Skiing in Indiana??!

[livendive 8]

So I'm reading this article on CNN about a winter storm moving from the mid-west towards New England. One thing it mentioned was that the snow was welcome in some places, such as the Paoli Peaks Ski Resort in Indiana. That kind of caught my eye, as I've never really thought about going boarding in Indiana...so I went and found their web page.

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Ski Facilities
> Natural hill with 300 ft. vertical drop. 5 chairlifts, 2 surface tows, 1 "Wonder Carpet".

Uphill capacity
> 11,200 skiers per hour.

Oh my god! 300 vertical feet??! And the lift tickets are $40!! BWA HA HA!!

Blues,
Dave

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[Dougiefresh 0]

WTF is a wonder carpet?

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[ryoder 1,590]

Well you can drive 5 hours North to Boyne Mountain which has 575' vertical. Now how much do you suppose the gas will cost you? Or you can fly out here to CO for 3000' vertical. Now add up the airline tix, hotel, car rental, etc.

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[dqpacker 7]

They're like the moving sidewalks at the airport, but they go up the hill. They are usually found on the bunny hill.

[ReBirth 0]

I learned to ski on a little 400' place 20 minutes from home. Then moved up to the mountains in the Poconos. Decided it was time to move on when I could ski down the expert hill at the 400' place......backward....after jumping off the lift mid ride (since it's 5 feet off teh ground).

[simplyputsi 0]

I've been skiing in kansas!!!! Can't remember the name of the place, but it was about what you describe here probably. Think the lift ticket was only 18 bucks though. It still cracks me up to think I've been skiing in Kansas.

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[livendive 8]

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Well you can drive 5 hours North to Boyne Mountain which has 575' vertical. Now how much do you suppose the gas will cost you? Or you can fly out here to CO for 3000' vertical. Now add up the airline tix, hotel, car rental, etc.

Oh, I understand they're just playing the cards they've been dealt, but I live in Washington, where we also have 3000+' vertical slopes, for about the same price on a ticket. Given I grew up with such mountains easily accessible, 300' just seems silly and not worth the trouble. Seems like snowmobiling or hockey would be better winter activities in such terrain.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[ryoder 1,590]

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Given I grew up with such mountains easily accessible, 300' just seems silly and not worth the trouble. Seems like snowmobiling or hockey would be better winter activities in such terrain.

Hey, I used to live in Berrien County MI, (the SW corner of MI), and I paid $200 for a season pass to Bittersweet which was 200' vertical an hours drive away. This year I paid $330 for a dual season pass to Copper Mt. and Winter Park.

But I still fondly remember the best skiing I ever had: Bottomless powder in a driving blizzard at Alta UT. It was so deep, (HOW DEEP WAS IT?!), that I never touched bottom in a whole day of skiing which included some spectacular falls. The price of the lift ticket? $10. (This was in the 1980's).

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[NWFlyer 2]

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Oh, I understand they're just playing the cards they've been dealt, but I live in Washington, where we also have 3000+' vertical slopes, for about the same price on a ticket. Given I grew up with such mountains easily accessible, 300' just seems silly and not worth the trouble. Seems like snowmobiling or hockey would be better winter activities in such terrain.

This would explain why I never really got into snow sports growing up in Virginia. Vertical feet measured in the hundreds coupled with really iffy weather...

The friend that I snowboarded with last week went back to Minnesota with her husband recently and they visited the ski school where he used to teach. A whopping 700 foot vertical! She said that, surprisingly a lot of world-class skiers had come out of that place, though - the theory being that you've got little else to do but focus on the fundamentals.

But yeah, we sure are spoiled out here, eh?

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

Have it in IL - Galena area, and a few places in WI (where I learned). Devil's Head is considered one of the better WI places to go.

You deal with what you have. We have more hills out here than people realize - this area is where the glacial extension of the last ice age ended. But we don't have mountains. Our hills should be busy this weekend as we just saw nearly a foot of snow fall yesterday.

If I was to make a trip out west for some downhill, I'd choose Utah from everything I've read and seen.

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[dqpacker 7]

There are alot better places to ski in WI than devil's head like trollhagan, or jump the border in minnesota and go to welch village, Spirt mt., Lusten.

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

Where is trollhagen? Why is it better than DH?

The good thing about DH is that I can still make a day trip out of it from Chicago. MN or the UP makes it a much longer ordeal.

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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....

[dqpacker 7]

Trollhagen is across the river from the Twin Cities.
It's bigger than devils head and I like it for the terrain park. I can see why devil's would be better for you coming from Chicago.

[Dougiefresh 0]

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But I still fondly remember the best skiing I ever had: Bottomless powder in a driving blizzard at Alta UT. It was so deep, (HOW DEEP WAS IT?!), that I never touched bottom in a whole day of skiing which included some spectacular falls. The price of the lift ticket? $10. (This was in the 1980's).

Alta is the bomb. When I get rich I'm going to go there every winter. I remember skiing in shorts and a t-shirt in fresh powder in March, all alone in some almost backcountry. It was almost as good as skydiving.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

[BillyVance 35]

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Oh, I understand they're just playing the cards they've been dealt, but I live in Washington, where we also have 3000+' vertical slopes, for about the same price on a ticket. Given I grew up with such mountains easily accessible, 300' just seems silly and not worth the trouble. Seems like snowmobiling or hockey would be better winter activities in such terrain.

Blues,
Dave

I'd have to agree, once you've gotten used to the 3000 ft vertical drops, nothing less will suffice. I've skiied in NY and CA at some great places, but refuse to visit this little bunny slope in northeast Alabama which has 150 ft drop on two slopes... bah, not even worth starting the car up for...

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