Your favorite area as a kid.

[skiNEwhere]

My very first memory of skiing was riding the old orange gondola at Killington. Always loved skiing there.

Although I think I liked pats peak the most as a kid, since it was a lot easier to convince my mom to day trip there (coming from Boston). I also think that was the first place I skied a double black (may have been hurricane?)

 

[Warp Daddy]

Big Tupper, we used to go the areas behind Ottawa to like Camp Fortune, Edlweiss and Vorlage.


Titus Mtn. and Snow Ridge were up there in high school.


This is for Warp Daddy, the old J-bar at the country club was the place where I did most of my skiing. I learned at Ace and Ann's on Black Lake at the rope tow.

Yo Puck ROLFMAO about the J bar , my adult kids and i used to race on our XC's down that sucker .....loved the jump half way down....best memory ever was when Phil Lord decided it would be cool to take his friggen Kayak at full speed over that jump .....landed in da woods .below ..we're talkin CARNAGE ..:dunce:. That old kayak splintered like a bunch 'o toothpicks ..Me n Phill still laff bout that one today .

lots of serious Burgy characters got started on that puppy



we also loved Tupper , specially on wed nite free lesson with lift ticket Vorlage and Edelweiss and CF were also on the circuit

 

[chuckstah]

Klein Innsbruck in Franklin, MA. Close to where I grew up. As soon as my high school crew got questionable I'D's we hit the bar there couple nights a week. Good scene in the day. Anyone remember the bars name?

 

[Mapnut]

It's interesting that so many people cite lost King Ridge as their favorite. I remember seeing it from I-89 on my way to Killington while it was still operating (1973?), and thinking it looked like a substantial area. NELSAP says it failed due to just one bad winter, 1994-95. For me it was Eaton Mountain, Skowhegan, ME for fun times and that memorable early-days atmosphere. The rope tow, the squeaky one-of-a-kind double chair, which I had no idea was unusual. And the nice range of trails on which I worked my way up. They were open when there was snow, and it never occurred to me that they'd have trouble as a business if it didn't snow. After a couple of seasons I started going to Sugarloaf and never looked back. Hey Warp Daddy, I never made a Maine connection with you, but we may have crossed paths. 1968-1973?

 

[Warp Daddy]

Mapnut :how so?? Did you go to school here in NNy at either SUNY Canton , Clarkson or SLU or work up here ?

 

[Mapnut]

Oops, I meant to name Wa-loaf, although I don't know whether he could have been at Eaton or Sugarloaf in 1969-1973.

 

[steamboat1]

Pretty much learned to ski at Dutch Hill.

 

[xlr8r]

Sunday River just seemed so awesome when I was young. In the ASC glory days they added something new every year, new lifts, new hotels, etc... We usually stayed at the Grand Summit, so going from there all the way to Jordan made the place feel huge. I specifically remember going there the first time, arriving at the Grand Summit and opening the trail map, and seeing the trail map continue to open wider and wider opening each fold. It first looked like it had 2 peaks, then 4, then 6, finally opening up to reveal 8 peaks blew my mind at how big it was.

 

[hrstrat57]

Pinetop

 

[Brad J]

Hamilton, Ski Slopes, Seaview in Rowley, Wildcat when we went North

 

[splunge]

When we used to actually go up country, we went to either Burke or Jay, because they are close to my Grandfathers house. All the skiing I have done in the last 8 years has been at nashoba, where I ski for free because my highschool races there. My dad has been the coach at my school for a long time, so I used to practice with the team long before I was actually of age. Now I'm in my junior year.