Re: Advice? Mt. Bachelor, Mt. Baker, Big Sky or Aleyska? DEC.

go anywhere but baker, don't want to get caught in a blizzard!


"Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Mount Bachelor and Mount Baker are your best options.  The upper lifts at
> Timberline and Meadows are more likely to be closed than Mt. Bachelor
> bringing the advertised vertical down quite a bit.  You can't make it to
> snow cat land without a lot of hiking when Cascade express and Palmer are
> closed (high lifts at Meadows and Timberline respectively).  Mt. Baker has
> much better bowls and powder than anywhere that I now about (world record
> snowfall was there) but has a slow lift system (no high speed quads as all
> the lifts and everything else in the area are diesel powered perhaps
adding
> to its beauty and lack of commercialization).
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> Mount Bachelor will have few lines, faster lifts and more vertical per
> minute spent at the resort than possibly anywhere in the US.  There is
also
> great freeriding on the back of the mountain which offers great back
country
> riding when not icy and the Summit lift is open.  Otherwise the Northwest
> Express takes you up over 2,200 vertical feet without having to get off
and
> go to another lift.
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> If you must go to Hood than go to meadows but I say Bachelor lots of
riding,
> Baker for powder and steeps and Hood for metro area accessibility.
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