Snow Tubing

[7rider]

Hey there.
Tubing sounds great.
But...
Let's moving planning for a tubing event off the general forum Snow thread, and here into the geographical area forum.

So....Tubing????
Where?
When?
Are we talking lift ticket tubing, like at Whitetail (http://www.skiwhitetail.com/tubing.htm)?

Thoughts/ideas/plans here, plz....

(oh, and I'll be out of pocket for a while....I may or may not be able to join you myself depending on when....)

[owlice]

Oh, sure, I'm interested in this, seeing as how I survived skiing, though apparently hellbent on not trying to when I did ski!

If this is soon enough (read: during the semester break), I'll be asking whether I can bring the kid, who's also never been snow tubing. He's never had the opportunity to try to avoid major injury while snow sporting; about time he did!

[HillSlugger]

Sounds like fun!

[Cataboo]

Ski Liberty and massanutten has tubing as well... I don't know which ends up being closer for everyone.

I guess we should decide on day tubing vs. night tubing?

The snow wasn't bad at liberty today.

And I'll go with if I'm around.

[Zen]

He's never had the opportunity to try to avoid major injury while snow sporting; about time he did!

Tubing sounds innocuous but I was tubing when I tore my meniscus :o

[owlice]

Ouch, Zen!

And for me, any sporting/fun something is an opportunity for injury, major or minor. Just ask me sometime about injuries sustained a few years ago while making a gingerbread house!

[HillSlugger]

Ouch, Zen!

And for me, any sporting/fun something is an opportunity for injury, major or minor. Just ask me sometime about injuries sustained a few years ago while making a gingerbread house!

Oh, you gotta tell us about this!

[Cataboo]

Kathy & I did some reconnoitering at ski liberty this evening to see what the tubing was like because my sister & her family wanted to go tubing.

Ski liberty & whitetail are $20 for 1 hour of tubing and $24 for 2 hours.

http://www.skiliberty.com/lmr/tubing.aspx?c=mountain
http://www.skiwhitetail.com/tubing.htm

I know whitetail is a taller mountain in general than ski liberty, but I don't know how the actual stats of the tubing runs compare. Ski whitetail has 10 tubing lanes, while liberty has 15 tubing lanes. LIberty is a little closer to dc (it's up by Emmittsburg) and the ski hill has always seemed more crowded than whitetail, so it may be similar for the tubing lanes.

Lift tickets start on the hour - so if you get there at 5:30, you can either get a 5:00 lift ticket or a 6:00 lift ticket. They don't seem to be very stringent about checking lift tickets though.

There was usually a line of 5-6 people per each lane, so it does involve some standing around in line... and this was on a Tuesday evening - weekends might be worse.

Zen or someone else whose done a lot of tubing may know better than I do - but I think it's usually best to wait till the temperatures have cooled down a bit and they can make snow. If it's over 40 degrees or so, they can't make it. The tubing lanes are mostly icy - but it's nice to have some snow to walk in when you're dragging your tube around to get back in line.

The course was fun, you picked up a fair amount of speed, and they slope things back uphill at the end to slow you down.

Anyone want to start throwing out some potential dates to do this? I can't do anything for the next two weeks.

My little niece at the end of a run (poor thing was wearing my ski pants which were a bit too long & wide on her):

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_SemWMoaWfp4/SzrgkztMLoI/AAAAAAAAKtc/2ZgT1_aUnwA/s720/IMGP3243.JPG

[HillSlugger]

It doesn't make sense to me to go all that way for 1 hour of tubing so I'd vote for 2 hours.

[7rider]

I'm playing hooky on Tuesday the 12th (okay...I really signed out for a day of annual leave), and Tom and I are headed up to Whitetail for a day of skiing. I lost my Advantage Card (grrrr...will cost me $25 to replace, thereby wiping out any "advantage" it gives us for the season....stupid stupid stupid and makes me want to hurl...but that's besides the point) but we're going anyway...if only to get a day in under our feet before we head up to NH on that Friday.
Anyone care to join us???

[Zen]

You can stop by and pick me up.
Really.
I'll park at McDonald's just of the highway exit. No fuss, no muss.

Come on, DB.

[divingbiker]

Come on, DB.


I'd love to, but the 12th doesn't work for me. I've got a standing monthly meeting that I have to attend. Dangit.

[7rider]

You can stop by and pick me up.
Really.
I'll park at McDonald's just of the highway exit. No fuss, no muss.

Come on, DB.

We'd be skiing...not tubing. So our day will be much longer than a 2-hour tubing session. If you okay with that, sure...we usually stop at that Micky D's for a rest stop and Egg McMuffin fix. Anyone else???

DB...that Tuesday is about the only day I DON'T have anything scheduled. Bummer. We'll still get out west for some xc skiing, too. Promise!

[Zen]

Do they have a bar? :D

I'll have to check out the website. Whats your ETA for Whitetail?

I hear there's a lot of snow out west. Good xc on the GAP. I wonder what the towpath is like?

ETA-

BAH!
They don't start tubing until 4pm:confused:The point is moot

[Cataboo]

Pick me up, I'll go with and ski.

[7rider]

Pick me up, I'll go with and ski.

Cool. Where? When? We'll try to head of of SS early (but not crack-of-dawn early, since it's a weekday).