Whiteface (Lake Placid, NY) is a must visit for any hardcore skier, particularly with its Olympic history, great restaurants in Lake Placid, and as for nightlife, there are more bars per square mile in LP than anywhere else in NY, except Manhattan.

Vermont offers superb skiing all over the state - Killington is a great place to go scouting bunnies, in addition to its monstrous # of trails and lifts.

Most likely the finest is in all of Vermont is Stowe Mountain though. Great accommodations (the Von Trapp resort is nearby - a great card to play when your hen balks at the idea of going to Vermont) , nearly all runs are over a mile in length, fast lifts, and it caters to your kind of skier - something like 60 % of the trails are blue, and 25 % are for the black diamond set, most infamous among them being the more than two mile long mogul fest Limelight.

There's actually a club for those souls brave and tough enough to ski it without falling. As ski season is just coming in here and I make several trips a year, I will be forwarding details from each of the resorts I visit this year. I am booked to be spending the New Year's in the Green Mountains, and am looking forward to skiing Suicide Six (great name for a ski resort, eh?), in particular, the much vaunted Face trail there.