>>>>Just coming back from a couple of days in switzerland (a dream of pulver snow last week - each day 20 cm of crunching powder added at minus 18 celsius). Nearly noboby on the slopes as it was pre-season and no lines at the lifts.
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>>>>Only thing I bemoan is the attempt to turn every run into a broad, well plastered highway - the stretches with buckles and hills are "too dangerous" this day and age...
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>>>Lucky you!!! (I mean that)
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>>Yupp, timing was really great - whole europe struggling with snow and I could enjoy it.
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>>>One day try "The Plunge" in Telluride, CO....
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>>Actually I had looked up some of the resorts in the US - from the pictures it seems the mountains are steeper,
>>and telluride area really looks interesting. I'm pretty sure it was one of the areas I had wondered about before. The other might have been Jacson Hole.

Telluride and Jackson Hole in the 80s were pretty nice. The vertical at JH was pretty impressive and they made a big deal out of it giving you a card you could use to keep track of the vertical for each run and when you hit 50,000 and 100,000 ft you got a pin and a belt buckle at 300,000. I was there with skiiers way better than I was ( some of them became the first official US freestyle team ) so I probably did as many vertical feet without my skis as with them but it was an awesome place. Telluride in those days had the air of a little cowboy town. Crested Butte nice too. All very kicked back.