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Best West Resort?

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What is the best resort in the west for the POWDER and terrain during the Christmas vacancy?? Thanks
Jul 9 2009 7:56PM
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mike91129
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Canada or US?
Jul 9 2009 7:57PM
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Jakx~
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Well Hood Doesn't have much BC runs but Mt bachelor does pretty good during December with like a 4000 foot long lift on the backside of the mountain and a friend and i took a run at the end of the day for about an hour an a half without hitting another track
Jul 9 2009 8:05PM
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Funnel
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Depends on where you end up at.  Here in CA we had a few years where we got over 6-7 feet of snow around New Years.  Mammoth gets lots of pow sometimes and has a great park.  It all depends on luck.  You might show up in UT thinking they always have powder, but then it doesn't snow at all while you're there.  It is all dependent on luck.
Jul 9 2009 8:10PM
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JamanBird
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There are 1 or 2 times a season that Utah goes a week or two without snow. But in recent years there's been a lot of powder around Christmas time.
Jul 10 2009 12:06AM
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3mania
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squaw is pretty sweet
Jul 10 2009 1:08AM
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selkirks
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My vote goes to Alta/Bird and Jackson in a good snow year (i.e. last year).
Jul 10 2009 2:06AM
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Spen
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Lake Taho and Oregon area mainly Bachelor and Hood
Jul 10 2009 2:59AM
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Funnel
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Go somewhere that has lots of good resorts in one area.  Tahoe, SLC, or CO.  I don't know how close together resorts are in CO though.  I would say Tahoe or SLC and you're set, can't speak for CO.
Jul 10 2009 3:05AM
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CraigAK
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Alaska, i live in juneau, every xmas break is epic as hell. narliest terrain in the world around here to. the terrain is everywhere right off the lift to, i mean everywhere
Jul 10 2009 3:05AM
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CraigAK
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Eaglecrest FTW!
Jul 10 2009 3:06AM
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Funnel
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Fuck AK sounds so nice.  I just want to go and ski some sweet pow.
Jul 10 2009 4:00AM
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