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03-05-2008, 05:35 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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| Middle of the country
We're moving this August from the Greater Seattle Area to Iowa. Anyone know of any good slopes in the mid west? I'm so hoping to find slopes that aren't slush and ice pits like that what we have here (we usually go to Snoqualmie because it's closest).
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03-05-2008, 06:07 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: In a van....... down by the river
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Originally Posted by slushy  We're moving this August from the Greater Seattle Area to Iowa. Anyone know of any good slopes in the mid west? I'm so hoping to find slopes that aren't slush and ice pits like that what we have here (we usually go to Snoqualmie because it's closest). | You're moving to Iowa?
Any slopes you find there will make your WA slush and ice pits look like Vail.   | |
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03-06-2008, 10:06 AM
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#3 | | Junior Member
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| Aw man... well, at least I'll be closer to Colorado! Seriously... there's nothing within 4-5 hours drive of the middle of Iowa? Nothing in Illinois? Minnesota?
Lame. well, we have to move anyway, no choice in the matter. At least my kids will be able to sled there, as they actually get snow! | |
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03-06-2008, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by slushy Aw man... well, at least I'll be closer to Colorado! Seriously... there's nothing within 4-5 hours drive of the middle of Iowa? Nothing in Illinois? Minnesota?
Lame. well, we have to move anyway, no choice in the matter. At least my kids will be able to sled there, as they actually get snow! | Yeah, there is stuff in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc., but nothing like WA. | |
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03-06-2008, 12:41 PM
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#5 | | Junior Member
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| There are some ski slopes in Iowa but I doubt that they could really compare to where you live now. Des Moines has a decent ski slope in it somewhere that I am sure you would enjoy. At least your not going somewhere, where there is absolutely nothing :O | |
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03-07-2008, 11:04 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: In a van....... down by the river
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Originally Posted by slushy Aw man... well, at least I'll be closer to Colorado! Seriously... there's nothing within 4-5 hours drive of the middle of Iowa? Nothing in Illinois? Minnesota?
Lame. well, we have to move anyway, no choice in the matter. At least my kids will be able to sled there, as they actually get snow! | Coming from WA I'm guessing you'll be so underwhelmed by the offerings you'll simply save you energy and make a couple trips to CO/UT per year. That's what I'd do if I ended up in God-forsaken Iowa. Although I'm fairly certain I'd slit my wrists before I moved to Iowa... | |
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03-09-2008, 01:43 AM
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| aw come on now, skared.. it's not that bad... right? hey, i can afford to buy a house there... something I could never do here. | |
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03-09-2008, 06:30 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by slushy aw come on now, skared.. it's not that bad... right? hey, i can afford to buy a house there... something I could never do here. | Umm... yes. It is that bad. I have relatives there. And I grew up in Michigan. Which is like Iowa only with worse weather. I got the hell out of that place and haven't looked back. Except when I go during the summer to visit family & friends.
Have fun there.  | |
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03-11-2008, 01:20 AM
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#9 | | Junior Member
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| I'd debated for the last couple days on whether to put a similar question in the West Coast or East Coast forum. I'm smack dab in the middle of the country and looking for a new place to ski. We have family in Nebraska, Illinois, and Ohio, so it'd be one of those three directions we'd head next for any sort of trip....but neither of them scream "amazing ski resorts!!"
I've never been skiing in WA, though, so no really high expectations here. Any suggestions of a half-assed decent place to head in either of those three directions that are really nothing but corn fields instead of slopes, it seems? | |
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03-11-2008, 09:45 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Bunny I'd debated for the last couple days on whether to put a similar question in the West Coast or East Coast forum. I'm smack dab in the middle of the country and looking for a new place to ski. We have family in Nebraska, Illinois, and Ohio, so it'd be one of those three directions we'd head next for any sort of trip....but neither of them scream "amazing ski resorts!!"
I've never been skiing in WA, though, so no really high expectations here. Any suggestions of a half-assed decent place to head in either of those three directions that are really nothing but corn fields instead of slopes, it seems? | No. Your only hope is that Nebraska is pretty close (relatively) to the Rocky Mountains... | |
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