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First run on a powder day

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Frank_Spinatra
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I'm not asking anyone to give up their secret stashes (unless you really want to) but when you know there is a big storm coming and you get up nice and early and see 15 inches of freshies (sorry east-coasters) on the snow report, what's the place you've got in your mind before you even leave the house.

Royal Elk Glade at Beaver Creek

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Holte
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The park.




Kidding. You'll have to kill me to get that information.
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joshua
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the park, nothing like trying new tricks into a foot of pow! Then a mogul run
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alpineplease
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i think of what warm baked good and hot beverage i would like to consume waiting for summit to open.
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joshua
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i usually have to shovel the driveway fiirst.
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Logey.
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i make a big jump in my back yard and try my new stuff!! my favorite spot is alta and a basin :)
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50in07
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A good hand rail since i live in mn
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Bloc_chain
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mission peak into chute 7 into central park
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Funnel
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Well, no one will be at my resort so.  Sierra Summit.  I either usually start up chair one, take a run under the chair down to chair 5, up to east bowl, drop the big cliffs, repeat until too tracked, then duck into elevator for a few runs, then hit up Juniper.  That is a typical pow day for me.
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blackoutbill
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Haha yeah I don't anyone is at eldora but I go up the base lift, take a left and head on over to Jolly Jug glades. Then I usually cut to the other side of the run and hit pretty much all the tree runs
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ilikeplants
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Chair 4 at loveland.
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PULSEofdaNATION
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Hit up either rock garden or cloud nine on seventh heaven at stevens or corona bowl on the backside.

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Jesus-FlwrSubaru
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Telluride... Chair 9, then Chair 12, chair 14, chair 15, then bear creek
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Spacekroft
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through the trees at moonlightbasin so much snow that never gets skied until i tear through there
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skiP.E.I.
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I have any slope around 25+ degrees in my vicinity on my mind. First run is just incidental though, because most of the time where I ski the best days are when it's snowing pretty hard, and not many people who ski there go out when it's overcast or snowing, so I get fresh runs all day.
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willy_baller
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backcountry on peak 10 at Breck
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16candles
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cliff chair, hike up to the chutes, and ski them until they're tracked out
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OneLove_skier
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red square can be sick at vail but it usually gets tracked out so quick
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Jballz
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streight to the cliffs and steep inbounds runs, when those are cut up its off to the bc for some secret stash time

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pianoman
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i'm an east coaster, so i don't get a lot of huge pow days, but on pow days i always take the lift going up to the back peak on my little mountain, and ski down the area where the lift runs. there's a few sick drops and a giant kicker since it's not meant for skiing. then i'll might do some glades, especially beyond the boundaries of the run or in different secret areas which have huge stashes among trees.
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Jamestown
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At Northstar, top of Lookout poma-lift, look up to your left.

At Vail, I can find pow stashes inbounds and out of bounds around Blue Sky all day. Or, Chair 3, turn left, left again, then right past that lodge at the top, up the road over there a little, then turn left into epic tree skiing.

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no_steeze
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we get snow on the ec also...first run is at magic mtn on a real pow day and i ski everywhere because there's nobody else on the mtn

but first run is always right underneath red chair
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Drail
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after a big dump? links line, at least twice. it's got everything - under the lift, some trees, some cliff bands with small to large options with everything in between, steep with good run out zones and a full run down the mountain with cat tracks, drops, chutes, pow covered moguls, gullies...

...then off to the trees to hit cliffs all day around the mountain.

well, that is all based of course on a normal wind pattern for the storm. if the wind was blowing from a different direction as per usual, I'll go to wherever the wind put the snow ('cause we've got all aspects, all from one chair... yea, that's right)
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skier_boy26
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likewise. my choices are dependent on many elements, including time of year (some runs are shitty/bush city  or too tame depending on the time of year), the storm pattern, temperature, day of the week (expected crowds), blah blah.
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smuggs
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hollywood da liftline
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BravoWhiskey5280
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6 chair is always fun at Breck, or the tiger trees right under peak 8 super connect
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no_steeze
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thats what i do when im at a real resort as well
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Ski.Ballet
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Pointing it off of chair 4 cliffs at Vail.
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carbon.pulse
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First run at Mt Hutt is your only chance for fresh powder. So straight to montezumas ridge.
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A-Lee
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at nothstar the stash and at sierra it a secret and friends will bury me up to the neck in snow if i say anything
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zagfan5
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2 quick park runs to try and huck some stuff off the jumps into pow

then off to the trees for the rest of the day
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eheath
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Take 1 or 2 on Collins at alta, then Wildcat until they open Surpreme. So epic.
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skialpental
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i got a few spots that remain secret, one with back to back pillow drops
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Alex_G
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nah you gotta hit up backside trees on the left of burnout
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punkrock32
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At Vail either: 1. Haul ass to genghis khan and drop the cornice full speed into the open run or 2. Track out anything and everything under the Northwoods lift before its too crowded

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coolhandluke
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want to know the best part of patrol?  timing a lap under the chair when the first paying customers are coming up. 
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Frank_Spinatra
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i enjoy it when my buddy ropes off a section to save himself some lines for the afternoon
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AA-Shred
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@ Squaw: up KT then well... where ever looks the best (head over to headwall if open)

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petesguitar1
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At Donner it was always straight over Palisades either South or running Mitzys or Chair 1. Maybe over to Chair 4 to get in the trees or building a ramp into the wall on North trail and hucking into the stashes there Then hiking out past ASI for near on endless fresh.

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Steeze-On-Toast
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ahaa, fairplay, thats gotta feel good to know you've got some nice lines to hit up
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=FLO=
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Crested Butte - 1st High Lift to pencil chutes or big chute, then North face lift to Fredo's cliff huck to start, low entrance to High Life, then the Edge, then Sock it to me/Mini Hourglass.  There is no better lap in Colorado.
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MarkieR
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wolf creek: waterfall area. all day.
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PearlJam09
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Red Chair FTW!  Its even better when you're getting first tracks and everyone riding up on the lift is watching you with envy.
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=FLO=
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Then hike flats to the lift all day.  Waterfall is sick, so i alot of shit at WC but it is so damn flat after anything sick it gets so annoying, you get stuck all time.
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fatherb
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Off trail at MRG and my secret stash place at crotched. :)
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hellomynameisjef
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sunday river - random glades
what a joke
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Ben.
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fist thing i do at big sky is go straight to challenger.
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no_steeze
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well i always hit it first because 2 runs later it's shitty and skied out, everyone skis it
but in a foot of fresh when you get first tracks it's amazing, you can just rip it. after red chair i just hit the trees
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bernierosow
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2 stroke oil and braaaaap right after 1st tracks on chair 22 at Mammoth
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Jwalk
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Cliff bowl at bigwhite
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TRIZZLE
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"2 stroke oil and braaaaap right after 1st tracks on chair 22 at Mammoth"

Haha yeeaaa!! You read my mind Bernie...BBAAARRRAAAPPPP
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