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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want my kids to learn how to ski and to learn how to ski myself. I was thinking of trying to book something for a holiday weekend in January or February, and was overwhelmed with all the options I found both near and far. I see there is a lot of debate about driving to local(ish) places, where people say the snow can be terrible or turn into ice or mush because of local temps, versus flying west or north which takes a lot longer but has better conditions, and whether it matters for complete newbies who are just learning and wouldn't be doing anything too fancy anyway.

Any suggestions for places that will be fun to help us figure out if this is a (very expensive) activity we want to start doing more as a family? I'm thinking this would be a 4 day trip total, but am open to advice on that. Do folks think it is better to start local or fly out to someplace with better conditions?  I assume we would rent equipment on-site.

FWIW I can see this is going to be a splurge activity no matter where we end up, so I'd love for it to at least be worth the money we will need to pay as first-timers who didn't plan for it in the spring, don't have equipment, and don't know what we are doing. That said, my daughter went to Liberty last winter with a friend and said it was fun but that during the lesson, the snow was so sticky that they literally could not slide down the hill and were all just stuck in place. [/quote]

Park City
Keystone,CO
Breckenridge, CO

Park City is. the best easy 45 min from airport ski or snowboarding school is great fun town for when not skiing. All in all great trip.[/quote]

This. I grew up in New England near a local ski mountain and it was soooo hard to learn to ski there - it was just slush or ice and yuck. Took so much effort to move one leg in front of the other. Went to CO as an adult and took a lesson and was properly skiing in no time. [/quote]

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