UPDATE
 

The multi-day lift ticket allows you ski at Keystone, Breckenridge, Vail, Beaver Creek, and Arapahoe Basin. (All are resorts owned by Vail Resorts Management Company)

Last year I skied two days at Park City and one at Deer Valley. Loved the town of Park City and loved the skiing at Deer Valley.
This year was Copper Mtn. and from Denver going to Copper was about two hours. Not too bad. I enjoyed my skiing there and loved the town of Breckenridge. It was pretty because it looked like being inside of a snow globe with the snow and old houses from the 1800s. The shopping is really neat there with art galleries and unique botiques etc....
Next year, maybe Vail or Telluride are two resorts that I would like to get to next.

Breckenridge is over-rated. In that area Vail is the best but I don't understand how it took you 2 hours from Denver Airport to Copper. Did you take the shuttles as soon as you land? Telluride was harder to get to, but I think it's the best in Colorado. I've heard if you're a really good skiier, then New Mexico has one awesome mountain but you have to trek to the top since there are no lifts. I'm not into skiing as much so I'm not planning on "trekking" anywhere without a lift. My top fav places are Whistler, Telluride, Jackson hole, and Vail. I did Vermont in high school but the snow is kinda icy. Mammoth also isn't the best snow IMO. But I bet if you ski or do that weird tele skiing, you might like different slopes.

-Rudey

I have only ever skiied Whistler/Blackcomb which has consistently been rated number ski resort in North America - so I guess I started at the top.

I would like to do some Colorado and Alberta skiing one day though, just to compare.

It depends on whether you're talking about the ski area or the town.

There's great skiing at both, but Breck (like Park City) was a mining town before it became a ski destination, and has a charm that Vail doesn't have in my opinion. Aspen is another example of mining town turned vacation destination (in the extreme).

Vail was developed as a ski area, and the town was built with the intention of being a tourist area.

I like them both, but think Breckenridge has more "character."

It's certainly not a scientific survey, but of my Colorado friends/residents who have condos in the mountains, most gravitate to Breckenridge, Winter Park or Steamboat rather than the I-70 areas like Vail and Copper that started out as resorts.

That being said, I certainly wouldn't turn down a place at Keystone (or better yet, Dillon which is just a mile or so away).

I think Vail was built by a guy who came back from WWII or something like that. I can't remember the whole story but it was in one of my Bloomberg magazines. Isn't Breck considered an I-70 resort? I've done Winter Park but not Mary Jane but had a bad experience with it. I hear Mary Jane is tougher. I know some friends that go to Steamboat every year because they like the town and hate the snoot of Aspen.

-Rudey

Crested Butte is a great ski town. I also like Whistler, Jackson Hole, Beaver Creek, and Pagosa Springs (Wolf Creek Ski area). The best ski town by far is Sun Valley, Idaho. If you haven't been there you should go.

personally i greatly enjoyed my time in aspen and snowmass. but then again, this is coming from a girl that grew up around mediocre resorts in the washington, dc vicinity.

Stay in Fresno, Col. Is that right DeltAlum just off of Dillion Resivor?

Can Ski:

Brekenridge, Copper, Keystone, A-Basin, Vail and a litle Farther Beaver Creek, West of Vail or go back up thrhough the Hole in the Wall to Loveland!

Toas, NM, is out of the way but a Ski area on the way. Set Up like a Swiss Ski Area. Toas that is.

Crested Butte, Teleride and Aspin is Neat but a ways to travel also.

Winter Park and Steam Boat Springs are also out of the way and You are There.:(

Kitchbul is Nice and Inns Brook is close.

But the snow can suck!

Sunlite at Gleenwood Springs isnt bad.

A lot depends on Your skiing abillity! Apres Skiing is very important in the evening!:D

Taos is the one I couldn't remember. I've heard it's pretty difficult to ski on.

-Rudey

You mean Frisco? There is an AWESOME place to go for breakfast there.

It is a European Style Ski Area in New Mexico.

Ran the Race Course there and one of the worst I have seen!:(

Turns at Lift Pylons and Tree Line.:eek:

Oh Ran Grand Slolam!:)

Dont Eat The Yellow Snow!:D

Trees dont give!:D

Snow Conditions are different from the East Coast and Western Ski Areas also.:( Right Wax Helps a bunch!

I read about Taos. You don't have lifts so you gotta work your way up. When you sit down for dinner you get randomly placed at a table and they serve great food.

Lucky guy Tom! :)

-Rudey
--Wear a helmet if you go for those trees hah

Thanks, it is Frisco!!!!!!:)


Sorry Rudey, They do Have Lifts!:) Didnt stay on The Mt. Stayed in Toas and had great food. Also a LX Brother had an Art gallery there!

Only place I had to Hike up a friggen Mountain was in The Big Kitzbuhl! Hell, ended up 15 Miles from Town! Hell, 4 Lts of water before the first Bier! Damn, I was dry!:confused:

If anyone makes it to Kitzbuhl, go to the Teninbaum for French Onion Soup and A Nice Crisp Chard!:cool: Watch The Beautiful Folks with Sable Coats slumming there!

OK I went to look it up and it's called Taos Ski Valley. I guess there's a lift partially and after that it's a steep hike to the top and down the double black diamonds.

-Rudey
--I don't think that's for me at all :)