I bought a vacation home nearby in 2004 and have skied here a lot the past 4 winters. I think Mount Snow has a great variety of Terrain and an excellent layout. This season with new ownership showed a definate improvement in both snowmaking as well as staff morale and the overall vibe of the mountain. There can be crowds on the main face but I know how to avoid them. I usually ski the carinthia area, and then hop over to the northface via sunbrook, another strategy if you like the wide open blue cruisers on the main face is to use the Ego alley and lift #7 chairs rather than the Grand summit Express Chair, they serve basically the same trails but almost never have any lines. The North face is worth a look just to see the view of Somerset Resevoir though most of the North Face trails are extremely challenging. One way to visit the North face without having to ski down those steep trails is to take the Canyon Express lift and go straight down River Run, a nice blue with a view up the legendary ripcord double black trail. Then take either of the two north face chairs up allowing you to look at the North face trails to see if you can handle them, if not you can go back down on easy stuff from the top. Also be sure to check out sundance and Ridge (super open blue cruisers. For tree skiers there are several fantastic glades including a pretty easy wide open glade at Carinthia called Sap tapper.

I've been skiing Mount Snow for over 10 years since I am an owner at the Grand Summit Hotel. This year, 2008, the trails have been wonderful, the new management has really improved the place by adding all the snow guns. I never get bored here since there is alot to do, some steeps, glades and easy cruisers. I would like to see the mountain expand by adding some new terrain, that would be a real plus. My one beef with the splitting up of the american ski company resorts is that as an owner at the Grand Summit, were were able to stay at the other resorts like the Killington Grand for a nominal housekeeping fee. Now if we want the stay there there are no discounts, 3 nights at the Killington Grand mid-week would now run me around $800.00 where I used to pay about $90.00. This is a real bummer and I feel like I bought into the place but I'm getting alot less. Since I like to ski the other resorts, I'll probably go there less since the season pass is now split up for the mountains, each one as its own and then I need to pay for lodging. Mount Snow is a great mountain and we can't wait to see what other improvements come along.

Mount Snow drops the ball Mar 1-2, 2008!
After a week with a 1ft snowstorm on Tuesday and another 1ft snowfall on Friday, Mount Snow was completely unable to handle the crowd that arrived on Saturday and Sunday. With the usual large Jan-Feb crowd and best conditions in years, they couldn't run almost half of their lifts. Of the lifts that were running, all had 15-30 minute lines extending beyond the corrals. Even worse, only the Summit Express and Canyon were run orderly. The North Face was chaos. Only 1 of the 2 lifts was running, and they didn't bother to put up any corrals. 200+ people were in a chaotic mass pushing their way onto the lift, yelling loudly whenever the attendants let a single or double on the triple chair. Things were almost ready to come to blows as everyone stared at fantastic snow on a perfect day, with no way to get on the trails. Sunbrook was no better, with the uncorraled line for the Sunbrook chair extending well past the Beartrap chair. Anyone coming down Thanks Walt had to fight their way through the Beartrap line to even get to the end of the Sunbrook line. Again, instead of skiing the great snow everyone was trapped at a terribly organized lift.
Management and staff were full of rediculous excuses. The staff blamed the snow. What? This is a ski resort, they're supposed to live for this stuff! Management first said everyone had a hard time coming in to work on Sat. Well, their customers managed to show up. On Sunday, that excuse couldn't be used so they switched to wind as an excuse for not opening lifts, but that's a load of crap too. There was one lift running everywhere, but never two. Wind will not be too much for a lift within a stone's throw of a similar operating one.
After a little digging, I think I know what happened. Management let much of the staff go after President's Day week and their international help left because their visas expired at the end of Feb. This left them with no contingency plan for spectacular conditions. Mount Snow's management completely screwed up a spectacular weekend of skiing & boarding for everyone who decided to enjoy it at Mount Snow. Nice going. Apparently, Mount Snow can't handle snow!!!

Mt Snow is awesome! Skied Feb 20-22 and conditions were amazing. Fresh powder everywhere all day Friday. The South Bowl was the best ever. I've been skiing Mt. Snow for 18 years and it's the best its been (or certainly one of the best). The new snow making fan guns fill in for mother nature; all the trails were in great shape, didn't hit one patch of ice. Our family has a great time (the ski school has great programs) whenever we go. Can't wait to go again this weekend!

mount snow was a nice mountian. it was small but very hard to find your way around on. the people were friendly but there was kids who didnt know not to cut you off or not to push you into banks. the snow was a little icy in spots, and it was hard packed, really hard packed.