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Steamboat, Snowmass, Heavenly, or ???
I'm planning our Feb 2005, President's week family ski vacation. The
family is two 14-year olds, a 9-year-old, a 7-year-old, and the parents. One 14-year-old is an expert skier and one's a solid intermediate. They'll stick together the whole week, may ski with us on occasion, and may take a 1/2 day lesson to work on bumps or style. I'm not worried about them. The 7 and 9 year old are level 5 and 6 skiers each. The 7 year-old thinks he can do black diamonds, we prefer him on blues. The 9 year-old flies down blues, and is working on bumps. Us 40-something parents are happiest on easy blacks -- we only do bumps in the morning these days! I see our top priority for a ski vacation as a place with a quality/entertaining ski school for the 7 and 9 year old. Preferrably the "ski week" style school where they'll be with the same kids for the week and make new friends and get to race at the end of the week. Two years ago we went to Steamboat and were thrilled with the ski school -- the three instructors were perfect for the then 5-, 7-, and 12 year olds! We're willing to go back, but are also looking for alternatives -- we always like to try new things. Based on Ski Magazine and poking around websites, it seems the most likely alternatives are Snowmass, Heavenly, and Northstar. Other candidates are Winter Park and The Canyons. Any opinions? Note -- it's school vacation week in all of New England that week, so that's why we head west. I know most of Colorado does *not* have school vacation that week. What about Utah, CA, and Nevada? Just trying to figure out the crowds. Thanks for any shared experiences. -Jenifer |
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I'd say try Snowmass CO or The Canyons UT.
Both have varied terrain and are large enough and have decent accommodation near the slopes. Never tried the ski lessons but they should be OK. "Jen" wrote in message om... I'm planning our Feb 2005, President's week family ski vacation. The family is two 14-year olds, a 9-year-old, a 7-year-old, and the parents. One 14-year-old is an expert skier and one's a solid intermediate. They'll stick together the whole week, may ski with us on occasion, and may take a 1/2 day lesson to work on bumps or style. I'm not worried about them. The 7 and 9 year old are level 5 and 6 skiers each. The 7 year-old thinks he can do black diamonds, we prefer him on blues. The 9 year-old flies down blues, and is working on bumps. Us 40-something parents are happiest on easy blacks -- we only do bumps in the morning these days! I see our top priority for a ski vacation as a place with a quality/entertaining ski school for the 7 and 9 year old. Preferrably the "ski week" style school where they'll be with the same kids for the week and make new friends and get to race at the end of the week. Two years ago we went to Steamboat and were thrilled with the ski school -- the three instructors were perfect for the then 5-, 7-, and 12 year olds! We're willing to go back, but are also looking for alternatives -- we always like to try new things. Based on Ski Magazine and poking around websites, it seems the most likely alternatives are Snowmass, Heavenly, and Northstar. Other candidates are Winter Park and The Canyons. Any opinions? Note -- it's school vacation week in all of New England that week, so that's why we head west. I know most of Colorado does *not* have school vacation that week. What about Utah, CA, and Nevada? Just trying to figure out the crowds. Thanks for any shared experiences. -Jenifer |
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We took our then 13 year old son to Snowmass last year. He absolutely loved
it! He was already an intermediate skier, and after 3 days of lessons in the Ski School at Snowmass, he's getting to the point that I have to work to keep up with him. My wife and I also took the small group lessons on 2 days (Tuesday and Thursday) and were very impressed with their school. The first day of lessons, after evaluation, there were 6 people of similar skill in our group, the instructor did a very nice job of individual instruction and my wife and I were both skiing much better by the end of the first day. Then on Thursday, there was nobody else in our group, my wife and I skied all day with the same instructor that we had on Tuesday and got the equivalent of a private lesson for the price of the group lesson. I'm sure that is the exception and not the rule, but we were extremely pleased. We haven't skied anywhere else that you mentioned, all of our previous skiing has been at eastern resorts, but Snowmass has got those beat hands down. We'll be going again this Feb. (5-12), and are again planning on lessons for both ourselves and our son. Good luck in your planning, hope the vacation is wonderful no matter where you choose. William "Jen" wrote in message om... I'm planning our Feb 2005, President's week family ski vacation. The family is two 14-year olds, a 9-year-old, a 7-year-old, and the parents. One 14-year-old is an expert skier and one's a solid intermediate. They'll stick together the whole week, may ski with us on occasion, and may take a 1/2 day lesson to work on bumps or style. I'm not worried about them. The 7 and 9 year old are level 5 and 6 skiers each. The 7 year-old thinks he can do black diamonds, we prefer him on blues. The 9 year-old flies down blues, and is working on bumps. Us 40-something parents are happiest on easy blacks -- we only do bumps in the morning these days! I see our top priority for a ski vacation as a place with a quality/entertaining ski school for the 7 and 9 year old. Preferrably the "ski week" style school where they'll be with the same kids for the week and make new friends and get to race at the end of the week. Two years ago we went to Steamboat and were thrilled with the ski school -- the three instructors were perfect for the then 5-, 7-, and 12 year olds! We're willing to go back, but are also looking for alternatives -- we always like to try new things. Based on Ski Magazine and poking around websites, it seems the most likely alternatives are Snowmass, Heavenly, and Northstar. Other candidates are Winter Park and The Canyons. Any opinions? Note -- it's school vacation week in all of New England that week, so that's why we head west. I know most of Colorado does *not* have school vacation that week. What about Utah, CA, and Nevada? Just trying to figure out the crowds. Thanks for any shared experiences. -Jenifer |
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