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    Lost Michigan Ski Areas

    According to the map on the Christie Estates website, Christie Mtn was north of Lapeer in Metamora Township, just west of M-24. There is a Silverbell Road that runs east and west in Lapeer, my recollection is that Silverbell Hill was east of M-24, looks like it became a subdivision too, or...
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    Truth About Powder Skis

    Who needs powder skis??? I'll ski thigh-deep black diamond on my 210s!!!
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    Eldora Trip report, March 3rd, 2010

    We skied Eldora today, 42-inch base and 100% open, almost 100% of blue terrain groomed plus both Corona Face and Muleshoe black diamonds groomed too. They had a decent crowd, maybe 8 rows of cars in the upper parking lot, cover was really good, though I heard that the glades were getting pretty...
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    Has anyone skied at?

    Timber Ridge seemed quaint when I skied there 34 years ago, maybe 250 ft vertical with a couple of chairs, some fairly narrow trails too. I've never been to Bittersweet, but at least you can see it sticking-up above the trees from a distance. Swiss Valley is a joke, you can't even see the...
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    Chicago Ski Writer

    Chicago skiing??? Four Lakes??? Raging Buffalo??? Villa Olivia??? Stack 'em all on top of each other and together they are only 300 feet high!!! Southwest recently started flying non-stop to DTW from DEN, it was $89 each way a couple of weeks ago, no charge for the first 2 bags either!!!
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    Above average February snows for SE Lower Michigan

    Average is such a fleeting thing, I remember driving our snowmobiles, dirt bikes, iceboats, even cars on frozen lakes around Keego when the lake ice was 2 feet thick. Around 1970 the Detroit-area average January high temperature was 21 degrees with single-digit average night time lows...
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    Best Place within 7 hours of Indianapolis?

    Perhaps you might consider Cascade or Devil's Head in Wisconsin too, both are around 450-500 feet vertical, near Wisconsin Dells. If you would be willing to drive a little further, Rib Mountain or what is now known as Granite Peak is around 800 feet vertical right off of I-39 in Wisconsin too...
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    The Colo snow storm

    It looks a lot like out back of my house here in Broomfield tonight. Last night we got another 8 inches of snow, though the 2 feet that we got back in October has long since melted here in the Denver-area. It was 70 degrees out on both Wednesday and Thursday this last week when I played golf...
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    Lost Michigan Ski Areas

    I skied at Sugar Loaf a couple of times around 1970. Didn't they have a trail called Hemlock or was that Boyne? Other closed MI ski areas that I can think of: Mt. Grampian in Oxford (east of town). They had one double chairlift and some surface lifts. SilverBell in Lake Orion (east of...
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