University Minnesota Duluth

Lutsen to the north. Giants ridge to the north west.

And mon du lac just to the south of Duluth.

Spirit will have the best park.
 
Chester Bowl is like 5 minutes away from campus and is free for students. 1 chair and a handful of rails that look pretty decent
 
14061391:Not_Good said:
Chester Bowl is like 5 minutes away from campus and is free for students. 1 chair and a handful of rails that look pretty decent
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Lol it’s tiny but looks fun, free for students is sick too
 
14061403:HadinoB said:
Lol it’s tiny but looks fun, free for students is sick too
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Chester Bowl is absolutely not free for students, but it's free for Spirit Mountain pass holders.

Duluth perspective from current UMD student:

-Spirit is the place to be with the rope park but I've also heard ideas of a rope getting thrown in at Chester. Spirit's big jumpline in March is the shit, and nothing but the shit. The jumpline is a great place to avoid the core snowboard circle jerk scene that has developed there ever since the rope happened. I don't dislike the boarders at all but it's a mass circle jerk.

-Mont Du Lac: over on the Wisconsin side, only went once this year when we got a huge snowstorm and that shit was epic because everybody else went to spirit but Du Lac has more terrain worth riding on a snow day and less people. Their park used to be really really dope before I was even in Duluth but has since faded. All their rails are rusty and stickier than a dried up soda spill.

-Don't waste your money on Lutsen, it's literally $100/day prime season and strictly long groomers filled with kooks, no parks, and guaranteed core shots on their "tree runs" which barely even qualify as tree skiing.

-Giants ridge is a hidden gem, you can get a season pass for pretty cheap if you show them that you have a Spirit pass, it's never crowded and they have a super fun park on a very long run with 12-15 hits per run (then a long chair ride), but that's all worth it if you are skiing with homies. Plus they've got some sweet off-piste stuff around the hill. Only an hour's drive from UMD. [shameless plug: I got an edit from there in my profile]

-Mount Bohemia: 5 hour drive from Duluth for a place that gets about 300 inches of lake effect snow a year on a 900ft vert hill that's 96% gladed skiing. Shits great if you are blessed with proper conditions. $99 season pass is hard to beat, it pays for itself in 2 days. The skiing quality is hit or miss but I've made so damn many great memories from visiting boho, wish I could go back and do it all over again.
 
14061833:john18061806 said:
Chester Bowl is absolutely not free for students, but it's free for Spirit Mountain pass holders.

Duluth perspective from current UMD student:

-Spirit is the place to be with the rope park but I've also heard ideas of a rope getting thrown in at Chester. Spirit's big jumpline in March is the shit, and nothing but the shit. The jumpline is a great place to avoid the core snowboard circle jerk scene that has developed there ever since the rope happened. I don't dislike the boarders at all but it's a mass circle jerk.

-Mont Du Lac: over on the Wisconsin side, only went once this year when we got a huge snowstorm and that shit was epic because everybody else went to spirit but Du Lac has more terrain worth riding on a snow day and less people. Their park used to be really really dope before I was even in Duluth but has since faded. All their rails are rusty and stickier than a dried up soda spill.

-Don't waste your money on Lutsen, it's literally $100/day prime season and strictly long groomers filled with kooks, no parks, and guaranteed core shots on their "tree runs" which barely even qualify as tree skiing.

-Giants ridge is a hidden gem, you can get a season pass for pretty cheap if you show them that you have a Spirit pass, it's never crowded and they have a super fun park on a very long run with 12-15 hits per run (then a long chair ride), but that's all worth it if you are skiing with homies. Plus they've got some sweet off-piste stuff around the hill. Only an hour's drive from UMD. [shameless plug: I got an edit from there in my profile]

-Mount Bohemia: 5 hour drive from Duluth for a place that gets about 300 inches of lake effect snow a year on a 900ft vert hill that's 96% gladed skiing. Shits great if you are blessed with proper conditions. $99 season pass is hard to beat, it pays for itself in 2 days. The skiing quality is hit or miss but I've made so damn many great memories from visiting boho, wish I could go back and do it all over again.
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yo John teach my UMD friends how to ski
 
14062291:ScootSkiLyfe said:
yo John teach my UMD friends how to ski
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Tell me who tf they be and then we can get to work,

Also they have to be skiers, not the kids who go to college to ski... whomst gradually lose interest before quitting riding park for good. That's the case for the solid majority of my ski homies at UMD, of course there were other factors that played into that but at the same time if they wanted to keep skiing they certainly could have.
 
14062330:john18061806 said:
Tell me who tf they be and then we can get to work,

Also they have to be skiers, not the kids who go to college to ski... whomst gradually lose interest before quitting riding park for good. That's the case for the solid majority of my ski homies at UMD, of course there were other factors that played into that but at the same time if they wanted to keep skiing they certainly could have.
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None of my UMD friends are big time skiers. Except Suzanne but she’s one of them racers. Sorry to hear about people falling off. I was up at Spirit last year when the ON3P team was up there. That was pretty fun.
 
14062366:ScootSkiLyfe said:
I was up at Spirit last year when the ON3P team was up there.
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How high are you?

jk you're probably confusing on3p team for mango, hoblitzelle, and zootspace pals. that was january-ish but the on3p team never came to Duluth in february when they were in the cities
 
14062633:john18061806 said:
How high are you?

jk you're probably confusing on3p team for mango, hoblitzelle, and zootspace pals. that was january-ish but the on3p team never came to Duluth in february when they were in the cities
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Ah i see , yes my bad.
 
14062330:john18061806 said:
Tell me who tf they be and then we can get to work,

Also they have to be skiers, not the kids who go to college to ski... whomst gradually lose interest before quitting riding park for good. That's the case for the solid majority of my ski homies at UMD, of course there were other factors that played into that but at the same time if they wanted to keep skiing they certainly could have.
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I feel attacked
 
14140296:Lonely said:
I feel attacked
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my ski homies all started indoor rock climbing and stopped skiing, but that was 4 years ago so I've healed now

currently i let the Duluth disease get the best of me and i bike a ton- BUT- that's off-season shenanigans.

Also if you tryna flex on my strava times in Duluth u bettr pack ur bags kiddo...

1. I'm faster and have a larger phallus

2. thy phallus carries extra weight for plowing thru chunky sections of trail

3. strava took away all leaderboards for free users
 
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