Why is your home hill your home hill?

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Chronic_

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What makes it the mountain you call home? the little side jumps? the park? just a good place to have fun with friends? or is it just the closest cheapest one you could get? post with why you like your mt so much.
 
bigwhite, bc

has lots of variation in terrain big good snowfall and its the closest mtn thats not a total piece
 
good point dude i guess that too. ive spent so many days/nights up there i just got used to the fact its a shit mt haha
 
My home mountain is Mad River Glen.

I grew up skiing there, and although it does not have a park (i ski park at Sugarbush) I love the mountain. I know it like the back of my hand, I know all the little side jumps, and where the powder stashes are. I love its low key, homestyle feel. It's a small mountain so you generally get to know all the people there and it's not expensive. There are not too many gapers because it is a very technical mountain. The terrain is amazing and I never get bored of its 45 trails. The single chair is amazing in my opinion. I love the solitude on the lift ride up. It also keeps the slopes less crowded. A ton of the people there have known me my whole life and the ski patrol is pretty cool. When we get snow it is AMAZING. I love those spectacular days where you wake up extra early to get first chair on the single chair. I love the vibes at the mountain, too.

So that's why my home hill is my home hill.
 
why'd you put a bunch of dots after ok?

(just wondering, not criticizing, you did it with your other comment too, and in your sig)
 
I think he likes dots.
My home mountain is Brookvale, PEI. It is a 200 foot hill with 50 feet of garbage piled on top, giving it 250 feet of vertical. There is a right comfy, slow quad chair, It gets colder and icier than you can imagine, the staff takes 2 days of the week off. I learned how to ski there, I chilled an hung out with my friends there and I went after school every Wednesday-Friday and every weekend, to just get in every moment of skiing I could. It's still one of my favourite places to be and I'll keep going back the few times I am home throughout the winter, and love it every time I'm sure.
 
uh i ski at a private hill in ontario where you have to pay an initiation to ski there to become a member so i have to ski there because it would be a waste of money to ski anywhere else, plus it has some of the best steeps in ontario. the park is so so. Theres a lot of negatives and not a lot of positives about it. I wish they were thinking of joining when i wasn't a grom and then think joining it when me and my brother were older./
 
My home hill is where my home is. My family have places there, i've lived there every winter my whole life. I knowa lot of people ther and they know me. It's a little community. The snows pretty shit, the parks avergage and the terrain is okay but the people there keep me coming back. The feeling of belonging and the social scene is the best. Also I don't have to pay much for accomodation becuase my parents have a place there. It's home becuase I know it like the back of my hand and I could ski it with my eyes shut and can stumble home blind cos i've walked to streets so much.
 
My home hill is my home hill because it's only 1 and a 1/2 hours away from home, because it was the first real mountain i ever skied at, because it's the best out of all the hills within an acceptable distance, because i have skied every run at it, because i love the food at the on-hill restaurant, because i love staying at the on-hill inn, and because i love it.
 
because why would i want to drive an extra hour to steavens for heavy snow, huge crowds, and a $800 season pass when i can drive 20 min to mission ridge for light dryer snow, little crowds , and a $150 season pass
 
its in your comfort zone. you may travel and visit other mountains, when your at your home mountains though, thats your comfort zone.. you know the mountain. your close to the mountain, all your friends ski with you at the mountain.
 
Vail cause I know the mountain like the back of my hand. The sidecountry is amazing and its nice and close to Vail Pass for takin the sleds out. I definitely pushed my skiing when I lived there in 05 and now that I am moving back and can ski to my house from the mountain its even better!

 
cause there is a public transportation bus there that goes up every day i don't have school and this isn't a gaper bus this is a hardcore gangsta bus
 
My home mountain is Whiteface Ny. Park is ok, its too damn icy(nicknamed "ICEFACE"). But i learned to ski there and i know it like the back of my hand, every in and out.

Oh i ski there also because i cant move out west. otherwise i would be outa here.
 
my grandpa started my home mountain back in the day. it is also like 5 miles from my house. oh and i run that shit
 
because my parents have been skiing there for ages, it is where i first learnt to ski as a child before moving to Europe. This is despite it not being the closest hill to Melbourne.

Now I think it has the best of everything from other Australian resorts, a decent park and some fun runs, great snowmaking (snow this season was great), like others here, i know it the mountain off by heart and have not looked at a trail map for years. Some of the best Australian skiers have grown up here, it is home to a progressive Aussie ski company (obsidian), it has some awesome bars and i just love the atmosphere of the village. Bad aspects....cold wind and lots of it, there are so many days u can't ride because all the lifts are on wind hold. Icy conditions and lack of snow cover is bad at times.

Oh, and Candide has also been to Falls ha ha. It's a shit small hill compared to Europe, Japan or North America but its my shit hill.

 
yea ive only been to mad river a few times but i loved it. probably my favorite place in the east.
 
if its your home mountain that means you know every trail name, every little side jumps and bump in the trails, and all of the spots where the rangers hang out so you wont get your pass taken from cutting through the woods, and even if its not the best mountain you still love skiing there anyway
 
5 hours to Tahoe and roughly 6 to Mammoth and Sierra Summit is an hour away. I learned there, it's close, cheap, and we can get away with almost anything. We know of every square inch of terrain on the mountain. Not a lot of people are ever there and longest I've waited in a lift line is 5 minutes. It's always fun because we just do random days where we might go and hike around the area and build a kicker or just ride park all day. It's simple, get there, park, get your stuff on and get on the chair. No shuttles to ride, no village to walk through, just a bridge over a river and you get on the chair. Only thing I would change is make an area of the mountain with a lot of jumps and maybe a high speeder would be nice.
 
cus its like 15 minuets from my house, USED to have a really good park, and i learned how to ski thereand the overrall mountain is pretty nice
 
because my parents place is right across the street and i know some super solid outta bounds pow stashes that we never passed down to the kids a couple years younger than us so we always got some freshies in ONTARIO!!
 
Because I live there. In a tent.

This tread fails hard.

Your home mountain is your home mountain because it's the closest one to you.

Or, because it's the one closest to you that doesn't suck.
 
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