so i might be going to michigan?!?wtf

[rgrwilco]

each year my lil bros hockey team has a tournament, usually in lake placid, which means i get to ride whiteface for about a week. this year though, its looking like instead of whiteface, it will be in Michigan. this is bothersome, because it will be hard to convince riding buddies to come to michigan with me, and from what i see everything is extremely small out there. im pretty bummed about this.

 

 

so prove me wrong? tell me i should be excited? or am i doomed for a week?

 

i was thinking about driving out there as my family flew, and leaving a few days before they did and hit a few small ass resorts in ohio and other states on the way, and making a little midwest documentary. thats the only cool thing i can think about.

 

papasteeze, you seem keen on the park scene across the land of milk and honey, and Midwest input?

[toast21602]

first problem... its not going to be a midwest documentary, considering it is not the midwest. second problem... its michigan.

[poconoceancity]

first problem... its not going to be a midwest documentary, considering it is not the midwest. second problem... its michigan.

 

Michigan is part of the midwest...

[Papasteeze]

papasteeze, you seem keen on the park scene across the land of milk and honey, and Midwest input?

 

I wouldn't be too worried. That area produces well known talent year after year.. I have been mentioning newschoolers a lot lately but it is a great source of information. I know that the MidWest has bigger and better more organized park events than our area.

 

Go here and introduce yourself and maybe you can get some leads on what is happening when and where. Michigan is large state, it will help to be more specific.

 

http://newschoolers.com/web/forums/forumthreads/cat_id/39/

[OutCold]

I don't know it you're going to the upper part of michigan or not, but Mt. Bohemia looks fun. They have 900ft of vert, All diamond trails, they beat up a gaper in their advertisement on their website, all natural lake effect snow. I would like to go there some day. Then again you are probably looking for a park, which does not exist here.

Mt. Bohemia

[rgrwilco]

I don't know it you're going to the upper part of michigan or not, but Mt. Bohemia looks fun. They have 900ft of vert, All diamond trails, they beat up a gaper in their advertisement on their website, all natural lake effect snow. I would like to go there some day. Then again you are probably looking for a park, which does not exist here.

Mt. Bohemia

 

 

im only looking for park because i assumed thats all michigan would have worth riding... mt bohemia looks amazing, i even started a thread about that place a while back. but that is out there man, im not sure where in michigan ill be but gauranteed way far from there.

 

ive been reading things about nubs nob and boyne highlands. looks like it will be pretty fun afterall. still hoping for whiteface though.

[kragan]

Both Ohio and Michigan are the mid-west. The only places that are decent to ski in Michigan are all in the UP, which is a crazy long drive but they get blasted with crazy lake effect snow up there. I have skied several places in both Michigan and Ohio. The biggest they get in Ohio (vert wise) is about the size of Big Boulder, maybe a lil smaller. The same goes for Michigan (southern Michigan, near Detroit) except up in the Northern Part (not the UP) there are some places that are about the size of Jack Frost. The 2 most popular are Boyne and Boyne Highlands.