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Whats the best ski mountain in the east coast?
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big boulder was better skiers and snowboarders. but killington has better jumps and rails
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In no particular order, here are the places you should ski if you are back east.
Jay Peak
Stowe
Sugarbush / Mad River
Sugarloaf
Sunday River
Saddleback
Pico
I'm not so sure about park since I've been out west for two seasons now.
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stowes park used to suck but now its pretty dec so i say stowe
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what are you guys on?
killy sucks balls
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sunday river
killington
okemo
waterville
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i never answerd woops
for parks it was
loon, okemo had a desent one, strattons was sick, i never made it to waterville but i heard good things about it
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PARK -
Loon - huge park, really long run. Great jumps and rails.
Waterville - Smaller park, but there is a park only lift, there big jumps are perfection and they always have some sick shit setup (this year, a bomb jib) sweet staircase aswell
Big Boulder - Never been, heard they really stepped up as a park resort
Okemo - sucked this year, but great park prior years
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Sugarloaf
Mad River Glen
Stowe
Killington
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Killington is one of the biggest and one with a lot of fun and steep terrain, but the management hasn't been great. We'll see this season as they were bought, (and season pass prices went $$$$$$$$$$$$$, unfortunately.) Last season I had a pass and mostly skied there, next season I'll probably go there but also visit a ton of other places.
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I'm a Sugarbush goer since the age of 3 so i will of course put that up there.
Jay Peak
Mad River Glen
Stowe
SugarLoaf
Killington
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JAY.
Steepest terrain, most powder, most snow in general, most trees, they keep it 'ardcore. Jay is the closest thing to the West out East. It reminds me of Baker.
Best park -- Avila, St. Sauveur in Quebec. I don't go to the US for park so there's probably others.
Best party -- Tremblant. When the snow is good, Tremblant rocks. Their park is world-class too, but what really makes Tremblant shine is everything you do AFTER skiing.
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Lets see...
you have...
sunday river
killington
mt. snow
Jay peak
okemo
Loon
waterville
All really good
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for pow and steeps: Jay, hands down. no competition.
for park: Waterville or loon
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Sugarloaf, tremblant, sunday river, jay peak, stowe.
sugarloaf is underrated for park. they just completely re-did it last year, and it's pretty sick, although shorter than the old one
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LOON and stowe and sunday river
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killington??? that's overcrowded over priced garbage right there!!
park - Loon, WV, WA
mountainness - definitely jay above all others
there is a lot of nice skiing out here
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stowe is competition but still i would have to say that jay is the best place in the east.
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Alpine Valley OHIO!!!!!!!!
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Jay is definatley one of the best I've ever been to.
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everyone forgot about ski sundown CT best park mountain ever
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im tired of all this jay love, ok the pow is really good but their park sucks and stowe is steeper and has almost as much snow
on a related note, killy is probably the most joeyed mountain in vt, you might as well go to mountain creek and other mountains have better parks so dont give me that
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Ding! Sugarloaf is awesome. Stowe is sick too but not as good as Sugarloaf.
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Avila is the best park on the east, but tremblant is fuckin badass.
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Stowe ... stowe is where i learned to love skiing
Sunday River... lots of terrain and if it isn't really cold, its usually a fun time
Jay Peak... also gives you a close to out west feeling... CLOSE... thats the key word
Wachusett was the best for me for access 45 mins from boston usually no traffic getting there and theres always fun to be had there with friends, the people are really chill there. you get the locals feeling at a commuter resort
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loon was soo dope when i was there
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loon killington has so many fuckign people it so annoying
PS: loon was rated best east coast park by snowboarding mag and no i do not snowboard someone told me about it.
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I'm so happy that no one has said Stratton.
But for me, I'm gonna have to say Sugarbush or Mad River
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wait, arnt you the guy that does all these east coast reviews for freeskier?
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First off, mountain creek is soooooooooo shitty compared to killington. Killy isn't bad if you go on a weekday and get cheap student seasons passes. Stratton is like 800x worse than killington. NO terrain, more (maybe?) expensive than killy, and more south than killy so there are more new yorkers. Stratton is my least favorite mountain on the east coast. Yep, the entire east coast.
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yeah well ive been getting free seasons passes to killy since i was little because my mom works at mount snow and i still didnt go that much, and yeah stratton is worse but that doesnt make killington the best
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probly cloudmont in alabama
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JAY > everything else.
More snow. Better Glades. Sick out of bounds. Less Crowded. Cheaper. The Triple Major Pass is going to be sick next year (Jay/Mad River/Bolton). The only negative is the park kinda sucks, but park really isn't that good anywhere in Northern VT.
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MARQUETTE!! MI REPRESENT. lol killy rules the east
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these are my favorites
loon
smugglers notch
jay
mt sunnapee
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No. Killington never had good jumps. it has good rails but they never put them in. this past year there main park sucked. the only thing good about it was the flow but the biggest jump was 35 feet. if you wanted to hit a big jump it was 45-50 feet but you had to skip the whole park.
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