Ski Universities in the PacNW

ErikT

ErikT

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If you know any good colleges or universities in the Pacific Northwest, in NorCal, Oregon, Wash or BC that are close to a good mountain, spit it out and post. Much appreciation ya'll.
 
^ agreed. western is liek an hour from baker and 3 hours from whistler, stevens, snoqualmie and crystal.
 
yea that is the best one i think. UW is like an hour from snoqualmie but really far from everywhere else.

EWU is by spokane, abotu 80 miles away.

CWU is like 40 miles from snoqualmie, but again, far from everything else...

don't really know about oregon tho
 
Western Washington

University of Washington

Seattle University

University of Puget Sound

Pacific Lutheran University

Lewis & Clark

Reed

University of Portland

All those schools are in the PNW and are close to skiing. Washington is better than Oregon as far as quality of skiing goes.

I go to UPS and love it. Small school, good academics, good group of kids to ski with. Crystal is about 1hr 20 minutes from campus, Alpental/Summit are about the same.

If I wanted to go to school just to ski, Western Washington is hard to beat, as was said above. under an hour to baker, close to whistler.

All the seattle schools arent that far from skiing at all.

Alpental - 45 minutes

Crystal - 1.5 hours

Stevens = 2 hours

Baker - 3 hours

So, I guess you should give us more details about what type of college your looking for - one that is big or small, high or lower acedemic reputation, whether or not you plan on skiing all the time or actually going to class, etc....
 
Or UBC in vancouver

19 drinking age.

1.5hrs and $383 pass to whistler (canadian $) and 2hrs from baker. 3 local mtns 25 minutes from UBC.
 
Lewis & Clark College

Portland State University

University Portland

Reed College

They're all about 45 minutes from Mt. Hood Meadows, Timberline, Cooper Spur and Ski Bowl. They're also about 45 minutes from places on the Oregon Coast you can go surfing in the summer, though I always opted to go wakeboarding on the Willamette.

You're about 3 hours from all the places near Seattle, and about 3 hours from Mt. Bachelor.

I went to Gonzaga in Spokane, WA and it's close to 49 degrees North, Mt. Spokane, Silver Mountain, Lookout Pass, and Schweitzer.

Mt. Hood is better than all the places over here in eastern WA and north Idaho.

In the Northwest there are tons of places to go though. Crystal, Mt. Hood, Mt. Baker, Steven's Pass, etc. If you go to college anywhere near Portland or Seattle you won't be more than an hour from plenty of good skiing.

-Nathan
 
My two favorite places in OR and WA are Mt. Hood and Mt. Baker. Mt. Hood has killer back country terrain and decent resorts, and Mt. Baker has SHITLOADS of snow... they've actually had to close it down a few times because they had too much snow.

Though your education is pretty damned important, and there's plenty of good schools in the NW for all kinds of disciplines, so figure out what you want to do, find a school in the NW that has a good program for it and you'll be good to go pretty much regardless.

Oh and EWU is only 20 minutes outside Spokane... WSU is about an hour fifteen down in Pullman.

-Nathan
 
UNR is really close to tahoe. it's about an hour from squaw. i don't know if this really qualifies as pacific northwest, but it is located near a lot of great resorts.
 
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