<p>does JMU have a club or competitive team, especially for snowboarding?</p>
<p>I think they have a club. It's the best school ever.</p>
<p>JMU has a club called "Boarderline." According to a member's website, they usually go to Massanutten, which is 15 minutes away, but also go to WV and have taken trips to Canada.</p>
<p>found this article on Pomona's Ski-Beach day:</p>
<p>You can also do a ski beach day here in Oregon, and planning your wardrobe is simpler, 'cuz you can often wear your parka on the beach, too.</p>
<p>Colorado doesn't have bad weather.</p>
<p>PaPa Chicken - USCSA has a very active snowboard program in the southeast - actually all over the east coast - cept maybe SC and FLA, LA, GA kinda areas. But schools in NC/VA/MD/NJ/WV/etc....... many of which have good snowboard club programs.</p>
<p>My DD boards for ECU in NC - they have no practice time for her team as they are quite a distance from the mountains - but they do pretty well in the southeast Conference and have been to nationals for the past 3 years. Alot of the kids board during winter break </p>
<p>If I can be of help to you - you are welcome to PM me and I will be glad to help you if I can.</p>
<p>These are the schools that have competitive USCSA snowboard teams - you will notice that there are several in the 'south'</p>
<p>Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Sierra Nevada College<br>
Princeton University
Fairfield University
Simon Fraser University
Penn State University
Albertson College
San Diego State Univ.
U C L A<br>
Castleton State College
Cal Poly, San Louis Obispo
East Carolina University<br>
California, Santa Barbara<br>
Cal SU, Long Beach<br>
UC, San Diego<br>
U S C
Univ. of Virginia
Duke University<br>
NC State
Whitman College<br>
Columbia University
Rutgers University<br>
Marquette Univ.<br>
University of North Carolina<br>
University of Idaho</p>
<p>how did you compile that list. I looked on calpoly - SLOs website and saw no mention of a snowboard club.</p>
<p>twistedsis - the list is from the USCSA web site - <a href="http://www.uscsa.com%5B/url%5D">www.uscsa.com</a> - go to the ''nationals'' page and I think it is on the lower part of the page.</p>
<p>I really hate to mention the snowboarding conditions this past winter in the seattle area- George Bush scientific opinion not withstanding, there is global warming :(</p>
<p>twistedsis - sorry wrong info - Cal Poly is listed as having a recognized boarding team at the USCSA site - under snowboarding - on the left side - tho the schools site does not have any info - if interested I would contact the school to see if the program is active - according to what i could figure out they did have a team at nationals - tho I could be wrong.</p>
<p>I did a search using 'cal poly snowboard team' and a bunch of stuff comes up - check it out - sorry I am not familiar with the Cal university system and who belongs to what - but if you are I am sure you will find some info that will help you with searching - sssooooo sorry bout that. But it definitely appears that they do have a competitive team in some way. Good Luck</p>
<p>Emeraldkity4 - I think I have to agree with you on the conditions in the west this past winter - however - we in the east got hammered!!!!! to say the least lol. Maybe next year we can share some of the wealth lol. My DD said the conditions at nationals this year were awful - and that she said was putting it nicely. But she still had a great time and placed really well this year - next year will definitely be a challange again as Maine is known for cold and icy conditions - just like 2004 I bet - which is pretty common up there. But looking forward to it anyways - will be there with bells on to watch my kiddo compete.</p>
<p>Duke possibly??? Its a few hrs drive from the mountains and its pretty warm 'cept in the winter (when it snows sometimes)</p>
<p>UC Berkely, Stanford, Santa Clara University, USF, UC Davis, etc.. or any school in the Bay Area and you can reach Lake Tahoe in about 2-4 hours depend on the snowboarding area.</p>
<p>I recall when first interested in CalPoly SLO that we did note that there was a ski/snowboard club which is all my S was looking for. I've since searched CalPolys site and could not find anything. </p>
<p>I searched on Google and found the Central Pacific Ski Club which states <quote>We are located in San Luis Obispo, CA. Our membership consists largely of students from Cal Poly University and Cuesta Community College.</quote> and provides the following history: <quote>In May 2002, the club was targeted by ASI and Cal Poly Judicial Affairs. These two bodies deemed Skiing and Snowboarding to be too much of a "high liability" for the school and their modest insurance. Since we had the largest club on campus, and the second largest college ski club in the nation, they decided to start with the big guys on their quest to rid the school of all its evil, "high liability" clubs. The Cal Poly Ski Club was kicked off campus and dissolved.</quote></p>
<p>The University of Washington is only about 30 to 45 minutes away from very good snowboarding and a little less than 2 hours away from fabulous snowboarding. All this in a city that may get a couple of inches of snow a year for a day or two, though misty rain in the winter (with sun breaks) and absolutely beautiful (and dry) summers.</p>
<p>I second the Virginia schools. UVA has some great mountains (well, great for the south - they are not up to my New England standards, though) nearby. </p>
<p>The quick list: UVA, Richmond, any of the DC schools, James Madison (mountains fairly close), W&L, maybe W&M but it's a few hours from UVA/C-ville, and perhaps some of the NC schools (Duke, Wake, UNC).</p>
<p>university of arizona , arizona state ( 4-5 hours from the slopes)</p>
<p>Virginia Tech is ~3 hours away from Snowshoe (which gets close to 200 inches of snow/year, and is an awesome mountain even compared to New England slopes).</p>