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How Far Is It To Your Nearest Ski Resort (minutes)


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#41 Eric

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 01:08 PM

:offtopic:

Let's come back to the main topic
How far is your nearest ski resort ?
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#42 CAski

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 04:57 PM

KZ, on Jan 7 2004, 07:16 PM, said:

CAski, on Jan 6 2004, 04:20 PM, said:

On that day, I had some friends going to sacramento, it took them 6 hours to go to Truckee from Carson City on the 80.  It took them another 4 hours to reach Sacramento.

That makes no sense at all. Why would you go to carson city to go home to sacramento. Thats driving east to nevada, when you want to go west in california.

The traffic on 88 and 395 was fine when i came home the day after christmas. :P

I came up two days after Christmas. My friends were going to go down the 395, but it was closed (this was last Friday). They decided to go along the 267 instead, but when they saw how backed up it was, they turned around and tried the aforementioned route.
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#43 KZ

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 05:02 PM

interesting route choice.
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#44 CAski

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 05:24 PM

All the roads were congested.

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#45 KZ

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 08:30 PM

yea, i know. Must have been a bad day for travel period.
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#46 floridaskier

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Posted 09 January 2004 - 05:28 PM

I just got driving directions from my house to Park City:

Total Est. Time: 38 hours, 15 minutes Total Est. Distance: 2480.83 miles

If you really want to see it:
MapQuest Driving Directions

I just did it from an intersection near my house because y'all dont need to know my address, but my house is over that bridge over the canal to the right on Lighthouse Drive in the first map
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#47 Eric

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Posted 09 January 2004 - 05:39 PM

damn, thats a long drive
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#48 KZ

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Posted 09 January 2004 - 08:50 PM

not bad ;)
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#49 floridaskier

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Posted 10 January 2004 - 06:22 AM

And that doesnt even include stopping over at some motel for the night.

If you followed those directions, you would hit:

12 different interstate highways:
I-95, I-295, I-10, I-75, I-475, I-24, I-57, I-64, I-435, I-70, I-29, I-80

11 different states:
Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Misssouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah
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#50 coskibum

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Posted 10 January 2004 - 02:43 PM

eldora: 25 minutes!

but i usually go to summit county which is like 1.5 hours away

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Posted 11 January 2004 - 12:52 PM

Lucky :(
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#52 poloxskier

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Posted 07 November 2004 - 11:04 PM

Edora- 1hr 15min
Steamboat- 2hrs
Summit County- 2hrs 30 min
Vail- 3hrs
-Bryan

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"You could say that a mountain is alot like a woman, once you think you know every inch of her and you're about to dip your skis into some soft, deep powder...Bam, you've got two broken legs, cracked ribs and you pay your $20 just to let her punch your lift ticket all over again"

#53 CAski

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Posted 08 November 2004 - 04:43 PM

That certainly isn't bad.

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#54 pyrotechnik

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Posted 08 November 2004 - 10:06 PM

50 minutes to snoqualmie
45 minutes to crystal
4 hours to baker
6.5 hours to whistler

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Posted 10 November 2004 - 09:49 AM

3 minutes to the nearest area (a little small, one gondi two double chairs and two t-bar's).
All the biggest austrian resorts between 1-3 hours.
And over here in germany there's no speed limit (you can go as fast as your car drives). In austria there's the limit to 130 kph but mostly you can go around 150 without having big problems.
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Posted 10 November 2004 - 01:04 PM

Deer Valley 5 min
PCMR 5 min
Canyons 7 min
the cottonwood canyons just under an hour

#57 Allan

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Posted 11 November 2004 - 07:00 PM

4 minutes to Red, 1 hour to Whitewater, 3 hours to Big White, 4 to SilverStar.
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Posted 11 November 2004 - 11:10 PM

From the air Silverstar looks close to kelowna but it's actually quite the drive. And it costs about $120 dollars to drive by cab from bigwhite to the kelowna airport.

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Posted 12 November 2004 - 10:20 PM

its 500km to The town, then anither 50km to the snow in total it takes us 5 hours to get to the town
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Posted 16 November 2004 - 02:15 PM

killington.. literally 3 minutes car.. i go to kms (killington mountain school)





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