Mohawk Mountain Ski Area — Attraction in Cornwall

I have been skiing Mohawk mountain for several years and I have always had a good experience, however today was different. My wife reserved rentals for our daughter as well as scheduled her for a snowhawks level 1 lesson. Getting the rentals and getting our daughter situated for her lesson was fine and was pretty well organized given the crowd. During her lesson I stopped by the lesson area to check on her and noticed she kept falling and one ski kept falling off also. After watching for a few more minutes I noticed, from a distance that the binding didn't look right with her boot clipped in. I slipped into the lesson area and asked an instructor if I could check her rental binding. It turned out that one binding wasn't adjusted properly and caused her to easily twist her boot out of the binding. Luckily I knew what I was doing and was able to make a quick adjustment. Unfortunately for her, her binding was like this for at least half the lesson and no one else inside the learning area noticed her binding issue. At the end of her lesson the instructor told my wife she likes to fall, when the problem was their lack to notice a problem with her binding that was causing her to fall. Later in the day my wife showed me a video of our daughter during her lesson where the instructors had her and the other kids sliding down the hill to practice their pizza or snowplough, however rather then catch the kids at the bottom the instructor held out a long pole that more or less close lined our daughter and the other kids. After watching the video I was appalled. I put our son through two seasons of snowhawks and never saw anything like this when he was learning the basics. His instructors were much more attentive and hands on with the kids and in no way did they ever set up a barrier to stop the kids that could hurt them. I will say though that the conditions were good especially given the lack of snow this year and the staff was friendly. We will continue to ski at Mohawk but I will not be putting our daughter in another...

This was the single worst ski school experience that I have ever had. The kid Colin who rang us up to get the lift tickets looked as if he was stoned. He tried to over charge us for the lift tickets. I had to look up the Web site to show him that he had the price wrong. I told him that I had a four year old and a seven year old who needs lessons and they put the I a group lesson. OK sound good right? Get to the lesson and my four year old is put in a group with a thirteen year old and another little girl. The woman who was their instructor spent an hour having them walk around on skis and complaining that my son would no listen. They never even went up the magic carpet. Finally after they moved the older girl up to a more appropriate group I watched as my son lay on the ground as the instructor stood by holding the other girls hand and not helping my son up. Thanks a lot Bernadette. Then I come over and they tell me that it's just not working. Wtf!! So I take him up the magic carpet which he was doing before the lesson and show him how to wedge and in ten minutes he was controlling his speed. I spoke with lathe director of the ski school and he was not helpful either. I just wanted a refund for the lesson that I paid for but never given. This was my four year old first time on skis. After getting the run around about not being able to get a refund they gave us a credit for a private lesson. I highly doubt we will ever go back to the inept ski school. Even the mountain director of guest services would not refund us the money that we paid for the pitiful lesson. Thanks trash morrissy. Way to be a leader. I have been going to mohawk since I was a kid, 35 years, but this turned our family away from this mountain. Do your self a favor a go anywhere else to teach your kids to ski. And to the owners Carol lunar and Steve hidden you have lost a loyal family and I will take ever opportunity to share this Storie with all the other families that I know. Thanks for putting the...

I spoke with a nice gentleman in the lodge who said he comes here with his family from France every year to get away from Chamonix. I've never been to Chamonix, but I somehow knew exactly what he meant.

In an age of massive, sprawling, and ever expanding resorts that try to be all things to all people (in all seasons) Mohawk stays true to it's roots which makes this place the hidden gem it truly is. A small mountain that is comfortable being a small mountain and doesn't try to make up for it with extras. It makes sense there are no hi-speed quads here and for good reason - the quiet of the landscape is preserved (ever realize how loud high speed quads actually are?) along with a slower uphill ride that is to be savored which sets a leisurely pace to your outing. The slower chair ride made me want to savor my time going downhill too. There is no reggae or rock music played inside or outside the lodge on PA speakers. This is the kind of place you visit to get away from the bars, restaurants, lift lines, shuttle parking lots, racer kids, park rats (nope, no park features either) and general "big shot" attitudes that accompany most mountains.

A great place for families with children learning to ski and for seasoned skiers alike. A day ticket takes you from 8am to 10pm except Sundays where there is no night skiing. If you live anywhere in CT and just want to take a few runs on a Saturday night without the commitment and expense of the larger northeast resorts - this is your place. The kind of place where you'll learn to fall in love with lapping the chair and taking in the quiet.

It's a small mountain. The runs are short and few, the chair rides are long. There isn't much at the base except for the necessities. But that's exactly the point: it's not Killington, Stratton, or Stowe. Mohawk has something the big guys don't. The...