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I'm having serious trouble whittling down the list of five to a top three...I guess this means I have to do them all, but where do I start?
- heliskiing in Alaska
- skitouring in Norway, or possibly Iceland
- summer trip to Argentina
- Japan powder
- La Grave (well, this one's a must, really).
Where do you want to go next?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Lech
Hochkonig
La Tania
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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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- Japan, hopefully next January
- Lofoten/Norway is really calling... Particularly like the idea of boat trips into fjords, skin up once side of a mountain and ski down the other to meet the boat again
- Kashmir/Himalayas
- Russia
- Love the idea of touring somewhere like Afghanistan or Iraq too, but no idea how feasible that is at present...
Really want to hit up South America too, though it's a toss-up between summer skiing and winter kayaking (Chile is full of lovely, clean waterfalls).
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La Grave
Argentina
N America
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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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Norway (Lofoten) and Iceland skiing looked cool.
Would add Jasna, Slovakia as 3rd, just cos it's off the beaten track, but seemingly investing in some rather modern kit.
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Lofoten touring
AK
Greenland dog trip/touring
Maurienne valley Freeride
More Dolomites after this years great rip
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Japan, would mean I could buy soem new fat skis
Lyngen/Norway although I would have to get a lot fitter for a touring trip
North America, maybe Utah? Justify the superfats bought for Japan.
andy, I went to Jasna for 2 weeks a few years ago and would go back, would do it as a last minute when they get good snow.
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Except the more well known areas still on the list to visit (Tignes, Ischgl, Serfaus, Sella Ronda and others in Dolomites etc),
I would love to go to those - slightly smaller - places:
(chill out piste skiing rather than off piste for me)
-Nassfeld, Austria
-Mellau-Damuls + Warth, Austria
-Val Cenis and others in Maurienne valley, France
-Monterosa, Italy
-Baqueira Beret, Spain
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lynseyf, I want to go MTBing there too (the car has room for both) 
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First place would be a road trip around small resorts in Canada to places like Terrace,Cat skiing in Serbia and a road trip around the Pyreneese.
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Japan
AK
Monte Rosa
Gulmarg has dropped off my list since the less than stellar TR
Achieved Lake District for the first time this year - awesome
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Lots of bits of Ski Amadé that I haven't done yet: Hochkönig, Schladming, Dachstein, Gastein.
Would also love to go to the Dolomites properly but never managed to find any TOs with decent flights there.
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queen bodecia, Admintours s10BB (cheap flights to Venice and the bus is only €30 or something like that)
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You know it makes sense.
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andy, I meant a TO! Can't do any of the bashes due to timings...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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I don't know if I'll get there, but things that i've liked the look of on here are;
Cat/Heli skiing in Canada. I think cost would make it cat!
Alta/Snowbird (again)
Japan (again)
There are more, and I'd like to find out how my knee would hold up to some ski touring too.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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As much as I'd love to do a heli-skiing trip to Alaska, a 1-week trip there would pay for trips to
Georgia
Iceland
Norway
That'll be the tonic
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Jungfrau
SellaRonda - Dolomites super ski
Mammoth - in the spring
And I hopefully that will all happen next year, including SkiDiva meet up at Snowbasin - Powder Mountain which will include a couple of Snowbird/Alta days, and Park City...
and should my cousin be in Schladming this fall, a pre-season weekend with "family" = (read free lodging and airport pick ups).
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Japan
La Grave
Chile
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Jackson Hole
Japan
Chile
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Ischgl
Arraba - done Selva but didn't do hardly anything at Arraba
Saalbach
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Already booked Whistler for January.
Business is likely to take me to Calgary next winter, so that will be some other Canadian boxes ticked.
Believe it or not, I've never skied in Austria, so that's a must in the not too distant future.
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- heliskiing in Alaska
- La Grave (well, this one's a must, really).
- summer trip to Argentina
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Done Japan (and will hopefully do it again yearly) so all these in that order.
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Japan (again)
Aspen (again)
Norway (after the wonderful TR's recently)
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Breckenridge
The Dolomites
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Already skied an awful lot of Norway........ Voss, Geilo, Hafjell/Lillehamer, Kvitfjell, Hardanger (summer), Kvamskogen (Google it!) Nor Trondelag, Beitestolen, Hemsdal.
Skied across the pond in N America, half a dozen resorts, only to be disappointed,...............................
For me it's more a question of where would I not ski again................
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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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| Tom W wrote: |
Except the more well known areas still on the list to visit (Tignes, Ischgl, Serfaus, Sella Ronda and others in Dolomites etc),
I would love to go to those - slightly smaller - places:
(chill out piste skiing rather than off piste for me)
-Nassfeld, Austria
-Mellau-Damuls + Warth, Austria ( Drove out of Warth via Faschina Damuls to Lech last week!!)
-Val Cenis and others in Maurienne valley, France
-Monterosa, Italy
-Baqueira Beret, Spain |
This season I skied Hermagor/Nassfeld, Shoppernau/Warth/Lech, (Drove out of Warth via Faschina Damuls to Lech last week!Gressoney/Champoluc/Monte Rosa, ........ great choices. 
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theskibob,
I'd love to hear that list... I'm guessing Kvitfjell would be at the top? or ? What did you think of Geilo?
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You know it makes sense.
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Mosha Marc, you still need to ski the pennines........
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Ruapehu
Kamchatka
Etna (in a good snow year)
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Poster: A snowHead
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| fatbob wrote: |
Japan
AK
Monte Rosa
Gulmarg has dropped off my list since the less than stellar TR
Achieved Lake District for the first time this year - awesome |
Had been thinking similar things about Gulmarg too tbh. In 'ski travelling' I'm kinda looking for more than just the skiing though (otherwise BC would much higher up the list), I want some exoticness, different culture and preferably adventure too.
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All time top 3:
- Japan
- S. America
- Norway
Next 5 years?
Realistically, Japan should happen within that time frame, S. America probably not (only because I want to spend a month or more down there and I don't have that much time off till I retire).
So here's my more practical list for the next 5 years:
1) somewhere in Japan
2) La Grave
3) somewhere in southern Colorado (Crested Butt/Silverton/Wolf Creek) -- though I could be equally happy to end up in Taos or Telluride which are in the same region but not "new" to me...
I may get lucky and knock off Norway within the next 5 years. But I'm not actively planning it right now.
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clarky999, I would say that afghan should be out of the mix, but Iraq would be very doable. Up north in the Kurdish controlled areas (KRG) it is very safe, and there are pleny of moutains with snow, little or no ski based infrastructure exists though.
I would like to ski in Iran but think this is unlikely, Kashmir would be on my list though, along with Heli skiiing in Alaska.
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Greenland since it's a short, cheap flight away.
One of the crazy little touring huts tucked in the countryside in North America with a big crew of friends.
Definitely Norway.
Really want to ski in South America.
Antarctica.
More like a ten year plan that one. Locally I really need to get out into the West Fjords and the East Fjords next year, the two bits of Iceland I've not skied in yet.
There have been so many pros and film crews coming through Iceland this year I think it will be way more on the map when next years movies hit.
Japan was completely awesome so I'm definitely going back at some point.
Will have to have a trip to NZ when my mate moves home. They're getting married in Scotland next year so he's thinking about getting a bunch of folk together to come sail-skiing here in Iceland or perhaps do something in the Alps for his stag do, depending on what people can be persuaded into.
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clarky999, ,fatbob, The thing to remember about Gulmarg is it is affordable unlike many other exotic places. I haven't got round to adding some tips to the TR for getting the best out it for example not going in the peak first 2 weeks in Febuary. I think for guided, mostly lift served, wild, backcountry it is up there with the best. I tried to get across in the TR that it isn't perfect and you need to go with the right expectations. HTH.
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AK
Gulmarg
Russia
A lot of people seem keen on Japan and Chile, I've taught in Japan for 5 years and Chile for 2 (going back for 3 this year), so if anyone needs any info feel free to ask!
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BertieG, Much appreciated and the photos of the terrain were new to me. There are some places I'd feel that I'm missing out of something special if I never go there, but having travelled in India and Nepal, I'm not sure Gulmarg is one. Obviously just my view but I'm glad I was able to crystallise it based on your TR & others.
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Lofoten (following TR in other thread)
Portilo
Valluga Nord
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Japan
Austria
Norway
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