Eastern Snowboarding
Holiday Valley, Here I Come
Aside from the low crime, phenomenal multiculturalism, great food, quasi-reasonable housing prices (compared to other comparable cities, I suppose), exciting nightlife and litany of professional sports teams (Go Jays! Go Raptors!), one of the advantages to living in Toronto is the close proximity to the United States border. There are several major border crossings within a two-hour drive of Toronto, mostly in upstate New York. Five hours southwest is Michigan. But I digress.
Being so close to the border, it’s not out of the ordinary to take a day trip to a Target, Sabres game, or MRI clinic. Tomorrow I’m taking advantage of this proximity with some friends to hit Holiday Valley, a popular ski resort in western New York, for the weekend.
The vertical rise of Holiday Valley is only 750 feet, making it not much larger than Blue Mountain here in Ontario. But from what I understand, Holiday Valley has a couple of distinct advantages:
- There are 56 runs, compared to Blue’s 34;
- Many runs cross the mountain, making them seem longer (judging by a trail map, anyway).
Of course, going to Blue means you stay in the province, so there’s no border line-ups or currency exchanges to worry about.
More on Holiday Valley over the weekend, or shortly thereafter. Hopefully I’ll get a post or two in while I’m there.
(Interestingly, Holiday Valley actually had a small avalanche of sorts this winter [or at least that's what they're calling it].)
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