Where was your Training Grounds?

[Tippster]

ski roundtop, baby!!

We always tried to get our tickets pulled on the last run by straightlining Minuteman in a Chinese Downhill type thing.

[cdlv]

We always tried to get our tickets pulled on the last run by straightlining Minuteman in a Chinese Downhill type thing.

only time we got clipped was for jumping off minuteman lift when it had stopped for 30+ minutes.
amazing that there are 4+ rockytop skiers here

[cinnepa]

Do you know the guys in the Half Way house?

sure, much more casual than the lodge too.

[Lloyd Braun]

We always tried to get our tickets pulled on the last run by straightlining Minuteman in a Chinese Downhill type thing.

Hmmmm, do I know you cause we did the same thing at roundtop

.....early 80s?

[MarsB]

Massanutten and Wintergreen, VA
later Snowshoe and Canaan Valley/Timberline, WV

Massanutten holds a special place in my heart; since not only did they allow snowboarding back in 1986 (which was rare at the time in the Mid-Atlantic), they actually had a few rentals (Looks w/ Barfoot wireclip bindings) and a few years later actually built a terrain park.

[powstash]

Sundance and then T-Line

Always knew I'd be a BC skier cause after 1 year at T-Line I couldn't keep from straying beyond the ropes and dreaming of skiing Hood.

[scoober]

Me
ages 4-25 Boston Mills Brandywine Ohio

That was the destination for my middle school ski club. I lived closer to Alpine Valley though so that's where I learned starting at 5.

Weekend trips with the fam were always to Peek n' Peak.

[adam]

1. Tiny Ski Area in Siberia where I learned to ski. Don't recall the name.
2. Vail
3. Now Loveland.

[Elin]

Camelback
Shawnee
Jack Frost

My parents actually had a place at Camelback Every friday night i would head up for the weekend with a mandatory stop at Hot Dog Johnnies.

OH MAN... Hot Dog Johnnies is bad news, pal. My dad likes to stop there when we drive into PA, and he usually ends up having to pull over to use the facilities within fifteen-twenty minutes...


I started skiing at Whiteface, NY and occasionally Big Boulder Jack Frost and Camelback... but then after age 12 I spent most of my time at Alta.... and will be for the next four years (yeah U of U!)

[Millsie]

Wilmot and Alpine Valley
Indianhead
Really learned to ski at Beaver Mountain and the Northern Utah backcountry back in the late 70's.

Jeff

[half-fast]

cazenovia ski club, cazenovia ny

[bcrider]

[PlayHarder]

You were a lift rider? Say it isn't so.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I bought a couple pairs of boots at Country ski and Sports in the early/mid 90s.

heh...I was a regular customer around that time. It got so bad I was hanging around the shop so much & answering peoples questions when they were busy they just gave me a job...worked there from 97 - 98 before the corporate world sucked me in. Sean (the owner) is still there daily...popped in to say hello when I visited my parents over Christmas.

[Atrain505]

Ski Santa Fe in Nuevo Mexico

[kona12]

Maiden voyage was at Northstar. From there many days & lessons at Sugarbowl, Homewood and Alpine.

[Buzzworthy]

Ski: Mount Baker

Ride: Poconos, Funken's mountains ring a bell or 4.

Ride Pow: Copper, Breck, Vail

Float Pow: Utah

BC ski: Utah

[climb2ski]

Wa wachusette - then moved on to the NH/Maine areas. Now in CO.

[Pow4Brains]

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.

Little longer then that………I worked there from 93-96(?). Yeah Don and Sue where really cool to work for, but the guy that was running the ski skool at the time was a douche (don’t remember his name, but he was a sawed off little fucker with a big head.) This black dude (Sam) was an older guy that I used to ski with a lot and got me in to racing. We also had a pretty decent mogul team and would travel around the state to compete. Daffys and Back Scratchers where the Bomb…..NO WAI you can do a “helicopter!”
Tyroll was pretty much on the front line (at least in the Midwest) at the time for the park related shit, so it’s surprising they got pezzd at you for jumpin’ off shit. Remember that kick ass groomer that would groom the SIDES of the pipe. It was a blast in the middle of June!
Moved to CO in 00’ and been here since.

[peeforward]

Alyeska, AK. first and favorite. but i have a lot left to see.

[iggyskier]

Beaver Creek.

When my parents first started skiing there all they had as a base area was the big tennis bubble that is not at copper.

I've been chillin there since I was a few months old, skiing since I was 3 years old.

when I got to be old enough to take the bus to Vail I started spending more time over there.

HS and cars changed everything - 5 mountains, berthoud before it closed, copper/wp, and way too much time skiing hung over at eldora.

[Barnballs]

Shawnee, PA..mostly cause dad was too cheap to drive to Camelback (another 20miles?)

Used to eat at the same diner in Butzville every time we went. But damn I looked forward to cruising up the 31 to 46 to 80.

[Joey Bag O' Donuts]

3 1/2 year old little shit = June Mtn, Ca

[ill-advised strategy]

Marquette Mountain MI

[StokeSmack]

Belleayre and Hunter Mtn, singing "Jeremiah was a Bullfrog" and "American Pie" on the lifts