It all started in the winter of 8th grade when I first went to McIntyre Ski Area to learn how to snowboard. I took lessons during Christmas break and never returned to the snow that year. The following year, my ninth grade year, my parents bought me a seasons pass to McIntyre Ski Area. That year I went every Saturday and Sunday for the entire season. Going that often really helped me mature as a rider and get over a lot of fears that I had about things such as going off jumps and hitting rails, boxes, and other jib features.
The next winter my parents bought me another seasons pass, except that year it was too Pats Peak, a much larger mountain than what I had previously gone to. Unlike McIntyre, Pats Peak was an actual mountain, not a large hill or anything like McIntyre. Pats Peak had a good sized terrain park, which was something I was always into, and other things that I had never ridden before such as moguls, non-groomed powder sections and harder terrain to ride like black diamonds.
The following year I didn't go snowboarding at all besides one time, and that was at Waterville Valley. From the first time I saw the mountain, I knew that I was in love. This place was everything that I had heard it would be plus more. I took a few runs down the actual mountain then went on to the terrain park, which I had heard was their main attraction. Thats when it turned into my favorite mountain that I have ever been to. It was massive. Their park had things that I had only seen previously in videos from big companies like Burton, Tech N9ne, and Ride. They had things such as a big stair gap, enormous kickers, rail booters, and A-Frame rails. Because of these features, my love for terrain parks grew astronomically.
Pat's Peak has a decent sized terrain park with both jumps and jibs as well as a separate terrain park with just jibing features. Crotched however, 3 terrain parks and one of them is a Pro-Park. A Pro-Park is short for Professional Park, which means that everything inside the park is much bigger and harder than normal parks like that at Pats Peak. With bigger things, comes more fun and bigger tricks that you can learn.
After hearing all of this you probably think that the decision of where to go is quite easy, Crotched Mountain, however the choice is not as easy as it seems because of one thing that I have not talked about yet, cost. As everyone knows the corny saying, "money doesn't grow on trees", well thats currently the predicament that I'm in. A seasons pass to Crotched Mountain costs more than one hundred dollars more than a pass at Pat Peak, and I am currently strapped for cash.
Since I have not enough money to buy a seasons pass to Crotched I have decided not to get a pass. Instead, I am not going to get a seasons pass this year and instead I am going to buy individual day passes that way I am not just staying at one mountain and I am also not strapped for cash all season.
The next winter my parents bought me another seasons pass, except that year it was too Pats Peak, a much larger mountain than what I had previously gone to. Unlike McIntyre, Pats Peak was an actual mountain, not a large hill or anything like McIntyre. Pats Peak had a good sized terrain park, which was something I was always into, and other things that I had never ridden before such as moguls, non-groomed powder sections and harder terrain to ride like black diamonds.
The following year I didn't go snowboarding at all besides one time, and that was at Waterville Valley. From the first time I saw the mountain, I knew that I was in love. This place was everything that I had heard it would be plus more. I took a few runs down the actual mountain then went on to the terrain park, which I had heard was their main attraction. Thats when it turned into my favorite mountain that I have ever been to. It was massive. Their park had things that I had only seen previously in videos from big companies like Burton, Tech N9ne, and Ride. They had things such as a big stair gap, enormous kickers, rail booters, and A-Frame rails. Because of these features, my love for terrain parks grew astronomically.
Pat's Peak has a decent sized terrain park with both jumps and jibs as well as a separate terrain park with just jibing features. Crotched however, 3 terrain parks and one of them is a Pro-Park. A Pro-Park is short for Professional Park, which means that everything inside the park is much bigger and harder than normal parks like that at Pats Peak. With bigger things, comes more fun and bigger tricks that you can learn.
After hearing all of this you probably think that the decision of where to go is quite easy, Crotched Mountain, however the choice is not as easy as it seems because of one thing that I have not talked about yet, cost. As everyone knows the corny saying, "money doesn't grow on trees", well thats currently the predicament that I'm in. A seasons pass to Crotched Mountain costs more than one hundred dollars more than a pass at Pat Peak, and I am currently strapped for cash.
Since I have not enough money to buy a seasons pass to Crotched I have decided not to get a pass. Instead, I am not going to get a seasons pass this year and instead I am going to buy individual day passes that way I am not just staying at one mountain and I am also not strapped for cash all season.
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