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How far must you drive to ski?

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mxrcr222
Posts: 87 - Karma: 13
Couldn't find any old threads on this. How far do you all have to drive to get to your home mountain? Depending on traffic, it takes me about 1 1/2-2hrs each way & 3/4 of a tank in my jeep. Just wondering how crazy long some of your drives are. Thanks
Nov 1 2010 2:14PM
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nutsnbolts
Posts: 1110 - Karma: 16
just hiked okemo today...looking goooood
Nov 2 2010 1:48PM
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T-Sin
Posts: 870 - Karma: 8,777
1 and a half minute drive..i love my parents :)
Nov 2 2010 1:49PM
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ChumSauce
Posts: 40 - Karma: 46
1.5 hours or 30 min to a another one
Nov 2 2010 2:52PM
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shocker611
Posts: 2599 - Karma: 423
live near cinci im guessin?
Nov 2 2010 2:59PM
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clark.
Posts: 308 - Karma: 14
2 minutes, but it's also a mountain that takes 30 seconds to get down.
1-2.5 hours for anything legit
Nov 2 2010 3:02PM
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Masties
Posts: 253 - Karma: 82
Like 30 minutes. But my grandparents live 5 minutes away so i pretty much live there on the weekends and holidays.
Nov 2 2010 3:05PM
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Heinzler
Posts: 1931 - Karma: 125
10 mins to bottom of beaver creek, 15 to vail :D
Nov 2 2010 3:06PM
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Bagels
Posts: 1022 - Karma: 1,306
20 minutes to this

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Nov 2 2010 4:11PM
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Nick_P
Posts: 321 - Karma: 89
About an hour and a half from Boulder to Summit. with stops at Big Daddy in Golden.
Nov 2 2010 5:23PM
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gnarley_marl
Posts: 200 - Karma: 178
as far as it takes, i've already done 4-8 hour drives one way for skiing this season.

my mountain where I hold a pass this year (okemo) is a 3 hour drive from my house.
Nov 2 2010 5:25PM
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GayWolf420
Posts: 36635 - Karma: 110,210
Oh nice. Its like 5 minutes to the mouth of BCC and 10 from the mouth of LCC. So its like 23 minutes for me to get up to brighton and 17 to get up to snowbird/alta. Then its under 16 for me to get to PC since I live almost right at the mouth of Parley's canyon.
Nov 2 2010 5:31PM
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HR8938Cephei
Posts: 1411 - Karma: 46
1 hour for my home mountain, then 8 to get to summit.. I drive up there pretty frequently for my hill sucks haha
Nov 2 2010 5:59PM
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tom.ch
Posts: 102 - Karma: -15
from london to fucking laax
Nov 2 2010 6:33PM
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thebeesknees
Posts: 3660 - Karma: 160

shitty mountain- 35-40 min

real mountains- 2 hours

Nov 2 2010 6:36PM
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95romeo
Posts: 276 - Karma: -99
two hours for 700 vertical!
Nov 2 2010 8:45PM
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Isabelle
Posts: 947 - Karma: 1,582
something like 2,5 hours to an indoor slope.
Nov 2 2010 8:49PM
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Glenn.King
Posts: 180 - Karma: 452
got a mountain pretty close by (25 min drive) but it sucks so  about a two and a half hour drive to powder king which is super sick powder skiing, and about an hour and a half to troll which has good park skiing, pretty good i guess
Nov 2 2010 11:32PM
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doyle.
Posts: 1624 - Karma: 596

I made a thread like this but I guess I'll add to this one too

1 hour and a bit to 3 decent mountains but 2 hours to my cabin in whistler and 1 minute from there to the lifts

Nov 3 2010 12:23AM
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daylmitche
Posts: 34 - Karma: 13
I live in LA but ski at Mammoth.  Takes about 5 hours each way.  Mammoth RUles!
Nov 3 2010 4:38AM
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BcPowderHunter
Posts: 275 - Karma: 13
2 minute walk, or if there is snow on the ground, a 20 second ski down to the gondola.
Nov 3 2010 7:48AM
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DutchhGutss
Posts: 896 - Karma: 124
15 minutes haha
Nov 3 2010 8:05AM
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simon44
Posts: 1183 - Karma: 1,185
15 to 20 minutes to my local mountain and 1 hour and 30 minutes to whistler
Nov 3 2010 1:33PM
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PBRasap
Posts: 1079 - Karma: 326
about 5 miles from my house :). But now i'm in Albany in college so about an hour :(
Nov 3 2010 1:39PM
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thebeesknees
Posts: 3660 - Karma: 160
aww sad face :(
Nov 3 2010 2:49PM
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skifoo
Posts: 1396 - Karma: 45
eww, 10 mins for 350 meter long slope, about 1 hour for decent centre ( maybe 500-900 long slope?)
Nov 3 2010 3:05PM
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thebeesknees
Posts: 3660 - Karma: 160
thats unfortunate.
Nov 3 2010 3:06PM
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[Tinydancer]
Posts: 5 - Karma: 10
750 miles, about 12 hour drive. Am i the closest?
Nov 3 2010 3:09PM
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thebeesknees
Posts: 3660 - Karma: 160
nope sucks for you.
Nov 3 2010 3:10PM
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TaakaTaaka
Posts: 58 - Karma: 11
20 Minutes.. Gotta love downtown SLC.
Nov 3 2010 3:55PM
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shocker611
Posts: 2599 - Karma: 423
not 20 minutes from downtown sorry
Nov 24 2010 4:33PM
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rankstank
Posts: 1033 - Karma: 223
10 min, to tyrol basin.
Nov 24 2010 4:38PM
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