Philly ski scene.... is there one ?

where are you coming from? it's getting bigger since i moved to philly 6 years ago. there's bear creek, blue mountain, jfbb, and maybe camelback all less than 2 hours away, so if you've got a car, there are definitely options. my sr. year of college i skied about 5 days a week because my roommates and i all scheduled our classes to be off tuesday & thursday, and done by noon fridays. temple's got a pretty big snowboard club, which to my knowledge is what all the non-gaper skiers join. they're actually putting on a rail jam in center city in a month or so. i work right outside the city now, but have a few friends who plan on just catching a bus from center city to my work, meeting me at 530, and getting in a couple hours of night riding during the week. if you're coming from VT or UT or somewhere else out west, you might want to kill yourself, but if you're from somewhere who doesn't really have great skiing super close, it's not too bad. Mt snow is doable in about 4 hours too, for an easy weekend trip.

oh word thanks for the input man, i'm actually coming from western pa, about an hour away from seven springs and pittsburgh but was just thinking of doing it for a new experience

yeah im right outside of philly too but i was wondering where all ya newschoolers at. we need to get some backyard setups going. PM me i got a huge kicker/ramp/drop in if you want to use it.

first post pretty much summed it up, i'm right across the river in jersey,  but it's definitely growing, like just the other day i was longboarding in a neighborhood when i spotted a sick backyard set-up in someone's yard, shit was sick, like perfectly welded rails and boxes, my guess is that it was a snowboarder though cause there was skate ramps in the drive way

youre not that far from bear, blue, cbk, and blue, which are lots of fun and usually have good park setups

Just think, if you live by Temple you can get some "lifestyle" shots in an actual hood...not in a suburb of SLC or some silly thing like that.

stop stealing my ideas. think how much street cred we'd have if we have shots with legit ghettos as the backdrops! there are so many rails waiting to be hit here, we just got screwed (?) by going to utah both times it accumulated in the city last year. anyone else going to the TGR premier tomorrow? http://www.powderdazetours.com/MoviePremiere_09.html

yo thanks a ttttoon for the info, i think i'll def maybe apply over cmas break.

damn i wish i had know about the ski premier in Philly.

I live 30 minutes from Philly near west chester and go to school at Longwood Gardens. theres a few kids who are younger than me who ski around here and i try to get up to Big Boulder as much as possible but usually i go home to Mt snow.

if anyone has a backyard rail or set up and wanna sesh, hit me up. i never knew there were any skiers around this area