Where was your Training Grounds?

[Mofro261]

Mt Spokane. Oh yeah. And singing Journey and Loverboy on the chairlift.

Don't stop believin, hold on to that feelin.
Then,
Turn me loose. I gotta do it my way.

Thanks Schmear. 2/3 of a Trifecta. You left out Foreigner,
you Juke Box Hero.



No Ass - Snoqualmie Pass WA

[Schmear]

You left out Foreigner,
you Juke Box Hero.

Good call. Those indeed are the three.

[nick > jesus]

from age 2-6 Copper and birthoud
from age 6+, Loveland

[nesta]

London Mountain, British Columbia
hah try finding that on a map.

[Schmear]

Heh.

"I search for friends on Chair 2 while Dad clocks in to teach at the ski school. I lap Northwest Passage most of the morning, bouncing in and out of the trees to catch air off of small jumps. I'm reckless, invincible in my grey stretch pants, blue-padded wool sweater, and mirrored I-Ski sunglasses. Everyone's watching, to see what you will do...

"I burn through bumps and exit onto the cat track, burning a hard right, knees low, skis fully on edge. Everyone's lookin' at you, oh...

"I weave around others on the track, easily the fastest skier ever, and take a sudden, hard left-hand turn (the crowd roars its elated surprise!) and launch off the edge of the track into suspended animation. Everyone's wondering, will you come out tonight?

"I hang in the air for minutes, at least. Slow-motion, weightless, flying. The dream. Everybody's goin' off the deep end...

"I cannonball into the corn snow in a spray of white fireworks (again the crowd!) and stick the steep landing, then point 'em straight to the base of Chair 3 with lights and sirens blazing behind me. You wanna piece of my heart, better start from the start. I'm twelve years old. I'm totally on fire. You wanna piece of the show, c'mon baby let's go! "

[Zeedashbo]

Heh.

"I search for friends on Chair 2 while Dad clocks in to teach at the ski school. I lap Northwest Passage most of the morning, bouncing in and out of the trees to catch air off of small jumps. I'm reckless, invincible in my grey stretch pants, blue-padded wool sweater, and mirrored I-Ski sunglasses. Everyone's watching, to see what you will do...

"I burn through bumps and exit onto the cat track, burning a hard right, knees low, skis fully on edge. Everyone's lookin' at you, oh...

"I weave around others on the track, easily the fastest skier ever, and take a sudden, hard left-hand turn (the crowd roars its elated surprise!) and launch off the edge of the track into suspended animation. Everyone's wondering, will you come out tonight?

"I hang in the air for minutes, at least. Slow-motion, weightless, flying. The dream. Everybody's goin' off the deep end...

"I cannonball into the corn snow in a spray of white fireworks (again the crowd!) and stick the steep landing, then point 'em straight to the base of Chair 3 with lights and sirens blazing behind me. You wanna piece of my heart, better start from the start. I'm twelve years old. I'm totally on fire. You wanna piece of the show, c'mon baby let's go! "

i still ski like a twelve year old. and i still ski at stevens pass. though i have to give my four years at baker a bit of props.

[schindlerpiste]

Stowe, Vt. until age 12, then we started traveling

[acostiga]

nice to see some other seven springs skiers.... go lars skylling!!! somebody was telling me that they're most likely going to get one of the few casino/slots licenses that are going to be made available in PA. can you imagine that place with gambling? i always knew 'der was a reason why dey called dat lake up 'ere lake tahoe, n'at. yew know da el-evation of lake tahoe is 2,992ft? git ahhht!!

[elesquiador]

Red Lodge, MT

[jSki]

Eldora. Passes were cheap and the bus ride was 2.50 each way. One year I must have skiied there 60 times. Not much of a mountain by colorado standards though.

[turfsk8r]

2nd......used ta' teach there.
Been back recently?

When did you teach there? I taught there for half a season they fired me for doing jumps while on call. What a joke? If they want to tell me what to do they better be paying otherwise piss off. I still have to give don and sue props for everything they did for snowboarding in the midwest. I started the snowboard team at Cascade back in 2003. That was the last season I was home. Now I'm out in CA.

[thommy21]

Seven Springs as well. I'd like to go back sometime just to see what it's like now that I've been out west for 5yrs.

[turfsk8r]

Saw there were a few peps from Cooper and Brick. They are in my top ten right now. I have had some of my best days riding at Cooper. The scene there rules lots of good riders pushing it.

[cdlv]

pennsyltuckians representing. remember first time i went to 7 springs after skiing roundtop and thinking it was huge. oh to be young and uninformed.

[BenWA]

Age 3-11:
Big Birch (now called Thunder Ridge) in Brewster, NY
Butternut in Great Barrington, MA

Age 11+:
Killington
Stowe

[beb42000]

SMP baby! Spring Mount Posse

Spring Mount, PA

elevation 420 ft.......apropriate for this upcoming date

[enlosandes]

Earned my stripes at Squaw Valley USA and Alpine Meadows. Interned for the East Side Assasin for backcountry skills.

[ninjabirdman]

Timberline on Mt. Hood . . . then Heavenly

finally saw the light and rode kirkwood this year . . . faaaantastic

[Lexi-Bell]

Bear Valley, CA.

My old man still rips it there.

[jonski]

Morzine-Les Gets France a week a season whilst at school.

Since I finished school, spent the most time in Breck.

I still love riding both....

[tenex198]

Age 3-18: Red Lodge Mountain

Current: Bridger Bowl and the Gallatin Valley

[Plakespear]

Scotch Valley (aka Deer Run) NY. Under the lights after school on Thursdays.

[Shin-to-Win]

Thirds on Seven Springs. Wayne Wong Ski School and jumping off the Tyrol chairlift halfway up Tyrol. Blue ice at the top of Stowe (the run not the actual mountain). Daffys when they weren't retro. Good times.

Laurel Mountain was fun too while it lasted.

I 2nd SS. It seemed like the shit when I was growing up. We used to just lap Stowe before they started letting skiers in the park.

[nutcase]

Mammoth.

I need to get back there.

[Tippster]

Heh - we used to hit Seven Springs with my JrHS every President's Day Weekend. Is that Bowling Alley still in there?

I learned to ski in Austria and Bavaria, then moved to DC when I was 11 and skied mainly the Southern PA bumps - Liberty and RoundTop. Was a Jr. Patroller at Liberty for a while, then realized how stupid it was for me to be "working" while my buddies were skiing, so I quit after a month. Did many road trips/Longer School Trips to NE - mainly Sugarbush & Stowe, but also K-Mart, Whiteface (my best Pow day on the EC) and MRG.

The day I got in my truck and drove to Vail was the first day WhiteTail was open. I convoyed with about 6 other cars with skis on them, then kept heading West on 70 while they turned North in Clear Spring. 2 days later I was in Denver, the next day in Vail. I never looked back, and have only skied locally maybe 10 days since then. That will probably change now that my kids ski.