Feburary vacation craziness begins!!

Good afternoon everyone,

It was really pretty waking up to snow falling this morning even if it did not accumulate very much! Today has been a great day at Seacoast Snow Park, I am currently up in the office but from my view you can see all of the people up on the hill! We have both lifts running and 12 awesome lanes of tubing!

I am so glad to see that so many families are lucky enough to be able to come spend part of their day at our park!

All schools and some colleges are on February break this week, which means most winter establishments busiest times of the year. Sugarloaf, Sunday River, Shawnee Peak, and every ski mountain will be open all week long! The annual Ice Fishing Derby is going on now, so make sure to get over to Big Sebago and check out the events happening at Raymond Beach!

I was lucky enough to get up to Sugarloaf this week and the conditions were amazingggg, so make sure you try and sneak up to the mountain and get away. I love nothing more than being outside, getting exercise, and doing something I love to do...snowboard! Make sure every week you try and do something for your self that makes you happy! :)


If you plan on coming to Seacoast, try and find me (Margaret) and I will have free passes or coupons on me that I will be giving away all week long!!

Have a great weekend everyone!

-Mags

snowwwww

Happy snow day everyone!!

Whether or not you like it there is a blizzard upon us here in southern Maine and let me tell you I am soooo excited!! FINALLY we get some real snow around here, I was beggining to wonder if we still even had winters in Maine, but mother nature sure is showing me and I'm glad!

Everyone is going to be dying to get that powder under their board or skiis but depending upon the severity of the wind it may take some time to actually get to all that magical stuff at the top of the mountain! Be sure to check out your mountains daily report and for all of the mountains check out http://skimaine.com/conditions/mountain-reports/.

The annual Sebago Lake Rotary Ice Fishing Derby is coming right up on Feburary 16th and 17th!
Make sure to check out all of the events happening there from snowbiel races to the polar dip! If you have never been you should definitely go and check it out, its a lot of fun!
http://www.icefishingderby.com/

Here at Seacoast Snow Park we have been making snow to create an awesome base and along with this predicted 2 feet of powder we will not be seeing any dirt up on that hill for a longggg time!! You may think we are crazy to make snow before a snow storm, but creating a deep base is the most importnat aspect. The powder is great to look at but not for longjevity of our tubing lanes!! We are beyond excited for this storm and will be digging for the next 24 hours!!

Maybe after this storm everyone will actually be able to get out their snowmobiles! :-)

-Maggy

Get active!!

Hello everyone,

we have been without any considerable snowfall here in Maine for awhileee now so it limits what fun things we can do outside in the winter time but I have an idea for you!
If you like to get bundled up and be active outside, but cant go cross country skiing, or snowshoeing, or snowmobiling, but want to be active try ropes course climbing and zip lining!

 This picture (above) is from the bottom of the high tower where the zips are received, this is the longest zip line in Maine which is 1000 feet long! It's an awesome ride day or night, zipping across the tubing park!

This is a picture of one of the ropes courses at Seacoast, our back course has 3 different levels going from green to black courses. You start around 10 feet off the ground and move up to being around 50 feet ground off the ground on the black course. I went up and played on this the other day and I love it just as much in the winter as I do in the summer or fall! It might be a little chilly but as you continue to excel through the course you will be taking off layers!

Many studies have been done on the benefits of ropes course climbing from therapeutic benefits for couples, or physical muscle strengthening. Climbing on these ropes courses are a great way to do team building because it as much mental as it is a physical experience making it very unique! Each element you cross is different, from swinging blocks, to bridges, to cable walks, that all challenge you differently!

If you are looking to maybe stay inside but still craving winter I highly recommend watching one of Warren Miller's films Off The Grid, he has made many over the years and I love every one of them! Every winter I go to Portland for the premiere of his new film at the State Theater. I highly recommend buying or renting any of his films and I think some of them are on Netflix!

Have a great day everyone!

-Maggy