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Jimmy_MacElroy
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Im flying out to vail tomorrow. The website and app say that there is nothing challenging open right now. Will anything open in the next few days? Is the skiing still fun?
Dec 25 2017 4:34PM
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ay_ray
Posts: 18 - Karma: 34
just spent 6 days in vail and only hit the resort once. game creek bowl just opened today but from what I can tell conditions are still pretty yikes. skiing's fun if you make it fun, but you can only take so many groomer laps before you go crazy -- if I were you I'd look into traveling into summit county to make some turns at breck/keystone/a basin!
Dec 25 2017 7:22PM
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TheDoughAbides
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You should go to Montana heard it's good up there everything in Colorado is fucked right now
Dec 25 2017 7:39PM
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PsychicMigration
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East Coast >Rockies right now
Dec 25 2017 10:33PM
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270on420out
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peterkskisEast Coast >Rockies right now

Hahahahahaha
Dec 25 2017 10:36PM
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270on420out
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peterkskisEast Coast >Rockies right now



Actually upon further reflection I agree with this statement.

Vail sucks ass
Breck is insanely crowded and flooded with yellow jackets
Keystone's park is on point but barely anything else is open
Abasin is fucking awesome though. Skied there last Wednesday and had my best day all season.
Dec 25 2017 10:39PM
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PsychicMigration
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DIRTYBUBBLEActually upon further reflection I agree with this statement.

Vail sucks ass
Breck is insanely crowded and flooded with yellow jackets
Keystone's park is on point but barely anything else is open
Abasin is fucking awesome though. Skied there last Wednesday and had my best day all season.


Terrain status too man breck had like 20 trails. Jay is fully open and getting dumped on, same with Stowe definitely not worth the money to go west. Below vail - 45in season total then jay -131in
Dec 25 2017 10:45PM
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.spaghetticat.
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Currently in Vail now and theres still barely anything open, brown spots everywhere and they don't even have anything close to a park. That being said, it's still significantly more fun than the where I ski in the south east and I took a day trip to keystone the other day which was dope.
Jan 2 2018 10:45AM
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Park_Ranger
Posts: 3825 - Karma: 8,635
DIRTYBUBBLEBreck is insanely crowded and flooded with yellow jackets


It's wild to see how shitty Breck is these days. It used to be a pretty dope spot... now it is basically Disneyland.
Jan 2 2018 11:15AM
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big_tent
Posts: 174 - Karma: 320
Honestly if you want pow rn fly out to Michigan and ski at boho. They have like 200 inches on the year and are just getting fuckin nuked currently. Crazy conditions out there right now.
Jan 2 2018 11:56AM
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theabortionator
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I don't think vail has a park yet.
Jan 3 2018 3:15AM
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T.L.
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theabortionatorI don't think vail has a park yet.


They do not. Come to the BEAV everyone!!!
Jan 3 2018 10:38AM
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KravtZ
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All the resorts in the area right now are absolutely horrible. I have the full epic but have only been skiing A basin for the most part. Skied vail on the pow day last week and it sucked. A basin by far has the most fun terrain and best quality snow. Key's park is pretty dope though right now.
Jan 3 2018 4:59PM
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PacificRimJob
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Bail on vail
Jan 3 2018 8:38PM
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avarda
Posts: 60 - Karma: 215
Got into Breck today from Banff (where it was -25 to -33 degree (c) over the past week.

I was honestly without words. The highest mountains in the breck area had really no snow. I ended up going out for an hour or two and it was honestly just dreadful. Ended up walking around town with a t shirt and shorts with no issue..... Can we really debate global warming at this point....

Pretty pissed that we left Banff where it has been awesome for this. (planned the trip months ago so couldn't do much.

Anyone got any recent first hand experience of conditions at A Basin or Keystone? surely they must be better then Breck at the moment....

I know a bit of powder is supposed to fall this weekend but TBH at this rate it will pretty much melt by days end.
Jan 3 2018 11:30PM
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