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| - Wanted to get out for the first turns of the season to warm up my legs before heading back home to the mountains of Banff and Lake Louise so I headed out to Boston Mills after work yesterday. Best thing about this place is the proximity to my house, 30 min drive will get me to this decent little ski hill!
With all the recent snow, I was quite happy with the conditions at Boston Mills (Brandywine wasn't open yet, but probably will be in a couple of days). Good base, lightly groomed and pretty soft snow for an Eastern hill. This is a great place to take people who are just starting off learning how to ski or snowboard, lots of families with little kids on the hill who were learning their first turns. I would highly recommend it just for that purpose alone.
Only A-OK, you say? yeah, and not because I'm comparing it to my Western resorts....I went after 3:30 when they have reduced lift ticket prices for evening skiing (open until 9:30 most weekdays for the after-work crowd), but with lift ticket and rental I wound up paying $62....for 6 runs on a hill. This seemed a little outrageous considering one run is green, 2 blue and 3 black but one of the blue runs has a terrain park on it that's covered with teenage snowboarders. And the "Black" rating on those runs is a little suspicious, one of them might actually deserve it...at most resort the other two would probably only qualify for a Blue rating. Spent 75% of my time on the lifts because the runs are so short, yes, I know Ohio is flat but I doubt I'll be coming back here unless I'm teaching someone to ski....I would probably just make a weekend trip out to a few larger hills that are all within 200 miles of Cleveland to get my "ski-fix".
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