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You Know Your Riding in the Midwest when...

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tommycat
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(just saw one of these for the east, and figured the midwest needs one too)

one day it snows and the conditions are perfect, then the next day it rains.
Feb 22 2010 12:43PM
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ButteredToast.
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YEAH BUDDY
Feb 23 2010 5:04PM
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bethyb
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everybody knows your name :)

and you like the tow rope more than the chair because you can get more hits
Feb 23 2010 5:12PM
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CoolioDude
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if you wish there was an 800 vert hill within 4 hours of driving.

Feb 23 2010 5:21PM
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BootySpunk.
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This is the only good thing about the midwest....stupid chairlift rides taking 10minutes when I am trying to lap the park at Big Sky..
Feb 23 2010 5:30PM
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apcaipse
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2 MINUTE CHAIR RIDES FTW.
Feb 23 2010 5:50PM
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epoxiedtip
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yes
Feb 23 2010 5:54PM
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Tinga
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when you claim everything midwest super hard
Feb 23 2010 6:04PM
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SpaceTiger
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when you have nicer handrails around you than park rails
Feb 23 2010 6:05PM
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ButteredToast.
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sooo professional
Feb 23 2010 6:12PM
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Chompo.
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when your backyard setup is as good as the setup at your park
4 inches of snow is a epic pow day
you get three turns in and are at the bottom
you get really good at rails
you know every non gapper in the park
a 25 foot jump is big
you want to take a trip out east
your whole hill is the size of the park out west
you get up the non high speed chairlift in 2 minutes
Feb 23 2010 6:28PM
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Waldo-
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this
Feb 23 2010 7:05PM
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quixotic
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When you can access the entire "mountain" from one chairlift. When getting more than 50 inches in a season is considered epic. When you can get from the "summit" to the base in 30 seconds. When 500 vertical feet is considered a big ski area
Feb 23 2010 7:16PM
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skiminnesota
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ive never really understood this phenomenon.  haha

i mean its indisputable fact, that skiing here pretty much sucks balls. unless skiing is either A rails, or B gates.

i suppose there is always Chicken at Welch. so thats fun, but its 10-15 seconds of fun. hahaha
Feb 23 2010 7:19PM
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Gabstarrr
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instead of busloads of gapers you get busloads of the amish

Feb 23 2010 11:14PM
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ohpatti
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when hiking back up the hill is quicker than taking the lift..
Feb 23 2010 11:58PM
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ohpatti
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when the gaper to freeskier ratio is 367:1
Feb 24 2010 12:00AM
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ohpatti
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when you see people sking in jeans they wore to church on sunday
Feb 24 2010 12:01AM
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caucasian_chad
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Your car is parked at the top of he hill.
There is one high speed quad in the state.
You know every employee at your ski area by name.
You can ski after school.
There isn't a single rail on the hill until mid December (fuck you Spirit), and jumps won't be around til after Christmas.
You ski trees no matter how icy it is because the runs are so boring.
A one weekend snowmobiling event generates more revenue than the entire ski season, and gets priority over the runs for snowmaking at the beginning of the season.
There is a freeway above where you ski.
Feb 24 2010 12:04AM
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tommycat
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which hill do you park at the top of?

I definitely have skied after school and after work though haha
Feb 24 2010 3:47AM
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shintastic48
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When you spend more time on NS than actual skiing.
Feb 24 2010 8:56AM
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bout_it
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should have been /thread
Feb 24 2010 9:11AM
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soulskier
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when you see large groups of baptists skiing in skirts
Feb 24 2010 9:14AM
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quixotic
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Indian Head in the U.P.

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Feb 24 2010 9:18AM
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Ben.
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when you are one of 4 people on the mountain not wearing jeans.
Feb 24 2010 11:08AM
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ohpatti
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raging buffalo in Algonqin, Illinois
Feb 24 2010 11:53AM
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skiminnesota
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oh no doubt. i have fun too. its not a matter of having fun i have fun everyday on the hill.

but for me 3,000vertft of pow > 300verft of rails/jumps. but i understand if other people have different priorities when it comes to skiing.
Feb 24 2010 1:39PM
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Mitcheepoo
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The number of snowmobiling jackets and hunting jackets outweigh the number of actual ski jackets.


Feb 24 2010 1:39PM
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moonofendor
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your local hill has a carhartt/camo day where if you wear any carhartt/camo you can get a $10 lifts.
Feb 24 2010 1:44PM
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shintastic48
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Pow > Park. Can't wait to move to my home country of Japan!
Feb 24 2010 1:52PM
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ohpatti
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word up , but the parks are always pretty much the same.. well at least from wisconsin area..
Feb 24 2010 2:12PM
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parkskier
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Wow...where do they do that?
Feb 24 2010 2:55PM
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moonofendor
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brandywine had it last year... soo funny cuz we would get the weirdest looks from people in camo jackets and jeans... gotta love ohio though.
Feb 24 2010 4:10PM
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Lambo*18
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I'm a rail rat so I enjoy making laps of the same line doing different tricks, but to add to the thread


When your "cat team" has no idea how to set up a nice park and cant figure out how to set up or keep a nice jump.
When your "cat team" is all snowboarders and only set up things thats are really nice for snowboarders and not for skiers.
Feb 24 2010 4:51PM
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D-Rex
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when the terrain park is used as a bunny hill....
when you have 10 times more rails than jumps...
when a rainy day is acceptable because atleast its not ice...
when most skiing takes place when resorts out west are already closed for the night...
when over half the people there have the same exact rental skis...
Feb 24 2010 5:23PM
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860media*
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lulzzz
Feb 24 2010 5:30PM
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caucasian_chad
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Also spirit mountain, mn and afton alps too i think.
Feb 24 2010 5:46PM
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snowking249
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when you have 1 jump and you have 12 rails/jibs.

and when you can slay harder at those rails/jibs than people out west

Feb 24 2010 6:02PM
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skiminnesota
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that would depend on the number of pow days i get a year ;)

i get what youre saying but its not like you cant ski pow with friends.
Feb 24 2010 8:57PM
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Ben.
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exactly. its not like by moving out west you no longer have friends. well allen might if he was here, hes asian.
Feb 24 2010 9:26PM
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NoCoastSkier
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when u get treated like a black person from the early 1900s from all the boarders...... at least thats what its like where i ride.
Feb 24 2010 10:24PM
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ohpatti
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^hahaha

even when you tear shit up three times harder than them and dont sit on your ass more than actually ride
Feb 24 2010 10:54PM
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NoCoastSkier
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^ they 50 50 everything while im doing some pretty tough shit and like 5 out of 250 give me props and respect. its usually the actual good boarders that respect that i ski tho so thats cool
Feb 24 2010 10:57PM
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sunshineee
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You're actually lucky, its a huge even for us to get up to IndianHead.
You know you're from the midwest when you have to drive 2 hours to get to a hill.
Feb 25 2010 12:32AM
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moonofendor
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yeah. for a while the boarders were kinda dicks. but the past couple of years it's almost like we become family for the season.

which reminds me

when you here of places opening out west and think "sweet I have another 2 months before the local hill opens."
Feb 25 2010 2:36AM
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kingsskier
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When a pow day is when they ran the cat grinder over the snow deeper than normal
Feb 25 2010 2:58AM
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s_a_m
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When the skiing is worse the the east coast
Feb 25 2010 6:54AM
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Sinuous
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YOU CAN SHRED TIL 3AM BITCHES!!!!!

Feb 25 2010 8:02AM
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