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Colorado ski season is starting most likely on October 13th at Keystone and Abasin. Pre season hype, where y’all skiing this year?
 
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14553711:BreknridgeKid said:
Colorado is the best state for anytype of skiing
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Clearly never been to Loon or the backside of Whiteface

The east is way too slept on its mind boggling

**This post was edited on Sep 25th 2023 at 7:25:17pm
 
14553775:Farmville420 said:
Clearly never been to Loon or the backside of Whiteface

The east is way too slept on its mind boggling

**This post was edited on Sep 25th 2023 at 7:25:17pm
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Clearly never been to Telluride or Vail
 
14553781:BreknridgeKid said:
Clearly never been to Telluride or Vail
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I'll give you vail, the back bowls are legendary. Telluride is amazing too, but if you offer me a gaurenteed powder day at any resort in the country I'm not picking either over Killington
 
14553790:Farmville420 said:
I'll give you vail, the back bowls are legendary. Telluride is amazing too, but if you offer me a gaurenteed powder day at any resort in the country I'm not picking either over Killington
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Is this a joke? This has to be a joke. I grew up skiing Killington and have lived in Colorado for 6 years now. In now way would I take Killington over some of the mountains here on a powder day - even more so the BC.
 
14553803:OldManAtABasin said:
Is this a joke? This has to be a joke. I grew up skiing Killington and have lived in Colorado for 6 years now. In now way would I take Killington over some of the mountains here on a powder day - even more so the BC.
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That’s what I am saying, out west the snow is better. Granted you can get a few nice storm days in the east but it snows 15 days out of the month in the west.
 
14553803:OldManAtABasin said:
Is this a joke? This has to be a joke. I grew up skiing Killington and have lived in Colorado for 6 years now. In now way would I take Killington over some of the mountains here on a powder day - even more so the BC.
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If we're talking BC thats different cuz I'm still saving up for some touring stuff. It's def not a joke though, the only thing I've noticed that colorado blows most places out of the water in is having consistently the best snow ever. Which is definitely a huge factor to good skiing, and prob why so many people vacation here, but there is so much absolutely fucked stuff out east. I'm also biased cuz I prefer hardwoods to pine forests I'll admit, and also a lot of the resorts out east have more vert than west coast mountains (cuz they start at lower elevations). Better trees + longer runs with a couple cliffs here and there is what I would prefer on a powder day, I don't think that's unreasonable and I think if a lot of people knew where to go they would also agree tbh
 
14553862:BreknridgeKid said:
Have you never skied Steamboat, Beaver Creek or wolf Creek? 600 inches a season. Not icy death chutes
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blud ya just doubled the average annual snowfall of those mountains
 
14553775:Farmville420 said:
Clearly never been to Loon or the backside of Whiteface

The east is way too slept on its mind boggling

**This post was edited on Sep 25th 2023 at 7:25:17pm
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he's also forgetting about towrope parks
 
Minnesota should be late October, just need some cold temps. I’m skiing zermatt tomorrow so getting an early kickoff. Plus a couple preseason rail jams once I’m home to tide me over till the snow guns start blowing
 
14553790:Farmville420 said:
I'll give you vail, the back bowls are legendary. Telluride is amazing too, but if you offer me a gaurenteed powder day at any resort in the country I'm not picking either over Killington
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14553922:bogust said:
Is A-basin mad crowded opening day?
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There's generally about a 20 minute lift line for most of the day and the actual run they open will be pretty crowded all day. They usually have a small park on the side of the trail with ~3 features, but they didn't have one at all for opening day last year. It's not for everybody, but the energy is high I think it's mad fun. More of a party day than a ski day though.
 
14553959:Dlonetti said:
Minnesota should be late October, just need some cold temps. I’m skiing zermatt tomorrow so getting an early kickoff. Plus a couple preseason rail jams once I’m home to tide me over till the snow guns start blowing
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What are you doing in Swiss
 
14553667:BreknridgeKid said:
I am so hype for Breckinridge, there are rumors of putting the huge park back on park lane.
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They def not doing that. If anything parklane is finna get smaller because 5 chair is getting an upgrade and the lift poles r supposed to be right over where the jumps are.
 
14553790:Farmville420 said:
I'll give you vail, the back bowls are legendary. Telluride is amazing too, but if you offer me a gaurenteed powder day at any resort in the country I'm not picking either over Killington
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What flavor kool-aid you drinking?
 
14553987:Eboytonytiger said:
They def not doing that. If anything parklane is finna get smaller because 5 chair is getting an upgrade and the lift poles r supposed to be right over where the jumps are.
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They are moving it back to the original run where the XL features used to be
 
Still 40’s at night here in northern VT, I don’t think we’ll be setting any records for an early start this season
 
14554031:Lemuel said:
Still 40’s at night here in northern VT, I don’t think we’ll be setting any records for an early start this season
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Yeah, not loving the trajectory of temps right now. Looks like it might be shaping up to be another warm October which inevitably spills into November. So it goes...

All we can hope for is a nice early-December dump to get things rolling. Feels like the East has been getting killed every December for the past three years.
 
imma sit in physio and the gym and stretch for a year. Hope to get on trampoline by the end of the ski season. Didn't buy a pass, got acl surgery not long ago. Hope everyone has a great season~
 
14553826:Farmville420 said:
If we're talking BC thats different cuz I'm still saving up for some touring stuff. It's def not a joke though, the only thing I've noticed that colorado blows most places out of the water in is having consistently the best snow ever. Which is definitely a huge factor to good skiing, and prob why so many people vacation here, but there is so much absolutely fucked stuff out east. I'm also biased cuz I prefer hardwoods to pine forests I'll admit, and also a lot of the resorts out east have more vert than west coast mountains (cuz they start at lower elevations). Better trees + longer runs with a couple cliffs here and there is what I would prefer on a powder day, I don't think that's unreasonable and I think if a lot of people knew where to go they would also agree tbh
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There’s not really much alpine in the east.

I was at the chic chocs and mt washington last season. there’s no doubt that there is good stuff in the east. There just isn’t much of it. And not much snow for that matter.

what the west doesn’t have are hard af people that would go out in 80mph winds w/freezing rain to ski the forecasted 0.5” of fresh. And still call it a good time if there wasn’t any fresh.

let’s not open the debate west vs east. There’s really no comparison to be made.
 
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14554068:ajbski said:
There’s not really much alpine in the east.

I was at the chic chocs and mt washington last season. there’s no doubt that there is good stuff in the east. There just isn’t much of it. And not much snow for that matter.

what the west doesn’t have are hard af people that would go out in 80mph winds w/freezing rain to ski the forecasted 0.5” of fresh. And still call it a good time if there wasn’t any fresh.

let’s not open the debate west vs east. There’s really no comparison to be made.
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Straight up we had 80mph gust this day in Tahoe. I’m from The east. It was my first day back out west. Nothing was stopping me from skiing.
 
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