Replying to Where's a decent place to go around northern NY?

Help me out here. I just moved here from Colorado. I'm living right off I-81 at the Canada border on Wellesley Island and want to know where to go for good skiing. And when does stuff start opening? Is anything now with this little bit of snow?
--But as the technology to build highways and telephones has crept north of the American border, so too have illicit gambling, crack-whores and Shopping Cart abuse gangs.