 Poster: A snowHead
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So ive been planning a trip to 3-4 canadian rockies resorts for next year - thats all fine.
But in doing so ive been side tracked into planning a hypothetical uber rockies tour
Starting in Jasper and ending in Taos, rules are simple, not more than a 3 hour drive, 2hrs ideal (bent in a few places), cant visit twice and must be worth 2 days skiing, ie more than a t-bar on a golf course.
Jasper
Lake Lou
Sunshine
Mt Norquay
Panorama
Kicking Horse
Revelstoke
Silverstar
Big white
Red
Whitewater
Kimberley
fernie
Castle
Whitefish
Gap - help!
Big Sky
Cheat - but Yellowstone is halfway so thats cool
Grand Targee
Jackson Hole
Beaver Mountain#
Salt lake City/ park city resorts
Gap - help!
I-70 resorts - Powderhorn, Snowmass,Aspen, Beaver Crk, vail, copper, breck, Keystone, A-basin, winter park
Monarch#
Telluride
Purgatory#
Wolf creek#
Taos
(no idea about # resorts, not even googled them yet!)
Any help with the gaps?
Any resorts ive missed on this route, that meet the-rules? Is there a northern and southern extension?
2 days at each is pretty much a season 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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this thread is useless without a google map to show me 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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working on it - google maps only does 20 destinations...
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hobbiteater, add "points" for intermediates in close locality. e.g. Jasper to Lake louise is one trip "via" sunshine and norquay (btw hit norquay then LL then sunshine and on down to Revelstoke / kicking horse at the end of the ski day)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Your second gap leaving Salt Lake next on the list should be Steamboat Springs (4.5 - 5 hours) but closer than the I70 resorts.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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hobbiteater, you need to change the rules - Big White to Red is 4 hrs - I've done it and was pushing it doing it in 4 hrs 
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Bones, rules are for bending
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Gap 1 - Missoula Snow Bowl or Bridger
Gap2 - a day or so in the desert at Moab - Arches and Canyonlands are awesome any time of year
You've left out Sunlight at Glenwood Springs which is virtually on I70 (though a local hill) and Steamboat which is not far on a Northern loop
Missing Ogden UT - Pow Mow & Snowbasin
Also pedantry but you're way off the Rockies once you're West of KH and Pano as they're a range over already.
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