Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
| Messages 1 - 28 of total 28 in this topic |
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 26, 2016 - 07:12am PT
|
I've got nothing but if I lived to ride and could live anywhere well, in the
western US, euro-alps need not apply.
I'm aware of Alta in Utah,& Azzpenn, Whistler/Blackcomb too
where / which is better ? Is it the 'T-ride' (saying that money is no object)
|
|
10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 07:14am PT
|
If money is no problem, the answer is Telluride.
|
|
climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 07:17am PT
|
Money no object? and within the USA .. No question..Alaska with your own helicopter and explosive use permits for avalanche control. Alaska is a great place to live if you have lots of money and are not stuck there when you want to leave for a bit. Not a great place to be broke though.
Plus if money were no object ie you have an extra billion stashed.. you could be like the big wave hunters and follow the best powder days. The whole continent would be your playground..the whole world really.
|
|
crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 07:22am PT
|
Move over a bit to Crested Butte.
|
|
this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 07:22am PT
|
Money no problem, Whistler. Duh. BC is pretty much US territory;-)
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 26, 2016 - 07:38am PT
|
Clim ski 2, ah, that's is true! And I included ,BC
I've was going to Crested Butte when I blew out a knee yrs ago...never made it there.
My favorite, that I've spent more than a week at...
Alta (for some is a top spot?) but if your both boarding & skiing
Short of explosives and a helio...
.any pictures of the steep & Deep?
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 26, 2016 - 09:00am PT
|
That name McNutt!?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
BITD I hung in the Valley with two sisters from Whistler with that last name,
I wonder if this is one of their sons'?Sitting On skiers thighs is Joanna McNutt standing is her older sister, I can't remember her name...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
|
|
steve s
Trad climber
eldo
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 06:17pm PT
|
I would say Crested Butte also , but Aspen would be a close second for a variety of twisted reasons. Then again if money is no object why limit yer self to one place.
|
|
Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 06:22pm PT
|
If I could live anywhere I would not stay in one place. I would travel this whole freaking wonderful world, every darn inch of it. Oh Yeah!!!!!!!!!!! jess sayin', :) lynnie ........and I mean every word!
|
|
Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 08:38pm PT
|
Tupper Lake!!!
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 26, 2016 - 08:58pm PT
|
The Easy Street cottages at Paul smiths is as close as I would live to Tupper lake...
What about
Sun Valley?
Steamboat springs?
Jackson hole?
Estes Park?
For an easy twenty to thirty minutes
from a hot shower and my own personal space.
I'm happy to dream of travel
I have spent time traveling, nonstop,
although not in style so I can imagine the allure of that.
I've always had just enough to go in a style that made more miles possible.
This is because when I was younger I skied the western resorts. But now it seems a far off dream, so we were thinking of a family get together on someone else's dime.
Where would you have a 90yr young sit and watch the grandkids learn to ski?
That is why Trukee, North Star ? Heavenly Squaw?
|
|
#310
Social climber
Telluride, CO
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 12:45pm PT
|
Since I have lived in Telluride forever, I have a biased point of view. If you can live in the Town of Telluride - you can walk to everywhere/everything both cultural and recreation. You can walk to lifts, then hike from the lifts to Upper Bear Creek and ride extreme chutes. The in-bounds skiing/riding is great as well. Of course, you will have to be able to tolerate all the music festivals in the summer.
We are only 2 1/2 hours from the desert, we have ice climbing, year round biking and mountaineering. We are still funky and a real community with the Freebox and some secret long occupied woodsie huts. Ophir is our more rustic suburb. Our super wealthy selected Telluride over Aspen and Vail for its funky quirky nature.
Finding housing at any price point is a totally impossible this year and last year.
Good luck and try Telluride!
|
|
kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 01:01pm PT
|
Valemount, BC
|
|
the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 02:26pm PT
|
What's your preferred type of riding? I like deep snow and steeps. CO has more consistent snow but CA gets bigger dumps.
How important is proximity to rock climbing? Rules out lots of places.
How affordable? Rules out Jackson Hole.
Great places not mentioned: Big Sky. Powder Mountain. Revelstoke. Alyeska.
|
|
the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 02:50pm PT
|
Yeah if money is no object heli skiing in Alaska is where I'd be. At least once the daylight last more than 4 hours...
thinking of a family get together on someone else's dime.
Where would you have a 90yr young sit and watch the grandkids learn to ski?
That is why Trukee, North Star ? Heavenly Squaw?
Tahoe has great "extreme" skiing when the conditions are on. But it can be slushy/icey/rainy at other times. Squaw, Alpine, Sugar Bowl, and Kirkwood have some great expert terrain. Heavenly and Northstar have mostly intermediate runs.
For a family vacation Utah or CO has better chances of good snow (packed powder) than CA, which could be raining or a blizzard, or 10 days in a row of sun.
Revelstoke is a pretty awesome mountain. More vert that whistler/blackcomb. About the same amount of snow as tahoe.
A site with good summaries:
http://www.powderhounds.com/Canada/Revelstoke.aspx
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2016 - 04:15pm PT
|
Moose... moosedrool
Jan 23, 2016
07:55am PST Kirkwood appreciation thread
Heading to Kirkwood right now. They got 14" in 24h. Might be wet, though. Anybody? Hw 88 was as closed yesterday, so I took 50. Man, 7.5h to get to Minden from Fremont. No chain restriction, some rain, so I don't know what the problem was. Over 2h to get from Kyburtz to Strawberry, 10 mil...
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 11, 2016 - 06:31am PT
|
TACKEY SELF BUMPING
HEY DMT
|
|
donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
|
|
|
Feb 11, 2016 - 07:02am PT
|
Ski areas are soul destroying......visit them but don't live there.
|
|
John Mac
Trad climber
Littleton, CO
|
|
|
Feb 11, 2016 - 07:08am PT
|
Move to revelstoke and heliski everyday in the winter and then NZ in the summer to heliski everyday fine day there...
|
|
bit'er ol' guy
climber
the past
|
|
|
Feb 11, 2016 - 09:23am PT
|
Truckee? really? need lots of$$$$$$$ a range rover 2 SUPs a $10,000.00 road bike and a 8,000 sq ft 2nd home to tele commute to your BS tech job. You also need to be an arrogant tool who wants to meddle in local politics for your own self serving purpose which 1s usually to make more $$$$ and turn truckee in to Los Gatoos or Marin so you can feel more at home. The cragging sucks, its broiling hot and crowded all summer. the Local climbers are a bunch of bitter old washed up never beens who hang out ever afternnon at snowshed tanning themselves and lapping the same 4 routes over and over and over and over again. they will also chop any bolts that didn't get the approval of the "committee" then ask you to donate $$$ to save the crag. Come on up, there's now TWO 2 coffee bars, 8 cross-fit studios and the most expensive safeway in the world. truckee love myass
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2016 - 08:37am PT
|
bit'er ol' guy - That is a fine and true post(see boxed quote)
[Click to View YouTube Video] thnx for this Truckee? really? need lots of$$$$$$$ a range rover 2 SUPs a $10,000.00 road bike and a 8,000 sq ft 2nd home to tele commute to your BS tech job. You also need to be an arrogant tool who wants to meddle in local politics for your own self serving purpose which 1s usually to make more $$$$ and turn truckee in to Los Gatoos or Marin so you can feel more at home. The cragging sucks, its broiling hot and crowded all summer. the Local climbers are a bunch of bitter old washed up never beens who hang out ever afternnon at snowshed tanning themselves and lapping the same 4 routes over and over and over and over again. they will also chop any bolts that didn't get the approval of the "committee" then ask you to donate $$$ to save the crag. Come on up, there's now TWO 2 coffee bars, 8 cross-fit studios and the most expensive safeway in the world. truckee love myass
[Click to View YouTube Video]
|
|
Yeti
Trad climber
Ketchum, Idaho
|
|
|
Feb 20, 2016 - 01:50pm PT
|
Donini: A mutual friend of ours once commented that "Aspen has no soul." He was, of course, as out to lunch with his observation as you are with yours about ski resorts. I told him that I knew many long-time Aspenites with souls as deep, strong, nutritious and, you know, alive as any. Aspen and every ski resort town I know (and I know a lot of them) has soul for those with the eyes and soul to see. I've lived in ski resorts for much of my life and still do. So far as I can tell my soul, along with those of my soulful ski town friends, is doing just fine, but, yes, ski town living is not for the lily-livered, weak spirited, physically impaired, thin-skinned or easily tempted. It takes soul to survive in a ski town. With respect, admiration, friendship and a well-known obscene gesture......Yeti
|
|
rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
|
|
|
Feb 20, 2016 - 02:03pm PT
|
Heard about a guy named Poncho that grew up on The Mountain , moved to BC , and avoids that Mountain because it is a holy place now desecrated...
|
|
Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
|
|
|
Feb 20, 2016 - 02:33pm PT
|
Telluride is too bumped out
Move even further east from Crested Butt to Wolf Creek
Summit County is da sheet, though
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2016 - 03:35pm PT
|
I had been to Crested Butte twice . The 2nd time, at New Years, I plunked down a deposit ,with plans to move there in March. 1992.
The women who is now da wife had only the basic hint of this plan. She really says she had no clue. Then I took her top rope ice climbing slipped down a slope and was fine until I stood up, the right 'pon was welded into a tree root & popped my ACL...
I had connections in NYC, and she , a good job. Ever after I've regretted that we didn't
Just go for it?
Anyhow, melt water through the town at the foot of Squaw Valley, at this point
Anyone picture that bridge?
|
|
ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
|
|
|
Feb 20, 2016 - 04:41pm PT
|
first person: "This thread!"
second person: "I know ... right?!"
|
|
steve s
Trad climber
eldo
|
|
|
Feb 21, 2016 - 06:38pm PT
|
Lived in a ski area for 5 years in the early 90's ( crested butte ) . Have also spent a lot of time in Aspen over the years ( imported worker). Time well spent and any thing but " soul destroying". If anything living in a ski town makes you a ripping good skier, on piste and off! Also makes one appreciate all the seasons.
|
|
| Messages 1 - 28 of total 28 in this topic |
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!