Gary: In Colorado, the Epic pass is the Vail family of resorts, so we stick to those. Of those, we had really great skiing last year at Vail in Blue Sky basin and in the back bowls, especially Mongolia Bowl. It seems like every time we were there last year they got 8-16 inches of new snow. We've grown to like Breckendridge more as well. Trees off the side of Peak 10 and also up above tree line at Peak 7. And we found a nice VRBO condo in Dillon that we've now rented 3 or 4 times.
In Utah, we stay in/near Park City and pick a different resort each day. Always one day at Deer Valley and there are good trees there that don't get much traffic. Couple of days at Alta and/or Solitude. Canyons has gotten much better as we have gotten much better - you just have to pick a part of the mountain and stay there; again more in off-piste in trees than groomed slopes. I also like SnowBasin, but its more of a drive there.
We did drive down and ski at SunDance and stayed for dinner one time. Very nice and a non-resort feel, and there is much more terrain than it appears from the base of the mountain.
Lynn's medical conference is at Breckenridge this year (last year was at Beaver Creek), so she and Heidi will get many days there, but the groomed slopes there fit well with Heidi's preferred terrain (groomed slopes not such a good fit for Lynn
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