I'm considering a lot of factors and I *think* I want a multi-resort aka Ikon, Epic, or Ski3. I only plan to ski East Coast. Last season I did Indy and enjoyed it and was thankful to have skiing during the pandemic, but looking back I got burned out by all of the effort (making day trips by myself, getting a Covid test every time I crossed state lines, staying out of the lodge), which was part of the reason I skipped downhill this season.
I also moved from Boston to New Jersey, so I need to acquaint myself with NY/VT mountains as opposed to NH, where I'm pretty sure I've skied at pretty much every mountain except Cannon at one time or another
Some things that are important to me: I'll mostly be skiing weekends, I'd like a multi-week weekend program so that I will commit to more days of skiing and can progress from intermediate to glades and sidecountry eventually, and since I don't have any family/friends who ski, I'm considering finding a ski club that frequents a particular mountain(s) so that there could be some reduction of travel effort/lodging expenses, and increase of camraderie