 Poster: A snowHead
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Bringing to new page:
My guess:
Winter Park, Colorado.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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thelem, Thanks for copying to the new page.
Unfortunately not Winter Park.
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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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Park City Mountain Resort
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Cheapski, Not Park City either.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Looks like there is an airstrip which is dead on to the angle the picture has been taken at off the side of the highway
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The terrain looks a bit like Death Valley. Mammouth perhaps?
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It looks like Utah. Brian Head, although I think the valley is the SLC valley so maybe somewhere off there.
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Yes, Brian Head and that's Highway 15 heading up to SLC in the distance.
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philwig, Yep, Brian Head.
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Brian Head, a fine place, I escaped from awful Las Vegas to ride there. I didn't think the locals had really met English people before. I stayed in some mom & pop place where they had pizza and weak beer. I was probably the only snowboarder on the hill. My last winter trip there was around 1995, with snow conditions good but no fresh tracks.
Gimmie a minute.
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Try this. An oldie from the late 1970s, using the imgBB source for the 1st time, 35mm probably originally Kodachrome 25, scanned to digital in the late 1990s.
host gif online
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Obergurgl
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Right continent, and not all that far away as the crow flies... but wrong side of the border.
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Madonna di Campiglio
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You know it makes sense.
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Livigno ?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Andalo?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Arrabba?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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@philwig, it was a very lucky guess.
But there are a few clues: north facing given the lack of snow on the opposite slope; a big, low valley to the east; probably Italy because of the clues you give in response to the Obergurgl guess, and in particular, it was mostly likely a resort which has a long history of UK visitors. Andalo is almost always mentioned on SHs by people reminiscing about old school trips! 
Can someone else go?
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@denfinella, I have been to Andalo but didn't recognise it from that photo at all! So you did really well to work it out!
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I have to say the most enjoyable part of this thread is reading @denfinella's investigations. Most impressed.
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Is that mount Olympus?
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No, interesting idea though.
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I have never been just saw it on top gear and had a look at the resort after and it reminded me of it.
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philwig, Sasquatch Mtn.
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@Bones, Correct, called Hemlock when that was shot.
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[Philwig] Never realised it was called Hemlock before, quite like either.
Have a go at this, this was first day after one of the biggest storms of the season in the area, and the drive was worth it.
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Fernie?
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You know it makes sense.
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No clue really, looks North America and Rockies proper.
Maybe Idaho or Montana, guessing Red Lodge?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Beaver Mountain ?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Not Fernie, Beaver, or Red Lodge
Klammertime, along the right lines.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Bones wrote: |
| ...Never realised it was called Hemlock before, quite like either. ... |
Bit of a secret spot. I knew a guide who used to work there, else you'd just drive past I suppose. I haven't been for a year or five, but there was a bit of a technical approach in a 2wd hire car on a huge fresh dump, but all good anyway.
It's as close to you-know-where as some rather better marketed place but when that was shot I had fresh tracks all day when the crowds had nothing fresh.
Tends to be warm and wet though compared with further inland/ north.
Harrison Hot Springs is my favoured place to stay, although it's all the sort of space where breakfasts are better than evening meals.
New image guess... dunno, it looks north western, but not somewhere I immediately recognise.
Whitewater?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Whitefish?
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Doen't look like Targhee. Maybe Schweitzer though I'm sure lake is bigger and query steepness
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Big Sky?
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Ok so looks like you are skiing a north facing slope but I reckon the picture was taken late afternoon so you are actually skiing a east facing slope (sunlight is just around the corner). It is Bridger Bowl
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Charlieehr, Not Big Sky, - but it is Bridger, early afternoon, by accounts around 1pm. Over to you, again 
Dave of the Marmottes, Interesting comments about Schweitzer as we plan to visit at some point, and Whitefish too.
philwig, Cheers for the insight on Sasquatch Mtn, typically now more our sort of place,we dont need marketing hype and happy to have fresh tracks all day, with refills if possible.
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@extremerob, beautiful photo! It looks very much like Saalbach-Hinterglemm in the foreground, with the link to Leogang beyond and the new runs down from the Zell am See ski area at bottom right.
It might also be interesting to do: what other ski areas are visible in the photo? I can see a few...
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@denfinella, spot-on - your turn
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