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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wlfgng on November 25, 2003, 09:07:21 AM
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for SNOW !
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beautiful!
wish i was there!
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It allways looks good in pictures... then you try to drive in/on it or walk on it... it's cold too.
lazs
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lmao!
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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.
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cept for the grain fed lass thing.... none of that sounds very appealing.
lazs
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what i would give to be well off enough to spend a month at least in a ski-in-ski-out @ breckenridge every year
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you didn't really say breckenridge did you?
(broken-ribs)
I can't deal with the crowds
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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.
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Wlfgng, do you know of any cheap places to stay? I would love to come out there
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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)
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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 :)
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
for SNOW !
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That skinny little stick-like tree in the lower right-hand corner has "I'm gonna mess you up, suckah!" written all over it.
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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.
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LOL (sry that you got hurt though)
my dad's GF blew out her knee there too. it took 14 months of rehab and after the THIRD season she's finally gettin back on the slopes.
wlf... that and vail are my only times skiing on the real mountains (live in wisconsin here and just have icy 2 min hills to ski on usually)
it was SOOO much easier to ski out there, a ski patrol dude i was talking to said i looked like i grew up out there. after talking he said it was learning on all those icy conditions that made me more "natural" on the real snow.
i really felt i was better out there, at home i could never do moguls out there thats all i looked for (im no pro or speed demon on them but can navigate down quite well IMHO) i didnt try any jumps (im 30 yrs old now not some young ski buff dude with rubber legs.. and thats all that was around the jumps.. teenagers trying to break their legs LOL) but back here i was able to do a good eagle, dafny, 1/2 twist, and backscratcher. came this close to landing a helocoptor 1 time.
out there the best was between the far left peak @ breck or the back bowls @ vail. @ vail i skied a double black diamond bowl for about 20 min without seeing another person... not even going up the lift above me. (it was later in the day and about 55° at the base so not "ideal" weather in the minds of the locals) but it was amazing. i was skiing in a tee shirt and a shell of a coat (no liner).
oh well enough daydreaming... ill own a condo someday!!!
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Originally posted by Pfunk
Wlfgng, do you know of any cheap places to stay? I would love to come out there
LOL....ahhhh NO.
As wlfgng states there are cheap places, but if you want to be anywhere near the hills be prepared to pay big bucks.
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typical for a ski resort town unfortunately.
and Aspen is even more expensive (10 miles away)
Curval would probably have more info since I don't ever check into renting here :)
skiing this snow (rocky mountain champagne) is the shi*.
nothing at all like the ice hills.. er.. ski areas back east
I grew up in Colorado Springs and was on their ski team and it was much the same.. in C.springs the ski hill is almost right in town and very low alt.. meaning ICE
you'd feel like you were home :)
not that it's always perfect here, but it is like this more often than not.
sooooo.. come one come all !
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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
LOL...that's some beautiful country, nothing cold about it, it's just not as warm as other places in the lower 48.
If you REALLY want cold, come with me to work sometime, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, now THAT's cold.
Thanks for postin' the pics wlfman. :aok