kinda surprising seeing how many kids are looking at schools in philly. i went to lasalle and skied 4-5 days a week all four years. basically after freshman year, depending on your major, it's pretty easy to have class only 3 days a week, and most friday classes are done by noon. bear creek is a little over an hour's drive, blue mountain is about an hour and a half, and boulder about an hour 45, so you've got three options with decent parks all less than 2 hours away. if you don't have a car though, you're pretty much screwed unless you can find a ride. as fun as it would have been to go to school in utah, CO, or the PNW and ski much better terrain, i'm glad i went to a good school. i still skied a bunch. i think i would have blown off class to ski far too often going to school where it actually snows. philly's got killer urban though.