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bailer

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Maybe someone can help me out here. I am going to school in Calgary Canada right now at the U of C but am looking to do a year over in Sweden for school. The university lets me either go to Umeå or Örebro. I don't know much about where the good mountains are there and I am open to either choice though it looks like Örebro might be better because its more south. Any info would be amazing. Thanks.
 
Well i live in Gaevle which is pretty much in the middle, and we have one mountains whit a nice park. I dont know really about Örebro, i think that is weak for skiing. But i dont know if Umeå is that great eather. Umeå lies on the east coast and the best mountains is on the west part of sweden, near norway. Id go for Umea tho, atleast theres a small mountain there. And its more north which means more snow.
 
I would definitly go for Umeå, better for skiing and the city is also very nice for students. Got some friends studing in Umeå and they think its a great city. Also in general i think that Umeå universty is ranked higher than Örebro university. Another good reson for studing in Umeå is that there are more girls than guys in Umeå, in most universitys in sweden its the other way around. I dont know how it is in örebro though.
 
So Umea is sounding like the best place? The only thing is that Umea is so far North. With Orebro you are pretty close to Stockholm and I want to travel around a little but when I am there. But skiing wise I do ski allot of park but I wouldn't want a mountain with nothing but park. How long of a drive would it be to mountains from both places? And can you guys give me some sort of an idea as to the big mountain / park from each place like a 1-10 scale?
 
Well yeah it is a looong way from Umeå to stockholm. But none of the places are any good for anything but maybe park. As i said, all the big mountains are on the eastpart of sweden, the line between Sweden and Norway.
 
I dont think that Hemmavan tärnaby and kittelfjäll sucks, they are good at least to swedish standards. Tärnaby should also have a decent park. It's about 370m to all 3 so dont excpect to be there every weekend. The closest slopes to Umeå is problaby around 25km from the city. They should have a big jump and a rail thats about it. A place 30 km from Umeå, Vännäs should also have a decent pipe. Örebro on the other hand i couldent find anything about slopes close to the city... Another thing to consider is how often do you plan to visit Stockholm, a one hour flight and you are there. flight tickets is around 45€ one way, you could probably get there cheeper if you fly stand-by. If you want to visit Stockholm often Örebro is probably better, train tickets to Stockholm from Örebro starts around 15€. Personaly i would go for Umeå bescase i think its a better city for stundents and you are able to ski every weekend if you wanted to, even if it is at a shitty small slope.

A thing to remember is that you wont get a new Mammoth or Whistler in sweden but you can get good skiing.
 
you wont get anywhere near decent skiing (other than park) in either Umeå nor Örebro. so yeah. if you wanna ski anything else than park, i think you should do some thinking. sweden is not even close to american standards when it comes to the mountains and their parks. its interesting, because it seems like a lot of people think the opposite.

good luck,

N
 
best skiing in europe: Austria, Switzerland, France. so, basically anywhere around the alps. aside from amazing bc skiing with huge areas to explore, plenty of the ski resorts now work on building better parks, especially in the spring/summer on the glaciers.

for example, if you would study in say, Innsbruck Austria, you would have Ötztal, Kaunertal and Zillertal within 1 hour drives. thats three different valleys, all of which has sick bc and park.

and if your willing to travel for a couple of hours youll have so many resorts everywhere you wouldnt be able to ski them all in one season. the train system is very well developed in the alps, and can take you almost anywhere within 6-7 hours.

scandinavia (sweden, norway) has some great terrain, in some places better than the alps at least on the park side (Åre, Hemsedal, Oppdal etc), but thats all on the west side and you would have to study in Östersund, or Trondheim. (Im not sure if they even have universities).

Hope that will be helpful. Also, if you study in the alps, and you feel like going partying with hot girls for a weekend, just get a cheap ticket up to stockholm (200 bucks), and go crazy. That way youll get the best of two worlds.

N
 
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