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Utah vs. Colorado

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camp_champ
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Im looking at Snowbird/Alta, Brighton/Solitude, vs. Breck and keystone and A-Basin. Which side has the better park, and which has the better back country
May 23 2006 9:02PM
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philipc
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nooB
May 23 2006 9:07PM
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aaron.ebner
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breck's park and keystone's park both kill the brighton solitude alta snowbird parks i dunno about back country i heard a-basin puts most to shame, but alta/snowbird has some amazing backcountry. i'd go colorado
May 23 2006 9:08PM
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FuckThePolice
Posts: 2088 - Karma: 17
utah has better both. but colorado is just better
May 23 2006 9:08PM
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levistewart
Posts: 3360 - Karma: 111
coloreado=park/park rat utah=both less prk million times betta pow
May 23 2006 9:10PM
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FuckThePolice
Posts: 2088 - Karma: 17
a basin sucks ass the parks in summit are good. for good bc you need to go somewhere other then summit.
May 23 2006 9:11PM
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skirbrt88
Posts: 1090 - Karma: 23
id say utah, just think, alta/snowbird brighton and solitude and park city all within an hour of eachother, plus snowbasin and powder mountain up by ogden
May 23 2006 9:29PM
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Poormansvault
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That should tell you everything you need to know, although I am pretty convinced Utah is not reporting it correctly or something.
May 23 2006 9:37PM
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Billiards.
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WEll park City has an ammmaazing park. Brighton has siiick jibs just absolutely amazingly fun and the atmosphere is absolutely wonderful. Also Utah has the easiest and best backcountry around the world just about I am thinking. I live here and its just amazing. I couldnt be more greatful. also theres alot of weed here unlike what that chart showed.
May 23 2006 10:54PM
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BK
Posts: 2353 - Karma: 1,123
fucking dick head.
May 23 2006 11:14PM
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CJHski
Posts: 2384 - Karma: 126
im not sure but i would def go to colorado instead because utah has all of those mormons(no offense) and those stupid laws they make
May 23 2006 11:45PM
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Arabian.
Posts: 9652 - Karma: 300
I think that map is a little off. There should be a little black hole where park city and Alta should be.
May 23 2006 11:51PM
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MarkieR
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hahaha tru dat!
May 23 2006 11:54PM
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danski333
Posts: 76 - Karma: 10
summit has better parks but utah kiss summit in backcountry. Only because I ive in colorado I would go to utah. But if you go to colorado than dont go to summit if you want everything go to crested butte or something like that do reserarch
May 24 2006 12:46AM
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camp_champ
Posts: 97 - Karma: 13
thanks BK for backing me up on the noob comment, but yea this is helping me out a lot.
May 24 2006 12:59AM
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Jeff_Lo
Posts: 5809 - Karma: 263
Dude the fact of it is, that either place could have a better snow year, you never know who's gonna have the snow, when they're gonna have it...i think you should pick somewhere to go, and just have a killer time hangin wherever you go, i love colorado cuz i live there, but if i got the opportunity to go to utah i would, but colorado will always be my home, i love it, never lived anywhere else, and never word...peace
May 24 2006 1:08AM
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ag.
Posts: 694 - Karma: 18
utah...although its expensive....utah....its not THAT far from colarodo either
May 24 2006 1:18AM
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ag.
Posts: 694 - Karma: 18
but if you in utah u gotta ski pc some of the time to!
May 24 2006 1:19AM
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Jeff_Lo
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deffinately would love to if the opportunity were to present itself
May 24 2006 1:22AM
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MrPantyDropper
Posts: 5016 - Karma: 65
your an idiot. im 100% sure youve never been there if you say that mormons really affect your stay out there.
May 24 2006 6:47AM
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DietCoke
Posts: 1317 - Karma: 7
judging by the GRATEFUL DEAD icon, id say you fall in the almost black category?

and check out hawaii and alaska, those kids are killin it
May 24 2006 11:07AM
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dylhole
Posts: 2926 - Karma: 983
colorado for sure
May 24 2006 11:37AM
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espong1321
Posts: 763 - Karma: 10
yea utahs played out
May 24 2006 11:39AM
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monkeysteez
Posts: 2655 - Karma: 99
my point exactly . and you can only get shitty 3.2 beer in Utah. and you will probably be brainwashed by some mormon chick and have a 9 kid family.
May 24 2006 12:08PM
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MrPantyDropper
Posts: 5016 - Karma: 65
WRONG...once again.
May 24 2006 12:12PM
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DaysToCome
Posts: 1601 - Karma: 86
colorado, best parks and best big monutain (crested butte, telluride, aspen, vail) and backcountry is amazing at all those places
May 24 2006 12:43PM
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slice_of_mustard
Posts: 731 - Karma: 9
yeah id say park is definatly better in colorado, mabye even backcountry too, cause crested butte, steamboat, vail, aspen, and silverton are all amazing for bc stuff. utah does have pretty good backcountry too though.
May 24 2006 5:30PM
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slice_of_mustard
Posts: 731 - Karma: 9
and utah is pretty much the gayest state there is and colorado is probably the coolest.
May 24 2006 5:31PM
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MrPantyDropper
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you dont even know what backcountry is, so you cant talk
May 24 2006 5:49PM
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Ahmets_Brother
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C CREW WAT!!!!
May 24 2006 5:53PM
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LineGhettoBlaster
Posts: 774 - Karma: 11
def utah less crowded a bad year in utah is still better than a good year in colorado snowwise. best park and pow in the country within a half hour of each other
May 24 2006 6:29PM
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DaysToCome
Posts: 1601 - Karma: 86
Vail has top 10 park in the country and amazing back country @ the same resort.
oh and aspen X-games worthy park and sickest inbounds and outta bounds all within lik3 minutes of each other
May 24 2006 6:33PM
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levistewart
Posts: 3360 - Karma: 111
YOU WILL NOT FIND AS MANY GOOD PARKS IN ANY STATE LIKE YOU WILL IN CO keystone, breck, winter park, vail, aspen, sometimes snowmass all have parks= to or better than pc but the scene out there is more developed
May 24 2006 8:23PM
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3ski6guy0
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colorado's parks are just AMAZING. almost every single resort has a sick park. its so nice. i went to snowbird and PC this fall and snowbird had such good snow with fucking amazing terrain but colorado still has 300 sunny days a year and no mormons. im dumb and im going to utah for college.
May 24 2006 8:28PM
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steezin3s
Posts: 308 - Karma: 25
yeah stay out of utah, colorado is nice and flat evryone should move there. the mormons ruin everthing, and stop having these threads! ur idiots
May 24 2006 8:44PM
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slice_of_mustard
Posts: 731 - Karma: 9
did i say i know what it is? and how would you know if i know what backcountry is or not? i was just saying utah is a gay state, i didnt say the skiing was bad. so fuck you
May 24 2006 10:51PM
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snowbird4life
Posts: 2265 - Karma: 26
suck a dick.

depierre owns you.


so basically, now that i did something to make this thread retarted, i will try and redeem myself.

I say go to colorado and have a great time, obviously our beer and mormons ruin EVERYTHING that has to do with skiing, so go ahead, have a good time at crested butte JUST WATCH OUT FOR ROCKS AND YOUR LANDINGS WILL BE 2 INCHES DEEP!
May 24 2006 11:36PM
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makeitmellow
Posts: 153 - Karma: 24
yea dont come to utah. it sucks. a big dissapointment for me since moving here...now i have to cry about why i didnt go to colorado instead.
May 24 2006 11:54PM
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Jeff_Lo
Posts: 5809 - Karma: 263
wow you know what the hell your talking about, u must drop cliffs right under the lift, like those little 2 ft ones where all the tourists try to jump off, because last time i was there it hadnt snowed for two weeks, and everywhere was nearly 2 ft deep
May 25 2006 1:21AM
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smuggs
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hahaha.
May 25 2006 9:23AM
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smuggs
Posts: 6561 - Karma: 1,375
just about the only thing better in colorado is the long icey groomers. great for laying down some edge.
May 25 2006 9:25AM
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Fashion_Geek
Posts: 157 - Karma: 53
Just keep think Utah is played out... And we will keep skiing the best snow w/ no one around. Thanks for the support.
May 25 2006 9:57AM
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dylhole
Posts: 2926 - Karma: 983
^your title as newbie really shows...
May 25 2006 5:22PM
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Kajex
Posts: 1069 - Karma: 178
haha look at alaska... so sweet
May 25 2006 5:27PM
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levistewart
Posts: 3360 - Karma: 111
its legal to have two plants in AK i... think.

also why is there all this hate over the sates i mean CO has way better parks and utah has way better pow and vibe. but then again this is NS
May 25 2006 7:02PM
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MrPantyDropper
Posts: 5016 - Karma: 65
How would I know if you know what backcountry is?

Based of your stupid ass statement that goes something like this:

mabye even backcountry too, cause crested butte, steamboat, vail, aspen, and silverton are all amazing for bc stuff

you just stated everyone of those resorts are backcountry, and that would be how i know.
May 25 2006 7:12PM
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MrPantyDropper
Posts: 5016 - Karma: 65
I LOVE this thread
May 25 2006 7:15PM
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_Locals_*
Posts: 92 - Karma: 9
I like em both..but my hill is still open, and I am not sure or any place still running lifts in each of those states. Possibly A-basin?
May 25 2006 7:16PM
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shrEddie
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ahahah look at alaska and hawaii burnin it up.

but to answer your question. ive been to vail and telluride in colorado and alta/snowbird and deervalley in utah. i must say utah is about 100 times better. i would much rather go to utah. plus alta is about 45 minutes from the airport. and all the mountains are within an hour of salt lake city.

as a poster said in a shop at snowbird "skiing utah without properly tuned equipment, is like skiing colorado"
May 25 2006 7:17PM
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eljefe
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are you kidding...move to colorado. Everyone can handlge colorado. You'll like it there
May 25 2006 7:26PM
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slice_of_mustard
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you dont like crested butte? or silverton? i guess the rest are ok but those two are awsome. i never said that the resorts ARE backcountry, i said they have good backcountry. name a resort in utah that has better "backcountry" than silverton. or are you talking about like out of resort snowmobile type stuff? and why do you have to have such a pussy little attitude about this anyway?
May 25 2006 7:55PM
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