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@@AdventureLife365 Back then on the Spruce Peak side of the resort there was just the one base lodge and a parking lot. Now it's a small town with the new hotel and all the condos.
Love this videos. I recently took up snowboarding. It was a rough start, but I’m loving it now. I’m probably gonna get a year pass to Canaan Valley this winter! Lot more learning to do!
Awesome to hear it! There’s always something to work on with snowboarding 😅. I love riding at Canaan Valley, so you’ll have a good variety to work with
@@AdventureLife365 I am biased because I live 15 mins away, so even during winter I spend time there. But this is essentially my "home" ""mountain"", I picked up skiing only this winter, and I practically learned skiing there (doing snowboard now). Obviously it's not a real mountain, and it's not that big, but their park is solid and the main slope is OK to scratch the itch during the summer. The snow is real, which is the main attraction.
Ok cool, that’s essentially the same as I’ve found with researching it. I’ll try to check it out sometime soon 👍 Good luck with learning snowboarding too!
I like riding all types of runs on the mountain because it keeps things fun and interesting. There’s no carving in this video because it a big winter storm just hit and there was about 2 feet of powder on most of the trails.. And I wanted to spend most of my time in the glades 🌲 🌲
These two resorts couldnt be harder to favor over the other. Whatever one slacks in, the other just does better and they're three miles apart so there's no point in favoring one over the other lol cause you can always just go to the other resort. My rule of thumb is if i go to canaan or timberline once, i must go to the other in the same season. Or just forget them, go to Snowshoe, and marathon cupp run all day😎
I also think you should go to both if you’re able to, but not everyone can do that. Snowshoe is a great idea, but it’s more expensive at the same time, so one of these cheaper mountains might be better for some people
It's hard for me to pick one. Timberline is more expensive, but is an overall good experience if it isn't crowded. Timberline just gets way too crowded on Friday and Saturday, so I always try to hit them up midweek. Canaan is a bit more laid back, slower lifts, but you can generally have the trails to yourself to get ripping w/o having to worry about someone running into you or people standing around in the choke points of trails. If there's plenty of snow and the entire mountain is open, Canaan has always had better terrain and variety of terrain to ski and if you just want a fun day of skiing it's the place to go, but the issue is they don't have snow guns on half the mountain so that terrain is hardly ever open. Timberline is geared more toward intermediate/advanced and if I want to rip some black diamonds all day that's generally where I'll end up at. Thunderstruck, The Drop, and Off the Wall are some of the best tracks out east. Food and beverage I'd give the nod to Timberline, the owners have really put in some major investments in that place. Honestly I love both places, been skiing there for 30+ years at this point and that's why I always take a long mid-week trip so I can get in at least 2 days at both. I hope the State of WV gives Canaan some love at some point, because that place is a new lift and some more snow making capacity away from being a premier destination again like it was back in the 90s before Deep Creek got fully developed.
You definitely make a lot of good points, and I truly love both of these places! They’re both good in their own ways, and definitely midweek is better almost anywhere you ride for that “whole mountain to yourself” feel 👍 If West Virginia gave Canaan Valley a high speed lift and some more snowmaking capabilities that mountain would skyrocket with popularity.
@@AdventureLife365 Yeah that's the hope. I still remember the glory days back in the mid-late 90s. Before Deep Creek/Wisp area got super developed Canaan was the place to be, was always packed on the weekends and holidays, lots of restaurants and shops in the valley and it was a pretty cool place to hang out during ski season. Used to be big crowds/money in from the DC area especially, but then Deep Creek built all the putt putt courses, arcades, restaurants, etc. and kind of took over since there was so much to do outside of skiing there, and it was a bit more kid friendly. Canaan has always had that middle of nowhere/seclusion feel to it and once the people started going to the Wisp area more often the businesses all kind of dried up and then Covid really took what was left. It was sad to see when I made it back up a couple years ago and Big John's Family Fixings was closed down for good. That place had been running for 30+ years and had some great food. There was also another spot called Tucker's where you could go eat in the evenings and the black bears would come right up to the back windows. I believe it's now a Mama Mia's pizza chain store now in the little plaza with Ski Barn, but that whole entire spot right there used to have a ton of cool shops and places to eat. Hope it returns to some form of its former glory someday, but I still love going up to the area to get away for a few days, and it's clear at least the owners at Timberline are trying to bring it back a bit with the developments they have going on.
Ya that sounds cool. I don’t know if it’ll return to its previous popularity, but it’s definitely worth visiting! So hopefully we get a good amount of snowfall this season to capitalize on its uniqueness ❄️❄️❄️
They’re both great places! I’ve done ski resorts reviews on both and many others in the region on my channel! This is Snowshoe’s review: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ggV1iKVRAa0.html And this is Timberline’s: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n0mV-tNY7ik.html
Check out reviews of both on my channel! Snowshoe: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ggV1iKVRAa0.html Timberline: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n0mV-tNY7ik.html
Ya I haven’t been mountain biking there, but the mountain biking trails looked pretty cool! I wished they would’ve opened them up for winter trails too
Piggybacking off of what TwinSkiing said, the bike park is super great and has a huge variety of trails that can convince some to go there over Snowshoe. And for a niche portion of the population, the airport directly next to the resort is supper continent for people with small general aviation planes to access the resort. Despite it being small and having not a ton of standout quality’s I’d say it’s still worth going if you are on short notice and in the area.
I’ve only ever biked at Bryce. There are so few trails that I could easily ski it out within two hours, so I don’t plan to ski there. The bike park there is great.
For the ski reviews I keep the same format, so different resorts can easily be compared to one another, and snow quality/quantity can change from year to year at any resort. Timberline is general does a GREAT job at opening most of their slopes and managing their snow. And I’ve never had issues with the snow quality there either. Hope that helps answer your question
I was there for two years and saw well over 100 injuries ranging from concussion and minor bumps to children getting paralyzed. Broken arms and legs were a regular occurrence; not to mention when people broke something and bled all over the material it just went back into the sprayer system to be reused which is super nasty.
@@ZacharyNWareme and my friends legit went like a month ago, they just let us go to the top. First time snowboarding and we’re trying to bomb the whole hill. Employees just watching us knowing we can’t snow board falling every 10 ft. For safety reasons they shoulda stopped us lol
I already went skiing on snow know and it was so much fun and I fell twice but that’s because I went to a blue sloop first time I went down a slope I couldn’t stop so I was flying by everyone
@Nathan-pm7rk 😂 you’ve got to be careful, practice the basics so you can control yourself (safer for you and everyone else), and I’m glad you had fun and stayed safe 👍
