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Best North American Resort to Skibum

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Altron
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Me and a bunch of friends are trying to workout which is the best resort to hit up this year for 8-12 wks riding (not working).

Factors:
- Snow Quality/Quantity
- Terrain (Backcountry + Parks)
- Scene/Vibe
- Crowds
- Nightlife
- Cost

We've already been to:
- Breck/Keystone/Vail
- Winter Park
- Aspen/Snowmass
- Alta
- Whistler
- Killington
- Mont Treblant

How about Tahoe? North or South?

I know this is kind of a big question and everyone will have different opinions, keen to hear it all though - Al

Aug 24 2011 9:37AM
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SFBv420.0
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I know this is a big website and would bet there is a thread on this already

-k for not finding and bumping it

Aug 24 2011 9:41AM
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fatherb
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lighten up he has 1 post
Aug 24 2011 10:09AM
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ORDEAL
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chillout bro
Aug 24 2011 10:14AM
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smuggs
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oh no skifish dont minus his karmas! oh no man oh no.
Aug 24 2011 10:54AM
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smuggs
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tahoe. greatest snow, terrain parks, chicks, cheap housing, and a lake to swim in taboot. get there now.
Aug 24 2011 10:56AM
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RIP_leos_shack
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Squaw valley
Aug 24 2011 11:07AM
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Stose
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Mammoth. You can ski there for days and still not see everything the mountain has to offer, plus they have some of the coolest employees ever there. If would ski there all the time if i lived close.
Aug 24 2011 11:15AM
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Altron
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Tahoe:
Does Heavenly get mad busy?
Do you need a car do Tahoe properly?
There's lodas of Tahoe resorts but we're not gonna wanna pay day rates at the window, so what's the best season pass or combination of passes?
Aug 24 2011 11:16AM
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Stose
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Heavenly Gets pretty busy, but its big enough that its not super crowded.

You will pretty much need a car to get around

You can check here too get a good pass for multiple mountains instead of getting a pass for everyone you go to  http://www.snow.com/epicpass/home.aspx

Aug 24 2011 11:25AM
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Altron
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Oh and apologies for newbisms on my part, just tryin to get the inside line from actual skiiers. Official websites and magazines are so mostly aimed at people on vacation, not people putting in a solid few months.
Aug 24 2011 11:25AM
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Altron
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South Lake Tahoe's sounding pretty good. If anyone has any tips on classfied ad sites or accomodation websites that'd be sweet.

Aug 24 2011 11:30AM
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broto
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plus they have like an 8 month season.

FUUUU east coast!
Aug 24 2011 11:37AM
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Altron
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Yeh, I went to east coast once by accident and it it was pretty average. Killington was nice but Tremblant was full of rude people with weird accents, I can speak french, but not like that...
Aug 24 2011 11:41AM
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broto
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tremblant and killington are both baller, i have a shitty local hill with less than 1000 ft vert. yay
Aug 24 2011 11:43AM
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Inline.
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Do Bridger/Big Sky/Moonlight
Aug 24 2011 11:48AM
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GNARSQUAW
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North Tahoe is legit
Aug 24 2011 12:06PM
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monkatizer
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hood for summer

mammoth, squaw, whistler for winter
Aug 24 2011 12:10PM
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GNARSQUAW
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squaw
Aug 24 2011 12:12PM
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Jooky
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Squaw is pretty pricey for a bum, but I'd say anywhere in Northlake will work.  There are a couple of gems that get less crowds, and a TON of resorts within a 1 hr hitchhike. 
Aug 24 2011 12:18PM
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Altron
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Mammoth:
- Does it get busy at weekends? (I know most places get busier, I just mean is it like Whistler where half of 'couver turns up because the mountain promised 3ft of ficticious powder to bump ticket sales, or is it like Aspen, where everyone's still in the Prada shop?)
- What's the nightlife/bar scene there like?

Aug 24 2011 12:47PM
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Parks.
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tahoe cuz theres like 100 mountains there....

or go to mammoth just for a sick laid back town with people who love to ski
Aug 24 2011 8:10PM
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Jennings
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i drive 2 hours for 300 ft vert......stfu
Aug 24 2011 8:13PM
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ParabolicSidecut
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I'm pretty sure the lodges at Alta define the phrase "ski bum"...
Aug 24 2011 8:19PM
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2_fadez
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this...
Aug 24 2011 8:22PM
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LeadThug420
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-k to you for being a dick and because you apparently care about karma.
Aug 24 2011 9:52PM
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SFBv420.0
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here is my utah advice killer pow and terrain a good mix of various resorts all w/ different features , central local >8 h 2 tahoe ,CO, ID, MT ect for the road trip. affordiable housin good and various employment ops.

A true skibum would work&live in a lodge like the gmd pdog in the L2xc 

his nightlife would consist of various ways to get high and drunk ocassionally wax his skis an watch snow accumulate

Id write more but the e-community is partially about the building of a knowledge base i posted a better post in the thread on this very same subject last year but now that good 6 page thread is buried and you haz start the new one maybe it will go 3 pages who knows

but imo if you take the time to search and then people add good input that thread becomes more useful should someone figure out how to fix this pathtic searchbar so people can use it

fuck the karmaz just get w/ the brogram

Aug 25 2011 12:23AM
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roddy116
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definantly hood, and you could try tahoe lake.
Aug 25 2011 12:33AM
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EricaMN.
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lake louise/banff
Aug 25 2011 12:35AM
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.RYAN66
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Here is my problem with the tahoe and Utah areas. They need a fucking epic pass. I would love to like in tahoe when I can bum but I don't want to be stuck to one place and have to pay day tickets to Ski elsewhere same goes for Utah. If they had that I would probably be in slc right now but am probably going to bum in co since I am here already and I can ski 6 resorts on one pass
Aug 25 2011 11:40AM
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SFBv420.0
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The fact that the slopes are not epically clusterfucked packed w/ cheap pass, couldnt figure out a way to score a cheap pass on their own, and just have to pay more for parkin, eats and drinks, and other resort ammenities, masses is not a problem it is a blessing

There is also this pass you can et where you put these rodnee binders and these funny lookin stickey various mohair material things on the bottom of your skis that allow you to climb up various EPIC peaks and ski them

Bro tip ; take the stickey skin things off before descending and have your self rescue and snow safety skills dialed

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Aug 25 2011 12:30PM
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Parks.
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there is for tahoe!
Aug 25 2011 7:58PM
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.RYAN66
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so i can ski squaw, k-wood northstar and heavanly on one pass?
Aug 25 2011 8:15PM
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Parks.
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i know they had one last year...it was called the millenium pass or something like that....its like 1000 bucks for every tahoe resort

Aug 25 2011 9:46PM
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.RYAN66
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damn i hope they continue this, it is definitlly worth paying for those type of mountains.
Aug 25 2011 10:05PM
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A.Eberhard
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Take Tremblant right off of that list, doesn't compare to any other of said mountains. It's small compared to the mountains listened, probably 200-500cm a year, and it's fuckin cold here. -35 celsius is common in January, February.


I would say Whistler is your best bet. Huge mountain, best parks, good nightlife, but it is probably the most expensive to bum.
Aug 25 2011 10:08PM
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Parks.
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ya if i had enough money id buy one...that be awesome
Aug 25 2011 10:12PM
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timmmay528
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you could get alpine/kirkwood/homewood pass
its like 700 dollars? im not sure but its no black outs for all three resorts and there should be cheaper options with black outs
Aug 25 2011 10:19PM
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AlexMartini
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GO TO MOUNT BAKER
jumps built everywhere, no need for a park, dumps ungodly ammounts, very very mellow locals and i guess you could drink with them but you might be too tired from skiing so damn much, and its real cheap, if you got stacks though i'd go to JACKSON, epic night life and way better mountain in my opinion but less dumps and more $
Aug 25 2011 10:40PM
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AlexMartini
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oh and whitewater BC is the tits, they let you camp in the parking lot, nelson BC is the dopest town up there, and they sell like $20 tickets or something for one ride up to skin the deep stuff up top all day
Aug 25 2011 11:06PM
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