snowboard: winter park?

stompin9s · Posted: Oct 17, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject: snowboard: winter park?

anyone ever ridden at winter park? ive ridden both breck and vail and just wondering how it compares...my school is goin out there this winter and im trying to decide whether to go with them or plan my own trip?

Brett Leadley · Posted: Oct 17, 2005 3:13 pm Post subject:

I was there about three years ago, and really liked it.. I've also been to Breck, Vail, Beaver Creek and Copper and thought Winter Park was probably the best mainly because it was a lot less crowded compared to the other resorts, I guess because it's so damn far from everywhere else....

c dub · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 1171 City: Austin

yeah man winterpark is sick!! i'm going there for thanksgiving this year

TTUFAN24 · Posted: Oct 17, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject:

stompin9s, i've been there twice but it's been a few years. winter park is awesome.

Taylor · Pop Shuvit Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 119 City: Slidell

i've been going to winter park every mardi gras holiday since i was in 4th grade (7 years). would be going again, but mardi gras vacation is cancelled this year b/c we gotta make up the days we missed from the hurricane.

winter park is amazing. i know every trail there and i'm here to tell you they are all awesome. the park grows and gets better every year. definitley check out the back bowl. theres a longass flat road thats quite annoying that you have to take to get to one of the lifts that take you up to it, but its so worth it. plenty of trees to play around in and when it snows, you are likely to find some soft, untouched powder.

god i miss that place...

anthwake · Ollie Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 58

Yea winter park is tight... though it isnt my fav. i still love it... (i dont think its worth the extra drive) stick w. keystone/ brek

c dub · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 1171 City: Austin

mary jane is the best!

c dub · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 1171 City: Austin

you guys know what i am talking about...

DavHof · Pop Shuvit Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 245 City: Dallas

I've only seen Winter Park. We've got a house up in Beaver Creek and I pass Winter Park on the drive up there. I've heard it's pretty sick, all the churches and schools have their trips their so it's probably a mountain that ranges in all terrain.

stompin9s · Posted: Oct 18, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject:

thanks guys. winter park it is...jan 2nd-7th
cant wait Cool

Friedhouse · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 189 City: Las Vegas

um, i lived in Colorado for 16 years of my life. Winter park is sick and everything. But by far the best mountain in is Steamboat. Bar none the best snowboarding you will have in your life. Steamboat is where its at.

stompin9s · Posted: Oct 18, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject:

haha i will go anywhere in co, ca, or wy if someone has a place to stay for free. u know im ballin on a budget so i gotta go with winterpark

colclough999 · Posted: Oct 18, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject:

completely unrelated...

my friend was telling me about a mountain that has a tree called the panty tree, its where the chairlife goes by and girls throw underwear in it and apparently theres quite a collection. anyone ever hear of this near them?

Brett Leadley · Posted: Oct 18, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject:

I've seen that for sure at Killington, VT. I think it's under the Canyon Quad chair.

lhsxc22 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 145 City: Elgin

those trees arent that uncommon at all....
but yeah winter park is awesome. i highly recommend going back into the vasquez ridge

c dub · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 1171 City: Austin

last time i was at steamboat it was all ice and slush

but i guess wrong place wrong time

stompin9s · Posted: Oct 18, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject:

colclough999, theres a tree in vail in one of the back bowls with tons of bras, panties, and beads on it...coulda been what he was talkin about?

Friedhouse · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 189 City: Las Vegas

last time i was in steamboat i got stuck in powder up to my shoulders, gotta get in with the locals, they will take you to some crazy spots off the peak. Awesome cliff drops and everything.

Taylor · Pop Shuvit Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 119 City: Slidell

the reason why the "panty tree" got started is because of mardi gras. those trees have been getting covered with random bras and panties for years......since my dad started going back in the '70s and prolly since before that........during mardi gras week. a lot of times people just do it now for the hell of it, but thats the origin of the "panty tree."

oh and, lhsxc22, the whole vasquez area is amazing. i did my first double black last year on the vasquez cirque.

Taylor · Pop Shuvit Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 119 City: Slidell

something else i just remembered: go to winterpark.com and buy your lift tickets now. you can save up to 50% on prices.

also, the best place to rent gear from is a place called POWDER TOOLS. really good stuff and cool people.