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kingcomet32
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Hey, i just sent in my check for UB, im wondering if anybody else is going there and is also looking for a roommate. Was also wondering if anybody skis at holiday valley, i guess its a mt a little under an hour away, and most likely what i will be calling my home mountain.

pm me if youd interested in meeting each other and maybe being roommates
Apr 22 2009 4:13PM
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tBatt
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Both my brothers go to UB, and they ski at HV (one of them is JAYTRON on here), and I'm pretty sure iSkiSwitch goes there too. Either that or he just lives in the area.
Apr 22 2009 4:16PM
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Twinjibber77
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I'm going to Niagara U. I HV next year.
Dirty_Griddle and fragglemuffin go to UB an ride at HV. Iskiswitch an Jaytron ski at HV but idk where they live or go to college.

Apr 22 2009 4:56PM
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SkierX
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ISkiSwitch does attend UB as well as live in the area. He splits his time between HV and KB.
Apr 22 2009 5:18PM
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General_Ripper
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I go to UB.  We had shussmeisters ski club but i kinda sucks If your really into skiing but fun If you want to get drunk
Apr 22 2009 5:45PM
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Twinjibber77
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What night of tha week is that?
Apr 22 2009 6:36PM
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SkierX
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Schuss goes to KB some nights, and HV other nights. Sort of alternates between the two. The pass is pretty dirt cheap and you can take a drunk bus if you want as well.

I'll PM ISkiSwitch to get his ass in here as well.

Steezninja skis WNY as well (mainly Killa Bridge though)
Apr 22 2009 6:46PM
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General_Ripper
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Mon - KB/HV nights (switches)
Tues - KB night
Wed - HV night/KB day
Thur- KB night / Concaigne day
Friday- HV night/ Concaigne day
Saturday - KB night
Sunday - Peak and Peak 8 hour pass

It's only $150 and If you get it real early its only $113
You take a coach bus only on weekday nights (pretty sweet) but you get there at like 7pm which sucks because I hate doing park so late.
Apr 22 2009 6:50PM
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General_Ripper
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I'm gettin a combo for next season though but I will still go to the Last Chair Party they have its dope and all the red bull and vodka you can drink.
Apr 22 2009 6:51PM
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Smuffy
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I'm not in college, and I'm not gonna be there for a while but i did schussmeisters for a year. It was a sweet  deal cause you get to ski different places, and its mad cheap. The only drawback is you don't get to choose where to go on which night.

Heres a little summary of the local areas:

Kissing Bridge: (my home mountain) second closest to Buffalo, with a pretty decent park. The lifts arent that great, and the park crew can get super lazy. Its about 30-40 minutes closer to Buffalo than Holiday, so thats real nice. Probably the best thing about KB is that the park is kinda secluded and it has its own lifts, so its easy to find people.

Holiday Valley: Pretty far from Buffalo, but way nicer that KB in pretty much every way. The lifts are better, the park is nicer and its bigger. The season is also way longer, so pretty much everything about the valley is better. Holiday also has a pipe, which KB doesn't.

Buffalo Ski Club + Holimont: They're private so you wouldn't wanna go there. Besides, they both have terrible parks, even by WNY standards.
Apr 22 2009 7:12PM
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Twinjibber77
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So is this a public thing and not through tha college?
Apr 22 2009 7:35PM
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SkierX
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http://www.schussmeisters.com/Home.html

"How can I join?

To Join: Basically, you or someone in your IMMEDIATE family must have an affiliation with SUNY at Buffalo. We accept current students, alumni, current UB employees or IMMEDIATE family of any of the above."
Apr 22 2009 7:51PM
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Twinjibber77
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Shit. I'm going to Niagara. So i take it there is no way i can join? I have a good friend that attends UB. bahhh
Apr 22 2009 8:16PM
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kingcomet32
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okay, sweet sooo KB and HV are both good, ill deff have to look into the ski club

how much is ski club, and how many weeks do they run on that schedule?


still lookin for anybody who might wanna be roommates, hit me up if your a freshman goin to UB


thanks and karma to everybody who has posted
Apr 22 2009 9:31PM
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SkierX
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KB is meh. I obviously didn't ski there this past season, but in the past they always had an incredibly weak terrain park staff. Really lazy. However the vibe was fun back in the day.

HV is getting better. They've been stepping it up more and more but still have a ways to go as far as a larger resort is concerned.

If you can snag a discount for HV, go with there. Better terrain, better park, better lifts. KB was good because it was so cheap if you had to pay full price.
Apr 22 2009 9:36PM
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Smuffy
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yeah, my dad went there for a year. so my family was eligible to join.
Apr 22 2009 10:27PM
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Moses
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chucktheweasel goes to UB, he knows what the drill is
Apr 23 2009 12:11AM
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General_Ripper
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Heres the website for the ski club It should explain everything --> www.shussmeisters.com

If you need anyone to ride with hit me up I try to get out as much as possible while being an engineer major.



Apr 23 2009 12:50AM
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kingcomet32
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Thanks a ton man, im also going for engineering looking forward to getting out there. I'll def have to hit you up on that offer when winter rolls around, i have a car but i think im going to have to sell it so ill be looking for rides
Apr 23 2009 11:22PM
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fragglemuffin
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hahaha just to clear this up, i dont go to UB, but i live right outside of buffalo (im going to Alfred in the fall so ill most likely be skiing Bristol and occasionally Hv and Kb when im home for break) and ive been skiing HV and Killa Bridge all my life and both have had pretty legit parks in the past year or two, but im leaning towards  saying that KB had the better park this year, besides the sick hike sesh that HV had last week..both are fun hills though
Apr 24 2009 5:26PM
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Smuffy
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I would definitely say that KB has a better vibe, it seems like everyone knows each other. As far as the park management goes they got a new manager this year and hes not drunk all the time like Langman so it was way better. I'm not gonna lie, the park was still shitty but it was way better than its been in the past.
Apr 24 2009 6:01PM
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juliana.
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deff look into schuss your season pass is good for hv kb and some others i think...i should know i have one and its pretty cheap but they also hold alot of events where you can get drunk
Apr 26 2009 12:56PM
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General_Ripper
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^ I have never seen you riding with shuss. It's funny bc I would deffinatly remember someone in eggnog SAGA
Apr 26 2009 4:54PM
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juliana.
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cause i dont go up alot i only go 2 or 3 times a season to visit my sister but i was there at the last chair party
Apr 26 2009 8:05PM
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Twinjibber77
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You will be riding Swain next year silly!
Apr 26 2009 10:26PM
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General_Ripper
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oh I figured you went here. I was there too....but drunk the entire time. I did that comp on that tiny kicker(kinda pissed about it).
Apr 26 2009 11:01PM
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fragglemuffin
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is this pure optimism or are they going to stay open??? i would love to ski a small place like swain over bristol or hv...small resorts are so much better IMO
Apr 27 2009 6:53AM
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Twinjibber77
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Three serious buyers with more money than god. I'll take that as a buy.
Apr 27 2009 8:58PM
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tBatt
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youre an engineering major at UB? What engineering are you going for? my brothers doing civil
Apr 28 2009 7:00PM
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General_Ripper
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What year is he? I'm a sophmore mechanical major
Apr 29 2009 12:28AM
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ISkiSwitch
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hmmm, kinda late to this thread. shows how much I go on newschoolers since the snow went away...

congrats on choosing UB though, as long as you like the big school scene, you're going to love it. as for skiing, well, you're from New York, don't expect much.

KB's park is getting bigger and better, but with the limited snow and space every year, it's tough to get a park that competes with bigger places, but they do fine, with a few unique and technical features a year. When I'm at KB, it's basically all park, the lifts are too god damn slow to enjoy riding the rest of the mountain.

I go to Holiday to get some actual skiing in. They get a good amount of snow, and have a first class snow making system. The lifts are good, with 2 high speeds, and the runs tend to wind around a little bit and seem longer than they actually are. Holiday's parks are more traditional than KB's, but they have some good features. A lot of smaller straight rails up to some pretty big features. Right now I personally hate the hill the main park is on, it's too skinny and short. Holiday also has a half pipe, most of the time it's garbage, but when you get lucky, it's pretty damn good.

hit me up with a PM if you have any questions about UB or the resorts around here.
May 6 2009 8:46AM
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Smuffy
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^that pretty much covers it.
May 6 2009 6:05PM
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AT-AT
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yea same here, i just enrolled into UB

May 12 2009 12:56PM
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Dirty_Griddle
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yo get a season pass to holiday valley much better terrain park imo, and in most other peoples opinions too, shuss kinda sucks, i will prolly be driving to holliday everday, we should get a freestyle skiing crew together and shit
May 13 2009 10:00PM
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Twinjibber77
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I'm getting an HV pass. Any idea on cost or discounts? like college discount?
May 17 2009 2:09PM
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General_Ripper
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hes right shuss kinda sucks. Btw are you by any chance alex.
May 19 2009 10:07PM
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Dirty_Griddle
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yes i am
May 20 2009 7:44AM
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kingcomet32
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okay so sounds like holiday valley is the way to go? Im sure ill figure soemthing out when i get there ill definitely be looking for rides though if anybody wants to carpool, i can throw in gas money too. A freestyle crew would be sick

hit me up with a pm ive gotten a couple its good to know therell be some other nsers out there
May 21 2009 2:28PM
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Chucktheweasel
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I'm at UB and work at KB. I'll be graduating in December, but should be stickin' around for most of the winter.

KB has a sweet vibe to it, but the mountain is just ehhh like everybody else says.

HV is fun but can sometimes be super crowded and just a bit of a different vibe.

Schuss is a sweet deal if you are a student. You get to ski 6 days a week if you have a car (maybe 7?) and 4 days if you take the bus. Pretty sweet deal.

Also: My buddies just got accepted to the engineering grad school program at UB... if you take thermo dynamics and have Dargush (sp?) you should be having one of them as your TA. My other buddy will be a TA for a different professor, but I forget who it is.
May 21 2009 10:26PM
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mksmith3
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Yeah UB!! I graduated from there last year and I was in Schuss all 4 years. Its a great group of people, the price is right, and winterfest doesn't suck either :)
May 21 2009 11:48PM
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General_Ripper
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I dont think dargush teaches thermo. Thermos pretty tough the TA they had assigned for the class back in the fall didnt know how to do anything....it sucked
May 22 2009 11:41AM
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pscull03
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im goin to Penn State Behrend in Erie next semester so I'll be skiing Holiday valley too

i hope theres alot of legit kids up there! thatd be cool

May 22 2009 4:23PM
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Smuffy
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this is depressing cause everyones goin to the valley. leavin us poor kb fools to ourselves...
May 22 2009 4:58PM
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bawarski
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I got to UB and ski a lot at both Holiday and KB thanks to http://www.schussmeisters.com. It's one of the best ski club's in the country without a doubt. You can take a coach bus 4 nights a week and ski some of NY's best terrain parks. Can't beat it anywhere
May 23 2009 9:50PM
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Smuffy
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bahahaha no....
May 24 2009 10:05AM
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General_Ripper
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yea right. two spring breaks ago me and my friend got there every mourning and skied cordoroys for hours some of the best park skiing days ive ever had. IMO KB would have the better park if they new how to set up rails, they need to take care of it more and have less ride up shit. It would also be a plus if some of the people running the park werent recovering heroin addicts........
May 24 2009 6:45PM
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SkierX
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God bless Kissing Bridge.
May 25 2009 6:43PM
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Uncle.Badness
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There is this thing called a white card that is supposedly a pretty good deal.
May 28 2009 11:14AM
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tBatt
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hes gonna be a junior.
May 29 2009 11:00PM
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Colt45er
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Greeting there fellow Buffalonian resident and fuure Holiday Valley gnar shredder.. im Colt, would be stoked to ski with you.  Most of the freeskiing crew at HV is dissapating but there will be a VERY few left. All my buds are going to colledge within the east, but i still plan to ski HV until the days at the foundation resides which will most likely be my senior year (2010). HV is a really amazing place if you look at it right, the park has got potential.. but your better off skiing the whole mountain and have some fun switch carving or rocking the trees when theres POW.

What are you going to college for?

Check out the forums for HV, take a peep.
http://www.holidayvalleyforums.com/?
May 30 2009 12:50AM
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kingcomet32
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im going for general engineering, ill probably choose later on, how are the glades at HV, i ski at a mountain that doesn't have any glades, but theyre my favorite part about skiing if theyre legit
May 30 2009 9:31AM
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