Your best bet is in north carolina. Cataloochee is really close and is south of the smokies. Cataloochee has nothing really steep. their park is ok, but if you are driving I guess 8 hours more or less, you might as well just drive to boone. In Boone, you have appalachian, which is the ebst for park. They had a really good 45 footer last year and they have tons of rails. Check out
www.appterrainpark.com You also have sugar mountain, which I personally don't like because there park sucks and the people there can be assholes. It has a 1200 vert and 38 degree steeps. Its the largest and worth a trip. Hawksnest is also good. It is very small, has a decent park(2nd best in NC behind App), it is uncrowded and cheap. Beech is the second biggest I believe but it has nothing steep and is crowded. I wouldn't go there.
Also, don't go to wolf laurel. that place sucks unless you hit it perfectly when there a huge dump(2-3yrs ago, they had 2+feet overnight, and it was sick, cause they opened up some steep trails that never get opened cause of snow).
Don't bother with sapphire valley. It's 150 feet tall and 1 trail. don't bother with cloudmont either. sky Valley and scaly mountain are closed too. Sky Valley would actually be sick if they had a park and were open. It's a good little resort.
Bristolrider, the Northern GA mountains only get around 12-maybe 24 incehs of snow a year. But the North Carolina Moutnains recieve around 80 inches each year. roan Mountain at 6285feet tall gets 100 inches each year.
so skier27 I think, whoever made this thread, message me if you want to know more about skiing down here or just to talk. tell me when your coming up so we can ski together. where in florida do you live?
