St. Lawrence University Snow Bowl

Huezee

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How many of you have skied this legendary area before it was sold? It's a shame that the current students didn't get to enjoy the true Snow Bowl experience. Although, I remember one year when some caught a ski to the forehead (required staples, IIRC) because they walked under the big air jump and I'm shocked no one died during the sled competition.
 
NYSkiBlog alum miker92 skied it:

 
That's my photo (or at least one I had from back in the day) from the old STE forums. :LOL: Here's another one from 2005.

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Huezee aka Huggy Bear?

Do you know miker?
 
Got a kick out of this in the comments,
"The skiing was skiing, not plentiful or spectacular, but it was snowy and downhill, which was all that mattered at the time. Parties? We didn’t need to party at the Snow Bowl, as there was plenty of warmer partying back on campus where the fraternities still survived. What a life? I’m still not sure how well it prepared us for the real world."
Bout sums it up. And now we’re here.
We’d drive by Snow Bowl on our way Thursday’s from madstop to Big Tuppa.
 
Skied it many times , downhill meh , xc trail system was superlative with decent downhill section and plenty of opportunity to herringbone ?

We Also skied Clarkson's Seven Springs ski hill not far from the Snow Bowl
 
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Ahh what a throwback! I'd never seen this video before, and it has some great vintage photos I'd never seen either. Looking at the Vimeo description, the students who made it were all people I knew of a couple years behind me, though I didn't know them well. I know a lot of the people in the video though. Slightly cringeworthy to look at now that I'm pushing 30, but I guess that's college for ya. That footage on the quad is from my senior year, 2014—tough to forget with the dorm construction.

FWIW I think they've got some dates wrong. The party happened at Titus all four years I was there, so 10-11, 11-12, 12-13, and 13-14. I think it started the year before, in winter 2010. And as far as I know the Snow Bowl had been closed for several years before I got there. But they got the spirit of the thing more or less right and I suppose that's what counts hah.

It was great to at least ski some deep snow there the handful of times I went and hiked it with friends. There's a steep section to the far looker's right that used to be the landing of a ski jump and I've had a few good turns on that. Would've been amazing if the place had still been operating—I would've been there every day, and may not have graduated.

Huezee, what year did you graduate? And Warp, I never skied Seven Springs but did a ton of mountain biking there! People built a couple of really nice flowy downhill trails during my time.
 
How many of you have skied this legendary area before it was sold? It's a shame that the current students didn't get to enjoy the true Snow Bowl experience. Although, I remember one year when some caught a ski to the forehead (required staples, IIRC) because they walked under the big air jump and I'm shocked no one died during the sled competition.
Never skied the SLU campus but saw Little Feat live on their golf course if that counts.
 
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