Wintergreen?

DietCoke

DietCoke

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Does anybody ski wintergreen? i might be going to uva for college and its like 45 minutes from there, so i was really hoping itd be sick, well, relatively sick.

anybody know about it?
 
I stayed there for a long weekend, my friends got a condo though. I mean its pretty good for a VA resort.

Its not much though.
 
uh their park is on a green circle, so ya know, not very good oppertunity for bigger jumps, people flip out when you do a five, so yeah

i havent skied on their actual runs, i was their for a comp
 
I grew up skiing Wintergreen..we had a sick house on the top of the mountain...It's a cool place, def. best in VA, but still not that great...haven't been there in probably 6 years tho, I bet a lot has changed.
 
I live in Charlottesville. Wintergreen is pretty bad. The biggest jump they had this year was maybe a 20' table top, and the rails aren't great but they did buy a 10' rainbow box and a c-box this year. The park is maybe 200 yards long and on weekends is so packed with people that it isn't worth skiing. Otherwise, the rest of the mountain is incredibly easy. The Highlands, the "experts only" area is about as difficult as say a blue out west. Except it is usually really icy so that makes it a little more interesting. The lift lines on weekends are absurd. A normal wait at the Dobie lift is like 20-30 minutes and it only takes 30 seconds to ski from top to bottem. The Big Acorn lift is usually a 15 or so minute wait but those slopes only take a minute to get down. The highlands lift is nice though, you usually only have to wait five minutes.

If you go up on weekdays lift lines are nonexistant, but they dont shape any jumps during the week so the lips are torn up and the landings are really canoed out.

Every year on april 1st and 2nd, or there about, they make all of dobie into a terrain park which is pretty cool, but the jumps get torn up after a few hours.
 
I ski there. It is pretty busted. Practically all season they only had 2 small table tops that were pretty poorly made, a short flat-down rail, and a short ride-on box. It has decent slopes (depending on what you are used to) but the snow quality is obviously incredibly inconsistent. I have skied there the last 4 years while at UVA and have enjoyed it a lot. But if skiing is one of the more important factors in your collge choice don't come to UVA
 
Also, dont expect to see the mountain 100% open before Christmas. This year was the first year that I can remember that it happened. If you do go to UVA, Wintergreen isn't the only ski area, Massanutten is in Harrisonburg which supposedly has a better park. I've never skied there though so I can't say for sure. And Snowshoe is like a 2.5 hour drive and is a really good resort for the mid-atlantic. And is has a halfpipe which the other two don't.
 
I agree, Snowshoe is the best resort in WV, hands down. I would ski there if you goto UVA, but plan on driving a little bit. Def. worth the drive though.
 
Snowshoe is lame. It's an intrawest resort ,so shouldnt they have thier shit together? All the rails are ride-on for the most part. The stairset is the most ghetto thing i have ever seen (wooden ledge). They hardly ever have the park actually built and open either. They have so much potential and it is not used.
 
its only goo to go there if you own property because you can go straight through the lines usually. Its decent for a VA mount
 
I haven't skied there in like over a decade, I just know from groing up in VA that it's the best in the area (within driving distance) by a long shot as far as skiing and amount of skiable terrain goes. I don't know anything about the park.
 
I just transferred to Hampden-Sydney from Colorado (long story) and I skiied Wintergreen a shitload this year. I pretty much just got into park skiing, and from what little experience I have, Wintergreen's park is pretty shite. As for the rest of their mountain, I've been skiing for 17 years and just flying top to bottom provides me about 20 minutes of entertainment. If I'm doing lift runs, it's usually to talk to girls or something, otherwise I'm hiking park and trying to get better. Massanutten does have a much better layout, and they have a little beginner park on the other side of their mountain to keep the tourists at bay, but not a whole lot of extra features...they're just set up a whole lot better so that you can hit more elements per run than you can at 'Green. Also Massanutten has a rope tow, which is a god-send if you get tired of hiking.
 
yeah that's idiotic, the entire california state school system is near tahoe and mammoth and it's got some pretty good schools in it. also denver university is an excellent school, and it's obviously close to all the rockies resorts
 
well yeah but itd also cost like 35 g a year to go to school in cali. plus airfare nowadays to cali is like 500. if i had the money i would, but i dont so i gotta stay east coastin
 
Well if youre ever down in VA shoot me a message on here and we'll hit it up. We got to all the trashy parks 2-3 times a week during the season. Gotta feed the addiction while we're stuck on the wrong coast.
 
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