In Madison, Wisconsin at the moment at a hotel. Headed to this place. http://www.cascademountain.com/trail-map Family and my 3 year old daughter going out for the day. Not like skiing out west, but still alot of fun. Wish we had some fresh powder...I know it'll be ice pack. That's skiing in the midwest though. Sliding down a sheet of ice.
Very nice. Great age to get them started I adjusted and tuned my teenage kids skis the other day. Just waiting on the snow.
I want to go summer camping sometime in western provinces ...only been to montreal and windsor which is a suburb of Detroit
Well we still have to travel a little ways for "real skiing". Closest big hills to us would be in Quebec but we still prefer to travel towards Vermont.
Have fun! We are having a terrible winter for the ski areas so far, but I'm hoping to get up there once or twice this season. Great to get the kiddos going young, you guys are gonna have a blast.
So-so winter. Started of good, but then these darn thaw cycles keep happening. Our first day out was Thanksgiving....in a foot of fresh! Talk about getting your legs back. We were supposed to head out again today, but I've got a cold/flu that I just can't shake. Hopefully, next weekend. We've been out about 4 days this season. Not bad.
I grew up in Mich. You can really learn alot on short icy slopes. Many Mich skiers go out west and kick the spoiled westerners butts.
I'm the one on the right. Skiing was fun. Gained much better speed control. Occassionally, it gets steep and I lose control where I rocket down but did not fall. The most annoying thing to me is when people crowd the top of the lift area where you are getting off the chair and have no where to go. I saw a few very badly arranged fires in the pit areas and went in there and rearranged the smoldering wood. Not well seasoned at all. Hissing and smokey.
I learned to ski here in west central PA at Blue Knob Ski Resort. Blue Knob is a 3000' mountain always shrouded in fog and ice. They say if you can ski Blue Knob, you can ski anywhere in the world, because these are the worst conditions you'll ever encounter. (Except avalanches.)
