The Terrain
This year there has been a lot of changes in our riding choices, mainly realizing that Mount St Louis is the overall best choice for us. Blue mountain has been disappointing the last few times we went, mostly icy / full of n00bs on the hills / hard pack landings on everything… Horseshoe is decent, but a bit smaller, longer lift lines, and lower standards on their park when it comes to grooming / rail building / jump building. We also checked out Snow Valley this year for the first time, and surprisingly is pretty fun.
Mount St. Louis / Moonstone
This place has been good to us this year. Every time we go it seems there is some form of new snow, if not a huge dump of 10-30 cm which we have had a few lucky days of. They made some improvements this year including a bling-bling chromed out new 6-person high speed lift.
The new high-speed 6 person.. This thing is right at the main lodge, so it attracts the largest lines, but it sure moves them quick… Sometimes a better alternative than the quad that takes you to the park.
On top of the new lift, according to their website they also widened a few runs, added some more dirt (Louis is famous for mountain-building, read the history section of their website, holy crap this place used to be so much smaller!), and they added more snow-making capacity.
Tips for hitting up Louis:
-Try to hit this place up early. Not only because they don’t have night-boarding (8:30-4:30 only folks, sorry), but because between 8:30-11:30 the hills are basically empty. You will own the terrain parks with your buddies at this time, and this time only, because once 11-12 hits, the place is simply jammed. This lasts until about 2:30-3:30ish when people generally get tired and go sip hot chocolate. I guess this is obvious to experienced shredders, and is probably similar at most resorts, but we find it makes a huge difference here.
-Shred the park in the morning, because the ramps / landings will be nasty by 1pm usually.
-Slash pow at any skiers you see who stop before jumps / rails, do the plow the whole way down the mountain, or cut you off in any way, as they seem to be so great at.
If anyone has anything to add please do, and if you don’t board in Ontario give us a review of what you shred so if anyone is in the area we can spread the word! SB4L
