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Silver Star or Big White?

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australianjibber
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Which is better based on mountain, park and lifestyle?
heading up to both for a few days at the start of next year so im interested on you boys opinions!

Oct 19 2007 10:46PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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big white has a better park and has its own park chair...silver star has a decent park but no chair or t-bar and it gets really crowded on the 6-pack chair... big whites nightlife is better too and you can pretty much find a party by standing outside of the liquor store... the only thing thats nice about SS is that it has some steeper areas on the backside...pm me with any questions
Oct 20 2007 12:36AM
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BigJew
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They both have better parks than 95% of the world so either way you won't be disappointed.
Oct 20 2007 1:12AM
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Jwalk
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big white is sick with easy accsess to big mountain with killer trees and a baller park with some serious pow

Oct 20 2007 1:31AM
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Evan_B.
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umm well Cam Schuster skis at Silver star so i think that should make ur choice pretty easy haha
Oct 20 2007 2:09AM
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jca
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zomgzzz cam schusstaa
but doesnt like evan berg ski there or something
Oct 20 2007 2:16AM
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joly.sp
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I think overall Big White would be better. Silverstar is very small, supposed to have a great park.
Oct 20 2007 12:03PM
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fouldsys
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probably cause he lives in nelson which is closer to silver star then big white
Oct 20 2007 12:30PM
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AhrenStein
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been to both. hated big white. felt like every run was pretty much the same with the exception of a few areas. the snow sucked when i was there though
i liked silver star more. more of a skiers mountain
Oct 20 2007 12:45PM
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bigwhite^rocker
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go bigwhite 
Oct 20 2007 1:55PM
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fergie
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Big white's park would only be better if the jumps were half as big as they claimed them to be.  Like last year Flynn was claiming biggest jumps in the valley and they were shitty 15 footers.
Oct 20 2007 3:18PM
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jca
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haha yeah for sure
Oct 20 2007 8:27PM
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australianjibber
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cheers for the help fellas, ive changed my plans now so ill be going to both anyway.  so amped.  hope its a great season for us all up in alberta and bc
Oct 21 2007 1:44AM
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kenevil
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Silverstar's park has been getting better and better for the past few seasons, and the backside is always fun on pow days.  I've never actually skied at Bigwhite, but from what I've heard the park is really good, and the cliff area looks fun.
Nov 12 2007 5:40PM
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australianjibber
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so amped to ski both right now. any snow up there yet?
Nov 12 2007 7:21PM
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kenevil
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just finished snowing at silverstar, there's about 20-25cm at the top, so not a whole lot, but starting thursday the forcast is lookin like more snow for at least the next week or so
Nov 12 2007 7:36PM
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australianjibber
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fuck yeah cheers mate
Nov 12 2007 7:41PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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snow isnt great...not to kill your buzz but they might not open on time...
Nov 12 2007 7:45PM
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australianjibber
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no dramas mate i wont be there until jan 6 so hope all is well by then.  face shots to all of you (no sexual pun intended)
Nov 12 2007 7:47PM
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kenevil
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yeah thats true too, they want to open in 9 days which is pushin it right now,
but the long range forcasts are predicting snow/rain for Vernon for basically the next week and a half after Thursday, so I can see them opening on time 
Nov 12 2007 7:50PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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yeah...wellll i reallyu hope they open... silver star needs about 80 cm to open and big white needs about 65cm so hopefully one of them will open...ss has more snow at the moment i think
Nov 12 2007 7:55PM
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