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nickyp
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This is more a question for park rats, just to gauge sentiment, out of interest really.

Would you rather ski at your local hill as often as you do now, for an average season. Or would you rather ski for 2x4hour sessions indoors per week, all year round?

I'm really not sure whether we in the UK and north-western Europe have it better or worse than those that live near hills. I actually cant imagine not skiing all year round.

Thoughts?
May 11 2011 4:13PM
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kvan
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That would be sick but it's just not the same indoors....
May 11 2011 4:17PM
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3-6-steeze
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That's a tough question, especially since the season just ended for us. I would miss real snow and real mountains (hehe) but right now, i just wanna ski again. I can't say
May 11 2011 4:18PM
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THUGwife
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absolutely no way would I take indoor skiing over mountains or hills. never.
May 11 2011 6:23PM
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613.
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im tempted to go with the indoor, because my season was cut. i cant really say..
May 11 2011 6:28PM
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a.wall
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i would like to ski 5 days per week at my local hill in the winter, then the rest of the year ski indoor whenever i want
May 11 2011 6:28PM
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AGOF
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west coast>indoor>east coast
May 11 2011 6:30PM
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Imma_Freeskier
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id ski my local mountain because in and indoor you cant really get better at big jumpes, only rails. i mean, rails are dope but id just get bored after skiing all year round on them and no big booters to hit
May 11 2011 6:32PM
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YoungJah
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Real hills, real snow.
May 11 2011 6:36PM
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Davy.Crockett
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mt hood. lets goooo
May 11 2011 6:40PM
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JustDidIt
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Considering my hill has a 4 rail max line in one run or 1 smallish jump, I might take the indoor skiing.
May 11 2011 6:43PM
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SKIU4EA
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i hope my meter is broken, but if you think indoor skiing is better than east coast you must have skied some real shitty hills
May 11 2011 7:08PM
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Wesley.P
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real snow hands down for sure.

but i have water ramps in steamboat for summer

May 11 2011 7:19PM
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EmperorKuzco
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Oh eaaaaasily local hill, it would get so boring and so old in an indoor facility
May 11 2011 7:47PM
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dunkaroos
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most definitely outside...on REAL MOUNTAINS...on REAL SNOW...
you get the drift


however, I would love to try skiing indoors
May 11 2011 7:53PM
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Rosbif
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Northern hemisphere for their winter, then southern hemisphere for their winter. Can't imagine it any other way!
May 11 2011 7:56PM
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yeahno
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no
May 11 2011 8:01PM
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joshua
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No way would I take indoor, I love skiing pow and exploring way to much.
May 11 2011 8:04PM
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AGOF
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this isnt because of the terrain, its the combo of the terrain and the short season
May 15 2011 1:29AM
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nickyp
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This is a fairly standard set up. We have a fair few quite beefy rails, not sure how this compares to the average east coast hill
May 15 2011 5:09AM
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Dan.P
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That looks like a pretty legit setup. Whats pricing like?
May 15 2011 5:37AM
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Toby.Dickson
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tough question. skiing all year round would be dope, yet i would miss the real mountains too much.
May 15 2011 5:38AM
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.Tom.
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Hey man when do you go to Tam? I was there last Tuesday lol. Probably not gunna be going again until September though.
May 15 2011 5:44AM
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.Tom.
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Bout £20 for students and for like 3 hours slope time.
May 15 2011 5:46AM
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nickyp
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I was there twice a week up until last year. Now that I live in London, I dont get up too much, so ski Hemel or MK instead. But I'm going to try and ski there a fair bit over summer, it is my home mountain after all
May 15 2011 6:18AM
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blah..
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west coast>east coast>indoor.
May 15 2011 12:06PM
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Jaggy_Snake
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That's what my local indoor setup roughly looks like. They say they "change it around" every week. But it's the same no matter what week I go...


4 hours = £37 = $59.92USD
May 15 2011 12:21PM
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THUGwife
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the plans make it look legit but it's so not
May 16 2011 2:10AM
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juelzz
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pretty expensive for only 4 hours.
May 16 2011 11:37AM
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Jaggy_Snake
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Yes it is. But if you wanted to only go there for 2 hours it's £27 = $43.85USD which makes it completely worthless going for 2 compared to 4, for another £10.
May 16 2011 11:46AM
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I.B
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Would you rather

Eat a moldy sandwhich that your grandpa made with his toes

OR

Drink an earwax smoothie?
May 16 2011 11:52AM
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Mr.Huck
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This is pretty good info. Thanks for making this thread.

Huck and Splash www.huckandsplash.com will have a splash pool with small, medium, large and XL park style hits. It will also have q-pipe, cannon boxes, hand drag features, cliff drops and mogul hill to freestyle mogul kicker into the pool. I will be getting an airbag too so that you can progress from pool to airbag. At some point I will be adding a dry slope jib hill. I have estimated that I will charge $30 US per day. You can stay until closing time and season passes will be available for between $200 to $250.

How do you think that compares with UK indoor ski facilities?
May 16 2011 12:12PM
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caliskigirl
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It's great if you don't have access to outdoor mountain snow, but I don't think that there is a comparison....outdoors is always going to be better then man-made snow.
May 16 2011 12:20PM
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t_rob
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ITS ACTUALLY HAPPENING!?!??!?!??!?!??
May 16 2011 2:05PM
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tristanjtaylor
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Since moving to the UK i would take real snow and a hill over indoor any day, especially when the snowdomes in the UK are few and far between.
May 16 2011 2:41PM
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*SNO*
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yup but dry slopes
ive got 6 within 50 minutes drivin
May 16 2011 3:29PM
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DGski
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.
May 16 2011 4:05PM
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Ruffles
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my mountain is pathetic, like truly truly pathetic. I would take just about anything over it.
May 16 2011 4:12PM
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*SNO*
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and where is this pathetic mountain
im sure its better than some of the sking we got here
May 16 2011 4:15PM
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Ruffles
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http://www.sleepyhollowsportspark.com/home.html
May 16 2011 4:19PM
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*SNO*
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Hey man at least you don't Hav to lift any jumps or rails up a hill to gave a go on them
May 16 2011 4:23PM
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tristanjtaylor
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true, but dry slope skiing has nothing on shredding the real stuff. I have a wider range of features in my back yard than we do at my local hill in plymouth.
May 16 2011 4:26PM
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Ruffles
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at least you have jumps...
May 16 2011 4:28PM
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*SNO*
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Wow your hill is worse I feel sorry for you
May 16 2011 4:29PM
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monkatizer
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you are fucked up if you think like that
May 16 2011 4:54PM
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EmperorKuzco
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if you dont have jumps build them, its not that hard. im talking about kicky mogul-esque jumps in which you can flip and spin
May 16 2011 5:02PM
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-ROY-
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this looks like a better setup than my local hill. that being said maybe
May 16 2011 5:06PM
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nickyp
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Becuase of the costs of refridgeration, we can't create booters over 10ft or so. Literally, if we try and create new snow, the extra chilling needed drives up costs. So on that front, H&S pwns. Some of the dryslopes have fairl decent-sized booters, but if you come off you skis, our skin comes off your flesh.

The UK tends to be rail-based, and I'm grateful for that. During a good session, we can get between 30 and 50 hits in per hour.

Costs wise, I go so often, that I rarley have to pay to ski at Tamworth anmore, so I definitely think you should look at rewarding the faithful. I feel like I've given a lot to Tamworth in terms of patronage and publicity, and I appreciate that they recognise that. But those costs sound superb compared to UK facilities.
May 16 2011 5:27PM
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nickyp
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You have to remember that on a good night, we can have upto 15 features out, more at some of the bigger places. And because the rope runs along the side, it is trul lapable - it takes about 30 seconds to get to the top of a 3-rail line.
May 16 2011 5:29PM
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A.Eberhard
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I would have to say real mountains. Can't ski pow indoors, plus the jumps I have seen indoors are tiny.
The cost to sounds ridiculous from what I have read in this thread; $60 USD for 4 hours?! My season pass is $300, cost me about $5 to ski a day this year.

Plus it is sort of nice to have a little break from skiing and do some other stuff. Also the hype in the three months before you can hit the slopes is the best. Arena sessions and watching ski movies over and over again, best time of the year.
May 16 2011 5:41PM
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Ruffles
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yea its really easy to make jumps out of ice and sleet.
May 16 2011 5:55PM
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