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Breckenridge or Mammoth?

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JonasJuhler
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Hello Ns'ers

Next year 3 mates and I are taking a year off, after high school, to go skiing for a season.
We have a company in Denmark that has great reputation for arranging season trips, and their two targets in the us (which is definitely where we want to go) are mammoth and breckenridge.

We are probably going to ski 60-40 park-pow. From what i've heard and read both places have sick parks, but what about pow skiing or tree skiing? And what are other pros and cons, that you can say about both places?
Jun 18 2013 1:14PM
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Jibberino
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That's much better advice than "Utah".
Jun 20 2013 4:40PM
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SterlingArcher
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I care a lot
Jun 20 2013 5:37PM
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Jibberino
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I can tell.
Jun 21 2013 6:43AM
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ski4fun420
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Mammoth
Jun 21 2013 9:35AM
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BK
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Mammoth is kind of isolated, you will be skiing 1 mountain and driving at least 2.5 hours to any other resort and they will all be in Tahoe which is lower elevation. Colorado has more towns and more resorts in a small area. I fucking love Mammoth to death and grew up skiing there.

Everyone who is claiming Colorado has no snow and Mammoth will no matter what is ignoring this past spring when in late Feb thru May Colorado got so much snow and amazing days while Mammoth had much less. In general it snows ALOT in Mammoth.
Jun 22 2013 12:03PM
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Byron_tha_gr8
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this. Its not a guarantee to get good snow anywhere, and if you look at mammoth's past seasons they either get a lot (>500"), or not very much at all (<250"). They don't have many 300-400" seasons, so its always a gamble. That being said, its a lot bigger chance you will hit mammoth in a big year than colorado.
Jun 22 2013 1:07PM
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SamtheEagle
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breck has ABSOLUTELY NO REDEEMING QUALITIES OTHER THAN THE PARK
Jun 24 2013 12:17AM
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Miclovin
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how does it suck?
Jun 24 2013 3:12PM
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J-MAX-P
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mammoth

Jun 24 2013 4:49PM
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quixotic
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Mammoth. No doubt.
Jun 24 2013 6:28PM
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