Weekend fun w/family snowboarding, $$$$$$

(kenteck) · (kenteck) **Join Date: Jan 2005** 12-27-2007, 4:36 PM

Wanted to go to take the family to the mountain and do some snowboarding, then It hit me why we don’t ever go anymore and we own a boat instead, just for two adults & 3 kids for one day over 400.00, stay the night add 200.00 more, no way I just cant justify paying that much, even though I love the mountain, just don’t think it will happen, unless I skip a boat payment, but I don’t see that happening either, anyone else feel this pain……..

(bill_airjunky) · (bill_airjunky) **Join Date: Apr 2002** 12-27-2007, 4:44 PM

Oh yea. So I find ways to make it happen a bit cheaper. Bought a car from Dave Smith Dodge & got lifetime season passes for Silver Mt., about 40 minutes from my house. Makes it a lot easier.

(dansmith) · (dansmith) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 12-27-2007, 5:46 PM

I just got back from skiing a mole hill in PA today known as Whitetail. Only 4 or 5 trails "open" (and I use that term loosely). 2 lifts open. Crappy conditions (effectively skiing in slush). ~ 10 inch base.

Cost: $51 for a 4h flex ticket.

Had I brought the wife & kids, I would have spent > $200...FOR 4 HOURS OF SKIING!!! And that doesn't include the 1 1/2h drive there.

Never again will I bitch about $120 to fill up the boat. At least I can get 3 - 4 days of fun w/ the family on that...

(johnsvt) · (johnsvt) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 12-27-2007, 6:26 PM

Dan you are so close to the "heated" lake why would you bother skiing.

(lka__supra24ssv)

Dan my wife and kids were at Liberty today and she said how bad the conditions were. I don't even want to ask if they had lunch up there as I know that would have been a couple hundred dollar day. I was lucky enough to work all day so they could have fun.

(Message edited by LKA__SUPRA24SSV on December 27, 2007)

(greg2) · (greg2) **Join Date: May 2002** 12-27-2007, 9:14 PM

I live within an hour or so of several mountains and I ALWAYS think about how much it cost me for a day on the mountain with my 2 daughters vs a day at the lake! Most lift tickets around here are ~ $40-50, plus gas to get there. Easy $200 day on the mountain...the lake is a much cheaper option, but it's a little chilly for the water around here right now!

(lionel) · (lionel) **Join Date: Nov 2005** 12-27-2007, 10:19 PM

Ken, I went up to Hood yesterday, add cold, snowy, windy, but you can't put a price tag on riding untracked all day on 2 ft. of powder!

(dansmith) · (dansmith) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 12-28-2007, 3:45 AM

John,
I would go to the heated lake, but my boat has been winterized and the people I know who haven't winterized have to "work" this weekend.

Brian (LKA_SUPRA24SSV), yeah, I forgot about the added cost of eating there. By myself, I can go w/o food, but w/ the wife & kids, it almost pays to not hear them complain about being hungry...