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Tahoe Resorts?

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paulmay
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Which is your favorite resort in the Lake Tahoe Area?
best parks, best pow, ect.
Sep 21 2011 12:53PM
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paulmay
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these are the 7 most important, which one do you recomend?

Alpine Meadows Ski Resort
Heavenly Mountain Resort
Kirkwood Mountain Resort
Mt. Rose - Ski Tahoe
Northstar-at-Tahoe Ski Resort
Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort
Squaw Valley USA
Sep 21 2011 12:56PM
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GreenStezz
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I'm moving to Heavenly in a few weeks........................
Sep 21 2011 12:57PM
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steeze-free_lee
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kirkwood has the best pow

northstar has the best park

but squaw will always be my favorite.
Sep 21 2011 12:59PM
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nohajs
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Alpine/ Squaw/ Kirkwood. Skip the rest. You may even be able to get a pass with all three this year. Maybe :)
Sep 21 2011 1:12PM
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tribefan226
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as far as park my favorites are squaw/alpine/boreal/northstar
Sep 21 2011 1:14PM
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steeze-free_lee
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seriously? the squaw park has been garbage the past few seasons, and alpines wasn't much better imo. boreal is dope for night skiing but northstar is the only north shore resort with a solid park all the time, which is too bad because other than the park their terrain is way too tame. that said i hear squaw is seriously stepping up their park this year so i'd expect big things.
Sep 21 2011 1:20PM
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caliskigirl
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This
Sep 21 2011 1:25PM
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paulmay
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any words on heavenly? might be going there to work this season.
Sep 21 2011 1:52PM
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steeze-free_lee
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ive only skied heavenly a handful of times but i thought it was a pretty solid resort. their parks were pretty legit and they have a ton of gladed terrain. ive never skied it but ive heard that sierra just opened some new gates, and that if you know where to go out of them there is some sick terrain that is easy to lap all day and as far as i know their park is considered to be really underrated. if you end up down there though definitely make a trip to kirkwood on a powder day though, its unreal how much more snow they seem to get than the other resorts.
Sep 21 2011 1:57PM
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pink_squid
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sierra dooooood. its cheap as fuck. but id go kirk for pow
Sep 21 2011 3:03PM
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pbandj
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i live like a 5 minute walk from the cal base, heavenly doesn't have the best terrain or best park, but it's decent overall, there's some awesome side country and you can always duck the ropes and ski the burnt face. i would call heavenly a jack of all trades but a master of none.
Sep 21 2011 3:30PM
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KravtZ
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unless you ski squaw on the reg and can careless on a not so good day....why would you even bother going into the park at squaw...the terrain there is absolutly nuts so much more fun than the park
Sep 21 2011 4:05PM
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SKI.ING
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Really wish the triple whammy still existed :(
Sep 21 2011 5:35PM
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BMB
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I've skied just about every one at some point in my life, so it's Squaw for powder days, Heavenly for the views, Northstar for the Park rat, Kirkwood for the Wall, Mt. Rose for good times, and Alpine Meadows for decent prices.
Sep 21 2011 5:52PM
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rsvp
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well squaw's got the terrain. but park-wise, they're definitely stepping it up big time this year. or so they say....
Sep 21 2011 10:17PM
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Funnel
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Squaw, Alpine, and Kirkwood.
Sep 21 2011 10:21PM
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Thrash
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Sugar bowl?
Sep 21 2011 11:20PM
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californiagrown
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when is the whistler-blackcomb of tahoe gonna happen?


KSL needs to figure their shit out and turn the squaw base into the ritzy whistler village scene, bring the white wolf dude into the picture to use his lift, and put your ass in charge of the parks... i can only imagine what rediculousness would happen if they let you build features all over both mountains.

But on the real, the hike-to terrain at alpine on a pow day is my favorite thing in skiing, and i have skied at jhole, targhee, squaw and whistler.
Sep 21 2011 11:32PM
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timmmay528
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i love squaw but it get tracked out completely in like half a day or a day after it snows. recently there park hasnt been great but this year they're getting the guys who build the parks at x games and dew tour to build their park so it should be good
Sep 22 2011 1:04AM
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