<p>What's the closest Ski Area to Tufts? I'm currently applying ED to Cornell, but if I don't get in, I'm considering Tufts as an extra backup (currently, I have Syracuse, UofR, Carnegie Mellon, Washington-Seattle and CU-Boulder as backups)...I'm applying for Engineering, and I've heard Tufts has a good program in that...I'd like to be somewhere where I could snowboard pretty often in my free time (assuming I have some, lol).</p>
<p>Thanks for any info!</p>
<p>Apparently Tufts owns a ski-lodge in the mountains somewhere. I think the ski-club signs the place out to go skiing every now and then but it's not limited to just them.</p>
<p>First things, find SoozieVT and send her a message. Her D applied to Tufts, in part because of the skiing. </p>
<p>Tufts has the "Loj" in New Hampshire, very close to Loon Mountain and Waterville Valley. That's about 2 hours away from Tufts.</p>
<p>There's some very mediocre skiing in Western Ma, about an hour away.</p>
<p>Three hours away gets you to Killington and Okemo in VT. There's also Attatash in NH which is also good.</p>
<p>My senior year, I bought a season ski pass and used it a lot - had a day off during the week and went up pretty much every week to ski. </p>
<p>Tufts Mountain Club runs the Loj. It's $10/night to stay there if you aren't part of TMC - but that includes food. Tons of fun - they have a fireplace, cross-country skis, snowshoes, you name it. :)</p>
<p>~Aries, ski nut</p>
<p>Wow, that doesn't sound bad Aries. Where did you get the season pass to?</p>
<p>Also - how big is the "Loj"? It doesn't sound bad at all if you get to pay $10 a night and stay there...do a lot of people go down every weekend? Loon is a very nice mountain, never been to Waterville...but 2 hours isn't too bad of a drive. I guess you could just drive up Friday night and ski all day Saturday before coming home?</p>
<p>Sounds better than I thought.</p>
<p>There's this awsome (total sarcasm here) ski area about 45 min. away from Tufts that I teach at. Nashoba doesn't even qualify as a mountain, just a ski area. </p>
<p>Live- you should definately try Waterville, it's better than Loon b/c they have shorter lift lines and doesn't get as icey as fast. The student Threedom pass is definately worth it if you're thinking about going at least a few times. </p>
<p>Aries, do you know anyone on the ski team?</p>
<p>Which three places does the Threedom Pass give you access to? I'm guessing that it gives you 3 different areas to choose from, right? I definitely want to get a season pass wherever I go...if I could get a pass to three different mountains all within 2 hours of Tufts that would be awesome :).</p>
<p>The three mountains are Loon, Waterville, and Cranmore. Loon and Waterville are about 15 mins from each other, both about 2 hours from Tufts (if you drive like I do anyway ;) ). But Cranmore is wicked far away, probably more 3-3 1/2 hrs. It's a really nice mountain, but I've only gotten to go twice, both for races so I didn't see a lot of it.
I think the Threedom pass is definately the best pass for someone who's into day trips. There's another pass for Jay Peak and two other places in Maine (I think) that's great if you can do full weekends, b/c obv the places in Maine are bigger.</p>
<p>Cranmore isn't quite that far away, about 2.5 where i live, which is about 20 miles north of Medford. Cranmore is a smaller, family mountain which I believe is inferior to Loon and Waterville. I used to have a Threedom Pass, but the prices have gone up quite a bit and I decided its not worth it anymore but for only $219 for a college student its not a bad deal at all.</p>
<p>Are Tufts students generally outdoorsy?</p>
<p>Well you have to remember that a lot of us love Tufts, in part, because of the proximity to Boston. Or rather, the fact that it's a nice, safe suburban campus but right near a big city. So a lot of us like to go out into the city. What I HAVE noticed is that we're all really enthusiastic and easily excitable, so we do things like mudsliding and sledding down the president's lawn, which are pretty outdoorsy. And I know a lot of kids do wilderness as a pre-or. So perhaps we're not as outdoorsy as, say, a typical Dartmouth student, but barely anyone just stays in their room all the time :-D</p>