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Best place to grow up skiing?

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Wizerd
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The west coast has bigger mountains and probably better park features (PC, Mammoth, Windells, etc.) and longer seasons, I've heard Mid West has small, shitty mountains but I don't really know. And East coast has typically smaller mountains with a 3-4 month season, East coast is icy and may lead to better urban and mountain skills, Mid West has smaller mountains (I've heard), and may be more localized. West coast has bigger mountains with more park and better snow (I think). So where is the best place to grow up and hone your skills? East coast, Mid West or West coast?
Sep 10 2013 4:19PM
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Nate.Dog
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"When you've skied the worst the best comes easy" - Tom Wallisch
Sep 10 2013 4:47PM
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Nate.Dog
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I'm from mount hood, so I wouldn't know, but every east coast kid I've met has absolutely destroyed rails, and learn jumps fast as fuck. I feel like the above statement definitely carries, especially with kids who are so good that they're held back by whats available to them, then absolutely explode when given the opportunity.
Sep 10 2013 4:49PM
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Slowbro
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Southern Alberta and Colorado are pretty good because they both have relatively easy access to every kind of skiing
Sep 10 2013 5:42PM
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crawley
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Lets let statistics answer this question for us.

Best skier of all time grew up in Switzerland or Austria since this category is arguable
Best american skier of all time grew up in Montana
Best female skier of all time grew up in Minnesota
Best freeskier of all time grew up in France
Best jibber of all time grew up in Michigan

So I believe the tally is
Europe: 2
American Midwest: 2
American West: 1

Clearly you want to grow up in Europe or the midwest. If you are currently raising a family out west cut your losses and move to Iowa.
Sep 10 2013 7:07PM
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Aladeen
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Anywhere that kids don't hit people with fluff
Sep 10 2013 7:39PM
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PositiveSpin
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Michigan was good to me. The only thing we don't ever really get a good feel for is back country, but that's why I head west. Plus it's really cheap to live here, so I can dump money into the sport I love and not hurt myself in other areas, financially.
Sep 10 2013 8:23PM
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Miomo
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Scandinavia
Sep 10 2013 8:26PM
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a_burger
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those are some subjective statistics there man
Sep 10 2013 8:32PM
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crawley
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not at all, I looked those up with google and it all checks out, the only one you can argue about is herman vs. didier, the others are fact and purely objective. internet never lies dude.
Sep 10 2013 9:57PM
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PsychedelicMoose
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Growing up in Utah currently is great, with a big mountain, you still get to know and meet a lot of people.
Sep 10 2013 9:59PM
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Threshy
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I cant tell if troll, or?
Sep 10 2013 10:15PM
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Nacho+
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the east's season is not 3 months long. We don't suck that much. It's 6 month long
Sep 10 2013 10:35PM
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Willgum
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... November to june? Thats stretching it haha.

And vermont is a sweet state in general to grow up in
Sep 10 2013 10:43PM
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hokkanee
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The answer to this question is Silverton. Straight up
Sep 10 2013 10:49PM
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bieberhole69.
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whistler-great park, great backcountry
Sep 10 2013 11:31PM
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No.Quarter
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Summit county, I have had some great instructors at Keystone and Breck from when I was little.
Sep 10 2013 11:33PM
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steezyclezy
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switzerland they live and breathe skiing and have actual cities on ski resorts
Sep 10 2013 11:47PM
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Iraq_Lobster
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id say it depends. im from the midwest which is great to just chill and have fun. nut if your looking to go pro and stuff like that then id say west.
Sep 11 2013 12:03AM
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robotdna
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Not the midwest. But since nobody on NS seems to be familiar with the midwest, I'll provide you with a picture(link to pdf) of what my mountain looks like. This is located in the Black Hills in SD. It has 3 high speed quads, 1 triple and a carpet.

http://www.terrypeak.com/_files/TrailMap.pdf

Back to thread, I think it would probably be in Canada or in France. Great skiing in both of those areas.

Sep 11 2013 12:27AM
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Karma_Police
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France, Candide, Thread.
Sep 11 2013 12:31AM
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WizardofWas
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Was waiting for someone to say this, the park is super sick especially when you can go from mountain to mountain in a matter of minutes, plus the powder is incredible!
Sep 11 2013 12:38AM
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danbrown
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learn how to count
Sep 11 2013 1:02AM
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tcurle
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Tahoe and mammoth
Sep 11 2013 1:19AM
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rylee.the.jedi
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I grew up in Montana and the powder is top notch but if your into park then get the fuck out cus park skiing in Montana is almost non existent
Sep 11 2013 1:29AM
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Amarino
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Tahoe.
Sep 11 2013 2:00AM
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E.Stai
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id like to see the names of those skiers who are the "best" in those categories
Sep 11 2013 2:58AM
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Broook
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Whis.
Sep 11 2013 4:47AM
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The_Polock
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Could no agree more. Well put.
Sep 11 2013 7:38AM
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John18_6
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Willie Borm from hyland, MN, youngest skier to triple. Hyland's vert is 175', he learned everything up to dub 12s there (from what I know). Midwest >>>
Sep 11 2013 10:16AM
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Yaraelpoof.png
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West is nice but if you grow up there you don't have that desire/drive to ski as much as you can as if you grow up skiing east coast
Sep 11 2013 11:22AM
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Turkelton
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Fluff on el Bike County
Sep 11 2013 11:30AM
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Karma_Police
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OP didn't ask where is the best place to grow up as a park rat, an urban skier, big mountain skier, a powder skier. He said skiing.

Anyone who says the east is wrong. Best all around place to ski big mountains and ski a great park? Tahoe or Utah.
Sep 11 2013 1:56PM
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Stickthelanding8
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So true I'm from the east and when you get a powder day here it's like swimming in penut butter it's that wet heavy snow and sucks to turn in I went to vail no problem at all
Sep 11 2013 5:15PM
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Shlogan
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Whitefish/ Bridger MT or JHole
Sep 11 2013 5:44PM
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skitheeast77
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Breckenridge/ Keystone since tom wallish is from there.
Sep 11 2013 5:51PM
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Shlogan
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your wrong
Sep 11 2013 6:05PM
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East_ski
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Vermont in my opinion. look at sean white and kevin pierce they grew up in vt and now pro.
Sep 11 2013 6:07PM
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Stickthelanding8
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No so wrong but keystone and breck are great mountains, real nice parks to!!
Sep 11 2013 7:22PM
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taylornicky
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Tahoe for sure
Sep 11 2013 7:25PM
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skiingonskis
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Well, this thread quickly turned into 'where are the best skiers from?'  As far as somewhere that is good for actually growing up while skiing, as the OP implies, there should probably be some different criteria than who is the best and where they're from.

A few criteria:
-Is it actually a town with a community, or just a resort?
-Does it snow a lot?
-Close to a city with things to do?
-Cost.
-Nice park?
-Summer activities?
-Close to ocean?
-Is there a ski club/culture to be a part of?  (no one wants to ski alone all the time, no matter how dope everything else is)

With these things in mind, these places come to mind:
-Telluride
-Steamboat (my hometown)
-Gunnison/CB
-Bozeman
-Tahoe?
-Annecy, FR (&surrounding area)
-Vermont n shit
-Bellingham
-Bend
-Kalispell
 
tons more probably, but thats what i got

Sep 11 2013 7:59PM
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kingsskier
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Perfect North Slopes, Lawerenceburg Indiana...
Sep 11 2013 8:32PM
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50_Shades
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This makes me think this kid is a real dumb ass
Sep 11 2013 9:35PM
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caderobinson
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Im pretty sure wallisch came from Pittsburgh pa
Sep 11 2013 10:13PM
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erejto64
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East Coast, the ice and sub zero days will make you a man and a good skier.
Sep 11 2013 10:18PM
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rylee.the.jedi
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Weird to see someone mention whitefish but i definatly agree

Sep 11 2013 11:20PM
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Heinzler
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vail/beaver creek. extremely close proximity to the best maintained mountains in the world is second to none.
Sep 11 2013 11:24PM
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OwenReynolds
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Haha down here in VA we get 3 if we're lucky
Sep 11 2013 11:25PM
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gouda
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Well obviously it depends on what kind of skiing you want to do. You cannot compare two different geographical areas because each one caters to a different type of skiing.
Sep 12 2013 12:22AM
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DayMan
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I'm definitely not complaining about growing up in Steamboat. Though it does get a bit small sometimes..
Sep 12 2013 12:25AM
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Simon.k
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PNW
Sep 12 2013 12:40AM
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