<p>My oldest daughter is a senior at Lewis & Clark college in Portland OR. For the past three spring semesters she has taught snowboarding at Mt. Hood. a very decent mountain 1 1/2 hours from Portland. So Reed in Portland would be good. As others mentioned U of Washington would be near lots of good skiing. My younger daughter is at UCLA. They have board club and she has gone on one 3 day trip with them to Tahoe and a couple of day trips to Big Bear. To be within 3 1/2 hours of fantastic Tahoe resorts look at Berkeley, Stanford (maybe 4 hours) and UC Davis (less than 2 hours). She is visiting her friend at University of Denver this weekend and they are going skiing at Breckenridge for the day so any school in the Denver area. Not familiar with east coast skiing but it will not be as good as west coast or at least will not be what you are used to.</p>
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You can currently buy full strength beer in Utah at special state-run liquor stores. I think you have to refrigerate it yourself. You can also get full strength beer at licensed restaurants, clubs, and bars. </p>
<p>It’s true that Utah grocery stores and convenience stores only sell near-beer. </p>
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Burlington is small but a fun college town. Closest major metro area is actually Montreal, which can be a very entertaining place, even if you don’t speak French (even more so if you can). </p>
<p>UVM has a ski/snowboard club that regularly runs [url=<a href=“http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmsnow/busses.html]busses[/url”>http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmsnow/busses.html]busses[/url</a>] to local slopes</p>
<p>Brigham Young University and University of Utah; you will be minutes away from world class skying. The ski resorts also sell cheap season pass to the students OR you can be an instructor and ski for free.</p>
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<p>Utah has changed its alcohol laws. It used to be the most ridiculous of all alcohol laws in the entire world.</p>
<p>UC Boulder sounds PERFECT for you. They have a bus line directly to Eldora, which is actually a pretty good resort. They also have tons of foregin students…</p>
<p>And of course Sierra Nevada College in Tahoe is still offering the Unique Ski Area Management Major. For real hard core skiers, not only you can ski in nearby 13 major resorts but also can learn how to be in the industry and run it.</p>
<p>If the quality of education is paramount, Middlebury and Dartmouth are the only real choices. The skiing isn’t as good as here, but from an ed standpoint they can’t be beat (if you can get in - a little harder than UCLA) and the cameraderie of skiing with peers is unparalleled. You also have another ten or so resorts w/i an hour. Colorado and Utah are going to have better snow, but the schools… and CU is really a minimum of 1.5 hours to good skiing. If ed is the priority, back east; if snow, then mountain west. </p>
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<p>What about Montana State University at Bozeman? Motto: Mountains and Minds. They offer one of the only 4-year undergrad programs in snow science in the US. Bridger Bowl is ~15 miles from campus, Big Sky Resort, and Moonlight Basin nearby. MSU hosted the NCAA men’s/women’s championships a couple of years ago. Supposedly world-class snowboarding in the area. Good student discounts on transportation and lift tickets/season passes.</p>
<p>For east, Colby is a pretty good choice…</p>
<p>I have been snowboarding for quite sometime now I have really grown accustom to it. It is my favorite sport and I’d hate to just throw it away. I Graduate high school in 2015, but I’m still looking for a college, does anyone know a close college suitable for me within Colorado?</p>
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<p>I’m trying to find a school with easy trans to snowboarding that also has a girls softball team. Couple that with high quality education. Best I can find so far is Middlebury. Does anyone know of any others?</p>
<p>UC Davis is about 2 hours from Tahoe… some the US’s best skiing :)</p>
<p>Williams is only a few minutes from Jimney Peak, though I don’t know if they offer transportation to/from the slopes</p>
<p>I’ll second jym’s suggestion. Williams has excellent academics, womens softball and plenty of snowboarding. I’m not up to speed on transportation details, but my son didn’t have a car and he had no problem putting in adequate time on the slopes.</p>
<p>For quality of snow, I doubt anything in Utah can be beat. I have been to a few resorts, and know for sure that was always a bus going up little cottonwood caynon whenever I was driving up in the morning. It’s great, I’m ten minutes from the bottom of the caynon in the city, and there is a group of twenty people with skis and snowboards standing at every bus stop I pass. When I looked up anual snowfall in North America, almost all of Colorado and Utah were around 300 inches. Little cottonwood caynon, Alta and Snowbird, average 500 inches. There are a couple places in Canada that can claim that. </p>
<p>I grew up in Idaho, and we had a bad resort fifteen minutes from the town, but alot of the other resorts are worldclass. Jackson is worldclass, and I’ve heard from friends that Montana has some worldclass resorts. Having driven from Idaho up to Alaska though, I can say that i have seen very few mountains that have such huge veritcal and go almost straight up as Utah. Plus, the quality of the snow they have there is from the evaporated water that comes off of Salt Lake, “lake effect”. </p>
<p>Someone asked if there was beginner runs in Utah. Alta and Snowbird are so huge they have everything, I’ve heard brighton and the caynons are the same. Park City is flat IMO, and deer valley is supposed to be the same. Solitude has short lines and small amount of mountain traffic, so the snow can be choppy, where Alta can get two feet of powder overnight, and the powder will be gone by noon. </p>
<p>I also want a place to ski, so I’m trying to see if new mexico or arizona has anything as well.</p>