Snow time

February 2008 archive

Tragedy on Big Baby

Big Baby, noun: 1. The easiest run at Blue Mountain. Currently the southernmost run at the resort, it's approximately 250 yards long, with a really easy gradient and a smooth surface. This is where ski school classes take place. 2. Where Heather, hot-dogging for the kids perhaps, went off a ...

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All that snow and no slope in sight. Anyone have a toboggan hill they can recommend in Toronto? I have to make some use of all this powder. postscript: Wednesday morning I woke up and got ready to shovel, and dawn was juuuuust about to break, and the snow was ...

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Best and Worst of Blue Mountain, 2008map_icon

OK, here's my picks for the best and worst of Blue Mountain this year. (Add your picks at the end.) Worst: 1) The rental facility at the south base (near entrance 1 to Blue). Absolutely clueless staff. My snowboard boots had the inner boots mixed up, so they were super ...

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