Most western skiing in East

snoloco wrote

The same stuff that one must hike for miles to reach in the east, one can access in the west from a lift.  In fact, western lift served skiing has better snow quality than ec backcountry.

One trip west.

Zero back country experience.

Internet expert.

Take your pick of these options:

1.  Lift served western skiing.

2.  EC backcountry with lots of rocks and downed trees which are waiting to make you crash and/or ruin your skis.  

3.  EC lift served skiing mostly on icy man-made crowded trails and long lift lines.

I rate them 1, 3, and 2 from best to worst.

He's mostly correct tho Billy.

tjf1967 wrote

I've been to a couple places out west and one of the best pow days I have had was in Vermont.

I've skied about 25 days out west -- Utah, Colorado and Montana -- and the best powder day I ever had was at JAY PEAK!

He's beginning to sound like PowAss

snoloco wrote

Take your pick of these options:

1.  Lift served western skiing.

2.  EC backcountry with lots of rocks and downed trees which are waiting to make you crash and/or ruin your skis.  

3.  EC lift served skiing mostly on icy man-made crowded trails and long lift lines.

I rate them 1, 3, and 2 from best to worst.

Are these my only choices?

snoloco wrote

Take your pick of these options:

1.  Lift served western skiing.

2.  EC backcountry with lots of rocks and downed trees which are waiting to make you crash and/or ruin your skis.  

3.  EC lift served skiing mostly on icy man-made crowded trails and long lift lines.

I rate them 1, 3, and 2 from best to worst.

This is sort of like saying - you can have a chocolate cupcake with nice chocolate frosting, or you can have a vanilla cupcake that I found by the dumpster that has a little puke on it.

The narrow limits of your personal experience show in the way you phrased the choices.

billyymc wrote

This is sort of like saying - you can have a chocolate cupcake with nice chocolate frosting, or you can have a vanilla cupcake that I found by the dumpster that has a little puke on it.

LOL.

Or it's like saying do you want to ski at Tahoe last year or Jay Peak on Valentines Day 2007.

Acknowledged that the west is at higher elevation and has many mountains with more snow than the east.

Sno are you going to quit skiing until you move west?

Spongeworthy wrote

tjf1967 wrote

I've been to a couple places out west and one of the best pow days I have had was in Vermont.

I've skied about 25 days out west -- Utah, Colorado and Montana -- and the best powder day I ever had was at JAY PEAK!

I've never skied out west

I've never had a bad powder day here in the east

If I had to pick my best powder day it would def be 1989 at Gore

snoloco wrote

Take your pick of these options:

1.  Lift served up C cups western trust funder Brown nips.

2.  EC backcountry chick with lots of abs and perky A cups which are waiting to make you crazy and/or ruin your tightie whitties.  

3.  EC lift served DoubleDs mostly on icy man-made silicon stuffed in a one piece hanging in long lift lines.

I rate them 1, 3, and 2 from best to worst.

Fixed it for you young bro. But I'd def go 2, 1, 3 and only 3 if I absolutely had no choice...

snoloco wrote

Take your pick of these options:

1.  Lift served western skiing.

2.  EC backcountry with lots of rocks and downed trees which are waiting to make you crash and/or ruin your skis.  

3.  EC lift served skiing mostly on icy man-made crowded trails and long lift lines.

I rate them 1, 3, and 2 from best to worst.

Never skied out west... that's probably my problem.

Got sick of icy man-made with crowds, so I stopped skiing it.

EC BC is like any BC.  It's what mother nature gives you and what you think you can ski.  If you don't get that, then it's not for you.

Also maybe it's just my inner tree fairy, dirtbag hippy, but BC shouldn't be about crying about conditions or bragging about big lines.  It's about getting out and having a good time in nature.  It's spending hours figuring out where you are going to go the moment there is snow and you have free time.  It's about the journey, not the destination.  It's really just like any other goddamn outdoor activity.  You piss with the dick you're given and make the most of it.  If you don't get, well maybe you never will.

If you don't do much other stuff like hiking, canoe tripping, backpacking, climbing, etc... then skiing away from a resort is probably not for you.  They don't make resorts for any of that other stuff (well maybe climbing gyms count?).

ScottyJack wrote

snoloco wrote

Take your pick of these options:

1.  Lift served up C cups western trust funder Brown nips.

2.  EC backcountry chick with lots of abs and perky A cups which are waiting to make you crazy and/or ruin your tightie whitties.  

3.  EC lift served DoubleDs mostly on icy man-made silicon stuffed in a one piece hanging in long lift lines.

I rate them 1, 3, and 2 from best to worst.

Fixed it for you young bro. But I'd def go 2, 1, 3 and only 3 if I absolutely had no choice...

ftw

well fuk me i like it (and them^) all!

like the old saying it's like sex and  pizza, its good even when it's not. whenever i'm on the edge of not going riding or skiing due to weather, conditions, laziness, hangover whatever i ask myself if ive ever gone and regretted it and would have rather stayed home? I can honestly remember only once one night when the days soft snow set up like a brick and every track and bump was telegraphing up to the bad hip...

snoloco wrote

Take your pick of these options:

1.  Lift served western skiing.

2.  EC backcountry with lots of rocks and downed trees which are waiting to make you crash and/or ruin your skis.  

3.  EC lift served skiing mostly on icy man-made crowded trails and long lift lines.

I rate them 1, 3, and 2 from best to worst.

You forgot to include the cost of each of those options for someone in the east. #1 = $$$$$$$$$$, #2 = $, #3 = $$$$

So, I guess, including that info, my order is 2,3,1?

ScottyJack wrote

Take your pick of these options:

1.  Lift served up C cups western trust funder Brown nips.

2.  EC backcountry chick with lots of abs and perky A cups which are waiting to make you crazy and/or ruin your tightie whitties.  

3.  EC lift served DoubleDs mostly on icy man-made silicon stuffed in a one piece hanging in long lift lines.

The cost of this one is unknown, but #1 and #3 seem expensive. So my order for this one is 2, 1, 3

Spongeworthy wrote

tjf1967 wrote

I've been to a couple places out west and one of the best pow days I have had was in Vermont.

I've skied about 25 days out west -- Utah, Colorado and Montana -- and the best powder day I ever had was at JAY PEAK!

Best powder day at Jay Peak?!  That's almost the exact opposite of western skiing with it's tight trees with thin cover and icy trails.  I'm not going to argue that Snow Ridge gets more snow, but they definitely exaggerate their snow totals and most of it blows off the trails anyway, meaning the usual icy man-made is what everyone to skis on, worse than most other eastern mountains.  I've skied the trees at Steamboat, and they're sooooooo much better than any tree skiing that I've done on the ec.  I didn't bottom out once and could actually get into a rhythm instead of being continually stopped by how tight the trees were.  Never have I skied an ec glade and not stopped at the lift to check the bottoms of my skis to make sure they weren't ruined.

There is simply nothing in the east that comes close to comparing with the west.  They're completely out of the same league.  If you haven't been out there you need to go and see how great skiing can actually be.  You'll never try to compare the two again.

3.  EC lift served skiing mostly on icy man-made crowded trails and long lift lines. 

Sno, you're skiing at the wrong ec mountains.  

snoloco wrote

Spongeworthy wrote

tjf1967 wrote

I've been to a couple places out west and one of the best pow days I have had was in Vermont.

I've skied about 25 days out west -- Utah, Colorado and Montana -- and the best powder day I ever had was at JAY PEAK!

Best powder day at Jay Peak?!  That's almost the exact opposite of western skiing with it's tight trees with thin cover and icy trails.  I'm not going to argue that Snow Ridge gets more snow, but they definitely exaggerate their snow totals and most of it blows off the trails anyway, meaning the usual icy man-made is what everyone to skis on, worse than most other eastern mountains.  I've skied the trees at Steamboat, and they're sooooooo much better than any tree skiing that I've done on the ec.  I didn't bottom out once and could actually get into a rhythm instead of being continually stopped by how tight the trees were.  Never have I skied an ec glade and not stopped at the lift to check the bottoms of my skis to make sure they weren't ruined.

There is simply nothing in the east that comes close to comparing with the west.  They're completely out of the same league.  If you haven't been out there you need to go and see how great skiing can actually be.  You'll never try to compare the two again.

I'm gonna go get a beer and just wait for this one to settle in...

Be fun to see a debate between sno2015 and sno2016

Whatever model year Sno we have, this thread would be a lot more interesting if it were just about boobs.  I think even the female crowd would concur.

snoloco wrote

There is simply nothing in the east that comes close to comparing with the west.  They're completely out of the same league.  If you haven't been out there you need to go and see how great skiing can actually be.  You'll never try to compare the two again.

lol

I've been out west. It was a great trip. It didn't make me love eastern skiing any less.

It might have made me appreciate eastern skiing even more.

You don't have enough experience to judge. And you are hostile to the opinions of those that do have the experience to judge. You don't know everything. The bigger issue is you make flippant ridiculous statements instead of asking questions and learning. Knowledge is knowing that you know what you know and that you do not know what you do not know...

And here is some knowledge for you... there is a lot of stuff in the east that compares. It is just smaller in scale, stature, and volume. The untracked goes a heck of alot faster. And big storms are usually followed by cold windy bitter days rather than calm blue skies. There are WAY more hard pack days and the snow takes more of a beating out here. But when it is good here... it is just as good as anywhere else. And when it is great here, I wouldn't trade my favorite route at my favorite mountain for a free trip out west.