Re: XMas to New Year, where to ski out west? Least crowded areas?

pigo wrote:
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> "The Real Bev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > AstroPax wrote:
> > >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > >Short description please?  Off-camber straight-across-the-hill with
> > > >switchbacks, or something completely different?
> > >
> > > Just take a look at The Canyons published trail map.
> > >
> > > What a complete mess.
> >
> > It looks, um, complex and fragmented.  Do you have to spend more than
> > twice as much time on the lifts as on the slopes?  I've only been to
> > the local places, so a REAL place looks like something completely
> > different no matter how good or bad it is.
> 
> Picture how a typical mountain ridge looks. Up to a point from the
> inclining sides. Maybe a foot or so when you come up one side before you
> start to decend the other side. Now imagine a bulldozer plowing off
> about 20 feet in elevation and making a "run". Now imagine the wind
> blowing across it and taking off all the snow. You'll start to get the
> idea.

That's not only awful, it's scary.  There used to be an informal MC
hillclimb in Hungry Valley shaped like that.  You'r fighting to get to
the top, just make it, and immediately you're accelerating off a
100-foot cliff if nobody told you about it in advance.  No, I never made
it, but my son did.
 
> Then figure in that they are the most in the rain shadow of any of the
> resorts in the area. Waaaaay less snow. Snowboarder friendly, so what
> snow there is is quickly smashed into nothing or scraped to the bottom.
> It's high on the ignorant wigger scale too. I don't think there are
> enough electrons to go into every aspect of how badly it sucks. But you
> get the idea.

Yes, entirely sufficient.  And it's not like it's the only crap game in
town...

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Cheers,
Bev 
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