If you're in troy you're in a great spot for getting to mount snow. Only an hour and a half if even from there. Troy used to have my favorite music venue revolution hall but northern lights, a giant shithole ran it out of business. A lot of good shows come through northern lights or "upstate concert hall" I think they call it now. That said you can change the name but the place is still a shit hole. That's in clifton park, so a short drive up the northway from you, on your way back from gore.
You'll see west when you're driving back from gore at night, exit 18.
Hickory is a cool little hill in warrensburg,exit 23 where you get off for gore. But they've been having a rough time as they don't make snow and the last few winters they haven't really opened much.
Albany seems like it's dying honestly. Pearl street isnt really happening anymore. Used to go to small shows down there all the time. Jillians closed last year or two years ago. A spot nearby called the bayour or something is alright and has some decent stuff. I think red square closed but if that's still open that place was pretty decent. Also the palace theater right odd 87 on clinton. Don't park off of clinton unless you wanna get shot robbed or both but that's one of the best old theaters out there. Don't make em like they used to. Also albany has a pretty good free summer concert series. Thursdays I think in the park down by the harbor. Also some free music at the empire state plaza regularly. Don't hang out in washington park at night if you're down there.
There are some good urban rails around troy as well. Also some in Albany. There's a nice high down rail in mayfield( a little bit of a drive, and a nice single dfd in johnstown hit both of those in one shot as they're close. Both of those are school rails but they aren't in the hood so that's refreshing if you're hitting troy albany shit. There's a cool down rail to c with a bank, maybe like 60' if you did the whole thing in canjo, between fonda and utica on the thruway. You just drive through town and when you go up the hill you'll see it on your left. Never hit it but always looked at it when driving to my buddies house.
That's all I got for now