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Stratton 12/13

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ForeverYung
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Who else skis stratton?
 Here is some stuff on this years park,
http://www.stratton.com/the-mountain/terrain-parks/terrain-parks-landing.aspx

Anyone know anything else?

Oct 11 2012 8:04PM
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oil.
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Yeah I'm game tomorrow probably
Feb 9 2013 7:41PM
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*SID*
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got my first lincoln today, wont be there tomorrow tho
Feb 9 2013 9:24PM
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ForeverYung
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nice man! what jump did you do it off?
Feb 9 2013 9:42PM
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*SID*
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Out of the first 3 jumps the one to the left
Feb 9 2013 9:44PM
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freeskibum82
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so stratton got maybe 8 inches and the woods were garbage. I also wrecked nicely on a 7 in big ben. apparently my sickle's are not meant for as much park as my dead moneys. Stratton needs to fix Shooting Star and get another lift installed on Kidderbrook. The lift lines at URSA and gondola were insane. The novice ski clubs showed up for all that POW.
Feb 11 2013 9:23AM
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oil.
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haha they sucked cuz there was no coverage to begin with. the whole sun bowl area was fucked from the beginning of the day because the winds were whipping all day over there. i think shooting star was on wind delay saturday or was slowed down because of wind.

i think everyone agrees that stratton doesn't have nearly enough upload capacity. even at fully operational status the lift lines are terrible on holidays.

imo the coolest thing that could be done is put a ropetow on big ben
Feb 11 2013 10:49AM
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freeskibum82
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yea. sunday shooting star was "broke" yet again for the third weekend in a row for me. which diverted all traffic to URSA.

Id take a 2 person chair up the middle of big ben so you can watch the runs people take. So many good skiers hitting stratton lately. Saw a bunch of corked 7/9s on sunday and great rail skills going down. Christian (nordica Am) was rippin it up too.
Feb 11 2013 11:33AM
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oil.
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a new lift is a massive undertaking. between towers, cables, motors and cars, its a lot of money. there are a lot of things that stratton has to spend money on first before thinking about that (new base lodge, gondola, lodging, infrastructure). not to mention upload capacity on a villager-style two person chair isnt that high, so it wouldn't really do much. the ropetow would be ideal IMO because you can just grab the rope; there really isnt any limit on how many people that can be on it (60 car lift that holds 4/lift can only get 120 people up a cycle, half the chairs are going up, half are going down, 4*30=120)


Feb 11 2013 1:00PM
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JWeinstock
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rope tow would make life so much easier. no need to take solstice
Feb 11 2013 2:38PM
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freeskibum82
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yea but the things you mentioned are not going to happen because of the winters we have been having. Worst part is, since a real estate company now owns stratton, the lodging would happen first unfortunately.. so we'd get more stupid rich novice skiers that clog up liftlines before any real improvements to the actual mountain. The gondola is long overdue to be replaced and it keeps getting voted down as a priority. Stratton year after year heads down hill as far as operations and keeps putting up condo after condo.
Feb 11 2013 3:42PM
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oil.
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not gonna lie lodging is one of the most important things to maintain a healthy mountain. if you are a parent, you want to take your kids on a vacation somewhere they will enjoy, not some place where you have to stay in a sleazy motel. more lodging=more money, more money=money to be spent on mountain ops when the time comes. you have to admit operationally this is one of our best years, from parks to snowmaking to grooming.

also someone told me that intrawest did a little bit of moving around of money and stratton was first on the table to get funds. word on the street is that the gondola cars are going to be replaced, because those things have a life to them. i heard true 12 people: equipment on the outside, 4 people sit on each side, 4 stand in the middle. god i hope that happens, they've been cramming in barely 9 and advertising 12 for forever now.
Feb 11 2013 6:38PM
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ohboy
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I was ripping it up on the pow day.

Had the first hit on the lil' 10 foot cliff on the left part of Moondance, had the first hits on my two secret cliffs in a secret spot, first tracks on Upper Downeaster Woods, and hit a bunch of cliffs under the Shooting Star lift. Shooting Star wasn't running so we were just going through the line right under the lift and hitting a bunch of 5-15 ft cliffs.

Sure we didn't get a ton of snow, but you just need to know where to look to get some pow above the knees.

Feb 11 2013 8:34PM
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freeskibum82
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Very nice! The lift tower line under shooting star looked sketch at the bottom where it dumps out to the lift. Crazy to be hitting that. Woods were kinda weak as there wasnt enough snow pack under the recent snow. Fun day out on the wide boards anyways though.

See you all next sunday!
Feb 12 2013 10:19AM
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Feb 18 2013 4:37PM
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freeskibum82
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Scott, hope its okay i posted the video of andrew here. Its a great perspective of the park at stratton this year.
Feb 18 2013 4:38PM
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freeskibum82
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Stratton looking to get 16inches of snow with Storm Q. saturday night, 10 inches, sunday another 6. whos going!
Feb 21 2013 3:57PM
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freeskibum82
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ill be there. storm total looking to be under a foot now but still freshies for sunday as all the president week jersey crowd leave! I just picked up the Lloyd jacket from last season so ill be rocking that.
Feb 22 2013 3:05PM
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freeskibum82
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i agree. woods were great, kidderbrook early on was awesome for some tree to tree carves and big ben was great. Wish they would cut the quarter to the barrel at the bottom better so you can bonk going over it instead of some wide thing that the quarter goes right up to.
Feb 25 2013 10:08AM
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freeskibum82
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14inches of fresh fell on stratton yesterday. Who's heading up there this sunday? Ill be slayin the ravine all day.
Feb 28 2013 9:54AM
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oil.
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i was there this weekend. the woods were so sick. great cover. i was in chicken alley, keyhole, and hit up the ravine once
Mar 4 2013 11:30AM
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freeskibum82
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which two are chicken alley and keyhole?
Mar 4 2013 12:53PM
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oil.
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chicken alley: skiers left World Cup
keyhole: skiers left Upper Downeaster
Mar 11 2013 8:27AM
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freeskibum82
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ah word. have skied keyhole. we also found one skiers left of liftline thats fun. Will have to check out skier's left of world cup this upcoming sunday.
Mar 11 2013 1:06PM
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oil.
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yeah dont get onto world cup via slalom glade though. go through either dancing bear or down steveks. from there the entrance is above the mogul course (not sure if its still there or groomed over). just find a way to duck into the woods, the tnrance is tight but it opens up. you can either go in from the cut through between drifter and world cup or i use a little path thats right above hydrant 23 (???) i think it is.
Mar 11 2013 1:40PM
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ForeverYung
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Anyone else gunna be there this sunday? I'm most likely going to be
Mar 13 2013 3:26PM
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freeskibum82
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i will be. St Pattys! Rocking Green and White
Mar 14 2013 3:48PM
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ForeverYung
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If you see me call me out, black saga pants, black and tan bloom jacket and on3p FRs
Mar 15 2013 9:37PM
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freeskibum82
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how about them park instructors.. Carved Right 3 to Corked left 3 like it was nothing! Nice work fellas.
Mar 18 2013 1:57PM
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ForeverYung
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Yeah the kill it.

Also did my first backflip over the tank thing at the bottom of big ben
Mar 18 2013 3:25PM
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freeskibum82
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nice! all i did was a 180 bonk over it.
Mar 18 2013 9:02PM
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ForeverYung
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Haha it was way easier than I thought. Now I want to take it to an actual jump
Mar 19 2013 8:13AM
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freeskibum82
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good stuff. id recommend at the very least, the middle jump of the right side of big ben.
Mar 19 2013 4:07PM
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freeskibum82
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I hope the temps stay low till the weekend would love to break the sickles out for one more pow trees day!
Mar 20 2013 2:24PM
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beboshort
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did stratton build the super park yet or they still only have big ben and tyroliene?

Mar 26 2013 1:09PM
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freeskibum82
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They gave up on supertrail and were given the other "half" of big ben. No supertrail anymore. They have left up the Vermont Open stuff though. That jump is nice and the rails below are great. Definitely check stratton out if you want to escape the crowded carinthia.
Mar 26 2013 1:25PM
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beboshort
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sweet ill be up there this weekend!
Mar 26 2013 4:31PM
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ForeverYung
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I shall be there Easter Sunday
Mar 26 2013 5:36PM
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freeskibum82
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i shall be there as well. Maybe this weekend i'll make a trip through the park. The woods last sunday were too too good to lap the park. It was nice to break out the sickles one last time. See you all sunday!
Mar 26 2013 6:01PM
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oil.
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winters really holding out this year! we have at least 2, maybe 3 more weeks
Mar 27 2013 8:18AM
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freeskibum82
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Stratton to close April 14th but they will still have soo much snow i may come hike it.


man..i post too much in here.
Mar 27 2013 9:13AM
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JWeinstock
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will they have that rail jam again?


Mar 27 2013 3:23PM
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ForeverYung
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Stratton could easily stay open past April 14th, they still have full coverage
Mar 28 2013 7:00PM
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WinterStick
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I say we organize a barbeque the weekend after closing weekend. Drag a grill to the top of Big Ben or the pipe and have a private kicker session
Mar 29 2013 8:01AM
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freeskibum82
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unfortunately it isn't up to them. They lease the land for the winter and with bears coming out of hibernation, they have to close. Damn national forests. Also, at this point in the season, its all season pass holders anyways. no real revenue coming in.
Mar 29 2013 9:07AM
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