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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We skied in Breckenridge over winter break.  It was crowded but not unbearably so.  The beginner lifts are always the busiest one, but get out there first thing in the day.  If you're more advanced go up higher and the lifts rarely have lines. The resorts there (in CO) are huge and don't feel as crowded as the more local ones. [/quote]

+1
Breck is awesome and only the beginner terrain gets crowded.  If you ski easy blacks, you can stay on peak 10 until your legs can't take it anymore, because there is never a line.  6 chair is also tons of fun, but those are proper blacks, not easy blacks.[/quote]

About to ski Breck tomorrow for the first time with my kids. They are good skiers on the east coast, we usually go to MA and sometimes VT. How do the runs compare to eastern mountains? [/quote]

Wider, less ice

What are you looking for? I prefer groomed so I like the following.

Cruising: 
Peak 7 - Monte Cristo, Angels Rest, Wirepatch, Lincoln Meadows
Peak 9 - Country Boy, Briar Rose, Upper Lehman

Groomed but steep:
Peak 10  - whatever is listed groomed, usually Centennial, Double Jack, Ciimaron, Crystal
Peak 6 - whatever is listed groomed, usually Bliss & Reverie
 
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+1 To all this. Love peak 10 groomed runs.

If they ski the East they will be really good skiers out west. The snow is so much better and the runs are wide, even when those out west say the snow is bad it is still better than the best day in the east. This makes is so much easier to ski out west. There is also a huge misconception that blacks or blues are harder out west and this is not really true and very much mountain dependent. The blues in breck and even the blacks on peak 10 are not incredibly steep. However, the blues on peak 6 are pretty steep, steeper than the ones on peak 10, and should really be blacks.[/quote]

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