Woodbury Ski Area Reviews

• Overall Rating 1
• Family Friendly 1
• Downhill Terrain 1
• Terrain Park 1
• Nightlife 1

Pros: no lines on valentines night

Cons: read summary

Recommended Skill Level: Beginner
Recommended For: Single/Newlyweds
Date Visited: Feb, 2009

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We visited the, "resort" last night on Feb 14, 2009 as first time patrons to the Woodbury Ski Area. We were amazed of how confusing the parking lot (?) was to start with. The parking lot, across the main (busy, unlit) street, was extremely steep to pull into and the ground was very uneven and smelled like manure. There was absolutly no lights in this area or organized parking. Upon entering the dimly lit main office, i was shocked to see the size and quality of the entire faclilty. There were 6 teenagers, in which none spoke fluent english, working the front desk, yet no one acknowledged us standing directly in front of them. Finally one employee asked if we have been helped yet, when we responded no, she yelled rudely to an employee directly next to her in a different language and laughed. After recieving our extremely expensive tubing tickets, we were not instructed on where to get our tubes or where to load the lift. Likely a customer helped us find our way(could have been an employee, but theres no way to tell the difference between the two). We managed to find 2 semi-inflated, "Mount Southington tubes," that were scattered amongst other damaged tubes and various rusted equipment. Once i took out the garbage from my tube we headed towards the base of the ice hill. We had no direction on what to do at this point, due to language barriers yet again. Once we reached the top of the hill i was surprised to be dumped off into a mini gully with more disheveled tubes and disoriented customer/employee ? ? The only markers to differentiate were across the steep slope which we had to shimmy over unstable ice to get to. Finally reaching the one semi-lit trail that was open we were instructed again in broken english to slide down face first with our feet draging as slowing mechanisms. The low banked corners of the Tapowingo Boob Tube run were not nearly high enough to prevent over shooting thus forcing us to, "attempt" to slow down to avoid serious injury. This prevented us from enjoying our runs down the slope. After picking up a TON of speed we approached the dark section of the run, to our surprise it contained 3 enormous back to back jumps, which launched us several feet into the air causing many injuries that night. After picking myself off the ice run after run, i managed to avoid any serious catastrophies unlike a fellow customer right behind me. He hit the extremely unsafe, unlit, surprising jump smashing face first into the lip of the jump causing him to be knocked unconscience for several seconds, until people in his group ran to his aide, removed him from the course on a tube while two employees stood around watching and using walkie talkies to radio to a manager who didn't respond for several minutes. After witnessing this castrophy we decided to call it quits for the night as well as everyone else did. Before leaving we witnessed the manager laughing and joking with the injured patron, "haha, I could take you to Charlotte Hungerford" refering to the local hospital. This was no laughing matter, several people witnessed a nearly fatal accident, not somewhere I would ever let anyone bring a child. The one warning sign we found on the whole property pretty much sums up our whole experience at the ski area, " Tubing may be hazzardous." To sum up our trip to WSA it was expensive, unsafe, unpleasant, and definitly not worth risking injury for our amusment.