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Ski'd there in April of this year - the latest that I have ever ski'd!!! Had a wonderful time!!

Never been there and I live way down by Charlotte,too far,but judging by the reviews and trail map it would be my stomping grounds if I lived in any of the mid Atlantic cities like DC,Balt,Pitt,Philly.Appears to be a skiers mountain and not a resort like 7 Springs or Snowshoe,which is a big bonus!One of these days when I get more $$,I'm making a long road trip to hit Timberline and Blue Knob all in one trip!Of course it will have to be after lots of natural snow has fallen!

I just left Snowshoe this afternoon, I have skied there every 2 weeks since Jan 1, have to say the slopes have never been better all year. Hats off to the snow-making and grooming crews. After last years warm weather, it was sure nice to see Lower Shays in fantastic shape. But this is a place when you come and visit midweek, or for that matter in March, be prepared for some inconvenience. Seasonal staff have already begun to leave for summer jobs. The Restaurants will be closing or cutting days as patrons begin to dwindle. The resort is a long way from convenient stores and gas stations, so plan ahead. There is very little to no cell phone service in the area, because of the US government and National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank WV.

My friend and I went snow tubing. It was a mild evening, but was very icy and dangerous at the bottom of the run. People were getting hurt left and right, some going to the hospital. Also, after your run you had to go down some steps to walk around and get in line again. There was a significant drop from the last step to the ground, and it was not only sloped but icy and very dangerous. They offer a 4 hour evening session from 5 p.m.-9 p.m. My friend and I got there at 7 p.m., only did 3 runs and both got hurt. We went to speak with the owner and he was very unsympathetic and not helpful at all, making excuses all the while. We basically wasted our money. There's also a sign up when you come in to pay that says if they have 200 people during a session, you may only get one run an hour.

Don't waste your time with Snowshoe. I'm 33 years old. My wife and I do a ski trip once a year and decided on Snowshoe this year. We were very disappointed and will never go back. We had our trip booked to stay March 4th and 5th at Expedition Station. We arrived a day early and booked a room at The Inn at Snowshoe. I'm sure it was nice when it was built but we have stayed at nicer Motel 8's. Obviously no money is being put back into the building. Our room was dirty, the lady who checked us in acted like she was put out because we wanted a room for the night. Her name tag said Stacy. Breakfast buffet was outstanding. That was the best part of that stay. When we checked into Expedition station the next day that staff was rude. No cell phone service anywhere. You can only make a long distance call from a calling card and the shops to buy these close earlier than expected. The slopes close at 4:30 every day. You can ski at another close by resort but you have to drive or be shuttled there. Why would I spend the extra money to stay slope side to have to drive to another resort to ski? I walked to a nearby shop to buy a sweat shirt. The only one I liked in the entire place was my size and everything, when I went to pay for it the lady told me she couldn't sell it to me because the tag was missing and she didn't know how much to charge me for it. I told her to give me a price I really like it and she said "sorry, I can't sell it to you".
We walked to to pool and there was a life guard which was nice but there was a lot of college kids getting drunk in the hot tub which was allowed and tolerated by the life guard. We were annoyed after 10 minutes and went to our room. My wife said "lets rent a movie tonight at the store down the road". I agreed. so we left the pool and found the store which was closed at 8:00 PM. We had to drive to the bottom of the mountain 6 miles away to buy any snacks, popcorn, etc. There were other issues that I could explain but I think you get my point. We had enough tonight and drove home a day early instead of staying until tomorrow.
We went to Holiday Valley last year and the trip was absolutely perfect. The staff from Snowshoe along with all other patrons gave the perception to my family that "you should be greatful that we let you come here". Instead of the perception that should be made, "Welcome, thanks for coming, were glad your here,let us know if we can do anything to make your stay more enjoyable."

If any Snowshoe representitive would like to contact me please leave a name and number and I will contact you. Or if you want to contact me directly we stayed in room 326. All of you readers I will let you know if anybody from snowshoe was interested in hearing from me.

Seven springs is nowhere near as busy as it use to be. Actually heard a rumor from a friend that works at valley who was told that so far they have well over 2000 new pass holders (told me that 2 days after they went on sale). And that number is getting bigger daily. If its that high at valley imagine what its like at wisp or blue knob. As i said before it would not surprise me if they went bankrupt for the winter months. It takes MILiONS to build a park structure such as theirs and if there arent enough paying customers they have 2 choices go bankrupt or get rid of the parks. After what we have seen has been prioritized this season i think the answer to that question is pretty obvious. Probably wont happen next season but it will in the near future.

Ps. I have not been to a pirates game in 10 years

To respond to the comment above, its likely that anyone, myself included, who posts on a message board is wasting their time.

That said, getting the word out that Seven Springs has become a second rate place to ski may benefit others who may contemplating spending hundreds or thousands of hard earned dollars on a visit to the resort. For the record Im also a former season ticket holder of the Pirates. I work across the street from PNC Park and wont walk through the gates even when offered a free ticket (which happens often) Ive held a season pass at Seven Springs for more than 30 years and this year will be my last.

Yes the place is still busy on weekends but I know of plenty of frustrated customers who are now headed elsewhere. Unlike baseball fans, skiers have other options.

For that minute sliver of the populations who wants a 22 half pipe, go immediately to Seven Springs. Youll have the half pipe to yourself.

Everyone complaining about how nutting runs his resort and threatening to go to another resort are wasting time. Nutting is running his resort just as planned. A money maker. This resort is not going bankrupt, on the contrary, it is making huge money. Yes the food is terrible, snow making terrible and only run to make snow for terrain parks, lifts not running on busy weekends (i could go on) but have you ever noticed it is always packed. He will never sell, and a few weekend skiers going elsewhere will not effect nutting one way or another. The people that complain most likely still go to pirate games.

This used to be such a nice mountain. now its a poorly maintained, over priced ice rink with rocks dirt and beer cans all over it. only decent part of this mountain is the parks. I cannot wait to see this place go bankrupt so nutting will sell, but until then i'm Hidden Valley bound!!!

They no longer care about what had been their core customer - loyal hard core skiers - folks need to find another mountain

I am so sad to see how poorly this resort is run now. It breaks my heart I have skied this mountain all my life and Bob has ruined it. They closed the mountain at 6 pm on one of the best days of the season. I have skied through rain from snow makers. Horrible grooming and not enough chairs open to get around the mountain. I don't know who is advising on how to run the mountain, but they should be fired. I hate to do it but I will be skiing at Hidden Valley next year. I have heard raves about the snowmaking and grooming they are doing. Hopefully you don't get involved there. You need to hire some good advisers PLEASE!

As others have mentioned, 7S seems totally snowboarder focused at this point. That half-pipe looks Olympic-grade, as far as I can tell. Not much else there is. Another way that Snowshoe is eating 7S's lunch is food. The food at 7S is borderline inedible, and ridiculously expensive. Had lunch at the Foggy Goggle last week -- a turkey sandwich and two beers: $35 after tip. I don't pick ski resorts based on food, but when I went back today, I stashed my lunch and a couple of craft beers in the car. It's a pain in the ass to hike back to the car, but it's not even about the money; The turkey sandwich I brought was made with fresh bread instead of a "pretzel roll" that tasted like it was taken out of the freezer and microwaved. Regardless, every time I go to 7S I feel like I'm overpaying for everything, and it's pretty clear that with skis on, I'm not their priority.

One benefit of declining attendance: shorter lift lines.

To start, my boyfriend asked for a room with a Jacuzzi suite, the way they answered him made him think that we had it in the room. Therefore booked him for a suite.( which is obviously more expensive) Then they said they were sold out and couldn't book the second night but will put him on a list. They called him one night, left a message and he called back. They said the room was no longer available and will keep him on the list. We got there and they said there is no Jacuzzi suites but we had a fireplace (we had to put 100$ deposit to hold the room, which was already misled because there were no Jacuzzi suites, just at the gym). We were then told that we were booked for two nights, they never told us that so we looked into other hotels for the second night. We were happy about having it but they messed up telling us.

Then she told my boyfriend to talk to the manager the next day about the issues because the person that booked the room was new. He called and I believe her name was Beth? it started with a B. She was rude, basically said it was my boyfriends fault and her staff knows what they are doing and didn't do anything wrong and its his mistake for not understanding them correctly with the second night being added. Also said that her staff is not new but added later on that the girl that send the email conf was new.. therefore that was somehow a lie? Her stories didnt match up. She ALSO hung up on him without saying goodbye or saying they are sorry about the inconvenience. My boyfriend doesn't get really rude, so he didn't deserve the attitude. HORRIBLE customer service. I will never go back there again.

Rode up on the North Face today with a guy that works at 7 Springs on the snow making crew.He pointed out the additional guns on the top of North Face as well as the water pipe that feeds them is new going from a 4" to an 8" pipe. Definitely better quality snow on the top of the usually very icy first pitch on North Face. Keep up the improvements.

Rant from former season pass holder...

Where are all the cars Bob!

I skied 7S on Thursday Feb 14, where has everyone gone Mr. Nutting?
On only my 2nd day trip this season to 7S, driving from Wheeling Wv, I pulled into the parking lot on North Face at 10am, being a bit late for first tracks, I was worried I would have to hike a bit from my car, but no, I was able to park right in the front row! Where are all the cars?, where are all the people wanting for first tracks?. This is the middle of Winter, nearly a blue bird day with wonderful new soft groomed snow all over the slopes every where you looked and every where I skied!

I remember in years past, on a wonderful day like this, people would play hooky from work or school just to be here. And the midweek pass holders would be out in droves. Again I ask, "Where are all the cars Bob?"

Bob, I noticed your not running Tyrol lift midweek, or was it just broken down? Did the men that run the lift not come to work that day? I wonder Bob, you know its very difficult to ski the Front Face with just Avalanche lift running, Seems like the resort is lacking in skier service.

Oh wait, I did notice one lonely skier taken advantage of the large piles of snow you have made on Alpine Meadows, he seemed quite happy with all that effort you made there, all by himself. For myself, I could only think of the lack of base I seen on Giant Steps and Gunner, It didn't look like the base could survive much of a spring melt.

Again I ask, where are all the cars Bob?

Bob, I want you to watch Facebook this week, Snowshoe's Facebook page to be exact. On the 19th of February they are announcing a killer season pass deal!.

Bob, I think those hillbillies from Southern West Virginia have figured it out. Lower the price of admission to play on the snow and more people will come, more people will fill the parking lot, more people will consume more food and drinks. More people staying at the hotel. More lifts will needed to run, because there is more people on the slopes.

Bob, I'm sorry I couldn't afford your season pass this year. In years pass, I was able to afford both your season pass and Snowshoe's season pass. Things being hard these days, I made the choice of Snowshoes season pass, the early purchase deal.

Bob, I hope you understand.....

Regards,
ILV2SKI

Wow Brett: "... I explained that she and I were easily some of the best skiers on the mountain that day..".

I think I have pretty good idea of how that conversation went.