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Originally Posted by 450knotOffice
Some of you are forgetting (ODDJOB) that a European is coming over. He doesn't live here. Hence, driving all over kingdom come to ski some little out of the way hills that have good snow and nothing else is probably NOT the best of ideas, unless he has time and money to burn.
With that said, many of us have listed the BIGGEST of the good resorts out there - which leads to many days of varied skiing all over the resort (more like Europe), rather than skiing the same runs over and over and over again because the resort is smallish (but good). For the most part, they are all excellent places to ski.
I guess you are the only decent skier around here since you skied with Billy and on the 225's. Guess what, many of us who replied skied on those long boards too. We learned on those skis but we don't feel the need to point it out as you did because it wasn't relevant to the OP's request.
Anyway, yes...as one moves east away from the coastline, the moisture content of the snow diminishes and makes for lighter, drier snow. Utah is the best place for that stuff. Colorado is right up there too. However, with that said, the west offers up some great skiing too - even if the powder is not quite as light. The OP mentioned Whistler and I have to say that is an EXCELLENT choice. It has two 5000+ foot mountains to ski on, with everything from small glaciers to tree skiing. You will not run out of terrain to ski on either.
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my point being the "trend" has been short ski's for some time. and yeah popping moguls is best done with shorties when the hill is mogul alley. but long ski's ARE a european thang, and the places mentioned were designed for them.
2 others i forgot monarch pass, and wolf creek pass. wolf creek gets DUMPED ON BAD when prevailing conditions are goood. and i mean ITS GOOOOOOOD! insane amounts of snow.
some may come thinking a big name area is cool, when in reality all ya do is stand in a very long lift line. and that sucks. thats all i was pointing out.
all these areas excepting say telluride(now) are small to medium areas. holidays which is when MOST people have off, these are great areas to get some stick time and NOT stand in a line.
hell one of the easiest expeditions anywhere was winterpark taking the "ski train" from denver. load yer crap in a duffle bag, and they dump ya right off at winterpark. and take ya back at the end of the day. its TOO SIMPLE!
i have been skiing since age 9 or 10. here in az we only had snowbowl in flagstaff, until sunrise opened on the white mtn rez. well sunrise is about 45 minutes from where i spent alot of my youth in pinetop,az. soooooooo..............since there was nothing to do in winters..........we went skiing.
its no different than riding a bike. 1st day it kicks yer azz, 2 nd day kicks yer azz, 3rd day feel a little better, 4th and upward, yer ready for the olympics and yer SUPERMAN!
long boards..................is when ya "feel the need fer speed"
dynamic/fischer/k-2/kneissl/rossignol pilot.