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    VAIL SUCKS

    Long time Sno-time skier/rider here from the Wash DC area. I'm kinda on the fence about renewing my Epic pass but probably will because I can justify getting my money's worth out of it between a combo of local hill days and trips to either CO and/or maybe NE. Due to covid I just got the...
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    VAIL SUCKS

    Vail NE pass holder here. Not posting to rant about VR, I'm just glad I could get a pass at all that I could get enough days on to get a good value from on my local hills during a covid winter. I'm in the DC area so my local hills are the former sno time resorts, mainly Whitetail and Roundtop...
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    SB, MRG & Smuggs next week

    Thanks for all the replies. I mainly wanted to get an idea of how bad the crowds would likely be after the holiday weekend and from most replies it sounds like it shouldn't be that bad. I haven't finalized my lodging but will probably Airbnb it somewhere around Waterbury. I'm ruling out Stowe...
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    SB, MRG & Smuggs next week

    I live in the DC area and have MC this year. I knew I was going to get a window to cut out of work and get some skiing days from next Wed through the weekend so the options I considered were catching a flight to Denver and hitting A-Basin or fly or drive to SB. I love AB but I've done it many...
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    Vail Meet your Match: Alterra

    Without the Aspen resorts I don't think VR will have met their match.
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    2 days in colorado, where to hit?

    Winter Park will have the most snow and open terrain. I've never been but have heard it isn't a great mountain for snowboarding.
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    Long time skier who wants to try Snowboarding

    Plus you have the skiers body to help break your fall when you wipe out on a snowboard.
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    Catskills trip advice

    Thanks for all the replies. Windham out Belleayre in, watch out for the farmer when skiing off trail at Platty.
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    Catskills trip advice

    I live in the NoVa/DC suburbs and a typical year consists of mostly daytrips to the local Snowtime resorts (Whitetail, Liberty, Roundtop) and a weeklong or longer if possible trip west. During the 12/13 and 13/14 seasons I managed to get in long weekend trips with the wife and kids to...
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    Long time skier who wants to try Snowboarding

    ^^^ This. I went from skiing to snowboarding when I was about 40 and I don't think I could do it if I started learning today some 10 years later. Once you get to the point where you can stand up on a snowboard you start the snowboard equivalent of the snowplow where you face downhill with your...
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    Killington discount tickets?

    Nobodys mentioned liftopia, not cheap but an improvement on the window rate https://www.liftopia.com/killington/killington-1-day-lift-tickets
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    Does Mad River Scare You a Little? NO!

    I would have just smiled at the guy and said, "MRG, poach it if you can".
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    Does Mad River Scare You a Little? NO!

    I ski and snowboard so maybe I could check "other" and write in "bi-boardinal". I skied Deer Valley and Alta way back in the day before snowboarding was allowed anywhere. I'm firmly in the "meh" camp for those resorts that continue to ban snowboarding. I could never go back to either of...
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    Does Mad River Scare You a Little? NO!

    Well I guess this shows my ignorance of MRG, I used the think the "ski it if you can" slogan was taken literally, as in we're so old school we don't even make snow here so we may not be open, rather than a challenge to a skiers ability to ski it.
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    Ski Season Grade

    The season's over for me, my kids spring sports seasons are under way and even if I wanted to go it's a long drive to any place that's still open. Although I wish I would have gotten more days in than the dozen I got I'd have to give this season an A. Although the west didn't get a lot of snow...
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    What's your favorite Ski movie

    You won't miss much if you don't find it. Just a 80's big hair wannabe starlet in lingerie. From what I remember it was probably more of the suggestive language that warranted the censorship of a young DHS's parents.
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    What's your favorite Ski movie

    Lol, if they had just placed more emphasis on the "snow" and less on the "ball'n" they might have gotten a theatrical release. I've since resolved to chose my projects more wisely with my remaining 14:58.
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    What's your favorite Ski movie

    I made an uncredited (mercifully) don't blink appearance in a straight to video movie I'm sure nobody here has heard of called "Snowballin." During the filming they were using a working title so when Hot Dog first came out I thought that was our movie but soon found out otherwise. Years after...
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    How far would you drive solo to ski/board?

    A couple of years ago I drove all night for 8 1/2 hours from DC to Killington with my teenage daughter after our flight to Albany was cancelled. I could hear my daughter on her cell phone saying to my wife while we were still in the airport, "don't try to talk him out of it." When I eventually...
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    Old school guy looking for ski suggestions

    I thought I would come back to this thread I started to share my impressions of my first year on modern ski gear so the next person who comes along next summer looking to get back into skiing after a long hiatus has an idea of how it may turn out. I'll probably get one or two more days in this...
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