The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[gravitylover]

Hahaha

WTF is with this snow all morning? I was looking forward to some driveway glacier dissipating warmth and wetness but it's white.

[Benny Profane]

Beautiful day.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Classic context removal. Nice.

Your context comes through just fine.

[ticketchecker]

Apparently Song Mtn has no diesel backup option on their lifts?

https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2022/...hair-lift.html

[Benny Profane]

Your context comes through just fine.

You do you, big guy. I know what I meant.

[gravitylover]

Towns that want to secede from their counties and take a huge financial hit "Some upstate N.Y. towns consider switching counties over mask mandates and other public health measures – Daily Freeman" https://www.dailyfreeman.com/2022/02...-measures/amp/

[m2711c]

the crowd was epic…




lunch was tasty too.

[huckbucket]

Looks like i̶c̶e̶f̶a̶c̶e̶

Super nice.

[hatchgreenchile]

Whiteface! Nice dude. Interesting lunch choice

Before I left the Upstate, I had a monster powder day there in mid April. 18-24" new, with most of the mountain empty. The Slides opened, and as a 19 year old who had only experienced Stratton and the WNY molehills, it was my first experience riding premier East expert terrain. What an awesome zone!

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Is the Rezweed?

[m2711c]

yes.

[riser4]

You can openly smoke your lunch at Whiteface these days???

[m2711c]

shits leagles now… but really, its same as it everwas.

[rideit]

God I wish the Adirondacks were legal to have Mt. bike trails everywhere…

[gravitylover]

Yeah right! Way too many areas there you can't even ride dirt roads anymore. You used to be able to ride the 6.5 miles in to the base of Mt Marcy and stash the bike in the woods but they took that away a few years ago so that added at least a day to a summit hike. I did it from town to the top and back in one day but now you have to reserve and pay for the camping permit way in advance and they make you get it for 2 nights.

[wooley12]

A buddy and I flagged down a guy in horse and wagon to haul us out from Camp Santanoni when our two wheel canoe cart busted on the way in. Sounds like a business opportunity to me.

[half-fast]

Apparently Song Mtn has no diesel backup option on their lifts?

https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2022/...hair-lift.html

Cable derailed

[Brownski]

For anybody that needs help, Valatie is pronounced Va-lay-sha

[m2711c]

damn kids. bouncing on them chairs again.

[JohnF]

damn kids. bouncing on them chairs again.

Maybe, they've been having issues with the lift for over a month.

[Brownski]

damn kids. bouncing on them chairs again.

Maybe, they've been having issues with the lift for over a month.

I only ever skied Song one time and I thought it was a cool place but those old Riblet lifts were actually my favorite part. Hopefully they don’t have too much trouble finding the parts to fix it.

[BC13]

Haha

Does anybody else have a car frozen shut this morning? It's an upstate thing.

I sure as fuck did! Proceeded to use my wife's blow drier for an hour until she came outside asking me if I knew where her hair drier was. Turns out her hair drier was brand new and nearly $100. I was stunned that a "quiet" (I just thought low output) hair drier was almost $100. Who knew?



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[BC13]

A buddy and I flagged down a guy in horse and wagon to haul us out from Camp Santanoni when our two wheel canoe cart busted on the way in. Sounds like a business opportunity to me.

I believe that guys business was hauling people and their gear inland out of Santanoni.

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[Aldo]

the crowd was epic…




lunch was tasty too.

I see good clean fun in the great outdoors right there!
Carry on sir!

[Benny Profane]

You're not trying hard enough. Chatham has lots of potential with a great downtown, the brewery kicks ass, and that section of the Taconics is great if you're into outdoorsy stuff. As I said, Tivoli and Valatie are coming up and shedding their artsy reputation and yes, Columbia is still weak but they do have a great oval track if you're into redneck short track racing and demo derbies and there's ez access to good skiing within 90 minutes in three different directions. Yup, Hudson is pretty much the only place with a varied population in the county and it's working pretty well for them at the moment.

Yeah, but, bottom line, nobody goes there. Which is cool, I hate crowds, but, kinda weird how all these Westchester ladies build their Martha Stewart farm complexes up in a place that has zero dining options, but, I guess they like to cook. Essex up on Lake Champlain is another head scratcher. Beautiful place, ferry to Vermont, and, nothing. Washington county is the same. Beautiful farm country, but, nothing. There's a hotel/restaraunt in Cambridge that tried to be the only place around and changes hands every now and then, but is in a perpetual state of failure.

I'm not complaining, though. Minimal traffic and fresh paved roads makes for miles of roadie fun.