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Favorite part of home mountain

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Lonely
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As I ride the hype train I'm thinking about these things.

My "home" mountain is Crystal MI. Their fries are the shit, even though they're super expensive, and the ski patrol is super chill even giving me shovels to build a feature into the side of a building. Just some pretty good vibes.

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Aug 20 2015 10:55PM
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shin-bang
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Fries, skiing under the lift line and hooting and hollering at people you know, oh and the local babes ;)
Aug 20 2015 10:59PM
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Swandog7
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Gotta go with possibly the fastest tow rope in the country. fuck t-bars. lapz for days
Aug 20 2015 11:01PM
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BAYKUR
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My home mountain is camp fortune,this shitty little resort in western Quebec.

My favorite part about it is that the park is on the smallest of the 4 small peaks and is the perfect place for non stop park laps. Aldo, the cafeteria is not as expensive as all the other ski hills I've been to and they serve the best poutine ever.

Damn I miss skiing
Aug 20 2015 11:02PM
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Kajex
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Favorite part of ANY mountain is first lift of the morning, and cracking that first lift beer of the day with your crew
Aug 20 2015 11:06PM
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Brocka_Flocka
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Non-stop T-to-b Pali laps.
Aug 20 2015 11:09PM
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a_burger
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tree skiing is banned so there are less people in the trees
Aug 20 2015 11:11PM
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SteamySteez
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All of the best powder spots on the mountain that none of the tourists know about!
Aug 20 2015 11:14PM
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CHORIZO
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KajexFavorite part of ANY mountain is first lift of the morning, and cracking that first lift beer of the day with your crew


Lift beers with your buds make any mountain feel like your home mountain
Aug 20 2015 11:30PM
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Big_Mtn
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Basically never any lift lines in the winter... Oh and summer skiing.
Aug 20 2015 11:33PM
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270on420out
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The rope tow in Santas beard. Makes it 10x better
Aug 20 2015 11:34PM
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Mingg
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There are two main hills in my area, Holiday Valley and Kissing Bridge. Holiday Valley is this big resort. Charges close to 1K for a season pass(its a 650 foot hill) and has been compared to Vail in recent years. Their mountain watch is almost an exact replica of Vail's, just to give some perspective. This hill is an extremely touristy area pretty much. Not to hate on them, they're doing their thing and thats cool. It's a fun place to ski and I go there each year it's just not my favorite place.

So anyways! The big expense has actually pushed locals away and over the years more and more locals have been coming to KB. Less and less tourists have been attracted to KB as well which gives the hill a pretty awesome vibe. Lots of really cool people here even though our hill is a bit more outdated. The vibe here is unmatched. So much fun. Went through a transition year with park crew(Management thought it was a GOOD idea to drug test park crew and everyone got fired-lol) so the park wasn't too good this year. In the past though KB's park was fucking killer.

Another part of KB is that it's out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. So after a day of skiing you really cant go anywhere but the bar there. So there's usually a bunch of really cool people chillin which is always a good time.

Home mountain life is rad.
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Aug 21 2015 12:27AM
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Lonely
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Swandog7Gotta go with possibly the fastest tow rope in the country. fuck t-bars. lapz for days


That's the thing I most hate about my resort. 400 ft of elevation and no tow rope for park, which means a lot of hiking or waiting on lift lines.
Aug 21 2015 8:48AM
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gnutter177
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My home hill is Mount Pleasant, just out of Edinboro PA. They only one rail, which is really fun to hike when all my friends are together, but the best part has to be bombing it through the trees first thing in the morning when no one else is there.
Aug 21 2015 9:35AM
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SterlingArcher
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the huts.. when they're not being taken apart by patrol
Aug 21 2015 11:31AM
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Burgy
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ski-bolaDamn I miss skiing


man I feel ya homie, four more months
Aug 21 2015 11:40AM
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Burgy
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best part about edelweiss, is the sweet park lines, and the short lift lines. every rider is chill as fuck too.
Aug 21 2015 11:44AM
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littleman34
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2 FOOT HOT DOG FOR $5
Aug 21 2015 12:01PM
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littleman34
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Burgybest part about edelweiss, is the sweet park lines, and the short lift lines. every rider is chill as fuck too.


ya man edelweiss park is sick. I mostly ski calabogie and pakenham tho.
Aug 21 2015 12:02PM
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johnblaze
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My favorite things of 7 Springs past..

Emos Pit burgers actually cooked on a grill
Rope tow beside the half pipe
Chilling in the rope tow hut smoking cigs and dipping with Jeremy
Rat Shack fires that came out the top of the chimney
Diving board at the indoor pool
Huge pizza slices upstairs by the goggle
Safety rangers had easy to spot jackets
Aug 21 2015 12:07PM
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Burgy
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seamus_csya man edelweiss park is sick. I mostly ski calabogie and pakenham tho.


haha sick dude! iv been to both a few times and they are chill hills!
Aug 21 2015 12:08PM
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bedin
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How I have gotten to know just about everyone in the park. Makes for a real homy feel.
Aug 21 2015 12:20PM
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270on420out
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johnblazeMy favorite things of 7 Springs past..

Emos Pit burgers actually cooked on a grill
Rope tow beside the half pipe
Chilling in the rope tow hut smoking cigs and dipping with Jeremy
Rat Shack fires that came out the top of the chimney
Diving board at the indoor pool
Huge pizza slices upstairs by the goggle
Safety rangers had easy to spot jackets


Giant steps terrain park
Aug 21 2015 12:47PM
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JoshWong
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seamus_cs2 FOOT HOT DOG FOR $5


Whaaaaat!! Every mountain should have this
Aug 21 2015 1:15PM
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littleman34
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Josh........WongWhaaaaat!! Every mountain should have this


fresh cooked by a park rat to your personal liking. they even ask you if you want two buns
Aug 21 2015 1:16PM
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FastSpeed
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Burgychill hills!


i see u
Aug 21 2015 1:17PM
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JoshWong
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seamus_csfresh cooked by a park rat to your personal liking. they even ask you if you want two buns


Color me jealous
Aug 21 2015 1:21PM
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chef_boyardee
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Grouse is a 10-15 minute walk from my house. Unfortunately they only had about 4 or 5 runs open at the height of the season which is terrible, even for their standards. That being said, the park is always in good condition and the park crew works hard to keep it that way.
Aug 21 2015 1:45PM
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esotericjive
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Stash woods at killington has a plethora of dope spots to catch a cyph
Aug 21 2015 1:48PM
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RRhighrider
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$3 whiskey
Aug 21 2015 2:00PM
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bgeskior
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rope tows
cheap food
across the street from my highschool
Aug 21 2015 2:16PM
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Chubz.
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gnutter177My home hill is Mount Pleasant, just out of Edinboro PA. They only one rail, which is really fun to hike when all my friends are together, but the best part has to be bombing it through the trees first thing in the morning when no one else is there.


If ur looking a better park go to peek n peak homie. It has to be like 25 minutes from the boro
Aug 21 2015 2:39PM
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coldcuts69
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At titcomb (aka the tit) everybody knows everybody.

The fries are bomb.

And night skiing :)
Aug 21 2015 2:58PM
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.Asain-Skiier
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Ahaha crystal mountain, the park there was shit 3 to 4 years ago. I love my home mountain, sick park and sick backcountry. Kvitfjell.
Aug 21 2015 2:58PM
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J_Steez
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knowing it like the back of my hand
Aug 21 2015 3:04PM
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kim_jong_ill
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the awesome park and the crew that builds it, knowing all the secret spots and awesome side hits, the rowdy middle table in the ski lodge that all the freeskiers sit at and the pre and after season parks
Aug 21 2015 3:30PM
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WVskiing
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Alley laps
Aug 21 2015 3:32PM
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humpty
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Trails that we cut in the summer, smoke shacks that we also built
Aug 21 2015 4:16PM
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gnutter177
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Chubz.If ur looking a better park go to peek n peak homie. It has to be like 25 minutes from the boro


Hell yeah man. I've been there a couple times the past two seasons and it's awesome. Thinking about getting a season pass this year.
Aug 21 2015 5:04PM
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aspiringskibum
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Dank pizza that is also cheap and all park face - Mount Snow
Aug 21 2015 5:06PM
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LOLZfajitas
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hot girls from socal trying to snowboard = epic yardsales all day under the lift lol
Aug 21 2015 5:59PM
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Cream_Sauce
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COP - You can ski for free, it's in the city and you can lap a full slopestyle line in 10 minutes (including lift).
Aug 21 2015 6:40PM
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jdfreeski2
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Just knowing the resort saying hi to the locals and the jerrys we know.
Aug 21 2015 7:30PM
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Easy-E
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Rope tow = hot laps = more hits in less time. Gotta love tiny wiscompton hills. Plus I sweat when I use the rope tow so I can stay warmer when the weather is below zero
Aug 21 2015 8:06PM
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Aidin954
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Night skiing, working there, pretty good food, oh and knowing where the ski patrol actually goes and where they don't so you can grab some lines on closed parts of the mountain :)
Aug 21 2015 8:22PM
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kylemclean
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Dedicated park chair.
I'm a faster skier than most of the patrol or they just don't care enough
No lift lines most of the time especially in the park.
All the cashiers think i'm staff so I get half off food.
good side trails/jumps if you know where to look.
Pow if you know where to look.
park liftys are chill as fuck
Aug 21 2015 8:34PM
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BBurt
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Having another peak attatched to us and having it made exclusively tree skiing, plus having most of it being hike access only. Best burritos on the planet and the man made jumps in the trees in random spots. Sugarloaf, ME
Aug 21 2015 8:36PM
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JGWI
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Most of the long term employees (Almost everybody) knows most of the pass holders by name.
Aug 21 2015 8:44PM
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msg
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You guys have it so good
Aug 21 2015 8:49PM
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grilled_steeze
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my home mountains are gore and whiteface. Gore, its easy to find an area to hide from traffic, and has some pretty varied terrain. whiteface has a better park and some really nice steeps, not to mention the slides
Aug 21 2015 9:22PM
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scips
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The deep deep BC powder in the tree runs
Aug 22 2015 1:44AM
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