Yeah I recognized it as the MO one. My grandparents live in St. Peters and, since Snow Creek (the local ski bump here in KC) just turned it's biggest run into a snowtubing park, a random trip to St. Louis to see the grandparents this winter could include some skiing, too (were those my grandparents in the Luau photo????
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). HV looks generally bigger than Snow Creek, even before SC butchered its terrain. I hear it's icier though, but desperate times may call for desperate measures...
Hey if it doesn't start snowing in Utah soon, I may have the first ski trip report of the year! My brother and I are debating Loveland versus Arapahoe the weekend of the 4th and 5th of Nov. All I know is there's gonna be some altitude sickness coming on soon.
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In addition to the Park City trip, and maybe a trip to the new Hidden Valley
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, there's a co-worker who has a two week condo rental in Gunnison, another lurking "business trip" to New Mexico and a final potential trip with my brother to Wolf Creek/Monarch. Even if I only make one out of three of those, it'd be a damn good season!
ps- Searide, to specifically answer your question, 3 1/2 to 4 hours. If my grandparents didn't live out there the trip would simply never happen, not when there's so much more to be offered in
Council Bluffs, Iowa!!!