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Name a ski area you haven't skied in over a decade but want to revisit.

Tony S

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This is a follow up to my previous post on this thread. In less than two weeks I start my long anticipated 2022 Days of My Youth ski road trip. I will be going to three areas I skied as a teenager but have not visited in 50 years. (Yes, that means I turn 67 this Saturday.) I am getting new Nokian snow tires today for the occasion.

Here's the itinerary:
Drive from PDX to Glacier, Wa, stay at the Blue T Lodge.
Ski Mt Baker.
Drive Snoqualmie Falls. My folk's ashes are there. Hoist one and pay my respects.
Drive Snoqualmie Summit, stay at the Summit Inn.
Ski Alpental. Maybe night ski at one of the other Summit areas.
Drive Enumclaw (!!!!!).
Take Crystal Mountain Express bus and ski Crystal Mountain.
Return to PDX.

This should take six days, road and weather conditions permitting. I have to walk up and buy a ticket at Baker, the Snoqualmie areas and Crystal are on the IKON pass. Somehow, in the days of my youth, Stevens Pass was never a factor.

For those of you who worry about my desire or ability to relive my youth, all I can say is that I was a very serious minded teenager. I have lightened up quite a bit over the years. "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." --Bob Dylan.

Anyone else done anything similar? I'd love to hear about it.
Cheers!
 

VickiK

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Fantasy route:
Boulder City to visit friends
Ski Brianhead
Visit Zion/Bryce
Ski Beaver
Ski Sundance and have tea with celebrity owner
Salt Lake City to visit friends
Ski Alta/Snowbird/Solitude/Brighton
Have dinner at Red Iguana
Hang out with @AmyPJ and meet the other Bryce
Ski Snowbasin/Powder
Ski Cherry Peak, all 3 chairs
[Place holder for Idaho ski areas, maybe a separate trip because I will be missing my dogs too much by this time]
Return home via Reno & Friends
Ski Mt Rose
[Place holder for Tahoe ski areas]
Ski Mammoth/June Mt

Have a wonderful adventurous birthday,@jcjpdx !
 

DanoT

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In 1972 a buddy and I drove to Aspen from Toronto for 3 a week stay in March in my partly camperized Ford Econoline van. While there it was sunny every day and snowed every second night. :ogbiggrin:

43 years later I returned to Aspen in my truck camper, this time driving from B.C. It hadn't snowed for 2 weeks until I got there and then it was sunny for 3 days and snowed for 3 nights.:ogbiggrin:
 

AmyPJ

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Fantasy route:
Boulder City to visit friends
Ski Brianhead
Visit Zion/Bryce
Ski Beaver
Ski Sundance and have tea with celebrity owner
Salt Lake City to visit friends
Ski Alta/Snowbird/Solitude/Brighton
Have dinner at Red Iguana
Hang out with @AmyPJ and meet the other Bryce
Ski Snowbasin/Powder
Ski Cherry Peak, all 3 chairs
[Place holder for Idaho ski areas, maybe a separate trip because I will be missing my dogs too much by this time]
Return home via Reno & Friends
Ski Mt Rose
[Place holder for Tahoe ski areas]
Ski Mammoth/June Mt

Have a wonderful adventurous birthday,@jcjpdx !
Do it!
 

Tony S

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Ski Sundance and have tea with celebrity owner
Tea? Really? I love tea, don't get me wrong. Just seems like a slightly low bar if we're talking fantasies here.

I regret to inform you-
She can still have tea with him there; he just won't be the owner.
 

Rudi Riet

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A few:

Jackson Hole
Grand Targhee
Sun Valley
Whistler
Mount Bachelor
Mammoth
Whitefish/Big Mountain
Steamboat
Saas Fee
Tignes/Val d'Isere
Ski Amadé
 
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Yo Momma

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Wolf Creek - CO :golfclap:

Grand Targhee -WY (without the fog!):snow::snow::snow::snow:

Pas de la Casa - Andorra:drool:
Baqueira Beret - Spanish Pyrenees :toast

Sierra Nevada - Granada, Southern Spain :wine:

Valinouet - Mont Valin, Quebec:beercheer:
 
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4aprice

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Breckinridge

From the period before the multi-mountain passes, we went to Maxx, then Ikon so they just haven't been on the radar lately but one of these years I'll go with an Epic just to get back to these 3.
 

Bill Miles

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Definitely Alta and Snowbird. I havent been there in a long time. The fears of getting caught up in the traffic on the canyon have kept me away.
Go late season, not much of a problem, however a lot less of chance of the good powder.
 

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