Whitman College

Yikes. Hope you're getting a ton of money from them. From everything I hear, Walla Walla and Bluewood suck.

Bluewood sucks, its a gaper mountain, but Whitman does not suck

I sat in on a class there a few years back. What I found was an environment slightly left of Marx. It struck me as your typical overpriced liberal arts college filled to the brim with Obama voting liberodouches, stuffed with a sense of superiority and entitlement, unable to to contain their plans for world equality, wealth redistribution, love and peace, togetherness, utopian socialism, and the rest of their pinko-leftist stupid. I quickly realized that if I enrolled there I would leave with either a liberal brainwashing, or 25-to-life next door. Instead I opted for a healthy diet of meat, guns, and freedom!

I hate you slightly less after that amusing post.
But I still wouldn't mind you doing 25-to-life in Walla Walla State prison.

Yeah Whitman is fine, but the surrounding area is possibly the most boring part of Washington.

If you mean to say that being educated at high-ranking liberal arts colleges puts you at the forefront of communism, then I assume you are an uneducated, ignorant libertarian. You probably believe that the government has no business in the private sector, but you probably cannot cite a historical reference to back up your claim.

I think what I said was that many of the people who either have been educated, or educate, in that cesspool of progressive brainwashing, have a tendency to ignore reality, and instead bask in each other's smugness and think up illogical idea that generally relate to some form of socialism and/or communism, but always stupidity.

Likewise, I never said that I believe the government has no business in the private sector. I do however, know that every time the government muddles around in the private sector we, the citizens, by definition and simple math, inherently loose freedoms. There is a too fold reduction in freedom. First off, there is by necessity, a loss of your basic freedom to do whatever you so wished to do, since the government will need to make regulations; regulations that will by default restrict your and my ability to do whatever the hell we wish. The second side, is the loss of monetary freedom. This is in itself the main issue with Communism, and most Socialist models. They require that the citizenry give up the freedom to spend their money, their earnings, in a way which they please. The government must pay for all the things that it does and doesn't do,* and that money does not just pop out of the ground. "There is no such thing as public money, their is only taxpayer's money" [1]. Of course, many of the worthless scum that fester in the aforementioned cesspool of stupid, are not themselves taxpayers, and thus have no issue planning up great ways to spend other people's money. This is of course why the democratic party is a leach upon our country, since it is by and large, made up mostly by people who only draw out of the tax revenue, but hardly ever put in to the tax revenue.

Going to Whitman is wasting your time.

Also, the 'uneducated libertarian' attack, while a generic response from the leaches in academia, is about as educated and refined as the automatic distrust that many social conservatives have for anything coming from someone with letters other than BS after their name.

[1] Margret Thatcher, 1983


Also, I hope you can justify how much you spend.

Political rant is amusing.  Yes, Whitman is quite liberal, but the whole brainwash part is quite funny.
I'm a freshman here and its a small ski scene for sure, especially after they cut the race program's full funding a few years ago.    Although I used to ski a lot of park back home on the east coast, Bluewood's is laughably small and its a good drive to anywhere else.  That being said, there's some really good backcountry options in the Blues and the Wallowas.  I'll be getting a touring setup next year and there's a good amount of student interest there as well as in avalanche classes and the Outdoor program offers a hut trip. 
Bluewood is small, but its one main lift offers a good amount of terrain.  The snow is generally much lighter than the Cascades as well, given that its not a coastal snowpack, and there are no crowds.  This is a mom and pop ski operation run only on diesel, which I'll take any day over a mega resort with pay-for parking and condos.
We planned a bunch of weekend trips with the freeride team (mostly snowboarders) last year, but only ended up getting funding for one.  That said, we spent 3 days at Whitewater, BC for the Cold Smoke powder fest, and it was absolutely insane. 
Get stoked, Whitman's a great school and if you put in the drive time, you can get to some quality terrain.

Oh yeah. I forgot how close that is to the Wallowas. Place is like a mini-Cascades but a bit drier and higher. I bet it kicks ass in the winter. They even have a small heli op somewhere around there.

i strongly beg to differ, there are much worse parts of the state

I have a couple friends going next year.

I got accepted decided not to go cause it was so expensive and bluewood can be fun! I've been there twice on low days and there's some nice glades to ski