Isn't Belleville near Blue Mountain? I haven't been, but I've heard it's a pretty decent hill, and it's 720ft vertical...
3 hours away. I go the extra 1 1/2hr for Tremblant. Double the height, less crowd, better roads.
Isn't Belleville near Blue Mountain? I haven't been, but I've heard it's a pretty decent hill, and it's 720ft vertical...
3 hours away. I go the extra 1 1/2hr for Tremblant. Double the height, less crowd, better roads.
Isn't Belleville near Blue Mountain? I haven't been, but I've heard it's a pretty decent hill, and it's 720ft vertical...
Meh..decent is relative.. It's more like 600' feet..there's a bit of a top then a flat. Osler Bluffs is a nice hill but it's a private club. Honestly, it's hardly worth it with the crowds. If I can't go on a week day, I just don't go..
How many resorts have excavated their half-pipe into the mountain, to eliminate the cost of piling up enough snow to build one up?
Same for the jumps. They could use the dirt from the pipe trench to build up the kickers and cover them with plastic, too. Save a ton of snowmaking effort that could be used to open other runs by having a dirt foundation for the park features so less snow would be needed. At Copper a few years ago in early December they had 4 runs open and the snow guns were working overtime building piles for the terrain park. They blew enough snow on the park area to cover at least a couple of other runsCould probably cover it in plastic and ride it all year round...
Which is why I drive to Tremblant. But I learned on a 200' hill outside of Belleville. Now defunct like a lot of those places. Breeder - feeders we call them.
I've actually managed to avoid skiing Mount Trashmore (Mount Brighton's local name, given that it's literally a landfill that they put some fill dirt and ski lifts on), but I like the cut of your jib!
Batawa is still around, no?
Was Brighton a trash pile originally? I remember when they excavated for the new lodge (maybe in the late 1950s) and piled the dirt on top. The original Mt. Trashmore was in Riverview, near Detroit.
Schuss moved a bunch of dirt while creating a new golf course and put it at the top of their hill. I think they added something like fifty feet.
I dunnno, we coulda had some fun messing with people. BTW, Bobs are taking over the world (and starting with Pugski). I also come from the flatlands just south of you . . . But I think we had a whopping 500' "mountain" in Indiana.Greetings from Detroit!
And yes, we actually have a hill like that. Pine Knob has a valley dug at the bottom of it, to help it achieve it's *cough* breath taking 300 foot vertical!
I'm SkaBob over on Epicski, but seeing as there's a skibob on here, I didn't want to cause any hilarious name confusion.
This place seems a bit less willing to blow sunshine up the backside of every product, and I'm actually grateful for more solid reviews and information than every ski being the greatest thing to happen since sliced bread
Cheers!
That is where I got my screen name. Wondered if anybody else called them that.skibobs--a seat on top of a ski. .