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The floor is open for nominations.
COlorado as a nominee?!?
Day 1 wolf creek day 2 Telluride Day 3 Crested butte Day 4 Steamboat day5 Aspen Highlands day 6 Snowmass Day 7 Beaver creek day 8 a basin Day 9 car repair....
too spread out, summits work cuz tey are consolodaedish SLC, Tahoe, etc Suggest: Summit County or Aspen.
My nominees are Jackson/Targhee ( gotta get me there somehow)
Or ASpen area ( 3 sick resorts 1 insane park endless BC options)
Jackson. There should be no question.
I agree w/Woodsy's comments. For those reasons SLC/Tahoe are always gonna be the best sites for the most maggots (not to mention having the most locals), but I'd vote for a Jackson/Targhee+ option next year and maybe keep permanent minis in the other locations...
I'd like to nominate Ohio as the destination for the 2005 Summit.
I was hoping someone would be more specific on their suggestions - I planned to update the poll based on that. After posting I now find that only moderators can update, so...
Ignore this thread.
I will go back to my cubicle now.
Brett and I would like to nominate E.Vail for its radness and sickety sick terrain!
Well, since we just had the 2nd annual Utah Mini and the year before it was the first Summit , the UTAH MINI 2005 will happen again. Same place, around the same time, different mountains??Quote:
Originally posted by shamrockpow
I agree w/Woodsy's comments. For those reasons SLC/Tahoe are always gonna be the best sites for the most maggots (not to mention having the most locals), but I'd vote for a Jackson/Targhee+ option next year and maybe keep permanent minis in the other locations...
I voted for Jackson/Targhee option!!
is there a plan for south america or hood meetup this summer?
1) Whistler-Blackcomb can be sickety-sick. And the party scene doesn't suck......
2) otherwise, Da Hole seems like a logical one.
3) What about Big Sky? is there a town we can ransack nearby?
Im sure there will be, but considering the SUMMIT is happening as we are typing away, this info will rear its pretty head.Quote:
Originally posted by snorkeldeep
is there a plan for south america or hood meetup this summer?
I plan on being at Hood this summer with my wife for the July Hood summit. I hope you all join us. :D
South America is out of my league. I got a wife that wants to go on a cruise at some point. If we got to SA sometime, it won't be a ski thing. :(
Stay in Bozeman, hit up bridger then too.Quote:
Originally posted by jdabasin
3) What about Big Sky? is there a town we can ransack nearby?
For me it is not so much where as when. If I stay in my same job and so far it looks that way, I have a very small window of opportunity to be able to make a summit. For example I could not make this years because break wa the week before the summit.
I don't know about Whistler, Jackson, or Colorado for the main Summit. The current Summit is going on for two weeks, and one of the reasons it works is because of all the different resorts. One resort for two weeks, even if it is sicko terrain, would get monotonous. Like others said, Utah and Tahoe are perfect for the big Summit because of their accessibility and diversity of terrain.
I'm all for keeping the Summit in either Tahoe or Utah until someone comes up with a more ideal situation. I think we should just have a bunch of Minis other places, i.e. a Jackson Mini, a PNW Mini, a Colorado Mini, maybe a Canadaian Rockies mini...
Choice 1: SW CO: Telluride-Silverton-Taos.
'Cause that's where I'll likely be about this time next year.
Choice 2: Puget Sound
'Cause that it's easier to get there from here.
Yes, please continue to ignore the fact that there are 4 great ski areas with 4 hours of each other in the PNW: Crustal, Alpental, Stevens, Baker. Oh yeah, don't forget White Pass.
That's one of my top 2 choices with a few days to slip up to Whistler as well.Quote:
Originally posted by Buster Highmen
Yes, please continue to ignore the fact that there are 4 great ski areas with 4 hours of each other in the PNW: Crustal, Alpental, Stevens, Baker. Oh yeah, don't forget White Pass.
Bozeman > Bridger and Big Sky with side trips to various other podunk and resorts
Redlodge
Discovery
Showdown
Lost Trail
Milwaukee - definately Milwaukee.
As long as we're diverging inharmonically, I'd put one in for the MT tour, one I've done many times:
Montana Snow Bowl, Lost Trail, Discovery, Bridger Bowl, Moonlight.
Well, OK, I used to hit pig sty and I've never been to Moonlight, but I'd like to check it out.
I forget what the longest time between these were (Disco to Bozemania?) ... about 2 1/2 hours?
PNW - There is also Mission.
Up to the North we have Whistler and a whole bunch of little areas that either rock or suck. Add the backcountry, which doesn't suck...
That said, I would still be strong on a Jackson thing as I haven't been there yet.
Down sides: Little maggot presence to pave the way, prepare the locals and arrange parties, etc; and as noted fewer resorts to invade. Jackson/Targhee/Big Sky/Moonlight/Backcountry is certainly doable, and there are MT maggs too.
Nobody's ignoring the PNW Buster, the fact just is that Utah has a lot more mountain's than that within an hour of the airport and pretty much the same story in Tahoe. Also, most people would want to go to both the WA areas and Whistler if the summit were a similar length to the last couple of years. Not that it takes you out of the running. I love the PNW, but Crystal to Whistler is what? 7 hours? More? Not exactly the same as skiing Squaw by day and partying in South Lake by night. A lot of the people fly into the summit from far away and don't want to/can't spend so much of their time driving around...
tons of BC stuff everywhere tooQuote:
Originally posted by FreakofSnow
Bozeman > Bridger and Big Sky with side trips to various other podunk and resorts
Redlodge
Discovery
Showdown
Lost Trail
upsides:Quote:
Originally posted by grrrr
Down sides: Little maggot presence to pave the way, prepare the locals and arrange parties, etc; and as noted fewer resorts to invade. Jackson/Targhee/Big Sky/Moonlight/Backcountry is certainly doable, and there are MT maggs too.
fewer people
best blower snow around
tons of backcountry
did i say fewer people?
Nelson?
I think this would be cool. How far between Taos and the CO places?Quote:
Originally posted by Buster Highmen
Choice 1: SW CO: Telluride-Silverton-Taos.
my votes for jackson /targhee
bridger is a blast but Big Lie has problems
the colorado thing would be cool...a few days split between
wolf creek, silverton, telluride,crusty butte, purg,
most of time at wolf creek and silverton.
stay in southwest not as much driving.
airport and beer in durango.
they got beds there too.
3 hours from Taos to Silverton.
And regarding the PNW being a bit more spread out, well, OK, it is. But it might be considered.
IF I had to choose I would vote CO or UT just because of proximity and variation of multiple areas.
Silverton might not be a great idea unless they get their unguided access permit thingy. Could you see a horde of maggots skiing behind a guide and stopping every few hundred yards and not being allowed to chuk themselves off of just about anything in site?
This is an unrealistic snapshot of the place. Try to be fair and evaluate it firsthand.Quote:
Originally posted by Vinman
Silverton might not be a great idea unless they get their unguided access permit thingy. Could you see a horde of maggots skiing behind a guide and stopping every few hundred yards and not being allowed to chuk themselves off of just about anything in site?
I am way into the San Juans idea also. Silverton, Telluride and Taos with plenty of BC options would be an ideal summit IMO.
Jackson is also a winner.
Buster I was not trying to be unfair to Silverton. I can only go on what I have read on the boards here as I have never been there. And by the reputation of the maggots when they get toghther in mass. I guess that makes me unqualified to actually make the statement that I did. I personally would love to go to Silverton and would have no problem following a guide around for the first day. But if I were to go there for multiple days I would want a bit more freedom to explore
We did that last year. I seem to remember somebody missing. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by iceman
Nelson?
Yeah, that's why I suggested it again (hence the question mark). I really want to get back there.
tahoe? [/iceman]
Jackson/Targhee would be incredible, and its only like 4 hours to bozeman and 4 hours to slc right? thats very doable.
I say:
1. Whistler. My buddy here has a family member that is involved with Heli, and cat skiing operations there.
2. Banff, Sunshine Village, Lake Louise, Kicking Horse, Revelstoke
3. Aspen
4. Jackson/Targhee.
ummm, can I offer a really out there suggestion? What about having a Summit on the East coast? We could center it around burlington where Jay, Smugglers, Stowe, MRG, and Sugarbush are all within easy drives. I realize that this will never happen because a. not enough maggots live out here to make it convenient, and b. all the Utah/Tahoe maggots would never be able to ski anything out east because skiing pow every day makes you guys a bunch of cream puffs:p ;)
Ya know Laser you do have a point. Doesn't seem fair that summits can only be held on the west coast.Quote:
Originally posted by laseranimal
ummm, can I offer a really out there suggestion? What about having a Summit on the East coast? We could center it around burlington where Jay, Smugglers, Stowe, MRG, and Sugarbush are all within easy drives. I realize that this will never happen because a. not enough maggots live out here to make it convenient, and b. all the Utah/Tahoe maggots would never be able to ski anything out east because skiing pow every day makes you guys a bunch of cream puffs:p ;)
agreed, the EC gets no love. It'll never happen though, even though those mountains are awesome.Quote:
Originally posted by TJ.Brk
Ya know Laser you do have a point. Doesn't seem fair that summits can only be held on the west coast.