Home Mountains

[lemon boy]

Home Mountains.

It's a funny thing, a home mountain seems to me there are a couple of kinds, there's the mountain that you skied all the time as a kid and you can totally call that as your home mountain cause, that's where you learned, you know it, can go back after years away and still get er done. Doesn't even matter how far you progress beyond what it may/may not offer cause you have good memories.

Then there's the mountain that you usually ski at when home, a place where you go to ski, hammer for however long plunder what you want and ski all of "your lines" and don't lie: you have em. Shots you just naturally funnel to, turns you just take...sort of like the shelf you toss your keys onto at the house: home.

And then there's mountains that when you show up for the first time just suck you right in and make you feel at home. They have the vibe just right, it gets down and tickles that special spot that says: you're home. It's probably the thing I like the most about trying new areas, that one in 50 feeling like you and the hill just work together. PB&J. Home. There's places that I've been that I've grown to love skiing (CB, the Bird) that I knew the first day that we'd be able to sync it up but it was gonna take a little working. Then there's places that I just can't seem to get onto the sine wave with (JH/Alta) I know they're good but just not got that downhome feel. It is really though the ones that are instantly home that I really love. The first time it happened to me was with Berthoud that place just felt right and had/has terrain just right for me. Like friggin thunder it hit me I was home. Had it happen again recently, went a new place sort of like Bert and just slid right into the groove me and my two buddies had NO trouble just getting instantly on the groove. Home.

[/Total Homebody]

[iceman]

So where was the new place?

[RootSkier]

So would Bert still feel like Home if some idiot was throwing bombs at you?

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[lemon boy]

I don't want to prejudice anyone.

[lemon boy]

So would Bert still feel like Home if some idiot was throwing bombs at you?

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In fact, if we could get those bert bombing assholes (aka: Patrol) back at bert I'd be fucking jazzed.

[smmokan]

Loveland has that feel for me this year... which is why I'll probably get a season pass there next year.

[RootSkier]

In fact, if we could get those bert bombing assholes (aka: Patrol) back at bert I'd be fucking jazzed.

well fkna, touche.

[Dr. Gaper]

Loveland is my home mountain. I grew up there. I learned there. I got better there. I ski powder there. I drink there. That's why I've had a pass there the last 5 years. Well, actually I've had a pass there the last 5 years because the weekday pass is only $175.

Crested Butte gives me that special tingling feeling. Like when I climb the rope in gym class. It's something intangible. Maybe it's the reefer.

[Dr. Gaper]

In fact, if we could get those bert bombing assholes (aka: Patrol) back at bert I'd be fucking jazzed.

Along with a lift? I'm down.

[Tippster]

So where was the new place?

Dude, it's his home. No Icemeng allowed.

[lemon boy]

Along with a lift? I'm down.

yes, actually just two rope-tows and I'd be happy.

[Lone Star]

Though I've considered Winter Park "home," I felt that feeling after experiencing A-Basin for the first time. I have few Basin days compared to WP, but something about that place makes me want to spend more and more time there.

[Dr. Gaper]

Though I've considered Winter Park "home," I felt that feeling after experiencing A-Basin for the first time. I have few Basin days compared to WP, but something about that place makes me want to spend more and more time there.

And while not many here will admit this, it's sometimes the "old favorites". ie groomers or beginner runs, that can really bring back that feeling of home.

Like the view from Cramner, for instance.

[Lone Star]

Like the view from Cramner, for instance.

Funny you mention that-- the sunset around Byers is quite exceptional right now.

[H-man]

Never dis your home mountain.

Learn to Ski = Mount Cranmore

Feels like home = St. Anton

[DePierre]

Learn to ski-Gore

Feels like home-Solitude

[Tippster]

Learned to ski: Steinberg am Rofan/Achenkirch Austria

Feels like home: LCC, but man I'm still discovering different rooms every day.

[bircheater]

I tend to feel at home whenever I'm standing on a hill with skis on my feet.

But mad river glen is definitely my home mountain -- I feel like I know the woods there like the back of my hand, but I still occasionally find a new line.

[BLOODSWEATSTEEL]

Learn to ski - Toggenberg

Home - KW, Rose

Vibe feels even better than home - Snowbasin