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Trip Report - Xmas/NY in Idaho - Sun Valley and Brundage
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Poster: A snowHead

We had UK visitors for Xmas/New Year, so we took them on a road trip through Idaho. A week at Sun Valley and 3 days at Brundage, a place i suspect few snowheads have heard of.

Sun Valley is a famous place - the Idaho equivalent of Aspen, I guess. It has the longest, most consistent fall-line skiing in North America on Bald Mountain. The Sun Valley Lodge is a wonderful place to stay, especially when there are deals that basically give you free accommodation for the price of a lift ticket. Incredible value for an historic, elegant lodge, litterd with celebs (Buzz Aldrin was wandering around, and Arnie was rumored to be in residence). We hit a very cold, wonderfully sunny week. The only fresh snow was what emerged from the huge snowmaking system, but it was fresh every day. The bumps runs were superb. Limelight, when they don’t groom it gives about 2000 vertical feet of steep, beautifully skier-formed bumps. Upper River run is a close second.

We then drove 4+ hours to McCall, ID, a sleepy little village near Brundage Mountain. This was without doubt a local’s hill, but with great snow (no guns here = over 300+ inches snowfall on average, and really light fluff) and some superb tree skiing, littered with some short but genuine double-black diamonds. We had a nice powder day, and 3 days of top skiing. McCall is sleepy in winter, but there's a couple of good restaurants and a fine brew pub.

There's a video
here - mostly my nephew boarding but the scenery is good Wink.

Sun Valley pics are on blog - see below
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