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Mountains near Airports

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Mmessmer
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me my bro and my dad r thinking about goin out west for like 3-4 days and we dont want to drive for a long time so were trying to find a place that is like 1-2 hours away from an airport... any resorts come to mind??
Nov 19 2006 7:14PM
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Bees_Knees
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big or little cottonwood canyon
Nov 19 2006 7:17PM
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philipc
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unless you want to wait at a lift for 45 minutes at a crowded restort your probly going to have to drive
Nov 19 2006 7:18PM
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LineSkier817
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defiently fly into salt lake city, and drive 10 minutes to cottn wood canyon. and you get snowbird and alta. then there is brighton, solitude, the canyons, park city all near by.
Nov 19 2006 7:21PM
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KillJib
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yea u def gotta drive for a good resort
Nov 19 2006 7:21PM
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tahoearmada20
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Anywhere resort in Tahoe is within about one hour of the Reno/Tahoe International Airport

Squaw sucks ass, so dont go there
Nov 19 2006 7:26PM
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Colt45er
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i wish my parents took me on a ski trip

Nov 19 2006 7:29PM
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TimothyLord
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just go to salt lake area. there are a bunch of places so close to the airport
Nov 19 2006 7:30PM
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jibsworth
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Whiss is about 2 hours away from the vancouver airport
Nov 19 2006 7:31PM
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eheath
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I would tell you to come to Montana, Big Sky is 1 hour from the airport, but you would probably just say it sucks because the park sucks.
Nov 19 2006 7:32PM
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eheath
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I forgot to add...

Go to Utah. Alta, Snowbird, Brighton, and Park City are about 30 minutes out of town.
Nov 19 2006 7:34PM
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ShadyHillGroup
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if you want a real mt. go to Jackson, nor a sick park, but who needs it there, yeah SLC is legit too
Nov 19 2006 7:50PM
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DaysToCome
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Aspen has an airport like 5 minutes from everything
telluride has an airport
vails got an airport
steamboats got an airport.
if you fly into denver then keysone breck copper winterpark, loveland, and arapahoe basin are all within like an hour and half
or Jackson (sickkkkk!)
Nov 19 2006 8:25PM
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chairdawg
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when i went out to salt lake i remember the airport being close to town and from thier its like an hour to enough mountains to last way more than 3-4 days i think solitude is the least crouded but has a horrible park lots of fun skiing though
Nov 19 2006 9:35PM
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cracko
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salt lake, literally 30 minutes from probly 7 really good places. alta, snowbird, canyons, brighton, park city- a couple others
Nov 19 2006 10:11PM
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fouldsys
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vancouver + 2 hour drive = whistler
Nov 19 2006 10:24PM
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sexy_skier_babii
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aspen. winter park. mt hood.
Nov 19 2006 10:26PM
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Aenigma
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There's an airport in Jackson, WY but it's a bitch and a half to fly into small airports like that.  I'd suggest Utah.
Nov 19 2006 10:33PM
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treesmann
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salt lake city
Nov 19 2006 10:40PM
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awsomecoolguy
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nuff said!
Nov 19 2006 11:19PM
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LineSkier817
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and after a day of skiing, if your bored and want to do something, there should be enough things to do in the town of sandy or go back to salt lake and go check out the ski shops.
Nov 20 2006 2:53PM
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zsimko88
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just fly into salt lake city, and look out one of the windows. chances are youll see a resort....

...or the lake if you see that your looking the wrong way just turn around
Nov 20 2006 2:57PM
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=FLO=
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Crested Butte is 1/2 hour from Gunni airport
Nov 20 2006 3:09PM
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Alkyy
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Salt lake, Bozeman, Reno, Portland(not sure about that actually) would all be good
Nov 20 2006 3:34PM
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TimothyLord
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salt lake city. you could hit up snowbird alta parkcity and so many other places
Nov 20 2006 3:35PM
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