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OK - summer fantasy thread. Your employer or clients or pension provider or student grant provider say
"You've been doing a great job - have next winter off and here's some cash to tide you over".
Where do you go & why?
The rules
You can only go to one place.
Its fantasy not reality so don't just say the place where you happen to have an appartment etc.
You haven't won the lottery but have enough to live off without working for the winter.
You don't have a crystal ball to forecast where snow will fall.
You have willing childcare and/or partner.
You are allowed occasional day trips to adjacent places but this can only be a minor factor.
You are allowed beaches etc but you really have to justify why you're posting about it on a ski website.
La Ros has been shut down for the winter to level the playing field for other less awesome places.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 29-05-08 21:29; edited 1 time in total
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well i was very jealous of johnnyboy spending the season in Val Thorens so i reckon i'd go there
door step skiing, great snow early and late season and easy access to the whole of the 3Vs so plenty to keep me busy for the winter 
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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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I'll chuck in Rossland/Red Mountain
Real Canuck ski town, bug all gitz n glamour, amazing trees, possibility of becoming a sledneck, Trail nearby for big city culture (Oh OK a big smelter)
Likely to become a better skier by osmosis from the locals.
Not many swedes to get the drop on first tracks.
Downside - Aussies, visitors unlikely
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Niseko
Awesome powder reputation, fascinating culture, brilliant food. Runs not to steep for me. Quite like Aussies.
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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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Alaska. Heliskiing. Why the hell not...
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| PhillipStanton wrote: |
| Alaska. Heliskiing. Why the hell not... |
No lottery wins in this fantasy - check the rules 
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Jackson. Perhaps Montalbert but most probably Jackson.
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Whistler, no question. Hell, I'd move there. Vancouver just down the road, great skiing, awesome mountain biking in summer...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I went to Val Thorens for all the reasons Roger C lists. Twice. 
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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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This is where I have done this and would return to all:
Big Mountain, Montana, USA
Kicking Horse, BC, Canada
Park City, Utah, USA
Keystone, Colorado, USA
Niseko, Japan
This is where I've considered:
Telluride, Colorado, USA
Jackson, Wyoming, USA
Big Sky, Montana, USA
Stranda, Norway
Narvik, Norway
Zinal, Switzerland
Gressoney, Italy
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Banff/Lake Louise, Canada.
Whistler is a long 10 hr drive away. OK to go to once or twice at most. Fits the definition of "occasional" road trip.
The season pass is also good for several of the mountains nearby. Basically covering nearly all the canadian interiors.
But the real reason? The hot springs and spas.
(And I like Banff/Lake Louise even better in the summer. So I wouldn't do just a winter "season", I'd stay a couple YEARS!)
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You know it makes sense.
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That's what happened this winter. 
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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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Somewher with skiing where I/We could make friends in the local community. Skiing is great, but for Me/US it is a very sociable sport. Deep, fresh powder is frowned on by folks giving knee advice so some nice piste skiing would be fine. I would prefer a town with soul rsather than a purpose built resort. Wagrain, La Rosiere, Montalbert, Serre Chevalier, Somewhere in the DOlomites,.......you get the picture.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Agree with boredsurfin, Montalbert. Where else is there? 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Agree with Frosty the Snowman, I wold probably go for either the Dolomites or somewhere off the Inn valley such as Zillertal or Ski Welt.
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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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hmmm:
Southern French Alps (maybe base myself in Briancon)
Las Lenas
If I was allowed the crystal ball and knew there would be good snow, Alagna
As a total pipe dream, start out in Innsbruck and get all the way to the Med under my own steam
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Jackson
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Montalbert ......................have just bought a instructors style long rain jacket for those very , very rare days of yuk..... down low
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| Kramer wrote: |
| Whistler, no question. Hell, I'd move there. Vancouver just down the road, great skiing, awesome mountain biking in summer... |
Why don't you? Would you medical qualifications be recognised over there? It was an idea that we toyed with years ago but I think we'd always lack the courage. Vancouver's weather seemed worryingly similar to Britain's as well! Not sure what all the swimming pools in the gardens are for.
Back on topic. There's plenty of places I'm really keen to visit but I'd probably opt for somewhere I've been before. I think I'd probably chose either Verbier or Whistler, but I might be swayed by Serre Chevalier for old times' sake.
If I decided on somewhere new then I'd probably go to Jackson Hole.
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fatbob,
Good question.... initially would have put Le Grave/SC/L2A/ADH or a place near to them, at the top, but would consider BSM.
My first choice now, however, would be VDA...and invite everyone there. In fact, I'll do that anyway but I'll only be there for two weeks or so but you and the crew are quite welcome to pop over...
The list is coming on nicely....
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Ordhan, snap.
alan empty, you usually have to do four years in hardship/rural posts elsewhere in Canada first. I did some time in Newfoundland.
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Serre Chevalier, with montgenevre, milky way, alpe d'huez and les deux alpes not far down the road. Quiet nightlift though.
Not that I've been there, but I think that Val d'Isere would be a good place. Lots of good skiing and better nightlife.
I'd also be tempted to go to the Dolomites.
I think I would go to Serre Che in the end though.
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stoatsbrother, surely 'rural' posts could include small isolated ski areas somewhere in the middle of BC?
Not that I'm a doctor. Nor am I trying to get rid of Kramer 
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alan empty, and indeed I know of two GPs who moved to the BC interior - not sure they are near ski hills though, certainly nearer than me though..
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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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Not that I'm a doctor. Nor am I trying to get rid of Kramer
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Why do they not have Internet in BC
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Aspen.
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You know it makes sense.
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Mmmm - needs to be low for January & village life, but go high for November & April. I can do French, but not German so..
Chamonix would be most tempting, with trips to Switzerland and Italy. I'd also think about Serre Che, Morzine, Dolomites, St Martin
Would need to be able to get out on my bike and run with some mates a bit too to keep me sane 
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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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whistler.. though i have never been to the three valleys so maybe there
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Yoda wrote: |
| carp visibility |
Stupid fish always get in my goggles too.
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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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alan empty, I think what he meant was they codn't see where they were going.
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| suffered from a total lack of grooming |
Sounds horrific 
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FenlandSkier,
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Yoda,
Don't let your friends ever go to La Grave then if that's the grumbles they come up with. If an individual's frame of reference for skiing is mile after mile of motorway in Meribel etc then anywhere in North America will be a disappointment.
I agree that the weather is hit and miss - it's little comfort knowing that there's 1.5m of fresh sitting up in the Alpine reaady to be enjoyed if the upper mountain has been closed by a storm most of your holiday and you've "enjoyed" drizzle lower down all holiday.
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Jackson. Yurp just doesn't get enough pow. I'd spend all day skiing around on my 65mm 165 SLs and show those fat-ski fans how it's really done. 
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Frosty the Snowman, I agree with your sentiments, and I like La Rosiere (been there twice) but it's stretching a point to suggest it's got a lot of soul, don't you think? I like Les Saisies, but I wouldn't try to sell it as possessing "soul"....
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