re: 2020-2021 ski thread

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I appreciate the info. We ended up pulling the trigger on a place in Vail Village called All Seasons (through vrbo) for first week of Feb next year. 4 nights @ 300/night so not too bad. It's near Golden Peak side of village (the quiet side I hear) and is a really short walk to the Riva Bahn express lift . Not sure why Mrs jkyle was so hung up on going to Vail. The ski map looks solid though. I second the idea of stocking up on groceries and eating in mostly. We went to vail on Thursday to just look around and it def struck me as a pretty high end kinda snooty situation. Lol.

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You will love staying in the village. When I went to Vail my very first time in 2006 we actually stayed at the Vail Cascades(now known as the Grand Hyatt) on the Western edge of the ski slope, it was a ski in/ski out hotel. It was awesome, but since I wasn't paying for it I didn't mind how much it cost.

Vail is my favorite mountain, I was there for 4 days last month and still didn't get to everything, and I am a first chair to last chair skiier who doesn't take breaks.

Here are my favorite runs:

Intermediate(Blue): Born Free, Simba, Northwoods, Poppyfields, Grand Review, The Slot

Advanced(Easier Blacks): Riva Ridge, Northstar, Hornsilver

Expert(Harder Blacks): Lover's Leap, Roger's Run, Blue Ox, Genghis Khan, Campbell's, Ricky's Ridge, Forever, WOW, Bwana

If You Like Bumps: Wildcard in the Game Creek Bowl is a great place to practice bumps, I think its a better place to practice than Whistle Pig, even though Whistle Pig is a blue and Wildcard is a black - the bumps on Whistle Pig are massive compared to Wildcard. Highline and Prima are the two signature bump runs of the resort, I did the PPL(Prima, Pronto and Log Chute) all in a row and its pretty tough. Highline is a little less step than Prima, but its longer and the bumps are bigger.

I got lucky in my last trip, Roger's Run, which is never groomed, was groomed when I was there and it was awesome. I also got the privilege of skiing there on a powder day, I don't think it gets much better than Lover's Leap all the way down to Chair 39 in Blue Sky Basin in knee deep powder. They almost always groom a black run in the back bowls every day, find which one it is and ski it, those bowls are great in powder but also the black runs back there when groomed are great too. They had Ricky's Ridge, Genghis Khan, and Jade's Glade groomed for my trip on various days.