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Snowmass is the best mountain I've ever skied at for some one like me
(prefers blue cruisers and blue trees and modest, non-bumpy (and not treed) single blacks. It looks like there some great steeps too but I've only looked since I no my limitations. They look like the sort of thing I'd love to do when I get improve. (To that end I've added a week of skiing to my season by getting tix to Whistler in April.) There are also some really nice single black tree areas I tried a little and they were also really nice (a bit over my head but I took it slow). Overall,I'd say Snowmass is the best US mountain I've ever been too and I think that it would be too for someone more advanced. There are buses to the various mountains. I took em at night to go into town for dinner. Never took them to go skiing at the other mountains. jesse t wrote in message om... So, I want to hear some opinions here. Don't hold back... I've got a chance to go to Snowmass etc. for a couple of days in the second week of January. I know nothing about Snowmass, Aspen and Aspen Highlands beyond what I've seen on their website (which tells you almost nothing...) and the fact that they are really expensive. Beyond that, what are they really like? I don't give a damn about nightlife and shopping, I just want to know about the skiing. I'm an expert East coast skier, trees and steeps sort of stuff. How close are the mountains to each other? Across the valley? Long way down the road? Too far to waste time on? Is any one of the three head and shoulders more interesting than the rest? What kind of person likes each one of these mountains? |
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On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 at 17:53 GMT, lal_truckee penned:
Monique Y. Herman wrote: I've been to Utah. Aha! So you have skied outside the US! Oh, bah. Utah is more typical of the US than you'd like to believe! -- monique |
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Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 at 17:53 GMT, lal_truckee penned: Monique Y. Herman wrote: I've been to Utah. Aha! So you have skied outside the US! Oh, bah. Utah is more typical of the US than you'd like to believe! I find that thought scary in the extreme. The horror. The horror. Sometimes I venture inland/up-river to access Kurtz. Marlow |
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"Jack Wan" wrote in message . com...
Where do you ski? Burke Mtn, Jay Peak, Sunday River, Sugarloaf. Burke and Jay are the two I call home. |
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"Monique Y. Herman" wrote in message .. .
So I have a question here. Thus far, I haven't been good enough to ski the really steep stuff at most any "real" resort ... but how does Sunday River, Maine compare to "all the Eastern resorts" and to the West? SR is very wide and short. Not much vertical compared to many eastern resorts, so you end up traversing a fair amount if you want to see the whole resort. Limited tree and glade skiing also. The Snowmass trail map reminded me of Sunday River, except the scale was wrong. |
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Kneale Brownson wrote:
(Kneale Brownson) wrote in message . com... Comments posted 12/08/03 showed up 12/11/03. Ain't Google Grand? Google's not for reading or posting usenet. Try one of the many free news servers, for instance, "news.individual.net" - information available at http://news.individual.net/ |
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John, I live in Aspen and ski 6 days out of 7. If you are an expert, the
Highlands Bowl (which this year is entirely open), is the greatest xx skiing in North America. Truly awesome as are some of the chutes next to the bowl. Aspen moutain also contains some great expert and tree skiing. Both Bell mountain and the dumps at Aspen are for experts only and offers challenging skiing Snowmass has some great skiing as well. Today we received 18 inches. Last week we had thirty. Thanksgiving day there was 12-18 inches of new snow. Looks like a great year. By the way, Aspen has a free bus shuttle between all the mountains. Its easy and works well. I never drive to the other mountains. "John" wrote in message om... (jesse t) wrote in message . com... So, I want to hear some opinions here. Don't hold back... I've got a chance to go to Snowmass etc. for a couple of days in the second week of January. I know nothing about Snowmass, Aspen and Aspen Highlands beyond what I've seen on their website (which tells you almost nothing...) and the fact that they are really expensive. Beyond that, what are they really like? I don't give a damn about nightlife and shopping, I just want to know about the skiing. I'm an expert East coast skier, trees and steeps sort of stuff. How close are the mountains to each other? Across the valley? Long way down the road? Too far to waste time on? Is any one of the three head and shoulders more interesting than the rest? What kind of person likes each one of these mountains? Snowmass is a bad Vail if that means anything to you. It is big with a lot of families and not good skiers. It has the big burn which is a nice bowl like experience at the top of the mountain. I am not the biggest fan of Snowmass. It is about 25 minutes from Aspen and Highlands by shuttle. By the way you want to take the shuttle as I saw a lot of cars off the side of the road. Aspen (now they call it ajax) is the real deal. Forget about the food and clothes ect. The skiing is real. It doesn't have that much acerage but plenty of good terrain. The great thing about Aspen is that it isn;t crowded and a 13 minute gondola ride gets you 3100 vertical feel of good consistent pitch. The mountain has good bummps on the ridge of bell and some trees off to either side. The coolest thing about it might be ruthie's run, however, one of those must ski runs before you die. Ruthies also has a high speed double which might be the second coolest lift in america (the madriver single has to win out). I must say that I haven't been to Aspen since the snowboarders so maybe it has changed a bit. Intrestingly, Aspen is the opposite of most mountains. Everyone will be there at opening, but everyone will go home by 1:30. The only knock on Aspen is that it isn't a big mountain experience. As an eastern Skiier though (which i am) should like it though. Highlands is the hidden jewel of Aspen. The mountain is about 5 minutes from aspen. No one goes there and I mean no one. Moreover, you can get in a ton of vertical because all the lifts (well 3 out of 4) are high speed. Thunderball to Golden horn was called the best gs training run in the world by Stephan Eberharter and I mean that he called it that for good reason. The steeple chase area has good open skiing and temerity has good trees. The higlands bowl is truely awesome if you want to hike. There is also one of those classic bump runs right above the mid-mountain lodge. Basically, aside from the price and reputation I see no reason not to jump at the chance to ski at Aspen and the Highlands. |
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lal_truckee wrote in message ...
Kneale Brownson wrote: (Kneale Brownson) wrote in message . com... Comments posted 12/08/03 showed up 12/11/03. Ain't Google Grand? Google's not for reading or posting usenet. Try one of the many free news servers, for instance, "news.individual.net" - information available at http://news.individual.net/ Thanks. I filled out the info form and got an automated message that I would be contacted by an actual human. That was last week. No contact yet. Must be busy, eh? |
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