Snowboarding and Skiing

Well, I snowboard, live in northern Massachusetts, and my home mountain would have to be Wachusett. It's pretty small, about 30 minutes away, but the lifts are fast and on weekdays no one is there. The park is pretty good, they have a superdragon for the pipe, and park passes to keep idiots out. Before there were dads going over jumps with little kids between their legs ruining the lips . Now it's less crowded and safer. I suck at tricks, as noted in a thread I made in GT! before this forum existed, but I love big airs with tweaked grabs/shifty's.
Wachusett changed their jumps last year, now they are cut away right after the lip about 6 feet down and a huge flat leading to a sharp landing instead of the whole thing being curvey and having flow. It's kinda lame, the old ones felt so much more natural. These new ones give you about a 1/2 second more air, that's the ONLY upside. That and they make you feel higher. The biggest jumps Wachusett has are 30 footers, I hit the new ones a few times this season, but you have to land exactly where the slope starts for the landing, otherwise you land flat and break your legs. If you land to far down, there's ice from kids skidding after they land so it's incredibly hard to stay in control. The good news is that with the really sharp angle from flat to the landing makes it good to jump off, almost like jumping a cliff if you're going fast(the one thing I'm good at ). I did that most runs through the park as it let me tweak out some grabs without fear of being killed upon landing.
The summit has some better trails, the oh-so-scary black diamonds(would be rated blue squares to green circles at any other mountain). The best thing about those is that(most of the time) there are no beginers to slow you down, it's just bombing the whole way. Last christmas I got the materials and learned how to hotwax, and it's very useful, espescially on those trails. There is always a massive crowd waiting for the trails to be open when they're almost done grooming, and this is when that wax really comes into play. I went from about 50th in the pack to 2nd because of my wax, and it was sooooooo good. I LOVE groomed trails, you can carve as deep as you want, go as fast as you want and there is NO chance of falling! And even if you can manage to fall, there is no ice! When I grow up I would love to own a mountain somewhere in colorado, cut out maybe 4 trails, buy one chairlift, one snowcat with the groomer attachment, and just ride all day. With no one else (or very few friends...maybe) you could groom in the morning and have corduroy all day. This is, of course, if I am filthy rich(keepin my hopes up).

I ride a 2002 151 burton custom with burton freestyle bindings and vans boots with BOA lacing.