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Willows
Posts: 442 - Karma: 2,631
Post three positives and three negatives about your home mountain or the just the mountain you ski the most!


Val-Thorens, FR

+ Sun, bc and park (it is so well made) http://youtu.be/v=-HJB3utGb8c

- Drunk gapers everywhere, slushy slopes below 1500m and no-fun lifties

My favorite mountain is Hovden, NOR though..
Nov 18 2014 3:33AM
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S.J.W
Posts: 7609 - Karma: 31,171
Perisher.

Positive. Awesome parks, Always sunny, can always get away with a hoodie.

Negative. Season is 3 months long. No pow ever, shit snow
Nov 18 2014 3:36AM
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shepux
Posts: 470 - Karma: 1,629
Mt Ruapehu

Positive - Epic spring days, chill skiers, fun park

Negatives - Ice, massive queues, short season
Nov 18 2014 3:58AM
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270on420out
Posts: 7519 - Karma: 51,245
7 springs

+ Big and well-serviced parks, long seasons, close to Pittsburgh

- Gapers everywhere, ice, the "I'm better than you" vibe is very eminent
Nov 18 2014 9:41AM
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wizard_of_aahhhs
Posts: 711 - Karma: 1,769
Alpine Meadows

+ Decent Park, easy access side-country, spring corn skiing

- Owned by Squaw, Squaw changed french fries in lodge, Squaw sends ski school/gapers/ski team over to alpine, Squaw fired long time workers/friends of mine

Overall Squaw is the root of all the problems, and after Alpine got bought out nothing has been the same
Nov 18 2014 1:01PM
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Dobber
Posts: 1698 - Karma: 9,835
Granite Peak (WI)
Positives- 2 high-speed quads and a high-speed 6 Person chair, 5 terrain parks, most snowguns in the Midwest.
Negatives- $74 day passes, lots of snowboarders, lots of gapers.
Nov 18 2014 1:51PM
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theabortionator
Posts: 52051 - Karma: 167,343
ShepuxMt Ruapehu

Positive - Epic spring days, chill skiers, fun park

Negatives - Ice, massive queues, short season



That ice is next level. Never seen anything like it and hope I never run into it anywhere else. Unreal.

IT was good shreddin with you down there
Nov 18 2014 2:56PM
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ModMommy
Posts: 10843 - Karma: 57,725
Going for a double whammy here:
Northstar California
posi: No wind, killer park, tree skiing is really fun
neg: Is one of the flatter Tahoe resorts, owned by vail, lift lines

Big Sky, MT
posi: No lift lines, unreal big Mountain, lots of terrain
neg: has shitty jumps, owned by boyne, really cold
Nov 18 2014 4:03PM
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flurry*
Posts: 287 - Karma: 1,192
Appalachian Ski Mountain

Pros:
1) Relaxed attitude
2) Fun parks
3) Lots of competitions

Cons:
1) Very small mountain
2) No powder
3) Unpredictable weather
Nov 18 2014 4:23PM
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JGWI
Posts: 2842 - Karma: 7,812
Powder Ridge MN

Positives-
-Awsome lapable park
-Great staff
-Resonable pass price
(Feels like a home away from home.)

Negatives-
-Every Tuesday parasites known as middle schoolers invades the hill and devours all the snow and destroy the structural beauty of the park.
-Lots of Ice
-Using the main chair is always a risk because you might die of old age before reaching the top.
Nov 18 2014 4:25PM
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*JP
Posts: 302 - Karma: 441
Kissing Bridge, NY

positives
+chill vibes
+relatively cheap passes ($45 to ski from 9 am until 10 pm)
+Ok park with tons of fun skiers/riders to ski with

negatives
-short seasons
-rains often, then everything turns to ice at night (especially the park)
-very lazy park crew
Nov 18 2014 4:45PM
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Huck_Norris
Posts: 11487 - Karma: 18,627
Magic in VT

PROS
Terrain
Vibe
No crowds

CONS
Short season
Old infrastructure problems
Weird closures at times
Nov 18 2014 6:23PM
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shin-bang
Posts: 4103 - Karma: 7,001
Pebble Creek Idaho

pros- good vibes, hardly any lines, ummm lots of rocks?

cons- terrible park and park maintinence, grooming, super slow lifts (we still dont have a highspeed quad). oh and did i mention lots of rocks?
Nov 19 2014 12:23AM
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lukemeahan.
Posts: 1689 - Karma: 330
Alyeska, AK.

Pros: pretty gnarly terrain for resort access, night skiing, only an hour away

Cons: it snows but not like everyone thinks, very small resort(crowded, and gets tracked up fast), and the park is pretty bad.
Nov 19 2014 12:27AM
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MagSeven
Posts: 1000 - Karma: 412
Sapporo Teine, Hokkaido

Pros
-Steep terrain accessed by a high speed quad
-Powder. Lots and lots of powder.
-Long season (November to May)

Cons
-It's next to the sea so has great views, but it can get windy which sometimes shuts down aforementioned high speed quad.
-The normal runs aren't too interesting, so not much to do when the top lift is closed.
-It's not a secret anymore, so it's getting busier and busier.
Nov 19 2014 12:37AM
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brend
Posts: 779 - Karma: 3,608
COP

Pros -
1) It is in the city.
2)Fun park.
3) Pretty long season ( November to mid April)

Cons -
1) Calgary is cold as shit all winter.
2) Ice
3) It gets realllly busy.

Lake Louise

Pros -
1) Great terrain in the mid winter and spring.
2) Generally has a fun park.
3) It is huge.

Cons
1) It doesnt get good powder / snow until February.
2) Expensive Season pass
3) It is one of the farthest hills from calgary.
Nov 19 2014 12:50AM
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rballs_
Posts: 709 - Karma: 2,992
Lake Louise, Alberta

Positives
1) Long Season
2) Good Snow
3) Good Parks
4) 2nd Most Amount of Terrain in NA
5) Good/Frequent Competitions

Negatives
1) Long Lift Lines
2) Lots of Gapers
3) No End-Of-Season Wrap-Up (Gaper Day, Slush Cup, etc.)
Nov 19 2014 12:54AM
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ModMommy
Posts: 10843 - Karma: 57,725
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I'm still semi bitter over it.h Tey've gotten better, but the second year after the purchase, the vibe changed SOOOOO much that it bummed me out.
Nov 19 2014 11:51AM
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GrahamGould
Posts: 713 - Karma: 2,439
Telluride

Great weather, no lift lines, possibly the best terrain in Colorado.

Not as much snow as we would like, some of the worst avy danger in the lower 48, and it's in the middle of nowhere.
Nov 19 2014 12:23PM
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.otto.
Posts: 3494 - Karma: 12,902
Cannonsburg

positives- great park"best in the midwest", Fast tow ropes (when they dont break down, super fun

Negatives- shitty snow, verticle of 250 feet, overun by snowboarders
Nov 19 2014 12:36PM
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freeballer
Posts: 735 - Karma: 1,061
Vail/Beaver Creek

+ 300 days of sunshine
+ very consistent 350 inches of dry snow annually
+ Really decent sidecountry that is much more steep than inbounds with much more snow.

- Flat terrain in-bounds
- Parking
- Crowds on weekends from Denver/Boulder (Texans and other tourists stay on easy runs and are seldom in my way. Many Front Rangers on the other hand think they are all expert skiers and try to ski above their ability level and clog up the good pow runs. Not all of them, mind you, but enough to be noticeable)
Nov 19 2014 12:39PM
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Ski_Alot
Posts: 5908 - Karma: 3,730
Sunday River, Maine

Pros- super fun park, fast laps with a 4 minute lift ride, long season, short lift lines

Cons- Not a lot of snow, so many gapers and massholes, icy
Nov 19 2014 12:45PM
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BigScaryLarry
Posts: 1448 - Karma: 2,732
Mount Snow, VT

Pros:
Best parks on the east.
Carinthia all park mtn face
the vibe is mad chill
free pass from work/family

Cons:
lift lines
fucking flatlanders gaping in their jeans and gucci jackets
carinthia gets mobbed as fuck on the weekends
the mountain besides the north face is pretty flat and easy
Nov 19 2014 12:53PM
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JAHpow
Posts: 7282 - Karma: 17,183
Andes Tower Hills (however now Detroit Mt but haven't been there yet)

Likes

The chalet is cool, idk why I like it so much because there's nothing too spectacular about it. But I just like it.

No lift lines really

When the park is properly set up, it's a fun little place to jib.

Dislikes

The park is never properly set up

Gapers

Tiny
Nov 19 2014 12:58PM
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Drew_Cooke
Posts: 3 - Karma: 11
Cairngorm Mountain, Scotland, UK

Pros
-Open most of the season (end of November to early May usually)
-Friendly
-Nice wee cafe

Cons
-Busy (as got no chair lifts or gondolas)
-Can get very windy and cold
-Too small and never enough snow!
Nov 19 2014 1:01PM
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lujoth
Posts: 28 - Karma: 206
Snowy Range, Wyoming

Positives: Short dive, uncrowded, good snow and park

Negatives: windy, small, Nebraskans
Nov 19 2014 4:57PM
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danlyfe
Posts: 96 - Karma: 87
Summit at Snoqualmie, WA
Nov 19 2014 8:20PM
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MAMERON
Posts: 160 - Karma: 270
whistler bc
Nov 19 2014 10:32PM
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DASZ.mp4
Posts: 380 - Karma: 2,991
Arizona Snowbowl
-park overrun by parents teaching their children to ski
-phoenicians on snowboards who think they are "DA Shit"
-we lost our jumps due to too many gapers gettin hurt #whydidyoudoitJP

+our park manager built a 50 ft jump a week after by convincing the GM that people would just land 5ft
away on the side because it was structured as a hip
+park significantly gets better because of the crazy hard work of the park staff
+they sponsor an event where they set up a slope downtown and put rails there for a weekend
Nov 19 2014 10:46PM
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methscratchface
Posts: 1204 - Karma: 4,445
The Prestigious Montana Snowbowl

PROS:

-Its like stepping back in time to when skiing was about being a dirtbag and not about boutiques and fucking timeshares.
-some bars have a pool table, snowbowl's bar has a ski hill
-2600 feet of continuous vert

Cons:

-not enough ratchets
-quite possibly the worst terrain park in the country (who gives a fuck)
-too expensive (40 bucks a day!!!)
Nov 19 2014 11:10PM
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skier58284
Posts: 1705 - Karma: 5,366
Snowbird
Good: Gnar, pow, vertical drop
Bad: Long tram line on pow days, closed during summer and fall, no spine walls
Nov 19 2014 11:56PM
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chanzo
Posts: 13 - Karma: 40
Snowparadise Velká Rača (Slovakia)

Well, we dont have such a big mountains or good resorts in our country but this one is definitely my best ski resort where I ski since I've been 5years old so

+ I know every single section of it
+ lot of friend skiing there
+ I'mhelping to build park every year and thats the thing I like the most

- shit snow (cause of bad winter)
- lot of gapers and kids
- slow lift's
Nov 20 2014 7:55AM
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North_Ace
Posts: 37 - Karma: 33
Sunshine Mountain

+Sunshine!
- highly exposed = windy as fuck most days
+ delirium dive
Nov 20 2014 1:12PM
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kylemclean
Posts: 413 - Karma: 1,311
Blue Mountain, Ontario

Pros: park is never busy, decent glades (for ontario) if you know where to look, staff is pretty chill with the locals that come almost everyday

Cons: Park has been hit or miss the past few years. Busy on weekends and holidays outside the park, low vertical, YELLOW JACKETS ARE EVERYWHERE
Nov 20 2014 5:15PM
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harryskijackson
Posts: 14 - Karma: 11
Turoa, Mt Ruapehu NZ.

Pros - Slack country can be sick
- Spring skiing
- The very occasional powder day

Cons - Ice
- One of two ski mountains in the NOrth Island so it's crowded as F
- Gaper assholes
Nov 20 2014 11:11PM
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No.Quarter
Posts: 5257 - Karma: 16,966
Arapahoe basin

+No lift lines
+Awesome Vibes
+Great Terrain

-Park has gone downhill in the past couple of years
-Iconic Steeps don't open usually until late march and are sometimes only open for a week of the season
-Relatively small
Nov 20 2014 11:36PM
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BADxCARMA
Posts: 23 - Karma: 74
Mountain Creek, NJ

Pros: got to follow the shadow of Sam Zahner (look him up)

a TON of features and jumps

night skiing went until 10 or later if you knew the right people (hiked the rails until 2:00am once

Cons: ice EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME (this can be good though since it works on balance landing jumps and whatnot

gapers everywhere (mountain is close to NYC and vacationers come around and ski into landings and cut you off as you drop in, etc

snowboard gapers snow plowing left and right and pushing all the snow down and ruining landings and creating ice


overall i was happy to have it as a home mountnain, i got to see what a really good skier was in person and the amount of freestyle terrain was immense for an east coast hill
Nov 21 2014 9:43AM
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mcgroth898
Posts: 51 - Karma: 107
Ski Liberty

Positive- chill vibe, fun park

negative- short season, ice, gapers everywhere
Nov 21 2014 11:04AM
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Scotty_Boy
Posts: 777 - Karma: 1,449
a_shaky_gifPebble Creek Idaho

pros- good vibes, hardly any lines, ummm lots of rocks?

cons- terrible park and park maintinence, grooming, super slow lifts (we still dont have a highspeed quad). oh and did i mention lots of rocks?


This can be improved.

PROS
Tons of natural features
Small Liftlines
Plenty of awesome locals

CONS
Opens late
Bad snow coverage / bad snow base
Terrible park (although the new stash park has potential)
Nov 21 2014 11:21AM
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danncphedran
Posts: 1622 - Karma: 1,002
GrahamGouldTelluride

Great weather, no lift lines, possibly the best terrain in Colorado.

Not as much snow as we would like, some of the worst avy danger in the lower 48, and it's in the middle of nowhere.


Ye
Nov 21 2014 1:52PM
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Tanner_McClune
Posts: 28 - Karma: 347
Snowbasin, UT

Positive:
Pow,Short lift lines, Great food in the lodges.

Negative:
Tons of old people, icy faces until January, terrain parks are small and not on point.

All around its an awesome mountain, they just need to step up their park game and get a younger crowd.
Nov 21 2014 2:02PM
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CradleFills
Posts: 35 - Karma: 20
Greek Peak, NY

+ Finally a couple of new lifts

+ New trail section

+ Only 30 mins from home

- Took them a long time to even think about upgrading said lifts and trails

- Expensive as fuck

- Gets old fast, not enough terrain that suits my style
Nov 21 2014 2:46PM
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numnuts
Posts: 395 - Karma: 1,150
Bogus Basin, ID

Pros:(if I can think of any) decently long runs, night skiing?

cons: bad park, very few if at all pow days, douche ski patrol and ski hosts who think they are ski patrol, and many more
Nov 21 2014 3:04PM
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saskskier
Posts: 4774 - Karma: 10,005
aceofbladeZ1) Calgary is cold as shit all winter.


Coming from northern Saskatchewan, Calgary winters are downright pleasant.


Kinsmen Ski Center

Pros:
Tiny (I've done more laps there than anywhere else)
Really well built park (some of the best shaped jumps I've hit)
Super chill vibe
Music on loudspeakers

Cons:
Tiny (like 90 vertical feet)
Ski club/school (take up all the space on club nights)
Saskatchewan winters (almost all of Jan/Feb is -20c to -30c plus windchill)
Nov 21 2014 3:20PM
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Daph
Posts: 5978 - Karma: 5,010
Big Sky MT

pros: biggest skiing in america fuckers, insane in bounds terrain, nobody skis there

cons: upper management is really good at dumping money into asinine shit when more important things need critical attention, we'll have spells of -30 degrees F for two weeks straight, the rocks are very sharp and with the terrain we have core shots are inevitable.
Nov 21 2014 8:00PM
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