Since ski season is closing in on us, i dcedided ill review the mountain closest to skidmore to how what it has to offer. Which isnt much, it is basically the size of a hill with only a handful of trails going down. all the lifts are slow doubles which isnt suprising since a high speed chair would get you up the mountain in like 10 seconds.
the ski team uses this mountain to practice but they will race at gore mountain this winter which willl hopfeully lead to better longer races.
the one thing west does offer is that it is only a 30 minutes drive from skidmore on I-87 north. It is also pretty cheap and they charge in hours not in dayys of skiing so it is possible to get out of class and decide to go skiing and within a hour be on the slopes for not too bad of a price.
Although est might be the farthest thing from a skiers paradise, it is close and cheap which is why it is appeasing the skidmore student population.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
hunter mountain
hunter mountain which is about 3 hours north of new york city is one of those mountain that inst that good but was close enough to go any day you wanted without having to spend a night. It had a high speed quad that goes up the whole mountain which basically serves as the main lift for most poeple which means it gets very crowded. But there are a few lifts that can can get you to the top without any long waits. Once at the top, you can choose either going down the main face or the WEST face which has much harder trails and mostly moguls.
The main mountain face has alot of different trails going down it including K- 27 which is a notorious trail that is very hard to transverse. It also has a couple of regular diamonds that are fun couple times every time you go to the mountain. About half way down the mountain, the trails converge into one gaint area on wich almost 6 different trails break off to form the bottom part of the mountain which is much easier then the top half.
All in all, hunter mountain is a good mountain because its only 3 hours away and offers some moderately hard trails to have fun on.
The main mountain face has alot of different trails going down it including K- 27 which is a notorious trail that is very hard to transverse. It also has a couple of regular diamonds that are fun couple times every time you go to the mountain. About half way down the mountain, the trails converge into one gaint area on wich almost 6 different trails break off to form the bottom part of the mountain which is much easier then the top half.
All in all, hunter mountain is a good mountain because its only 3 hours away and offers some moderately hard trails to have fun on.
first snow means first ski comin up... park city mountain review
Today was the first time it has snowed with a chance of the snow actually staying on the ground which means ski season is right around the corner. i CANNOT WAIT.
Today Mountain is park city mountain in Prk City utah. This is is one of my favorite areas to ski around because there are 5 different resorts in a 10 mile radius and they all recieve insane amounts of snow every year. the DAy i went to park city, it had snowed about 2 feet of fresh powder the night before and it was one of the coolest days of skiing i have ever had. We would take easy square runs and because of the knee deep powder, it made every trail as adventurous as the next. Considering how big the mountain( almost 150 trails) is we couldnt explore the whole thing but i was lucky enough to try out some of the harder bowls in the upper region of the mountain. These were trails that had 5 foot drops just to get on the trail but it honestly looked like fun and boy was it. I had some of the hardest best skiing of my life while my dad watched in agony as i tranveresed these insane bowls. I even lost my skis for about 5 minutes after a fall but after swifting through the snow for some time, i was able to find them and continue skiing. This mountain is made for powder and is a amazing place with fun for everyone.
ENJOY the SNOW
Today Mountain is park city mountain in Prk City utah. This is is one of my favorite areas to ski around because there are 5 different resorts in a 10 mile radius and they all recieve insane amounts of snow every year. the DAy i went to park city, it had snowed about 2 feet of fresh powder the night before and it was one of the coolest days of skiing i have ever had. We would take easy square runs and because of the knee deep powder, it made every trail as adventurous as the next. Considering how big the mountain( almost 150 trails) is we couldnt explore the whole thing but i was lucky enough to try out some of the harder bowls in the upper region of the mountain. These were trails that had 5 foot drops just to get on the trail but it honestly looked like fun and boy was it. I had some of the hardest best skiing of my life while my dad watched in agony as i tranveresed these insane bowls. I even lost my skis for about 5 minutes after a fall but after swifting through the snow for some time, i was able to find them and continue skiing. This mountain is made for powder and is a amazing place with fun for everyone.
ENJOY the SNOW
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Stoneham: the mountain of cold
Every presidents week for about 6 years, my family would travel up to quebec to ski at this mountain called stoneham mountain just north of Quebec City. This mountain featured 3 mountain faces with lot different terrain that would appease to any skier. The only problem with the mountain was that sometimes we would be forced to ski in temperatures as cold as -25 F. If you've ever been in this type of cold you know that it literally makes your bones shake and you can only last about 30 min before you start to shake as if a earthquake was occuring. This was OK with me bcause of how awesome the mountain was.
The best part of the mountain was this face called SKI. This is because it had SKI written on the mountain by trials and was the toughest trails at the mountain. The trails were the steepest ive ever been on and were challenging but fun. You would feel a adrenaline rush every time you went down them but you could never get tired of these trails.
When our ski leader let us, we would go adventuring through man made trails in the woods and this is were my true love for skiing came. i enjoyed these joy rides soo much because we literally had to make turns or else wed be skiing into trees. Its were you didn't have to make decisions but only react to the trails and how it tried to knock you down every chance it got.
For anyone who likes challenges and wants to push themselves, Stoneham is the place where you can battle the elements and the trails to see who will come out on top.
The best part of the mountain was this face called SKI. This is because it had SKI written on the mountain by trials and was the toughest trails at the mountain. The trails were the steepest ive ever been on and were challenging but fun. You would feel a adrenaline rush every time you went down them but you could never get tired of these trails.
When our ski leader let us, we would go adventuring through man made trails in the woods and this is were my true love for skiing came. i enjoyed these joy rides soo much because we literally had to make turns or else wed be skiing into trees. Its were you didn't have to make decisions but only react to the trails and how it tried to knock you down every chance it got.
For anyone who likes challenges and wants to push themselves, Stoneham is the place where you can battle the elements and the trails to see who will come out on top.
Monday, December 5, 2011
tethered Skiing, Turkle style
http://www.mountaindynamics.com/en/snowranger.php?src=220&gclid=CKDN5bz766wCFciC5Qod8y75Nw
The Link above shows a new product for Garmin handheld GPS. It is a software system that will record your whole days worth of skiing and tell you how fast you went, where you skied, and when you skied it. This new device can change how we ski and how we prepare to ski.
Even before you go out on the slopes, you can download a trailmap and map out your first 3 hours of skiing based on where you skied the day before and what trails you want. Then after the ski day has ended, you can review what trail you liked and didn't like and decide what trail you can ski the next day. It takes away the spontaneity of skiing and how you don't really know where you going but all you want to do is have fun. This GPS system would be a tether to TURKLE and would only increase the amount of connectivity you have with the world.
http://www.amazon.com/Zeal-Optics-Transcend-Spherical-Photochromic/dp/B003UA3XE2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1323124014&sr=8-2
These are goggles that have a heads up display that can tell you your speed, temperature and altitude on a heads up display in the visor. This isnt a tethered device but something thats simply awesome and a product similar to the one above but without being a tethered device. This is just COOL
The Link above shows a new product for Garmin handheld GPS. It is a software system that will record your whole days worth of skiing and tell you how fast you went, where you skied, and when you skied it. This new device can change how we ski and how we prepare to ski.
Even before you go out on the slopes, you can download a trailmap and map out your first 3 hours of skiing based on where you skied the day before and what trails you want. Then after the ski day has ended, you can review what trail you liked and didn't like and decide what trail you can ski the next day. It takes away the spontaneity of skiing and how you don't really know where you going but all you want to do is have fun. This GPS system would be a tether to TURKLE and would only increase the amount of connectivity you have with the world.
http://www.amazon.com/Zeal-Optics-Transcend-Spherical-Photochromic/dp/B003UA3XE2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1323124014&sr=8-2
These are goggles that have a heads up display that can tell you your speed, temperature and altitude on a heads up display in the visor. This isnt a tethered device but something thats simply awesome and a product similar to the one above but without being a tethered device. This is just COOL
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
GNAR
http://unofficialnetworks.com/gnar/
The movie GNAR which tells the story of a game skiers used to play at squaw valley that challenge each of them to push the limits of freestyle skiing and just insane stunts. Its centered around the sqauw valley ski mountain and its lengendary powder runs that put fear into the best of skiers. Bascially in the late 90s, this guy named Shane Mcconkey started to do some crazy stunts at squaw and eventually created a point system to challegne his friends in stunts and general sking fun. They would ski off cliffs naked or talking to their mothers to gain extra points and would even have "ego claims" to other skiers about how the are the best on the mountain.
The movie is basically a competition set up by one of the creators of the game in honor of Shane mcconkey who passed away. They got 20 skiers from around the lake tahoe area and had a 2 week compeition. unfortunuly, the game got shut down after a day because of too many naked people skiing but they still managed to travel to 5 other mountains and played the game there.
Even though this was a movie about a skiing game, it told a much bigger story. Throughout the whole movie, you can see how these people were obsessed with what they loved and it was great to see how these people felt about the games and its affect it had on the day of skiing. This movie perfectly shows people what skiing is truly about and why people devote their whole lives to skiing the hardest scariest trails possible.
The movie GNAR which tells the story of a game skiers used to play at squaw valley that challenge each of them to push the limits of freestyle skiing and just insane stunts. Its centered around the sqauw valley ski mountain and its lengendary powder runs that put fear into the best of skiers. Bascially in the late 90s, this guy named Shane Mcconkey started to do some crazy stunts at squaw and eventually created a point system to challegne his friends in stunts and general sking fun. They would ski off cliffs naked or talking to their mothers to gain extra points and would even have "ego claims" to other skiers about how the are the best on the mountain.
The movie is basically a competition set up by one of the creators of the game in honor of Shane mcconkey who passed away. They got 20 skiers from around the lake tahoe area and had a 2 week compeition. unfortunuly, the game got shut down after a day because of too many naked people skiing but they still managed to travel to 5 other mountains and played the game there.
Even though this was a movie about a skiing game, it told a much bigger story. Throughout the whole movie, you can see how these people were obsessed with what they loved and it was great to see how these people felt about the games and its affect it had on the day of skiing. This movie perfectly shows people what skiing is truly about and why people devote their whole lives to skiing the hardest scariest trails possible.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Stratton- prince of the north east
Stratton mountain in southern Vermont is one of the better ski places on the east coast. It had almost 1200ft vertical and is a classic Vermont mountain with lots of ice and deep biting winds. Stratton offers vast options for lifts with almost every lift being a high speed chair. This would cause lines to be shorter some think but this is the problem with Stratton, its PACKED. On weekend and vacation weeks, lines end up being 30 min for some chairs and it really annoys skiers. Some parts of the mountain are immune to the lines but they get boring quickly because they are all in a very similar area.
Another problem with stratton are the people that go there. They are all upper class snabs who think they own everything. People are irresponsible on the slopes and disrespectful in the town. This problems makes stratton out to be a rich person mountain which i completely agree with.
Still looking at stratton as a mountain, it offers a skilled skier everything they could want, with trails that have everything to high speed lifts, this mountain is a quality mountain in the east and remains a favorites place for me.
Another problem with stratton are the people that go there. They are all upper class snabs who think they own everything. People are irresponsible on the slopes and disrespectful in the town. This problems makes stratton out to be a rich person mountain which i completely agree with.
Still looking at stratton as a mountain, it offers a skilled skier everything they could want, with trails that have everything to high speed lifts, this mountain is a quality mountain in the east and remains a favorites place for me.
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