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Winter Park, USA

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We went here in March 2006.  Historically, this is THE month to be here for snow.  This year was the worst on record.  The resort village has a lift going to the middle of the mountain and it's quite fast.  After a couple of days, the slopes were icy and hard as concrete.  That's not the end of the world, but Winter Park isn't far from it.  The mountain is a mess of runs.  Black, Blue and green runs are all over the place, but what really annoyed us was the amount of deliberately moggled black and blue diamond runs.  The left side is all black diamond runs.  8 out of 9 are moggled and we saw 2 poeple on them over 2 days.  When we did find blue and  diamond runs, they were straight, short and boring.

Up to the Mary Jane bowl and we were so disapointed.  If you want to know what a shock absorber in a car does, go to Mary Jane and watch your legs.  It was so bumpy and even the skiers were moaning.  Now bear in mind we are carvers riding stiff gear and like big wide steep runs, Winter Park just was not for us, but we didn't think that much of the park and didn't find the pipe. 

To be honest, we did all the decent runs in a day and after turning sharp right on a blue diamond, hitting mogels and literally taking off on the second day, we decided to change mountains as the lift pass covers Copper Mountain.

However, It's not all bad news for Winter Park.  The company that owns Copper and Vail have just taken over Winter Park and they do have big plans for the future starting this year.  Bring it on - we agree with WSG - this place is for pensioners but we don't agree with your rating - too generous guys!

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