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Best mountain in PA or NJ???

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rugbyguy18
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I'm from Philly and this year instead of buying a season pass I want to visit a good amount of mountains. Any suggestions? I like skiing groomers and park.Been to Blue Mtn, Bear Creek, JFBB, and Mtn Creek. Any good ones I need to visit??

Nov 7 2010 9:14PM
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eastcoastplanker
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7 springs for sure
Nov 7 2010 9:15PM
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skithesprings
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7 Springs, hands down best mountain in PA or NJ.

come in march to see the best park and pipe scene in the east.
Nov 7 2010 9:16PM
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rugbyguy18
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ill have to check it out
Nov 7 2010 9:20PM
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J..H
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7 springs or mt creek
Nov 7 2010 9:21PM
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infuser
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mountain creeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
Nov 7 2010 9:22PM
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rugbyguy18
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had a season pass to ntn creek last year..its bangin..def gonna have a couple visits therethisyear again
Nov 7 2010 9:30PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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yep. that and blue are pretty much the only places I go.
Nov 7 2010 9:33PM
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Eric.S
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Mountain creek and big boulder are the best you will find for park in the area, I have heard seven springs is super nice.
Nov 7 2010 9:35PM
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deathcookie
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Camelback and Bear Creek if you want good terrain parks
Nov 7 2010 11:42PM
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special-J
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7 SPRINGS. rated #1 parks on the east coast by transworld snowboarding and #2 by Ski magazine. that says something....
Nov 8 2010 1:46AM
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Chickendodo
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If you enjoyed the ones you went to, definitely try out Camelback, it's not bad. You said JFBB, so I'm assuming that means both mountains, but if not, try both, they're both pretty fun, Big Boulder more if you're a dirty park rat though.

Never been to Mtn Creek but all my buddies shit on it so hard, so I dunno... and it's in the dirty Jerz, I mean c'mon...

Honestly, if you don't expect to ride much, then you should do the whole try out a lot of mountains thing, but if you plan on hitting up a mountain more than 10 times this season get a pass... your wallet will thank you.
Nov 8 2010 2:45AM
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^BEANS^
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if your looking for a mountain close to philly go to bear creek its about 40ish mins from philly. but JFBB
Nov 8 2010 6:38AM
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Dhane
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i would have to recomend mtn creek. ive been all over the tristate area skiing and so far its my favorite.
Nov 8 2010 8:17AM
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cct_222
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if your in philly 7springs is sick but is far, mt creeks awesome but can be far too.....
imo you have blue, camelback, or big boulder... and out of those 3 id choose camelback cause they have a pretty sick park and its somewhere that you can actually carve some turns
Nov 8 2010 9:07AM
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clark.
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Bear Creek hands down if you want a nice mountain close to Philly that isn't too crowded. Springs is so nice in every way but it's really far and is always packed to the point where you almost always get snaked.
Nov 8 2010 9:13AM
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bdowning
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Hands down between Big Boulder or Mountain Creek. Boulder has some of the nicest jumps on the east coast. But Creek has a huge selction of trails and features to choose from, and their jumps have improved every year. 
Nov 8 2010 9:47AM
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T-Pency
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Springs for sure! we have the best jumpline hands down.. no hate on boulder love the place but it's just too damn flat!
Nov 8 2010 12:11PM
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jjdsteeze
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SKI ROUNDTOP!!! :D
Nov 8 2010 12:12PM
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skithesprings
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Thats all i have to say
Nov 8 2010 12:30PM
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rooftop
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why would anyone drive out to 7 springs from philly when they could be on their way to NY, VT, NH in that amount of time?

if it's philly and there are dumps like last winter's spring mountain is super close and cheap. otherwise bear creek has a nice park, blue is solid, roundtop is kinda close if a storm tracks farther west, jfbb is on target, but elk is a hike and they don't like when you duck the ropes or fuck around outside of the park.

Nov 8 2010 3:46PM
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infuser
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why mountain creek is the obvious choice:

its spread out over 4 connected mountains with almost 50 trails

nightskiing on every trail

the two mountains farthest right are entirely park and all the gapers go to the mountains left

mtn creek is the shit

Nov 8 2010 5:29PM
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rugbyguy18
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thanks for all the suggestions guys. Ill def have to check out camelback and elk..maybe 7 springs if im willing to make a 5 hour trip ( might as well go to somewhere in VT or NY for that amount of time haha)
Nov 8 2010 5:48PM
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