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Well, you can go skiing in all three, while it won't be as epic as skiing in the Rockies or the Cascade range... Cincinnati and St. Louis are within hours of ski resorts. Minneapolis has ski hills. Plus, there's other aspects to skiing than downhill-- there's cross-country skiing as well.
Well, you can go skiing in all three, while it won't be as epic as skiing in the Rockies or the Cascade range... Cincinnati and St. Louis are within hours of ski resorts. Minneapolis has ski hills. Plus, there's other aspects to skiing than downhill-- there's cross-country skiing as well.
Saint Louis and Cincinnati, being in the lower Midwest, will be more Catholic.
That doesn't make any sense. Pretty much every Northern urban center will have a good Catholic vibe, since those were the magnets for Catholic immigrants. If anything, the further north, the better.
St. Paul is a Catholic bastion. Don't believe me? Just google its cathedral...
and some of my friends recently went to a ski resort outside of Cincinnati, don't recall the name, but from the pics it looked pretty impressive.
We went skiing while in St. Louis (not sure if that's where we went or not) and it was really underwhelming, but we were just glad to ski at the time. You're not going to find anything over 500' vertical drop in any of the three cities, but at least Minneapolis has several IN the metro, as well as a dozen to two dozen more within a few hours drive, and Lutsen Mountain in Northeastern MN is the largest ski area in the country outside the mountains (1000' vertical drop, dozens of runs and lifts).
We went skiing while in St. Louis (not sure if that's where we went or not) and it was really underwhelming, but we were just glad to ski at the time. You're not going to find anything over 500' vertical drop in any of the three cities, but at least Minneapolis has several IN the metro, as well as a dozen to two dozen more within a few hours drive, and Lutsen Mountain in Northeastern MN is the largest ski area in the country outside the mountains (1000' vertical drop, dozens of runs and lifts).
Is Lutsen Mountain bigger than Mt. Bohemia in the U.P. of Michigan?
I grew up in upstate New York and skied a lot when I was younger. The skiing in the Twin Cities metro is very comperable to what was available within an hour and a half of Utica where I lived, or in western New York. On the other hand there is nothing here that competes with the Adirondack high peaks or Vermont; but those were farther away. The skiing in the Twin Cities is actually pretty good, considering it is in the Midwest. There are lots of big bluffs along the rivers and many months of good snowmaking conditions.
Last edited by Drewcifer; 05-01-2012 at 03:34 PM..
Wow this thread started like in 2010, probably the person who made this thread is long and gone.
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