Okemo and Bromley are tame, stratton, has more money and attitude than average talent. (and 30,000 skiers and hour skiing ONE peak..)
Lift lines were pretty brutal on saturday,, 1500 people loading DOUBLES. I love a nice old double chair, REALLY love fixed grips, glad the quad isn't high speed but man they need it. The trails COULD have been less empty and it would have been fine. Busy day, EMPTY trails.
This is the kind of place that will remind you that trail ratings (as it says on most trail maps) are only a RELATIVE scale within THAT ski area. The blues at Magic would be blacks at Okemo and Bromley, while the double blacks at magic do not exist at Okemo and bromley.
Great tree skiing, great steeps, and really, properly steep- can do some real jump turns.
great vibe, no BS.
Lots of fun options for appropriately cautious beginners and intermediates who want to try something a little more hard core/old school/real deal. The blue glades are great! Very easy pitches, medium density of trees - just the kind of spot for figuring it all out on some nice spring corn snow.
The only reason I can think of to go to a bigger place is maybe wide-open super G turns, or a perfectly manicured mogul field (but there ARE plenty of moguls), or extensive terrain parks, or rich people nonsense. Water park, my ass!!! You will be ready for a nice hot tub session though
