I grew up skiing in Southern Vermont and upstate NY -- my parents owned a second home in South Newfane (I grew up there and in NYC), so I learned how to ski at Haystack Mountain back in 1983 when it was still a public ski resort, and Maple Valley Ski Area off of Rt. 30 before it was closed down. When I started progressing as a skier I learned to advance at Mt. Snow concurrently owned at the time by the same company that owned Haystack; and then when I started racing, I started going to other mountains like Stratton, Okemo, Killington, and one of my all time favorites: Bromley. I first visited Bromley in summer camp actually, because I was on an Appalachian trail hike that took us up and over Stratton and down into Bromley, to date, one of the best hikes I've ever been on, and now that I live in Northern California and have the Sierra Nevada at my front door, that's saying a LOT about hoe beautiful Vermont truly is.
Anyway, after visiting Bromley that summer, the following winter I was at Bromley for a race, and I discovered just how AWESOME Bromley was. It's the sunniest mountain in Southern Vermont as it's south facing, and it's a nice-sized mountain, not too big, not too small (and NOT clogged with weekending New Yorkers like Mt. Snow is!), but has a nice variety of terrain, but not quite as advanced terrain as The North Face at Mt. Snow, which was where I really learned how to be an advanced skier.
The Avalanche Glades at Bromley remain one of my favorite expert runs in New England, and I skied at Bromley into my college years, when I was living in Massachusetts, and had started skiing the Berkshires more because of proximity to the campus I lived on. My point is: Bromley is a great mountain, I'd love to ski it again, and I have a lot of good memories of it. The last time I was there was in 1999 I think, so it's been awhile, but the memories are some of the best.
