Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 7 – Stratton Mountain

—by Jay Flemma
Special to Slave to the Traffic Light Adventure Magazine.
This is the seventh piece in the VT vs. NH series.
Links to the rest are below—

STRATTON MOUNTAIN, WINDHAM COUNTY, VT – You should have heard the trash talking that went on about Stratton Mountain in the two years we’ve been working on this series. The Vermonters like to ruthlessly troll the New Hampshire folks. And the New Hampshirites love to crush the Vermonters right back. But everybody on both sides of the border – Vermont especially – saved their worst bile for Stratton.

“The Pumpkin Spiced Latte of Ski Resorts,” “Flatton,” and, worst of all “There’s a reason their mascot is a teddy bear. It’s just not that challenging” – those were just some of the antecedents Stratton absorbed before I rolled in for a weekend in late February. And as if that wasn’t enough, on the very eve of my trip, one Internet winter sports publication opened their review of Stratton with the most left-handed compliment I’ve ever seen:

“Stratton Mountain is a long established southern Vermont resort with a cosmopolitan atmosphere that’s rarely found in New England, a good illustration of the fact is the selection of quality French champagne stocked in the resort’s general store.”

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