recent snowboarding trip

[AdironRider]

Just got back yesterday from a 3 day excusion to the White Mountains of NH. Got to ride for free at Bretton Woods, Cranmore, and Shawnee (which is about 2 miles into Maine). The area got 8-14 inches of powder Sunday night and the riding was incredible. Cranmore blows but the other two mountains are real nice. I want to ride Wildcat sometime as I heard its pretty good. I was real impressed with Shawnees park too for this early in the season. Couple nice table tops, a box, two C rails and another regular one. Really fucked myself up o nthe C rail but thats cool. Someday Ill nail it.

[Brew]

Damn, I'm jealous. I still haven't been up yet. Shawnee's a great mountain. Good night skiing/boarding too. Definitely check out Wildcat, I go up there a lot. Just know that they don't have much in the way of jumps and rails, much more of a technical carving mountain.

[KillerCalypso]

Re: recent snowboarding trip

Just got back yesterday from a 3 day excusion to the White Mountains of NH. Got to ride for free at Bretton Woods, Cranmore, and Shawnee (which is about 2 miles into Maine). The area got 8-14 inches of powder Sunday night and the riding was incredible. Cranmore blows but the other two mountains are real nice. I want to ride Wildcat sometime as I heard its pretty good. I was real impressed with Shawnees park too for this early in the season. Couple nice table tops, a box, two C rails and another regular one. Really fucked myself up o nthe C rail but thats cool. Someday Ill nail it.

Uhhh i beg to differ...That area got less than half of what you said. I think it got about 5-6 inches total from the snowfall on sunday. They didnt even really have to plow roads, snow was intermitant. My family has a condo at Attitash Bear Peak Moutnain and i skied one day at Bretton Woods but there was only about 35 out of 101 trails open.. Cranmore was horrible.....None of the mountains have that much snow yet plus tomorrow its supposed to rain in the area...Mother nature is not kind to eastern skiers.. . By noon all the trails are nice and icy thats why im not out there right now, oh well. pray for snow.

Andy

[AdironRider]

I was just going off the ski reports on RSN. By the time I got to the mountains at like ten they were pretty much packed powder. Bretton Woods had good snow throughout the day. Cranmore was a sheet of ice and Shawnee was beautiful till about 2, by then all the little kids learning to ski had pretty much snowplowed the good snow away. You should get off your ass man, the riding is nowhere near as bad as your making it out to be. Although that rain will make things suck

[h0lmes]

u people really need to ski out west

[tonytony]

Usually i'd agreed people should hit up the PNW but this year is terrible!!! The resorts just recently started getting enough snow to open up most of their lifts, and I'm just now starting my job at one of them :roll: I must say it's a very disappointing year to buy a season pass for those who bought one for Mt. Hood. I dont know about any other mountains up here, but I'm guessing it's the same deal.

[tommyboy]

u people really need to ski out west

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

Usually i'd agreed people should hit up the PNW but this year is terrible!!! The resorts just recently started getting enough snow to open up most of their lifts, and I'm just now starting my job at one of them :roll: I must say it's a very disappointing year to buy a season pass for those who bought one for Mt. Hood. I dont know about any other mountains up here, but I'm guessing it's the same deal.

I fly up to Washington to go snowboarding this winter break, and when I had gotten to the mountains, they had just opened it the day before :?

It was a horrible experience, btw, hardly any snow, and it was my first time boarding (I am actually an avid skier)

[AdironRider]

6" of powder dumped up here today. Looking forward to snowboarding at Attitash next three days

[KenC]

Usually i'd agreed people should hit up the PNW but this year is terrible!!! The resorts just recently started getting enough snow to open up most of their lifts, and I'm just now starting my job at one of them :roll: I must say it's a very disappointing year to buy a season pass for those who bought one for Mt. Hood. I dont know about any other mountains up here, but I'm guessing it's the same deal.

Which one are you working at?

The snow this year is coming REALLY late. Timberline is the only place worth going on Mt. Hood. Bachelor just got a decent amount of snow.

When I was in Tahoe at Heavenly the base was only about 30"! But they just had about 4 feet dumped on them the past few weeks so they're OK now.

[tonytony]

Usually i'd agreed people should hit up the PNW but this year is terrible!!! The resorts just recently started getting enough snow to open up most of their lifts, and I'm just now starting my job at one of them :roll: I must say it's a very disappointing year to buy a season pass for those who bought one for Mt. Hood. I dont know about any other mountains up here, but I'm guessing it's the same deal.

I fly up to Washington to go snowboarding this winter break, and when I had gotten to the mountains, they had just opened it the day before :?

It was a horrible experience, btw, hardly any snow, and it was my first time boarding (I am actually an avid skier)

which resort did you go to? I've been to stevens and crystal mountain. when I was at crystal it was terrible, that's because there was barely any snow at the time.

[tonytony]

Usually i'd agreed people should hit up the PNW but this year is terrible!!! The resorts just recently started getting enough snow to open up most of their lifts, and I'm just now starting my job at one of them :roll: I must say it's a very disappointing year to buy a season pass for those who bought one for Mt. Hood. I dont know about any other mountains up here, but I'm guessing it's the same deal.

Which one are you working at?

The snow this year is coming REALLY late. Timberline is the only place worth going on Mt. Hood. Bachelor just got a decent amount of snow.

When I was in Tahoe at Heavenly the base was only about 30"! But they just had about 4 feet dumped on them the past few weeks so they're OK now.

I'm working at mt. meadows. Minimun wage plus free lift tickets for myself, worth it to me. 50bucks for day ticket is like a days worth of working, so really it's like working 2 extra days without working them :)

[bimmerphile]

heh.

[MattE30]

Quit bitching. I've had to ski on fake snow in Wisconson so far.

[Mot]

Ya this year blows when it comes to snow on Mt Hood. 2 years ago at this exact time we had a 100+ inch base :(. Now its like 15in.... But hey im going up monday anyways... This is my first time going up this season which is sad cause I was on my highschool snowboard team and we went atleast 3-4 times a week for the last 2-3 years... So its a little weird not going yet.