You Know Your Riding in the Midwest when...

tommycat

tommycat

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(just saw one of these for the east, and figured the midwest needs one too)
one day it snows and the conditions are perfect, then the next day it rains.
 
when you get sick of the shitty set up and leave...

only to go ride the same shitty set up the next day.
 
When kids slay rails even on pure ice.

When everyone in the park knows each other.

When your season ends in mid March.

When you move out west for college.

 
i rode the lift with a gaper the other day - he turned around on the chair to look down/around and said with the most excitement i have ever heard "WOW what a beautiful view!!"

put things into perspective i suppose. its an 800 vert hill.
 
when on major holidays the people from rural areas come out with their carharts and overcrowd the hill
 
old people on snowbladez everywhere. largest jumps being 25 ft. everyone slays rails. pow day is 3 in of fresh
 
when everytime you go to your hill ur surprised its still completely covered

you can hike the whole terrain park in under 5 minutes

ice with a half inch of snow is a great day

 
when all of the runs are freshly groomed every day.when you don't need to call people to find out which run they're on because you can see them from anywhere.
you have to scrape your skis off before you put them in the car because when blown snow melts it smells like shit.
when you know 90% of the base is blown snow.when the best conditions are spring skiing. and you can have spring skiing in december.
 
when you know at least 3 people in this thread.. /claim

when you can you can hit the same rail 25 times in an hour, with out hiking.

when your ski quiver consists or 3 pairs of skis. This years parks skis, the park skis you used last year, and the park skis you used the year before.

when you have to explain to people why its bad to walk on cheese graters with their rental skis still on their feet.

when you ski 45 days a season, yet never get a goggle tan.
 
thats because in the midwest we get 2 sunny days a year. and those always happen to be when family shit is going down, or you're sick...
 
When You try new flips on a land ing that is only half covered in ice and your hill is open to 10 and your tow rope let's you lap jumps 50 times in an hour.
 
haha this describes my ski career thus far perfectly. i used to know kids in the park strictly based on their skis, there would be like 10 kids who owned twin tips and you'd talk to all of them
 
You can't finish a song on your iPod in 1 run, even the short songs.

You blaze your own trails through the woods simply because it will take longer.

(Over christmas break, I actually did this one): You ski every run, every day, so after a week on the same mountain you get bored and decide to start doing every run switch.

At least one positive in the UP: while the people out west know of a snowstorm days in advance, the weather man tells you about lake effect snow storm that could dump somewhere between 1 and 15 inches, with about 5 hours warning.

And you know you must be in the midwest if you see a guy making a review like this

for those of you who didn't see the thread that ^ that came from, here it is

https://newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/491512/
 
-Fleet Farm is the outdoor sports store supplying 90% of the outerwear on the hill.

-Somebody says 'those skis must be a new kind or something' referring to twin tips.

-The cat/groomer literally cannot make it up the jump landings because it is too icy.

-Most people pizza instead of french fry... they're gonna have a bad time

 
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