Review of Timberline Four Seasons Resort 3*

Been here twice, both times the lift lines for their two very slow, very old triples have been thirty to forty five minutes. We skiied the half day pass and got about 6 runs down hill in the four hours our forty five dollar passes were good for. A little bit ridiculous. They ran out of rental skis before we got there so my wife couldn't join us. The lift lines for both lifts are steep descents so I had to borrow a pole from a member in my group to keep from sliding down as the lines were too narrow to side step or snowplow. The lift attendants stopped the lift every time someone dropped a pole or ski glove and it usually took about 5 minutes to start it again. Not acceptable when there is a 45 minute lift line. There is no lift that only services black and blue so people who can't load are slowing down both the main lifts. The only reason I gave two stars instead of one was because they actually do have some nice steep longer black and double black runs that I enjoyed, though with such a long lift line we ended up purposefully trying to avoid the faster runs just to delay getting back in line. Some slopes were good, but I chose a black Diamond for my last run. They had left the snow guns on and formed massive frozen whales the entire way down without grooming. Trail should have been closed. It was unskiable. Their famous salamander is so flat you actually have to push for 30 or 40 yards in the middle so that's not much fun. We went to canaan the next day and had a blast. Fewer challenging black runs at canaan but they were getting us uphill and back on the slopes faster and they have fantastic stuff off the groomed slopes in the trees. My entire group agreed unanimously if we had another two day weekend we would just book both days at canaan. Also, timberlines lodge looked like something someone built as a temporary mining cabin, and not that it's necessarily their fault as it's a problem in rural wv, but the free Wi-Fi plain didn't work our entire time there.