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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]University of Utah is way better for access to skiing than CU, CSU, CC or DU. We live in Colorado and UU has gotten really popular with kids from our high school the last several years because with the WUE or in-state tuition after a year it's more affordable than Boulder or CSU.

[b]And if you're asking why not Vermont, you're not a skier.[/b] [/quote]

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Skiers prefer to ski on powder, not ice.[/quote]

VT skiing is nothing to sneeze at -- those trails require strong technical skills and the skiing can be a lot of fun too. I prefer to ski in CO over VT (who doesn't???) but not enough that I would have picked a college because of that.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mikaela-shiffrin-learned-to-ski-in-vail-she-learned-to-race-in-vermont-1518437093

“You grow up in the East, and you know how to ski on ice,” said Erik Schlopy, a Burke alumnus who skied in three Olympics. “There’s no better training ground than Vermont because it’s icy.”

Anyone who has skied both sides of the United States would say the mountains out West are bigger and better in almost every way. The powder in destination resorts like Vail is the soft, pillowy stuff of skiing paradise. But for ski racers, that’s a problem. They want the consistency of hard snow, and they’ll go anywhere to feel the power of their sharp turns.

Shiffrin didn’t have to go very far. The conditions in Vermont were almost identical to the conditions she would one day encounter across Europe. “The World Cup runs are pure ice,” Schlopy said. “It’s basically a slab of marble that’s a mile long.”

The idea is to reward technical precision, and no skier is as technically precise as Shiffrin, in part because she’s familiar with snow that’s injected with water to feel less like snow. “That happens naturally in the East,” said Griffin Brown, her classmate at Burke.[/quote]

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