Oldest will be 3 next season; hoping to start her at ski school then.
Loveland is great for the young ones and the wallet
Oldest will be 3 next season; hoping to start her at ski school then.
Anyone ever ski Big Sky? Sounds amazing (sorry, wrong thread I guess)
Anyone ever ski Big Sky? Sounds amazing (sorry, wrong thread I guess)
Definitely amazing - tough/expensive to get to from the east though - connect in Denver/somewhere else, fly to Bozeman, drive an hour.
Different from lots of big resorts that it's only one mountain (literally called Lone Peak), but has an absurd amount of terrain, especially now that Moonlight Basin on the baskside is connected/included. Have been getting great snow in recent years (as has Jackson) with the more northern storm tracks. Can be very cold/windy.
Great snowmobile excursions.
Spent the weekend at Winter Park; got 10” overnight. So fucking sweet to have a powder day on a Monday.
Just got back yesterday from Banff/Lake Louise and loved it. Skied two days at Sunshine and then two at Lake Louise. Much preferred the mountains and terrain at Lake Louise. Liked their back bowls better than Vail's, and the scenery may be the best I've ever seen - up there with the Alps and Whistler. Helped that we got probably 5-6 inches the 2nd to last day.
Sunshine was cool too, but it's about a 30 min drive from Banff, and there's only one gondola where you park that you have to take to get to the real base area, which takes another ~20 min. Also, at Sunshine the first day, the high temperature was like 5 with around -20 wind chills. Lake Louise is only a 5-10 min hotel shuttle with several base lift options. We got a great deal at the Fairmont, which is an awesome place right on the lake with a lot to do for non-skiers.
Skied some pretty extreme terrain (they have a ton of it) - lots of tight trees and double black chutes, and had a blast. No bad falls, but somehow tweaked my back the last day in the moguls and 2 previously ruptured discs feel like they're being stabbed with knives. Drugs are good, mkay.