Best Skiing in Western US

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"Aleyeska" are you kidding? that place sucks

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This is an absolutely ludicrous comment. I have skied all over and had some of my absolutely best runs at Alyeska. North Face on a powder day is incredible. Not many other places you can you find lots of 40+% pitch runs for 2500 vertical, with almost 600 inches annual.

Edit to add something relevent to the topic: I would def. go to Jackson. If you want to go to tahoe, and like steep backountry, go to alpine. I am in Reno right now and most of the good local skier/snowboarders I know have passes to alpine.

But (barring weather) you really cant go wrong.