opening day, thank God (large pics)

[Wlfgng]

for SNOW !

[boxboy28]

beautiful!   wish i was there!

[lazs2]

It allways looks good in pictures... then you try to drive in/on it or walk on it...  it's cold too.
lazs

[Wlfgng]

lmao!

[Wanker]

Originally posted by lazs2
It allways looks good in pictures... then you try to drive in/on it or walk on it...  it's cold too.
lazs

Careful, Lazs, you're starting to sound like one of those womanly men who can't take the cold.

You gotta come up to the north country sometime in the dead of winter. We'd get you all decked out in Parka, Beaver fur hat and mittens. Strap a couple of rifles on your back, stick an ice fishing pole in your hands, set you up with a beautiful, grain fed young Scandinavian lass to warm you up at night.....

You'd be in heaven.

[lazs2]

cept for the grain fed lass thing.... none of that sounds very appealing.
lazs

[JB73]

what i would give to be well off enough to spend a month at least in a ski-in-ski-out @ breckenridge every year

[Wlfgng]

you didn't really say breckenridge did you?
(broken-ribs)

I can't deal with the crowds

[Pfunk]

I've been to Breck,Winter Park, Alta,Snowbird,Park City, and most recently Whistler. With Whistler being the biggest and baddest mofo of a mountain(2 actually)  The town is amazing with all the shops/bars/etc.  and since the mountains are so damned big there really wasnt any overcrowding (3 mins tops to get on a lift).  Only thing about Whistler is the weather.  I flew 3000 something miles from Atlanta,GA and when we got to the mountain it was RAINING....Funny thing was it was snowing in Georgia. Go figure spent over $1500 to get there and it was raining until halfway up the mountain.  It was the weirdest experience halfway up the lift it changed from rain to snow and you could see a clear division (literally a line) from where it was raining/snowing.

[Pfunk]

Wlfgng, do you know of any cheap places to stay?  I would love to come out there

[Wlfgng]

actually there are plenty of places to stay that are affordable but you'd have to drive to the ski area since they are down-valley (15 minutes or so)
..
to stay in Snowmass means you have to pay a bit more.

so... define cheap

I can have some info for you if you're serious.


compared to front range skiing (breckenride, vail, keystone, winter park, etc) Snowmass/Aspen has them beat hands down.
the best snow, never a wait in the lift line.. ok.. maybe at the bottom /beginner area but it's pretty damned short

I can't tell you the number of times I've been skiing and it felt like my private resort.. NO lines, and hardly anyone on the hill
gotta love it

as for terrain, we have 4 peaks and you could ski a different run every run all day and never get closed to skiing it all.

then there's back-country/steeps

[gofaster]

Originally posted by Wlfgng
for SNOW !

That skinny little stick-like tree in the lower right-hand corner has "I'm gonna mess you up, suckah!" written all over it.

[XNachoX]

I'll be right there with ya wlf in 3 weeks
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
you didn't really say breckenridge did you?
(broken-ribs)

I can't deal with the crowds

Tore up my knee there about 4 years ago.  Last thing my wife said before I left was 'Don't come back in a knee brace'.

She hasn't let me withing 100 miles of a slope since then.