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Beaver Creek hosts a world cup every year and the mountain is still quite skiable. So doing Garmisch during that time would be no problem is my guess
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And 30 minutes up the street you can go up the Zugspitze and ski on the glacier when I was there it was like completely empty
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My main concern is lodging - Airbnb and Hotels.com aren’t looking great for then at St Anton, Zermatt or Verbier. Val Thorens is looking a bit better, but it’s also a bit more of a gently caress to get to from where we are (no directs to GVA and still need a bus transfer from GVA)
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Oh boy the ski company is hosting a town hall about the housing initiative tomorrow, with booze. Should be quite the event.
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Hello snow thread! I will be in Denver, CO in early November for just over a week, with a wide open schedule for any kind of fun that we can't get in Florida. Are there any skiing spots within a 1-day driving distance of Denver that might have snow this early in the year?
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Unsinkabear posted:Hello snow thread! I will be in Denver, CO in early November for just over a week, with a wide open schedule for any kind of fun that we can't get in Florida. Are there any skiing spots within a 1-day driving distance of Denver that might have snow this early in the year? All of them? From Denver it's like an hour and a half to the Summit where you can access like 6 resorts. Stay in Dillon or Frisco or Silverthorne, ski Breckenridge or Arapahoe Basin or Copper Mountain or Vail or Beaver Creek or Keystone or Loveland kiimo fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Oct 6, 2021 17:41
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kiimo posted:All of them? gently caress me, okay. Uhhh... any recommendation on which will be more fun for beginners and/or less crowded, or should I just roll the dice using the time-tested "gently caress it, pick the second cheapest"? Thank you for the breakdown, that is hugely helpful
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People in this thread love the poo poo out of Loveland although I haven't been. It's east of the Eisenhower tunnel and the closest to Denver but because of that it's also just east of the continental divide and gets less snow generally or at least from my experience early in the season. Once you go through the tunnel the weather is often completely different. I'd say avoid Arapahoe if you have beginners, even though it is less crowded it's also hard. For beginners I don't think you can go wrong with Breck. I haven't skied Colorado in two decades though, others might have more contemporary opinions. There used to be a Summit Pass that you buy and you can ski any of the areas you want so if you aren't feeling one you can just go to the next. I am not sure about these days though after Vail took over the world.
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kiimo posted:All of them? Are any ski resorts going to have enough snow in a month? edit: https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/colorado/post/23038 
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I enjoyed Beaver Creek and there is definitely beginner friendly terrain there. It is less crowded than Vail or Breck, ut a further drive. I would look into a 1 or 2 day epic pass or iKon pass somewhat soon, as I think you can only buy them before the season.
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Yeah poo poo early November you might be poo poo out of luck on actually skiing. Still worth it to visit though if even to just be in town and take a gondola up and down. If that is the case Vail and Breckenridge are your targets for Après Without Skis edit: I guess I didn't mention Winter Park because I don't ever think about it. You can actually take a train directly to Winter Park from the Denver airport. Obviously it is faster to drive but I bet that train ride is worth it kiimo fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Do any of the resorts have an intertube hill? That might be an option too.
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Unsinkabear posted:Hello snow thread! I will be in Denver, CO in early November for just over a week, with a wide open schedule for any kind of fun that we can't get in Florida. Are there any skiing spots within a 1-day driving distance of Denver that might have snow this early in the year? A-basin, Keystone, and Loveland MIGHT have a run open. It will not be worth going though. There will be no beginner runs open/they will be very crowded. the best bet is Keystone as they open the one big green run fist now but it would have to be a weekday. it still would probably not be worth the cost. You are better off just going to a state or national park or just a drive imo. IncredibleIgloo posted:Do any of the resorts have an intertube hill? That might be an option too. These are typically targeted to open mid December for the holiday period.
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spwrozek posted:A-basin, Keystone, and Loveland MIGHT have a run open. It will not be worth going though. There will be no beginner runs open/they will be very crowded. the best bet is Keystone as they open the one big green run fist now but it would have to be a weekday. it still would probably not be worth the cost. You are better off just going to a state or national park or just a drive imo. If Loveland still does WROD down Mambo that's beginnerish. But it'll be 40' wide with people shoulder to shoulder, so nevermind you're right.
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Are things usually more decent by Thanksgiving? Trying to figure out if it's worth it for my sister to bring her stuff for a day out on Friday/Saturday.
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I have very fond memories of the Copper WROD being 95% ski racers while patrol desperately tried to stop us all from skiing fast. Then a Japanese girl skied into me lol but we were both fine. And we had to slip a snowboard racing course to get to our lane when we finally got space. Honestly a great trip for the memories alone even if the skiing was not fantastic.
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Residency Evil posted:Are things usually more decent by Thanksgiving? Trying to figure out if it's worth it for my sister to bring her stuff for a day out on Friday/Saturday. Impossible to forecast. Sometimes Thanksgiving has great conditions, other times it's still essentially wrod. We'll know more by early Nov
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 In the back by the bar with my fingers crossed they announce they’re selling the resort. But not to Vail.
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Ski areas in the Rockies usually open just after Thanksgiving at the earliest.
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I remember going to Park City and getting some moderate skiing in over Thanksgiving. The week after we left it snowed two feet.
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Residency Evil posted:Are things usually more decent by Thanksgiving? Trying to figure out if it's worth it for my sister to bring her stuff for a day out on Friday/Saturday. Just depends. I have been here 10 years and have been able to ski before TG every year. 2 years were pretty good conditions at TG, 1 year was blower powder and vail couldn't open terrain fast enough. wilfredmerriweathr posted:Ski areas in the Rockies usually open just after Thanksgiving at the earliest. I would say this is generally incorrect for Colorado. Every resort will have something open by TG day baring an insane heatwave. If it is worth paying to go is a whole other story though.
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Yeah the story I told above about WROD was during the first week if November IIRC and then halfway through our ten days there we got two feet of powder during the day and Mr Hookshot almost died trying to pick me up.
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November in CO has decent skiing one out of every 5ish years.
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Steve French posted:They look sillier with bindings mounted Ok, I usually only slap on skis once a year for closing weekend, but these may change that. How the hell do I get a pair?
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Was just looking at those new union approach skis and it looks like what you’ve got would be great to mount splitboard bindings on.
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It snowed a bunch in Mammoth yesterday. It's coming. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUz6_x6J-Ua/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Moey posted:Ok, I usually only slap on skis once a year for closing weekend, but these may change that. Probably best bet is to sign up to be notified when they’re available. I jumped on it without thinking last time they made a run. https://www.momentskis.com/products/frankenblade Moot .1415926535 posted:Was just looking at those new union approach skis and it looks like what you’ve got would be great to mount splitboard bindings on. That’s interesting; I hadn’t seen those before. That said, I imagine these would be too narrow for that at 99mm; those approach skis are like 150mm and split board bindings and snowboard boots are similarly wide. Not a lot of surface area for skin grip either. Might be okay for mellower climbs without much side slope.
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Yeah you’re right. I am curious about the approach ski idea though. If I could find some 110 ski blades I could get my karakoram quiver bases on them I bet.
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Steve French posted:They look sillier with bindings mounted Tiny skis with normal sized feet or regular skis with ginormous feet
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So, powdrcorp is turning their resorts into Disneyland. 'Resort operator Powdr is launching dedicated fast-access lanes at four of its mountain resorts this season: Copper Mountain in Colorado, Killington in Vermont, Mt. Bachelor in Oregon and Snowbird in Utah. To access the lanes, which will be located at the most popular lifts at each mountain resort, guests will need to purchase a daily Fast Tracks pass. They will start at $49 a day, but have dynamic pricing based on the mountain, peak periods, holidays and day of the week, and go on sale Nov. 1.' Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/skiing-snowboarding-resort-rules-11633705877
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gently caress you powdr.
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I remember that Mammoth in the pre-Ikon era had some super expensive season pass that let you use the ski school lanes https://twitter.com/NWSWPC/status/1...ingawful.com%2F
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Ugh no more grad school or quarantine so I grabbed new everything this year and am ready to toss my Avalanche D63 into the car and go! Hoping travel options overseas are open as well, I need to renew the frequent travelers pass in prep. Couldn't find a lime green jacket so I went with safety orange instead and a 156 NS Harpoon which will be the shortest board I've ridden in over a decade.
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:So, powdrcorp is turning their resorts into Disneyland. Copying what Northstar does (or did?) with their Platinum Pass i guess?
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luminalflux posted:Copying what Northstar does (or did?) with their Platinum Pass i guess? No they’re definitely modeling off the mount Bohemia gold pass a thing that only exists because they sell so many $100 season passes a year the place is an unbearable shitshow when it snows
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Some years back I remember hearing about this shop in BC which does full custom boots by frankensteining different components together. Expensive, but rave reviews. Anyone know where this is? I think they were out in the Kootenays or something but google is failing me unless Covid shut them down for good.
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Rime posted:Some years back I remember hearing about this shop in BC which does full custom boots by frankensteining different components together. Expensive, but rave reviews. Dunno about BC but in SLC there’s Daleboots, where basically they have a bunch of molds for various pieces in various sizes and they figure out which sizes to use for your feet. They work with fitters in a few places outside of SLC but afaik they’re all manufactured in SLC. I have them and love them, but I wouldn’t have bothered if my local fitter (who’s generally considered quite good) hadn’t basically thrown up their hands and said “can’t make this work for you bc of your feet” to the point that they fully refunded my boots. So unless you have really weird feet, it’s probably not worth doing.
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Kalman posted:Dunno about BC but in SLC there’s Daleboots, where basically they have a bunch of molds for various pieces in various sizes and they figure out which sizes to use for your feet. They work with fitters in a few places outside of SLC but afaik they’re all manufactured in SLC. I have really weird feet, very high arches and very narrow heels and I'm done messing around with production boots which cut off my toes and still leave me with heel lift.  I think the place I'm thinking of might have been All In, in Fernie, but their website is broken AF so I'm not sure.
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The Glumslinger posted:I remember that Mammoth in the pre-Ikon era had some super expensive season pass that let you use the ski school lanes That's the interesting part. Snowbird already has this, called base camp and seven summits. You pay a bunch of money for a second yearly pass on top of your season pass and get to use the ski school lane. What sets this apart is that this is allowing anybody to get the same benefit for a much smaller daily fee, so any Joe schmo can access what has usually cost thousands of dollars a year. Gonna be interesting in the lift lines this season.
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