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Craigeburn, NZ - an south island club field that when I skied 10 years ago offered a real different ski experience - no piste bashers, limited electricity, no bar, hair raising rope tows driven by unreliable old tractor, I think 600m vertical, great atmosphere, cheap and friendly.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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waynos, I don't think it's surprising no one has heard of it! 
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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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Still not obscure enough - I have certainly heard many tales of the likes of Craigieburn and Broken River from Kiwis. There were lots of Broken River clubbies in Fernie a coupel of years back.
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no piste bashers, limited electricity, no bar, hair raising rope tows driven by unreliable old tractor
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Sounds like "the worst resort that no-ones ever heard of"! 
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stoatsbrother, the ice perv One of us should do a trip report so everyone knows just how good it is...
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Bear Mountain- California,beach in the morning and boarding in the afternoon.
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Crest Voland. Been twice.
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| paulm wrote: |
| Bear Mountain- California,beach in the morning and boarding in the afternoon. |
You mean, no Brit's had heard of?
It's pretty well-known in So-Cal.
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waynos and fatbob, keep it quite lads. We really don't want too many people knowing about Craigieburn. One of the best lift access off piste areas in the world. http://www.craigieburn.co.nz/index.html
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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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As a matter of interest is Resort X Gommiswald?
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Gargellen
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You know it makes sense.
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| paulm wrote: |
| You could say the same for all these resorts if you live somewhere near. |
Not the one I go to! 
First, it IS small. It only got about 10 runs.
And, even a large majority of skiers living within an hour distance of it haven't heard of it.
So it surely qualifies as "small resort that no one has heard of". However, the only thing GOOD about it is the proximity. It's too small and unvaried to be a contender as "best" by any definition. Still, 15 min. from where I live. I guess it's "best" for ME!
Actually, Bear is quite a sizable resort, just not a "destination resort". In a good size "area" termed So Cal, which is the size of a small country, it is well known by a substantial population.
In a large country as the US, there're countless such not-so-small resort that no one outside of the local area had heard of. Anyone skied Flagstaff, for example? (Or Wolf Creek, for another )
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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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The Big Mountain - Montana and Bridger Bowl (which has already been mentioned)
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Poster: A snowHead
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There are places you'd never think of looking . . . Arizona http://www.sunriseskipark.com/ (GoogleE' 33.9745525065,-109.563598331 ) the middle of nowhere but looks like a nice little resort.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Nickski wrote: |
| The Big Mountain - Montana and Bridger Bowl (which has already been mentioned) |
Jesus not this Big Mountain, Montana....
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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iblair,
that's not unheard of!
My vote goes to the Dammkar (Mittenwald) or the Laber (Oberammergau).
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Weardale.
Yad Moss and Raise are 'discovered' by now.
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To quote a ski mag which wrote up my fave in a little areas that rock issue," it's a balck hole of an area" N. UT to the south, Jackson & Targhee NE, and Sun valley NW Pebble Creek aka The ROCK, what the piste doesn't have the off-piste has in spades. I may get strung up for mentioning it.
Discovery's Backside a Black Diamond paradise. Turner also in MT ,a nice little secret, great Powder Fridays.
Castle Mtn Alberta another Black Diamond winter dream.
All ski areas not resorts, which makes for more enjoyable less populated skiing.
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La Hoya, Argentina
Powder Springs, BC, Canada (no longer with us. Soon to be Revelstoke Mountain Resort)
Antillanca, Chile
Trafoi, Italy
Moiwa & Rusutsu, Japan
Ohau, New Zealand
Stranda, Norway
White Pine, Wyoming, USA
Aberdare, Wales 
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Rangiwahia Skifield NZ.
I bet 99% of kiwis haven't even heard of that place. Unfortunatly shut now.
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[quote="andy b"]villard de lans - close to grenoble, lovely little town and just enough skiing to make for a great 2 or 3 days./quote]
2 to 3 days... that was about the length of the season at Villard this year. 
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Phoenix Mountain,BC,Canada.
This is a great little local hill with only one lift plus a learner tow. There is decent vertical and it always has great snow.
It is located between Greenwood and Grand Forks.
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LE PRE
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hakuba Valley. One of the reasons it's so good is because no one has really heard of it.
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