How are Breck/Keystone/Copper/Alpine Meadows for real skiing?

TheQuailman

TheQuailman

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Yea I might be going to any of these mountains or somehting else in colorado - depends on what my family decides to do for the last week in febuary.

Can anybody give me a quick rundown on how these mountains are in general - specifically as in like steep 'big mountain' (yet inbound) type stuff. Like whether they are actually steep, if theres cliffs and cornices and chutes and stuff.

And if anyone can compare it to like vail or whistler or squaw cause I have been there before that'd be sweet.

I know this is like a stupid question cause you probably don't like tourists and stuff but if you could help a fellow newschooler out that'd be sweet (or direct me to some info). thanks.
 
breck and keystone are both flat and if you want anything other then park go there. and ive seen 1 maybe 2 cliffs at keystone in the bowls where its steep. copper is pretty good, not that great of inbound good terrain though. check out crested butte, silverton, and telluride for good inbounds terrain and epic pow.
 
If you hike over to lake chutes at Breck you can get some amazing skiing. Also check out the stuff off of e-chair, it is all bump runs except the windows and the doors which are glades...Other than that Keystone and Breck don't have much. Look into A-Basin, the glades to skiiers left of pali are epic.
 
keystone has some nice open bowls but they aren't very steep. still.... hiking erickson bowl is really fun and usually untracked if you get there early
 
if you want untracked and heli skiing lines look no further than silveton i just booked my trip and im excited but its a amzing place no crowds all just deep skiing

as for the other ones keystone and breck are fun peak 6(hike from summit of peak 7 to peak 6) is really nice yuo get alot of turn for only about 40 mins of hiking keystone is sick for park and has one of the sickest pillow lines in coloado if you can get there as for alpine meadows i dont know a basin is alos sucper sick as well as loveland
 
everyone likes to say breck and keystone are flat. they ain't flat. they have good steeps and glades and what not. what they don't have is epic clfifs and only very few cornices. all of the cliffs are really small or super technical. beleive the hype about summit county parks. breck and keystone both have killer parks.
 
Breck and Keystone are good skiing if all you've ever skied is in the Midwest. Compared to Squaw or Whistler, their steeps are junk.
 
Have you ever skied Crested Butte? Have you ever skied Highlands Bowl? If you answered yes you would think Breck and Keystone are flat...other than mayber two runs at each place.
 
flat is a strong word. crested butte has some of the best steeps in the world, but that doesn't mean that breck sucks. brecks steeps are decent. in my book their fun, but not challenging. and there aren't really any cliffs to speak of. not to mention, if you've never skied out west, than breck is plenty steep. crested butte is "don't fuck up" steep.
 
Best steeps in the world is pushing it for Crested Butte, I talked to a guy from austria who said they had 60 degree slopes in bounds...Compared to that breck flat.
 
breck has 50 degree slopes up at the lake chutes... but thats about as steep as it gets i think
 
thanks for the help, I'm like 90% sure I will be going to this area. And by shitty I mean that they sound really flat compared to places like whistler or squaw.

And I meant to say Arapaho Basin.

How is that?
 
A Basin will be the closest to Squaw like skiing but it's extremely small. If you want steeps i'd pick somewhere other than Summit County.
 
dont listen to this kid hes a retard....he thinks everything suks....only waist deep poe eill satisfy him...but are bucket and wails tail are pretty fun at breck
 
It is a known fact that Summit County sucks for anything but park.  6" of snow at a time and mediocre terrain is the standard.  I don't know how so many big mountain people can live there, they must rack up the gas bills.  People fall into the Summit County trap after living there for awhile and only skiing there, they begin to think the terrain is decent. Shit, I have done it to.  It's not, even Socal has better terrain.  But what if the East Wall is open?  No, you're wrong.  Compared to pretty much anywhere out West their terrain is horrendous.  Their parks more than make up for it though.  
 
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