You know you're from alaska when

you know you're from alaska when.....ignorance falls out of your mouth onto the polar bear rug auntie sarah gave you for your 12th birthday.
 
you know you're in a shitty part of alaska (fairbanks), when you have less than two feet of snow over the entire year....
 
Honestly, I'd way rather live in the PNW, UT, CO, or CA because the terrain at resorts there is going to be way sicker than Alyeska and Eagle Crest. Squaw, Jackson, and Alta are just three places I would way rather be.
 
If you're in Alaska to ski resorts, you're there for the wrong reason.

You know you're from Alaska when chasing ass is like shopping at a grocery store that only sells expired food.
 
Except for the fact that UT (I can't personally say I've skied in the backcountry anywhere else) has some of the sickest backcountry access 40 minutes from the airport and 25 minutes from where a lot of us live. On pow days I'm not in the resort.
 
Okay I just read the full post that you responded too. Your comment makes more sense now. My bad. But still there are TONS of sick backcountry spots 25 minutes from SLC.
 
its actually very warm in july. a better one would be.... when you get used to the sun never going down in july.
 
your from Alaska when you get pissed off when you see a 10 minute lift line.

your from Alaska when the resort is closed due to hurricane forced winds for three days....the day it opens you have an 80 inch powder day with no one there.

your from alaska when your real season-the time that you hike begins in mid march- and ends in june
 
Yeah we've gotten a lot of snow but its not all good. Turnagain has a terrible snowpack after these last two weeks and hatchers is lookin pretty bare. And its Fucking 40 degrees in February.
 
when you dont have to work becuase you get free money from oil companies who want to drill where you ski resorts are.
 
when your government gives YOU money (to allow the oil companies to continue to ruin the beautiful frontier and deplete alaska of it's natural recourses)-the simpsons
 
we get a small portion. and if you want it badly enough move up here for 2 years and there ya go. even you can have a small portion.
 
haha no, it wasn't a jab at alaskans, i was just stating the fact that there is nowhere else in the U.S. where you could get paid by oil companies.
 
haha. first of all, this thread is retarded, sorry zach.

second of all, you have no idea. in my opinion the terrain is SO much better here at Eaglecrest than UT, or MT (the only states i can personally contest to). Ive skied the Alta/Snowbird, and it really dosent compare. We have everything they got(minus utah powder, ours is heavier), plus more fun features literally EVERYWHERE. you go out baldy or something at Snowbird, and its sick, you can find some gnar stuff, but everything around it isnt nearly as cool. Plus our features are literally everywhere. I dont really know how to describe it, but like sure you can find steep tree runs in the PNW, but its like just steep and trees, with maybe some cliffs here and there of differnt sizes, at Eaglecrest we have all sorts of random nobs, hits, pillows, bumps, gullys, chutes, natural cliffy spiny things- some are double+ stagers, and so many other random fun things, and more challenging things than down south. and you dont have to go anywhere to ski this terrain, its right there, everywhere. if you want big cliffs without trees we have lots of thoses that are a short hike or traverse away as well, followed by trees that dont even compare to down south's. and way less people here, which I love.

Now ive never skied Jackson, and it has gnar stuff, eaglecrest does also, but from what ive seen of it it has the cliffs/cliff bands and big chutes, but theres so much more than that here, as well as all that if you want it. maybe you can let loose more on those cliffs, because they have such big nice looking landings from what ive seen, and we dont have as much of that unless you hike. we have lots of tech cliffs though, with sketch take offs and some small, weird landings.

To each his own, but i dont think you can say that terrain down south is "way sicker" than Eaglecrest.

Plus i hate all the scattered little rocks down south, in Montana particularly. We have scattered little tress tho, but they get buried and are very fun!.
 
we dont directly get paid by oil companys, its complicated, but the Perament Fund Divident gets its money from our natural resources, by allowing companies to take some of them, but they have to pay some. The PFD invests that money and is always building a account to keep the state running if the resourses ever become invaluable, and a small portion of the money made off of the investments each year is averaged over the last 5 years, and thats divided to every resident that applies. Usually between 800-2000 bucks per year to each person.

Thats a simpled down explaination of how it acually works, probably more than you wanted to know, i dont remember most of the details from my AK history class in highschool haha
 
no, that was a fine explination... sorry i didnt mean to sound uneducated or offend anyone i just thought that it was something thats unique to alaska.
 
ive got a new one.

You know your skiing Alaska when you are either pro rich, or live there
 
i know you said you havent skiied jackson. but jackson really does have all that stuff you just described they literally have everything you could ever want to ski pretty much: huge cliffs, small cliffs, tech cliffs, chutes, tight trees, open trees, bowls, steeps and its everywhere all over the mountain. off all the lifts that arent little kiddie ones and stuff you can easily find gnarly terrain without hiking. With hiking its a whole different story there is just a ton more options of the stuff you can find anyway
 
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