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01-11-2009, 09:30 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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| snowboarding at BS
Which BS's have the best facilities for snow boarding?
The ones I know are second-chance schools. My son's numbers are high, but as an avid skateboarder, he'd love to be able to snow board during the winter.
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01-11-2009, 09:37 PM
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I'm not sure which have the "best facilities", but three pretty well-known schools came up on search (from boarding school review, go by sports<snowboarding): Kent & Gunnery & Lawrence.
.. Well, Le Rosey has great facilities, they live on a ski/snowboard resort for 3 months. haha. but they're in switzerland, so..
i suggest you go on boardingschoolreview.com and search by sports.
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01-12-2009, 12:44 AM
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#4 | | New Member
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Little off point, but Olympic snowboarder Chris Klug attended Deerfield
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01-12-2009, 06:58 AM
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Holderness, Proctor.
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01-12-2009, 08:27 AM
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#6 | | Junior Member
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I have friend who sent their son and daughter to Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine.
They have a special winter term schedule that allows for students to be on the mountain (Sunday River) every day. Their son was on ski patrol and their daughter is a competitive racer. While both children were exceptionally smart and motivated, they were definitely at the top of the heap at Gould, and enjoyed being the queen bees and class leaders from the outset with little competition.
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01-12-2009, 10:18 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
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Most of the schools mentioned as snowboarding schools (my D's included) have access to top facilities and also have special winter schedules (out at noon) to allow maximum time on the snow.
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01-12-2009, 10:25 AM
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#8 | | Senior Member
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From Blair the students go to the Poconos, which isn't just the greatest, but it is something.....
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01-12-2009, 01:46 PM
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#9 | | Junior Member
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Thanks, I did look on Boarding School Review, but they listed too many schools, and it's difficult to know the level of support for the sport at the schools. Apparently, there's a competitive league. What I wanted to avoid is for my son to have to travel an hour each way after school in order to participate. Reasonable proximity to a mountain is good.
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02-06-2009, 10:03 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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Bump. Does anyone know if exeter has access to good skiiing/snowboarding facilities? There one of the only schools Im applying to that has a snowboard/ski club and not only for skiiers.
Anyway can anyone give me any info about this.
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02-07-2009, 12:19 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
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Exeter is quite a drive from any ski areas....the major nh ski areas are a couple hours north and there is a smaller (but still fun) ski mountain about an hour to the west.
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02-07-2009, 10:46 PM
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#12 | | Junior Member
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Exeter just had their first ski trip this last weekend to Sunday River. 3 to 4 more trips are going to be planned apparently. It was really fun.
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02-07-2009, 10:54 PM
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#13 | | Junior Member
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Hotchkiss has snowboarding. My friends say its a blast i have not tried it personally though. The good thing is since its a hilly area snowboarding is pretty fun.
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02-08-2009, 12:34 PM
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#15 | | New Member
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Eaglebrook, which is right across the street from Deerfield, has its own ski hill, with chairlift.
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