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Who is trying to go skiing in obscure places

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JeffersonDavis
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Im trying to ski as many ski resorts as i can in places that one would not think would have skiing. With some research ive found that you can ski in

Cyprus-

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greece

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Lesotho (located in the middle of S. Africa)-

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South Africa-  http://www.snow.co.za/tiffindell_resort.htm

Morocco-
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Im def trying to ski Cyprus, South Africa, lebanon, iran, and greece.






Nov 5 2007 3:26AM
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TechnoPotamus
Posts: 11626 - Karma: 3,522
cool ideas dude, i had no idea you could ski in some of those places
Nov 5 2007 3:40AM
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skier_boy26
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I'm definitely trying to find a way to ski in remote and far reaching places sometime in the near future. I have so many potential plans. Hopefully they can actually come through.
Nov 5 2007 3:42AM
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JeffersonDavis
Posts: 1167 - Karma: 14
I think my first foray into skiing unusual places will be Arizona this winter. My dad used to ski there all the time and said it could get pretty epic.

I'd love to do a cyprus, greece, and lebanon ski trip. The lebanon seg in skimatic was sooo sick, and the idea of swimming in the Mediterranean and skiing pow in the same day is sick. Also beirut has a ton of hot ass  lebanese american expats that just spend their parents money and party all the time.

Then after that i'd like to knock out a few areas in iran, the caucuses and kashmir.

Then Lesotho, South Africa and Kilimanjaro.








Nov 5 2007 3:46AM
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LC.
Posts: 5952 - Karma: 2,423
Dude, you need to come to Scotland. Extreme.
Nov 5 2007 4:47AM
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TWoods
Posts: 10014 - Karma: 8,386
i want to ski in russia bad style.
Nov 5 2007 5:03AM
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cousinmark
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romania bro. they always get tons of snow and its really cheap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nov 5 2007 8:01AM
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Rooddss
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s.Africa, wow. I knew there were big mts, but thats pretty dope
Nov 5 2007 9:02AM
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DrStrangelove
Posts: 1948 - Karma: 3
yah mun a few of my friends go to university of edinburgh, so i was gonna hop back over there sometime in the next few months and hang out...im 99% positive youre just being sarcastic and there's no place to ski, but lemme know if im wrong, im mainly just going to get drunk on my way to austria/switzerland for some glaciers and euro 2008 in the summer probably
Nov 5 2007 9:16AM
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Maximumsushi
Posts: 7837 - Karma: 3,354
Hey, this has always interested me too. Its too bad that actually getting to some of these places is very expensive. I'd love to do India and Iran sometime. The idea of being able to experience another culture and travel somewhere different but still be able to ski is something I find very interesting.

I am trying to find a very good video diary about two brothers who travel from Colorado to Bangkok and then onto Kashmir to ski a peak up there. I thought I posted it a few months ago but I can't find it.
Nov 5 2007 9:21AM
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Schoening
Posts: 14332 - Karma: 1,268
My dad has talked about for years traveling to China to ski.
Nov 5 2007 9:23AM
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Craigskis
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Korea has some good skiing too.
Nov 5 2007 9:34AM
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Maximumsushi
Posts: 7837 - Karma: 3,354
I have been toying with doing a season in Hakuba, Japan. If it happens, it would most likely be the 0809 season in Hakuba. Although it's not really "obscure", it is very different culturally from North America and I'd love to make use of their ridiculous powder. Anyone want to come?
Nov 5 2007 10:00AM
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mozzy
Posts: 1034 - Karma: 60
Georgia (the country). And don't forget Ski Dubai.
Iran- wicked terrain, just not so easy for a U.S. passport holder.
Kilimanjaro- if anyone's serious about this, better do it fast. The "snows of Kilimanjaro" are fast disappearing.
Nov 5 2007 10:10AM
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JeffersonDavis
Posts: 1167 - Karma: 14
yea i know, my mom goes to tanzania several times a year and wants to climb Kilimanjaro  too, so maybe I'll ski it with her.

Ski Dubai doesn't count because its man made

Knox, scotland has some dec skiing.
Nov 5 2007 11:16AM
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Shorton
Posts: 2889 - Karma: 13
you can ski in india in the himilayas. also come ski a dry slope in england, pitty 'different'
Nov 5 2007 11:37AM
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skibum193
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i thought papa schoening only liked his skiing to be freshy fresh and sunny?
Nov 5 2007 11:47AM
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dynathug
Posts: 630 - Karma: 10
kilimanjaro is basically a dream now..i was thinking of doing it..but theres less then 15% snow coverage there now..basically just little spots not really enough for a run

check out morocco as well they have 1 or 2
Nov 5 2007 11:55AM
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Billiards.
Posts: 6853 - Karma: 816
In my recent travels I found out you can also ski in TURKEY, and surprisingly to me, SCOTLAND!
Nov 5 2007 11:58AM
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caylorswift
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as long as you can speak japanese, im down.
Nov 5 2007 11:59AM
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LC.
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No, seriously there's 5 ski areas. http://ski.visitscotland.com/ I've had some sick pow days over the last 10 years but the snow has been terrible for the last 5 or so so I haven't skied there since 3 years ago now. There were aparently good days last year but I'd rather save my money to pay for trips to Europe really, even though the hills are only 2 to 3 hours from me. Maybe this year.

And I knew a guy in the US army who snowboarded Afganistan when he was on service over there.
Nov 5 2007 12:00PM
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JeffersonDavis
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once afghanistan gets more stabilized, Im trying to ski the Hindu Kush.  They look so fucking epic, it would be real tight if they set up a world class resort up there.  I bet you could hire a blackwater Chopper out there to take you heli skiing. My mom's been to afghanistan too for work and said the hindu kush just blow the rockies away in grandeur and epicness
Nov 5 2007 12:11PM
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Matty_C
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there are resorts in corsica and it can be epic there- just watch anomaly, but like most of these places you'd have to luck it big time unless you have tgr's weather satellite which never fails on recent evidence...
Nov 5 2007 12:20PM
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petitg
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i don't think you cna ski in lebanon anymore, i think it's now israel after their latest incursion.
Nov 5 2007 12:32PM
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Upgrayedd
Posts: 620 - Karma: 25
Arizona isn't really that unusual a place to ski - not to those of us that live here.  The quality of the snow that does fall is really good - I also rode powder days in the PNW, Summit County and the San Juans last year and the freshies I had in AZ were the lightest and driest. 

The one thing about skiing in Arizona is that Sunrise is run by the White Mountain Apache Tribe.  It is sort of like being in a third world country and the idea of customer service is totally alien to them.  Last year, they posted online on a Tuesday that they would be opening Cyclone Circle on Friday (best inbounds terrain in the state - it hadn't been open in two years because of low snow).  I called on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and each time the person told me it would be open for sure on Friday.  On Friday morning I drove 3 1/2 hours to get there and asked again at the ticket window if it would be opening, and again I was assured that it would be. 

So, to the White Mountain Apaches, "It will definitely be open on Friday" actually means - "The lift hasn't run in two years so we are sending the maintenance guys out on Friday at noon to see if we can get it going."

Short hike got me to the best poach ever, though.  First tracks anyone has had in several years off that ridge - deep, light sugar snow that couldn't be packed together.  Face shot after face shot.

They would have baller glade skiing, too, if they just took out some of the deadwood out of the trees.  Oh yeah, beware of the jibs - they are in disrepair and you will stack if you are not careful.
Nov 5 2007 1:55PM
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FrostyBro
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I have a friend from Lebanon, she says the skiing is great (for some context this was said to me while skiing in colorado) she lives minutes from the beach and can be skiing in 45 minutes, sound tight. 

and skiing in Iran would be a fucking trip for sure, if you survived...
Nov 5 2007 2:36PM
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JeffersonDavis
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youre an idiot.

Israel wasn't even even the mountains of Lebanon where there is skiing, since the majority of people in the mountainous areas are Druse or Christian and don't fuck with israel. The israeli offensive that occured in summer of 2006 was concentrated in the southern part of the country up to beirut, where Hezbollah and palestinian refugees make up the majority of the population.

Lebanon isn't even that dangerous any more since the Army rooted out most islamist fighters in the past few months.

Nov 5 2007 2:44PM
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FUUUCK
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no one skis pow in lebanon apparently, so theres always fresh tracks
Nov 5 2007 2:47PM
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FUUUCK
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if i ever win a trip to hawaii i'm bringing my set of boards. Click for larger image
Nov 5 2007 2:51PM
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petitg
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i'm an idiot becaus ei don't have an indepth knowledge of the situation in israel? i was only repeating what i've heard which is why i typed "i think".

as for iran, a review i read said that they have seperate queues for men and women over there. no doubt condoleeza here will be quick to correct me if i'm wrong.
Nov 5 2007 3:53PM
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treesmann
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theres skiing in israel at Mt. hermon

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http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/skiisraelhermon/
Nov 5 2007 3:59PM
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VTtreeskier
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I really wana ski japan, seems like every movies nowadays has a sweet segment there
Nov 5 2007 4:03PM
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treesmann
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shit, theres also a mountain in alabama

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Nov 5 2007 4:03PM
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JeffersonDavis
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hahaha yea ski cloudmont. Ga used to have a ski area called Sky Valley too but its not in existence anymore.
Nov 5 2007 4:20PM
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Twinjibber77
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if i ever skied in Kazakhastan i would prolly get dragged into an office at the base lodge an beatin with the butt stock of an old soviet AK-47 fer doing my frequent Borat  impression.....



..not my idea of chillin in tha park if u catch my drift
Nov 5 2007 4:42PM
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LC.
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Yeah I knew an Iraeli snowboarder in Whistler. There's a bit of s scene there aparently.
Nov 5 2007 5:10PM
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Bodeau.
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I never thought that u could ski lesotho, we were just talking about that today in social studies

Nov 5 2007 5:13PM
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chrismoJBEATS
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japan powder mmmmmm tastey

Nov 5 2007 5:26PM
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kirbstopper
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Shit thats bigger than my hill.
Nov 5 2007 7:31PM
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KRAMPUSNTROLLZ
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yeah but most of that skiing sucks anyways so why would you wan't to spend all that money when there is much better skiing on this continent.
Nov 5 2007 7:33PM
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Melvs
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Word of advice on Cyprus... don't go there.  I went to school with a bunch of Cyprians and they are all the scum of the earth, rude, loud, smelly, annoying, and douches.  I don't reconmend going anywhere near that country.
Nov 5 2007 7:33PM
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zackblain
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cyrpus looks sick  
Nov 5 2007 8:57PM
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zackblain
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cyrpus looks sick  
Nov 5 2007 8:59PM
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SteevJee
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that place in 7sd was intense can't remember where though
Nov 5 2007 9:52PM
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keystoner1
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gulmarg, india i believe. and yes it was
Nov 5 2007 10:18PM
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N-Yourd
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sick thread
Nov 5 2007 11:00PM
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WONTON
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u would need to take me with u kohl, i can guarantee u good food at least.



Good friend of mine skied in Kyrgyzstan while he was there with the peace corps
Nov 5 2007 11:25PM
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Rippy087
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i really wanna try skiing in russia some day... some day
Nov 5 2007 11:48PM
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Yauch
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greece looks sick

this is an awesome thread
Nov 5 2007 11:57PM
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prisnah
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Hakuba is on my list of places that I wanna do a season in, so I might consider it....heard it's a friggin blast and a whole different world over there....I'd love to spend a season just immersed in pow and foreign culture....not to mention I LOVE asian girls....but who doesn't?
Nov 26 2007 10:47PM
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landonn
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thats sick man, you should get some other people to go with you. i would be down.
Nov 26 2007 10:49PM
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