Do uncrowded powder resorts still exist in North America?

**toastybroski** · 01-03-2023, 01:09 PM

Is the McCall-cascade valley already blown out? Just looked at it on some maps and it seemed promising. Lakes and skiing and mountains.

**MarsB** · 01-03-2023, 01:18 PM

Check the housing prices on Zillow and you shall have your answer.

**cragginshred** · 01-03-2023, 01:25 PM

Fwd to 52 seconds to see Zero crowds while laying trenches skiing fast GS turns!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuMzcRz6Ef8

**toastybroski** · 01-03-2023, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by MarsB

Check the housing prices on Zillow and you shall have your answer.

Hah, I like the house that went from 1.1 to 3.5 mil in 2 years and hasn’t been updated since the 70s. WOW.

I give up. I can’t fathom how people have so much money. I even make a decent amount of money and anything over 400k just seems insane. It really sucks that my wife likes water shit and I like skiing. It’s literally impossible to find somewhere affordable with both.

**skaredshtles** · 01-03-2023, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by toastybroski

<snip> It really sucks that my wife likes water shit and I like skiing. It’s literally impossible to find somewhere affordable with both.

Italy?

**toastybroski** · 01-03-2023, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by skaredshtles

Italy?

Isn’t moving to the EU crazy difficult? Canada is fucking hard. New Zealand is impossible.

Vancouver island looks nice

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 01-03-2023, 02:52 PM

My friends just moved to the Flathead valley and live in a gated community with a private water ski lake. Maybe look there

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**skaredshtles** · 01-03-2023, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by toastybroski

Isn’t moving to the EU crazy difficult? Canada is fucking hard. New Zealand is impossible.

Hey man... nothing worth doing is easy.

**toastybroski** · 01-03-2023, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn

My friends just moved to the Flathead valley and live in a gated community with a private water ski lake. Maybe look there

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Sounds humble and achievable.

**spudbumkin** · 01-03-2023, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by cragginshred

Fwd to 52 seconds to see Zero crowds while laying trenches skiing fast GS turns!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuMzcRz6Ef8

At Discovery?

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 01-03-2023, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by toastybroski

Sounds humble and achievable.

They’re both ski industry sales people, just normal people [emoji849]

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**t.odd** · 01-03-2023, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by toastybroski

Vancouver island looks nice

**altasnob** · 01-03-2023, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn

They’re both ski industry sales people, just normal people [emoji849]

Totally normal people, per the Unicorn:

https://www.rosewaterski.com/home

lots go for 400k, homes for 1 mil. Don't forget the HOA dues.

https://www.redfin.com/MT/Creston/18...home/168398018

https://www.redfin.com/MT/Creston/30...home/173085712

Montana's median household income is 60k a year. This is where those regular folks live right? In gated water ski communities outside of major ski areas.

**OJ204** · 01-03-2023, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by MarsB

Check the housing prices on Zillow and you shall have your answer.

I can't even afford to check the houses on Zillow. Need to cut back on those $$$ avocado toasts.

**toastybroski** · 01-03-2023, 04:04 PM

I have no right to complain. I live somewhere awesome! I just get my quarterly depression from checking Zillow every few months. I can’t imagine how easy it must have been back in the day to get a small place in an up and coming mountain town (like a small town called aspen) and then make millions of dollars doing nothing except owning property. Growing up everyone’s families had small cabins all over the place through Vermont and New Hampshire since they got them 500 years ago.

Fuck it would be nice. I have also never lived in a proper ski town so I’m not even sure if it’s my jam. I’d love to try it out.

If anyone wants to house swap for a winter to Helena let me know. My wife and I are finally on the fully remote bandwagon (I guess we’re the assholes)

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 01-03-2023, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by altasnob

Totally normal people, per the Unicorn:

https://www.rosewaterski.com/home

lots go for 400k, homes for 1 mil. Don't forget the HOA dues.

https://www.redfin.com/MT/Creston/18...home/168398018

https://www.redfin.com/MT/Creston/30...home/173085712

Montana's median household income is 60k a year. This is where those regular folks live right? In gated water ski communities outside of major ski areas.

I guess you didn’t see the eye roll emoji dickhead

You’re such a self righteous asshole.

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**singlesline** · 01-03-2023, 04:09 PM

Unless you are truly obsessed with waterskiing (and waterskiing only) I can't imagine wanting to live there.

Bland flat location with no trees, expensive, and you get to wake up every morning to the sound of loud boats (and probably music too). HOA dues on those listings ($100/mo) can't be anywhere close to right as that must cost $$$ to maintain. Oh yeah, and you're right in the flight path of the airport too.

Not surprised most of the lots aren't built out...

**yippeekiyayMF** · 01-03-2023, 04:25 PM

There is literally a place called Power Mountain...and they have real estate - https://www.powdermountainre.com/hom...310/134619453/

**raisingarizona13** · 01-03-2023, 04:25 PM

Why would anyone obsessed with water skiing move to Montana? That doesn't make any sense to me.

**skaredshtles** · 01-03-2023, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

Why would anyone obsessed with water skiing move to Montana? That doesn't make any sense to me.

Water skiers are weird, man... really weird. Don't ask why.

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 01-03-2023, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by singlesline

Unless you are truly obsessed with waterskiing (and waterskiing only) I can't imagine wanting to live there.

Bland flat location with no trees, expensive, and you get to wake up every morning to the sound of loud boats (and probably music too). HOA dues on those listings ($100/mo) can't be anywhere close to right as that must cost $$$ to maintain. Oh yeah, and you're right in the flight path of the airport too.

Not surprised most of the lots aren't built out...

It’s not my thing at all, it was a post made in jest

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**MagnificentUnicorn** · 01-03-2023, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

Why would anyone obsessed with water skiing move to Montana? That doesn't make any sense to me.

I didn’t understand the move either, they moved because of Covid and Freedom

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**The AD** · 01-03-2023, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by cragginshred

Fwd to 52 seconds to see Zero crowds while laying trenches skiing fast GS turns!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuMzcRz6Ef8

Where is it? I'm sold.

**MarsB** · 01-03-2023, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by toastybroski

If anyone wants to house swap for a winter to Helena let me know. My wife and I are finally on the fully remote bandwagon (I guess we’re the assholes)

I love Helena. It's on the short list of the next places to become unaffordable; you've already found it.

**skaredshtles** · 01-03-2023, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by toastybroski

<snip>
If anyone wants to house swap for a winter to Helena let me know. My wife and I are finally on the fully remote bandwagon (I guess we’re the assholes)

Rent it out for 6mo and go to Italy. I'm not kidding. You'll probably want to check with your employers first.