This is a ski day at Titus Mountain as it runs from The Modern Pine or The Aviator, the two cabins that share a property about three and a half road miles from the base lodge. You ski the morning, drive back for lunch and a soak in your own hot tub, then return for the afternoon and, on Friday and Saturday nights, the lights. Below are the timing, the parking, the soaks, the wet gear, the stove, older children and a three-day version; the mountain itself, from the lifts to the lift tickets, is in the Titus Mountain guide.
The day at a glance
This is a Saturday in the middle of January, when the sun comes up at about 7:30 a.m. and goes down at about 4:45 p.m. Titus calls its hours anticipated and changes them for weather and special events, so treat the times as a plan and read the mountain's daily conditions report on the morning you go.
| Time | Where you are |
|---|---|
| 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast at the cabin, with the conditions report on the wifi |
| 8:30 a.m. | Leave the cabin |
| 8:45 a.m. | Park and boot up |
| 9:00 a.m. | First chair on the lower mountain |
| 10:30 a.m. | Across to the middle and upper mountains |
| 11:45 a.m. | Drive back to the cabin |
| Noon | Lunch at your own table |
| 12:45 p.m. | A short midday soak |
| 1:45 p.m. | Back on the lifts |
| 4:30 p.m. | The lights come on |
| 5:30 p.m. | Dinner in the Lower Lodge |
| 6:30 p.m. | Night runs on the lower mountain |
| 9:00 p.m. | The lifts stop |
| 9:15 p.m. | Wet gear in the dryer, then the last soak |
| 10:00 p.m. | Quiet hours begin at The Aviator |
The night before
Set the day up the evening before. The Modern Pine's listing says the area gets only Verizon and AT&T cell service and that the well-insulated cabin weakens reception inside, so do the planning on the wifi. Buy the lift tickets and reserve any rentals online that evening, and pack a helmet for every skier and rider, since Titus does not rent them. The Titus guide has the prices and the rental rules.
Lay the clothes out by the door, in layers and with no cotton, which holds water once it gets wet, and put the boot liners back in their shells once they are dry.
Make tomorrow's lunch tonight. A pot of soup or chili reheats in minutes, and both cabins have a stove, an oven, a microwave, a toaster, a kettle and a coffee maker, so the midday break stays short.
If the dog came along, decide now who stays with it. The Modern Pine's house rules say a pet cannot be left alone in the cabin at any time, and The Aviator's say pets are not to be left alone, so a ski day with a dog needs a plan. One way is to take turns: one of you skis the morning, the other the afternoon, and you swap at lunch. Bringing your dog covers the rest.
Leaving the cabin
For the 9 a.m. first chair on a Saturday, leave at about 8:30; the Titus guide has the hours for the other days of the week. In mid-January the sun is up by about 7:30, so the drive is in daylight.
The base lodge is about three and a half road miles away, and the listings put the drive at five to seven minutes. A guest at The Aviator summed it up: "Easy drive between this house and the resort." After a snowfall, add a few minutes and read the winter driving guide.
Both cabins are reached by steps up to the deck, and steps ice over on a cold morning. Walk them in winter boots, carry the ski boots in a bag, and load the skis before anyone clicks into anything.
Where to park
Titus has a parking lot at the base of the lower mountain and another at the base of the upper mountain, and both are free. Which one you want depends on the day and on who is skiing.
The lower lot at 215 Johnson Road
Park at the lower base if anyone needs a ticket, rental gear, a lesson or the beginner slope. Ticket sales, customer service, the rental and repair shop, the retail store and the Learning Center all sit at the foot of the lower mountain, and so do the lit trails, so this is also the lot for a night session.
The upper lot at the Upper Lodge
The Upper Lodge stands at 636 Fayette Road, about four road miles from the cabins, and its lot serves Chairs VII and VIII. Park there and you can ski from the car onto the mountain and down to the main lifts, and the upper mountain and its lodge have been the quieter side of Titus.
That lot only makes sense when the upper chairs run. On the posted schedule every lift turns from Friday to Sunday and on holidays, while the three chairs that run in rotation from Monday to Thursday leave out Chairs VII and VIII. Because tickets are sold at the lower base, this plan uses the lower lot in the morning and the upper lot after lunch.
The morning on the lower mountain
The first hour is the one to protect. Titus has tended to fill up later in the morning, so the 9 a.m. opening puts you on the chair before the crowd builds, on that morning's grooming. On the 7 a.m. conditions report for the last day of the 2025-26 season, Saturday, March 28, 2026, both the main and the secondary surfaces were listed as machine groomed, and the season's snowfall stood at 175 inches.
Start on Chair I. In that report's trail list, its blue-square trails were Rock Garden, Whistler, Sunset and Veezer's Valley, and its black and double-black runs were Hell's Kitchen, Devil's Delight, Promise, Mon Dieu! and Bark Eater. Veezer's Valley and Hell's Kitchen are marked Forever Wild, which means ungroomed, and Mon Dieu! and Bark Eater are glades. Beginners start at the Learning Center at the base instead. A group that skis at two speeds can split there and meet at the car at 11:45.
By mid-morning on a day when every lift runs, work across the mountain: over to the middle mountain, then through the tunnel to Chair VIII and the upper mountain. On the same report, Chair VIII's list ran from the green Bridge Run and River View through the blue Big Al's, Sundance and Titusville Express to black and double-black runs such as Outer Edge, David's Delight, Thin Blue Line, Partridge Point and Outer, Outer. The Titus guide explains the Forever Wild trails, which are the place to be after a good storm.
Lunch at the cabin
At 11:45, ski to the car. A Titus lift ticket is good from the time you buy it until close that day, so leaving for lunch costs nothing.
By noon you are at the cabin. Boots come off at the door with the buckles open, the soup goes on the stove, and the phones go on to charge. The Modern Pine's table seats two, and a family of four found the answer: "The table only seats two but our older kids were able to eat at the couch."
Lunch is also the shift change. If one of you stayed with the dog in the morning, swap now, and check the afternoon conditions on the wifi before you leave.
The midday soak
The soak goes after lunch, in the brightest part of a short winter day. The sun is at its highest over the cabins at 12:07 p.m. on January 16, 2027, and at 12:11 p.m. on February 6.
Keep it short. You are going back out to ski and to drive, and hot water can make you drowsy. Shower before you get in, don't swallow the water, and leave the beer for the evening, since the health advice is no alcohol before or during a soak. The winter weekend guide has the rest of the hot tub rules, from water temperature to pregnancy.
Both listings say the hot tub has no gate or lock. The Modern Pine's cover has clips instead: unclip it before you open it, and close and clip it whenever the tub is not in use. The Pine's tub is open all year, 24 hours a day, and The Aviator's sits on its large open deck.
A few habits help in the cold. Wear a wool hat, since your head is the only part out of the water. Keep boots or slip-ons by the tub, and keep the towel indoors until you need it. Dry off and dress fully before you go back out: Malone's average January high is 23°F, and wet hair freezes. Guests have soaked through far worse; a family at The Modern Pine in February 2026 wrote of "-30 temperatures" and said "the cabin was so cozy and warm and the hot tub was great."
The afternoon session
Be back on the lifts by 1:45. If you skied the lower mountain in the morning, park at the Upper Lodge lot for the afternoon and start up top.
Later in the afternoon, drop back to the middle mountain. On that March report, Chair VI's runs included the blue Sweet Sugar Lou, Huskie Lane and Vern's View, the Forever Wild Three Trees and the black Maple Run. Keep an eye on the clock: the sun sets at 4:43 p.m. in mid-January, so the last runs in daylight come at about four.
On the posted hours the lifts close at 4:30 p.m. on Sundays and from Monday to Thursday, and the evening belongs to the cabin; the après-ski post covers it. On Fridays and Saturdays, stay for the lights.
Night skiing under the lights
On the schedule Titus last posted, night sessions run on Fridays and Saturdays until 9 p.m., on the lit trails and terrain parks of the lower mountain, and an all-day ticket covers them. The mountain's night-skiing page still carries a 2024-2025 label, so confirm this season's nights before you plan around them; the Titus guide has the trail count and the night-only tickets.
The light goes quickly. On January 16, 2027, the sun sets at the cabins at 4:43 p.m. and civil twilight ends at 5:16; on February 6 the times are 5:12 and 5:43.
The cold goes the other way. Malone's January nights average a low of 4°F, and a chairlift ride adds wind. Exposed skin can be frostbitten within 30 minutes at a wind chill of -18°F, within 10 minutes at -32°F and within 5 minutes at -48°F, and the fingertips, toes, nose and earlobes go first. Wear a hat and mittens or gloves, cover your face with a winter face mask or a scarf, pack a dry spare pair of gloves and hand warmers, and go inside between runs.
Eat at the base. Sit down in the Lower Lodge at about 5:30, warm up by one of its three fireplaces, and be back on the chair by 6:30 for the rest of the session. The Titus guide lists the lodge's grill and its fast counter.
Night skiing with older children
The Modern Pine's rules say it is not suitable for children under 10, and both cabins' listings carry Airbnb's flag that they are not suitable for children and infants, so this section is for families with children 10 and up and teenagers who already ski. Pediatric advice for winter sport fits a night session well: several thin layers, insulated boots, mittens or gloves and a hat; a limit on time outside, with regular breaks indoors to warm up; a helmet on every skier and snowboarder; and no child skiing or riding alone. How closely an older child needs watching depends on maturity and skill, and lessons from a qualified instructor in a program designed for children are the way to learn. Titus does not rent helmets, so pack one for each child.
Check cheeks, ears and fingers at every break. Frostbitten skin may hurt or burn at first, then go numb, and turn white or pale gray. Bring the skier inside and soak the area in warm, not hot, water for 20 to 30 minutes. Keep it away from the gas stove: numb skin burns easily, and a stove, fireplace or radiator is the wrong way to warm frostbite. Hypothermia is a medical emergency: call 911. The health and safety page lists the hospital in Malone.
Plan around bedtime. The lifts stop at 9 p.m., the cabin is a few minutes away, and a tired skier can be in the bunk room by 9:30.
Older children and the hot tub
Read the house rules before you book. Both The Modern Pine and The Aviator say the cabin is not childproofed, and with the age rule and the Airbnb flag above, a ski weekend here is for adults and for families whose children are 10 or older. The Aviator's layout suits a family with older children: one family of four there liked having the "kids bedroom on one side of the house and ours on the other side," and wrote that the "hot tub in the snow was dreamy!" See family stays.
Older children and teenagers soak under the adult rules, with an adult watching: a shower first, water no hotter than 104°F, and none of it swallowed. One more hazard applies to them in particular. Long hair can be sucked into a hot tub's drain fitting and hold a head under water, and in some of the cases the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission has recorded, children were playing a "hold your breath the longest" game. Keep hair and underwater games well away from the drain cover, and if a drain cover looks cracked or missing, stay out and message the host.
Keep the cover closed and clipped whenever nobody is in the water, the standard safety step for a hot tub nobody is using. The temperature is yours to set during the stay; The Modern Pine's checkout note asks guests to set the tub to 95°F when they leave.
The last soak before bed
You are back at the cabin at about 9:15. The wet layers go into the dryer first, then you go into the tub. Keep this soak short too.
The Aviator's quiet hours run from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., and The Modern Pine and The Aviator share a property, so keep voices low on either deck after ten. How the two cabins share a property explains the layout.
On a clear night, look up. February 6, 2027 is a new moon, so that Saturday's soak comes under a moonless sky, and the stargazing post says what to look for. Snow works too; a guest at The Modern Pine wrote, "Soaking in the hot tub during a snow storm was the highlight of our trip."
Drying the gear overnight
Both cabins have a washer and a dryer, and on a ski trip they earn their keep. A guest at The Modern Pine put it this way: "The washer-dryer combo is a nice touch specially with the hot tub, you can easily dry your clothes and towel and be ready to go again in an hour." Swimsuits, towels and base layers go in first.
Read the labels on the rest. For waterproof shells, Gore-Tex's care instructions call for a warm, gentle tumble dry, and once the jacket is dry, 20 more minutes in the dryer to bring back the water-repellent finish. Gore-Tex gloves dry with the wrists pointing down, never in the sun or on a heater, though shell gloves can go in the dryer on low. When they are half dry, put them on and make a fist so they keep their shape.
Ski boots dry best with the liners out. Pull the liners from the shells at the end of the day and stand them in a dry spot away from any heat source, and keep the shells out of the stove's reach too.
Skis and boards can stay outside. At The Modern Pine the large screened room on the deck has a roof, "the covered screened in porch" in one guest's words, so they can stand there out of the snow. The Aviator has a large open deck instead, so leave them in the car overnight.
Nothing dries on or near the gas stove. Clothing and anything else that can burn stays off it and away from it.
The gas stove after a ski day
The Modern Pine and The Aviator each have a Jøtul GF 160 DV gas stove in the main room, and on a ski day it earns its place in the late afternoon: switch it on when you come in and the room warms fast. A guest at The Modern Pine passed on the cabin guide's warning that it heats the home fast and can get very hot inside, so it does not need to run long.
The glass is the part to respect after a cold day, when everyone wants to stand close. The glass front of a gas fireplace can reach 500°F or even 1,000°F, and a severe burn takes seconds, so warm your hands at a distance and keep wet gloves and boots well back. Jøtul's manual for the current GF 160 DV asks that children and adults alike keep away from its hot surfaces.
The post on the Jøtul stoves explains how a direct-vent stove works, why it heats a small cabin so quickly, and how to run it as a guest.
A three-day version
A Friday-to-Sunday trip gives three ski sessions around two nights, and it fits the cabins' times: check-in is after 4 p.m. and checkout before 11 a.m. at both.
Friday
Shop in Malone on the way in, about ten road miles north of the cabins; the groceries guide has the stores. If you reach the cabin by 5:30, unpack fast and drive over for the night session, which on the posted schedule runs to 9 p.m. on Fridays. If the drive was long, skip it: stove on, a soak, and bed.
Saturday
The full day above: the lower mountain at 9, lunch and a soak at the cabin, the middle and upper mountains in the afternoon, the lights until 9 and a last soak.
Sunday
Checkout shapes the day. Pack the car on Saturday night and work through the checkout notes in the morning. At The Modern Pine they ask you to wash the dishes and put them back where you found them, leave the heater set to 60 in winter so the pipes don't freeze, turn the hot tub to 95 and secure the cover, take out the trash and lock up. Leave by 8:45, ski from the 9 a.m. opening with the car packed in the lot, and keep valuables in a Titus locker. There is no night skiing on Sundays and the lifts close at 4:30; with a long drive ahead, stop at 2 p.m. and use the daylight. A guest at The Aviator described the result: "Very close to Titus Mountain where we went skiing for two full days."
The weekday version
From Monday to Thursday the posted hours are shorter, there is no night skiing, and the upper mountain's chairs sit out the three-chair rotation, so park at the lower lot; the Titus guide has the schedule. In exchange you get room, since most mountains are quieter during the week and busiest on holidays, which makes a weekday the day for lessons. The lunch-and-soak pattern works the same way.
For a day off the skis, a holiday Monday or a day at Whiteface, see the winter weekend guide and the Lake Placid and Whiteface guide. To compare the cabins for a ski trip, see ski stays near Titus, and book on the booking page.
Questions
How far are The Modern Pine and The Aviator from Titus Mountain?
About three and a half road miles to the base lodge at 215 Johnson Road, by county roads and the Duane Road; the listings put it at five to seven minutes. The Upper Lodge lot at 636 Fayette Road is about four road miles away and serves the upper mountain's chairs on days when every lift runs. See the Titus guide.
Can we go back to the cabin for lunch on the same lift ticket?
Yes. Titus says its lift tickets are good from the time of purchase until the close of the day, and all-day tickets are good for night skiing whenever it runs. The drive takes a few minutes each way, so lunch at the cabin with a short soak fits in about two hours.
How long should we soak between ski sessions?
Briefly. Hot water can make you drowsy, and you still have to drive and ski, so get out at the first sign of drowsiness. Keep the water at or below 104°F, shower first, skip alcohol before and during the soak, and dry off and dress fully before you go back out, since Malone's average January high is 23°F.
Can children use the hot tub?
The cabins are not for children under 10: The Modern Pine's house rules say it is not suitable for children under 10, and both cabins carry Airbnb's flag that they are not suitable for children and infants. Older children and teenagers soak under the adult rules with an adult watching: water no hotter than 104°F, a shower first, none of the water swallowed, and long hair and breath-holding games kept away from the drain cover.
Where do we dry wet ski gear at the cabin?
In the cabin's washer and dryer, following each garment's label; Gore-Tex shells take a warm, gentle tumble. Line-dry gloves with the wrists down, pull the boot liners out and dry them away from heat, and never put anything on or near the gas stove. At The Modern Pine, skis and boards can stand in the covered screened room.
Can we leave the dog at the cabin while we ski?
No. The Modern Pine's house rules say a pet cannot be left alone in the cabin at any time, and The Aviator's say pets are not to be left alone. Take turns, with one person skiing the morning and the other the afternoon. See bringing your dog.
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Facts on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. Hours, fees and schedules change; confirm before you go.
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