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MichSteeze
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where do you ride in michigan?



me---Boyne Mountain and Boyne Highlands
Aug 22 2009 1:29PM
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Jib-Ninja
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Yo, i hit up Highlands whenever im with my dad, when its me and my bro and my dad we will hit up Mountain. So i go Mountain about 4 times a year and highlands like 12 times a year. And Cannonsburg about 10 times a year. Crystal averages about once a year, and Caberfae about once or twice a year.
Aug 22 2009 2:02PM
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MichSteeze
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sick man..i ride mountain most of the time...but the highlands is way better.. they should deff take the super pipe down at the mountain..it gets wayy to icy for me to ride it.
Aug 22 2009 2:04PM
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Jib-Ninja
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Yah but that superpipe is mad sick. and then idk what they would put in the place for it lol? i guess just 2 more big booters like at the bottom because mountain is lacking in jumps. I guess all michigan is tho lol. But the top of the superpipe makes a good run in for the kickers at the bottom.
Aug 22 2009 2:10PM
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MichSteeze
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yea dude..when it gets slushy you have to like bomb drop from the gate just to clear the jump..they should also not groom the park as often it gets all icy. i am stoked for winter!
Aug 22 2009 2:20PM
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factory81
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I work in Grand Rapids, live in Grand Haven, go to school in Muskegon.

I ski at Cannonsburg before work on Mon-Wed-Friday all the time. They have a nice terrain park for the size of the hill, and lift lines on mon-wed-friday are non-existant.

Last year I hitup all the places, Caberfae, Crystal, Highlands / Mountain, Shanty Creek (Schuss / Summit), Bittersweet, that even smaller hill right by Bittersweet, and Nubs Nob of course.

Crystal seemed to be like gaper mountain. I didn't check out the terrain park that much at the time though due to a wrist injury, but the lift lines were pretty big.
Caberfae, two boring hills with no terrain park really. Cheap $9 sunday skiing passes, but the lift lines at this rather meh hill make it not worth going to.

Shanty Creek...they have some $10 skiing days, and $17.99 passes on liftopia that make visiting there not too costly. I like the lift capacity of Boyne Mountain, Nubs Nob, and Shanty Creek the most.

In the forseeable future I am going to be moving to Kalamazoo so I might be switching to riding at Bittersweet all the time.

In a nutshell though I paln on skiing Boyne Mountain as much as possible on the weekends this ski season, and Cannonsburg or Bittersweet during the week days, depending on what city I am working out of.


I hope to meet up with some of you.
Aug 22 2009 2:32PM
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factory81
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Highlands is pretty meh if you ask me. I think you have to trek around too much. You are cross country skiing all over, and Nubs Nob is right across the street with way better...everything.


Aug 22 2009 2:35PM
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.Asain-Skiier
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I live in SL right near Grand Haven so yah factory81 hello again. and i ride mulligans
Aug 22 2009 2:35PM
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Jib-Ninja
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lol, funny...i go to school right by Grand Rapids, have a cottage in Spring Lake, and live in Muskegon.

But yah bittersweets terrain park is pretty dope, and Cannonsburg is just plain fun to hit up with friends and be on the terrain park all day. Crystals terrain park has some pretty difficult shit, but yah a lot of gapers there. If you ever go to Pando you will see some SICK shit being thrown down, but mostly by snowboarders. But it sounds like ill be seeing you up at boyne during the weekends and mabye Cannonsburg after school possibly on the week days? Ill add you.
Aug 22 2009 2:38PM
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Jib-Ninja
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My poor friends go there, keep in mind all my friends are all snowboarders so if i ever sesh with you guys i will either be with some really good snowboarders, or some shitty snowboarders...never another skier lol. But ill most likely hit up Mulligans some time this year....If any newschoolers are there and none of my friends wanna sesh with me ill definetly be there.
Aug 22 2009 2:43PM
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factory81
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Asian, yeah we still need to hang out once yuo get some fuzz on your nuts. Just kiddin.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320414901809

If you locals know anyone looking for a boat I am selling my Seadoo jetboat for skiing money. I need to go to SL,UT, and Whistler this winter!

Mulligans...psssh :). Do they have season passes though for dirt cheap?

We should seriously consider car pooling though up north. Asian living in Spring Lake, and Smoky living in Muskegon. I literally drive by you guys everytime I go to Boyne.


Aug 22 2009 2:45PM
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Jib-Ninja
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hell yah dude, i get frequent skier passes and i think that u guys could get in cheaper if you go with me, but my car only gets 14 MPG so we arnt gonna take mine lol, ill give you gas money tho.
Aug 22 2009 2:50PM
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.Asain-Skiier
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mommy told me not to go with strangers...
Aug 22 2009 2:52PM
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Jib-Ninja
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lol? for real? tell her that we are friends from school and you have known us since like 4th grade.
Aug 22 2009 2:54PM
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factory81
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I have an Alero that gets like 28mpg on the highway. Its pretty decent, but no ski rack. Winter tires get the job done, but currently we can only hold 3 people because we have to fold a seat down in the rear to let the skis stick out.

and yeah Asian your best thing to do if your parents trip like that is to say you met me at Mulligans.

Boyne Mountain though....thats where the fun is. It is like 3.5-4 hours away, and its got everything. Or I should say, everything that you could hope for in a Michigan ski hill. Then the 6 person high speed lift to the terrain park....doesn't get any better.


This weekends weather has made me go damn, only another 35 degrees to go and we could have some snow......
Aug 22 2009 3:05PM
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Jib-Ninja
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Haha, alright well your car sounds good. Yah, boyne mountains terrain park isnt madly steep like the Highlands is, and so many different rails, they just need more jumps. And i know, the leaves are changing colors...its starting to get closer.
Aug 22 2009 3:13PM
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factory81
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I don't go to the highlands because it is a further drive and it just doesn't seem worth it really.
Aug 22 2009 3:14PM
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MichSteeze
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yea guys..thanks for posting on my thread. i had no idea some of you guys rode at boyne too...thats sick.

man i wish i lived closer to the mountain, i live like 4 hrs away in the thumb. i hope to see you guys riding at boyne this season.
Aug 22 2009 3:35PM
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factory81
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That sucks you live over in the thumb. West Michigan is alright. We hop on US-131 and soon as you get on that road you are up north in no time....

Pine Knob looks decent though?
Aug 22 2009 3:46PM
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MichSteeze
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yea man i know it sucks...i am stoked though for boyne.
Aug 22 2009 3:50PM
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skifree179
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Swiss Valley,Timber Ridge, Bitttersweet, Boyne Mtn.
Aug 22 2009 4:14PM
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factory81
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Timber Ridge! Thats the other place I been to. Man that place is meh :)

I was like damn there are a lot of cornfields....oh look a hill!
Aug 22 2009 4:17PM
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ace_
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hahahaha worrrd

i ski t.r bsweet cburg crystal boyne marquette. all over really. but i live in kzoo
Aug 22 2009 4:19PM
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Jib-Ninja
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oh yah i heard some people talkin about Timber Ridge at the Grand Rapids Rail Jam this year...i dont even know where that place is...how does it compare to the other hills round here?
Aug 22 2009 4:33PM
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HPskier
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i ride in a magical place called Regionals Forum
Aug 22 2009 4:49PM
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factory81
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Timber Ridge is probably the smallest hill I have been to in Michigan. I only went there because I bought a goskimichigan pass and I had a free pass there to use and I was already at Bittersweet.

Yeaaaah I might be moving to Kzoo here myself, I have a job lined up there this October, and I will be at WMU this winter I do believe.....

I wouldn't go to Timber Ridge unless you had to.....


Aug 22 2009 5:06PM
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Goku
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live in walled lake
ski everyday at Alpine Valley
Twice a Month at either Boyne Mountain, Nubs, or Schuss/Shanty Creek
Aug 22 2009 8:04PM
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ace_
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where you getting a job at?

and the truth, though the people are nicer and there drunk most of the time haha
Aug 22 2009 9:39PM
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factory81
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At a pretty big technology company in Kzoo. I don't want to name names online. They do a good job scouring the net, and it will be a job I can afford to live on my own at. So I don't want to fuck it up.

I will be living there by January though. I was thinking of trying to do ski patrol at Cburg and Bittersweet so I can ski for free and work.


Aug 22 2009 9:54PM
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.Capn.
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Alpine Valley, quite litterally a landfill for those who do not know of us.
Aug 22 2009 11:43PM
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Goku
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im there everyday. hbu?
Aug 22 2009 11:47PM
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.AR6rider.
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I'm also like 4+ hours away from Boyne so I only get to go there a few times a year if I'm lucky.  Otherwise, I just ski at Mt. Holly whenever I'm home from school or on break.  There's nowhere to ski around East Lansing, it sucks.
Aug 23 2009 12:02AM
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Goku
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alpine or brighton?
Aug 23 2009 12:03AM
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.AR6rider.
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I've been to Brighton once and I couldn't stand it.  Ridiculously long lift lines for such a shitty hill.  I'll have to check out Alpine this year though.
Aug 23 2009 12:07AM
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.Capn.
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Used too. Moved to florida two years ago. Used to pretty much live there, mostly for racing though. The park was always pretty much shit untill probably these last couple years it got a little better. But of course once its decent, I only get about ten days a year at Alpine.
Aug 23 2009 12:08AM
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pRETTyLight5
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hey whats your name? i worked at the burg last year giving lessons here and there but i was there 3 days a week at least. i go to gv for school so i was forced to move my main ski hill down there. but over christmas break i ski at schuss or the boynes regularly
Aug 23 2009 1:25AM
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.Asain-Skiier
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Hey in the winter we should all go up and just meet somewhere on the hill and then have  gang fights or just a mass Michigan Newschoolers train
Aug 28 2009 11:31AM
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spruitm
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i ski at cannonsburg regularly, but get up to boyne mountain and nubs nob once in a while.
Aug 28 2009 12:07PM
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MichSteeze
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^^ha yea. we will meet at the top of the tarrian park at boyne. party train.
Aug 28 2009 12:11PM
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