Snowboarded for 50 days this season. Wish I could say this every year. Here are the reviews!
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Winter Park/ Mary Jane
Best tree runs! Practically skiable everywhere, good food, and Eagle Wind if you got lucky.
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Snowbird
Steep, Scary but So Much Fun!
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Personally I love hard workouts, and nothing beats the hike up Highland bowl. Awesome trees, that chair was slow though.
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Aspen Snowmass
Huge, family-friendly (what’s better than watching little kiddos on the chairlift?)
Hit up Coffee Pot trail, it’s scenic.
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Solitude
Underappreciated, scary, steep, loads of cliff, amazing on a good day. However, it's IKON unlimited, so expect crowds.
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Some extreme double blacks (oh so much fun) and back bowl skiing. My phone has absolutely 0 signal there -- not ideal. I can't even make a phone call. What if I need the patrols?
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Good park if you are into that stuff. Trails a bit too flat (forever pain of a snowboarder).
Terrible traffic though. Once on a blizzard day, I spent 2 hours from one end of the parking lot to another end.
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Visited with friends late April, PNW spring powder didn't disappoint. Trails boring though.
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Small section of good double blacks, fun for a day or two. Great park if you are into that. Huge crowds though, also the chairlifts are so short, so you have to transit multiple times to get anywhere.
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Aspen Mountain
Decent blacks. Terrible chairlift design. Every run includes some ridiculously long and painful traverse. Close to town if you fancy a beer or two.
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Good park (ofc it holds the X-games every year). I am not good enough to enjoy it yet.
The Kardashians sometimes come here if you are interested in those stuff.
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Eldora
If I haven't been to any of the above, this wouldn't be too bad. But once you have seen, you cannot unsee.
Voila! I am grateful for this chance to snowboard so much this season. There are still half a dozen resorts left on my bucket list, but 来日方长 as we say in Chinese (the coming days would be long). Cheers to the adventures ahead!
Gladys