Monki
Certified Ski Diva
This reminded me--CMH has a powder 101 course for those of us new to heli...there is a video too
https://www.skicmh.com/powder101_au.html
I was very much inspired/tempted after watching it. If $ is no object...
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Question: If money were no object, where would you ski?
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https://www.skicmh.com/powder101_au.html
I was very much inspired/tempted after watching it. If $ is no object...
Indianaskier
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Obviously I don't live near a mountain. I'm two hours from our ski area here and for Indiana, it's a nice place, well maintained and somehow they can keep more snow than most people can imagine. Even though it's only large hills I am glad we at least have that.
I would love to go to Alaska, not only to ski, but to see and do other things, so an extended visit would be my dream. Part of that trip I would love to heli ski. Just once I'd love the freedom of knowing that there is nobody right behind me, where I could make any turn I choose, safely and without fear of someone ripping behind me. Also I would love to go to Banff. I can dream, but I'm not expecting those two dreams to come true, except the Alaska trip, minus heli skiing. I'd love that too. My brother lives in OR, so I can visit him and go to Mt. Hood or other areas there. When my daughter lived in Tahoe I could stay with her and practically fall out of bed and be at Heavenly. I miss that, but I'd love having her close to home again. The people in our family who ski have been talking about a trip together sometime. That would be fun for all of us, so we'll see if that comes to pass one day.
I would love to go to Alaska, not only to ski, but to see and do other things, so an extended visit would be my dream. Part of that trip I would love to heli ski. Just once I'd love the freedom of knowing that there is nobody right behind me, where I could make any turn I choose, safely and without fear of someone ripping behind me. Also I would love to go to Banff. I can dream, but I'm not expecting those two dreams to come true, except the Alaska trip, minus heli skiing. I'd love that too. My brother lives in OR, so I can visit him and go to Mt. Hood or other areas there. When my daughter lived in Tahoe I could stay with her and practically fall out of bed and be at Heavenly. I miss that, but I'd love having her close to home again. The people in our family who ski have been talking about a trip together sometime. That would be fun for all of us, so we'll see if that comes to pass one day.
Liquid Yellow
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
First I'd learn how to ski deep powder (this may take some time. I have all the money/time in the world so no problem)
Then I would do heli-skiing in Canada, Utah and wherever else the fancy takes me.
Then I'd throw in a few trips to Niseko, Argentina, Alaska and other random places.
Then I would use some of my vast cash reserves to buy a VERY expensive apartment in Val d'Isere and live there for the rest of the season, before travelling to NZ/Australia to ski there during the European summer.
I'd make sure I have spare rooms for any Ski Divas who want free accommodation, I'm a generous squillionaire. Hell I'd even stump up the lift pass and beers.
Then I would do heli-skiing in Canada, Utah and wherever else the fancy takes me.
Then I'd throw in a few trips to Niseko, Argentina, Alaska and other random places.
Then I would use some of my vast cash reserves to buy a VERY expensive apartment in Val d'Isere and live there for the rest of the season, before travelling to NZ/Australia to ski there during the European summer.
I'd make sure I have spare rooms for any Ski Divas who want free accommodation, I'm a generous squillionaire. Hell I'd even stump up the lift pass and beers.
gr8outdoors
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Would love to explore more of Colorado, Lake Tahoe, Alaska and Salt Lake City resorts. Oh - skiing in the summer in Chile or even Oregon would be fun too!
marzNC
Angel Diva
After the trip report about April Alyeska by @Olesya Chornoguz, Alaska has made it to my bucket list. Made it to Jackson Hole and want to go back in good conditions. But for a short trip (4-5 days of skiing plus travel days), SLC would still be my recommendation for someone who is working and has to use vacation days. Even better if can book flights on Southwest so that could cancel and reschedule with no penalty if the weather doesn't cooperate.
Never flown southwest but doubt I will. NNot after seeing what happened to one guy I knew who got stuck at SLC for 5 days!
"cancel and reschedule without penalty"? Only if they have empty seat on that flight you want, which is never the one you need to get back to work after a storm delayed you for a couple of days already!
having suffered a lessor version of that with JetBlue, I now really prefer to pay extra to get a flight from one of the "biggy" instead. They have several flights a day so much better at getting their stuck customers back to work...
I was pretty happy with JetBlue until this year. They left me stranded TWICE in Denver!!!
It's not that they don't try, but there's simply no space on that one and only flight in and out of Denver for the next 3 days!!!
The 3 days wages was far greater than the price difference...
Problem is, JFK is already a JetBlue hub! That didn't help at all. Can you imagine if I were flying from one non-hub city to another?
Trouble being, the planes were almost always full or close to full. So when there's a cancellation, weather or mechanical, that whole plane load of people need to be shuffled onto other flights. But if all the flights were operating close to full to begin with, where do they put the people? Well, how about spread them over the next 7 days!
JetBlue did in the end reimbursed me for my hotel and rental car for the additional 3 days. But it wasn't easy. Also, that's just expense. Lost wage was not part of the compensation. It would have cost me less to pay for one night of hotel than to lose 3 days of pay.
Funny we're discussing which airline is cheaper to fly, in a thread titled "if money is no object"...
NZfarmgirl
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
I would like to take my family on a month long north America ski safari. But for the 2 of us I think skiing the Dolomites in Italy would be nice.
bounceswoosh
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
If money were no object? I don't know where,but it would be heli skiing all the way!
snow addict
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
If money were no object I would quit my job tomorrow and move to live in the ski resort. The same resort that I always ski.
marzNC
Angel Diva
I'm so excited to be going to Whistler next weekend, but I'm now trying to plan one more long weekend trip for the year in late Feb-early March to cash in some points / miles to somewhere I've never skied. I've been eying up Tahoe....but the question is where? Northstar? Heavenly? Or somewhere else?
Teach me, divas!
In all honesty, there are a lot of places I haven't skied. All suggestions welcome!
@kit125 : wondering where you ended up going, or if work got in the way completely.
Definitely a different question when money is not the issue, but only 4-5 days are available for a ski trip in Feb or March. At least that has a little more flexibility than trying to plan a trip during school holidays.
SkiBilly
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
If money wasn't an issue I would buy up big! I would invest in ski in/out condos or chalets (or as close as possible to) all over the world! What a dream!
In the USA : Colorado, Utah, Montana for a start...don't know which resorts as we haven't skied in US as yet (we plan to begin exploring in our retirement in a few years time).
In Canada, we are very fortunate to have a condo already at Big White, but I would buy a town house at Cedar Ridge in Whistler (great location to village, private hot tub and excellent ski in/out).
In Europe : France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland....have only skied in Zermatt thus far, but many resorts in these countries are on our 'to ski' bucket list.
In Australia: I would also buy a chalet at Mount Hotham so I could ski all year round in both hemispheres...this is hopefully going to be a reality in the next five years rather than a dream.
Here's hoping, haha
In the USA : Colorado, Utah, Montana for a start...don't know which resorts as we haven't skied in US as yet (we plan to begin exploring in our retirement in a few years time).
In Canada, we are very fortunate to have a condo already at Big White, but I would buy a town house at Cedar Ridge in Whistler (great location to village, private hot tub and excellent ski in/out).
In Europe : France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland....have only skied in Zermatt thus far, but many resorts in these countries are on our 'to ski' bucket list.
In Australia: I would also buy a chalet at Mount Hotham so I could ski all year round in both hemispheres...this is hopefully going to be a reality in the next five years rather than a dream.
Here's hoping, haha
