest Service does actually check each car for payment on the weekends!

Typically this WMNF multiple use trails area; hiking, snow-shoing, or xc skiing gets a lot more people out on the trails than the meticulously groomed WV xc trails because it costs almost zero; u-need a parking sticker or day pass, as opposed to paying twenty dollars. .... such a deal!

And for $35, you can go ski the downhill mountain which today for the first time this ski season has one trail open from the top of the quad lift down to the base lodge. Downhill skiing is such an expensive sport!