Whiteface

At Whiteface, there are 56 trails open out of the 85 that they have. There have been 7 inches of snow in the past week at Whiteface. That shouldn't turn you away though, because whiteface has been making snow almost all week, trying to open more trails for MLK weekend. There is snow in the forecast for Lake Placid every day next week.

This is a view of the mountain as you are
coming down the driveway

There are three peaks at Whiteface; Little Whiteface, Whiteface summit, and Lookout Mountain. I went to Whiteface a few years ago, and I remember going up the Summit Quad Lift that does to the top of Whiteface Summit. I think it was the end of the day so I was tired. It was really windy and cold that day. I was so close to the top of the lift. I was about to get off, and then it stopped. I must have been only ten feet away from the top. I had to wait, what seemed like ten minutes, with the freezing cold wind blowing across the mountain. I was waiting for the lift to start moving again. A few minutes went by, then it started moving again. I got of the lift to find that it was so windy that I could hardly stand. It was possibly the worst ten minutes of my life, but after I got used to the cold, I had an awesome run. Not so awesome that I would sit in the cold for ten minutes, but awesome enough that I would do the same run the next day.

Lake Placid hosted the olympics twice. Once in 1932 and again in 1980. There is an olympic museum in Lake Placid. It is in the old olympic center so as you walk through, you see areas where different countries would be stationed. There is a hotel across the street where all the athletes stayed. The mountain is not even fifteen minutes from the town. The ice skating oval was, and still is, on the front yard of the high school. During the 1980 olympics, a few of the class rooms were converted into broadcasting rooms. The school was shut down for a week or so, not that anyone was actually going to go to school, because the athletes used the gym and locker rooms of the High School for extra training facilities.

Lake Placid is a great town for more than just skiing. You can also experience the olympics. Lake Placid it truly living on the olympics in both 1980 and 1932. A lot of people go to Lake Placid because they remember the 1980 olympics and don't eve realize that there were also the 1932 olympics until they leave. People also go to Lake Placid because there is Whiteface Mountain right there. There are often time events on the mountain such as giant slalom or downhill skiing that might have take place during the olympics. These events are definitely competitive because there are sometimes championship events for skiing and snowboarding.