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Best powder/terrain resort in north america?

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masta_LE3B
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give me your opinions
Dec 30 2008 8:21PM
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masta_LE3B
Posts: 3397 - Karma: 62
hands down my ass, i live in alaska, and were i live we get 40 inches a year, and aly definatly didnt get 1120, more like 800's and half there snow melts, there allwasy around 30 degrees so alot melts but alot comes down and its wet, and its a relativly small mountain aly's good on a good day but not overall
Jan 7 2009 10:36PM
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Hack.The.Pow.
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ALTA!!!

Im goin to Jackson in march though hopefully that will be sick
Jan 7 2009 10:38PM
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DBAKE
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Dude you creep the fuck out of me....are you the boogieman??
Jan 7 2009 11:22PM
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jeremy.g
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a couple places in montana get sick conditions and have some gnarly terrian, and i love how underrated it is to everyone thats not really from here.
Jan 7 2009 11:45PM
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cfox
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hahaha not terrian
Jan 7 2009 11:49PM
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Big_Spence
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very true.
Jan 8 2009 12:23AM
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Treestman
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jay is fuckin sick. id say as good as most summit county resorts fosho
Jan 8 2009 12:25AM
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coolhandluke
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i am bigger than the boogieman.

and to everyone who wrote baker......its seriously been raining on every mountain in washington the past two days. we were not joking. all its been doing is raining. we dont ski, just test gore-tex.
Jan 8 2009 12:28AM
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mtbakerteacher
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^REI did start in Seattle, and we know how much they love their gore tex!
Jan 8 2009 1:23AM
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skihood
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haha really ski bowl is so legit
Jan 8 2009 1:30AM
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skithe49th
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yeaa but theres a big difference between fairbanks and turnagain, hains, valdez and all those places around water. warmer then -64 or whatever it was last week and we get the storms alot more it seems like.
Jan 8 2009 1:41AM
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Gfunkrussell
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In all the Americas... Telluride is by far the Dopest.  If you know where to go.
Jan 8 2009 1:47AM
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miker92
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you clearly have not been out west.
Jan 8 2009 9:24PM
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AngryFromBend
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squaw valley is so gnarly.
that or mt. baker for my picks
Jan 8 2009 9:38PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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anyone saying kicking horse for snow doesnt know what there talking about, snows terrible there but the terrain is unreal...
Jan 8 2009 9:48PM
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buddychaps
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naw baker is the shit
Jan 8 2009 11:38PM
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ThaLorax
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I'm going to Crested Butte next weekend. Hopefully I'll have to update my list after that.
Jan 9 2009 4:44PM
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JABrecon
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Can't beat the combination of Jackson's vertical drop, great snow, and ridiculous terrain. Some other places that come close though are Whistler (if its not rainy), Alta, Vail (if its not cruddy), Snowbasin, and Squaw Valley. Keystone's park is real sick, probably the best i've been to
Jan 9 2009 6:00PM
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