snowsam17

definitely!

T.J.

i was almost really excited someone outside of this area new what a wawa was but i think we are on 2 different pages on this one.

as far the this article goes i only have 1 comment. this guy must be a taos skier...

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alaric

I think TJ and I are on the same page... the store?

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ecave84

i would definatly go. Ive never been but its not that far from me. I was thinking about going down since i have some friends in mass where i grew up that would probably go.

My usual stop is gunstock its about 40 min from my house. I almost went last night i skipped out of work an everything but the roads were real bad so i stayed home.

ecave84

Wachusett Mountain if you heard there commercials you would get it,

sedition

See other post!

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SUPERGILDO

I looked at that site and that resort is TINY. holy hell, how do you guys live!!!

Seedy J

Great photo!!

Unfortunately, it's all BS after that. At least on this side of the pond, everything he accuses snowboarders of applies almost exclusively to skiers. I've never had a boarder run over my board from behind, but skiers do it almost every day I'm on a mountain. Pushing through the lift line, bombing down the green runs, buzzing women and children who are obviously beginners? Almost always a skier. Moguls? Black runs would be a lot more fun if they didn't have those goddamn things all over them.

As for skiing requiring more skill... well, almost every middle school and high school does a school trip to Nagano or Hokkaido for the 2nd year students. They're all forced to (learn to) ski. I asked why they don't let them snowboard and was told, "Skiing is easier to learn and safer, so we make the kids ski."

sedition

Well, we have these things called cars in New England. Were pretty advanced up here. You know, Harvard, MIT, etc. Well, see, they way it works is that if you want a quick, regular, fix you get in your car and go somewhere small and local. If you want big, you can also use the car, and go here or here.

And, as I might quote the Rome web site , "You don't need a resort to snowboard." This is also near by.

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TNT

His argument against snowboarders: "but the more that skill is cultivated, the more the average snowboarder feels the mountain is his or her birthright rather than the privilege it actually is. Or was." This is right after he had just said "What I hate is the idea that it’s somehow OK to invade my space — my mountain, my snow, my moguls, my chairlifts and my winter contentment"

Hipocracy, thy name is you Mr. MICHAEL HENNINGSEN
My own experience is nothing of significant note, other than the number of skiers who continually kept bumping my board in the chairlift line this weekend. One of them even got up right behind me straddling my board with his skis - kind of weird, I'm not sure how to interpret that behavior. Then as I am trying to get around a group of skiers who had stopped up at the top of a drop in to a mogul field, I see an opening and start sliding between them and a fence w/ about 4 feet of room, and one of the adult skiers near the end cuts me off, stops in front of me, and I accidentally bump into his skis with less force than the tapping I was receiving in the lift lines. I was actually right next to him stopped before I tried to slide around him. Now completely unable to proceed down the mountain and on my butt after losing my balance, I even tell him that I'm sorry. He replies that I'm not the first snowboarder that has ever hit him. He proceeded to not move, so I had to crawl over his skies, up against the fence, to get past him. I should have told him he wasn't the first skier to think he was the only one on the mountain, but I just threw him a fake smile and went on my way.

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