Overrated vacation / gravity-based recreation destinations

**frorider** · 11-16-2018, 03:11 PM

1. Bend, OR. It’s not a bad place by any means—I lived there a decade and have been visiting there regularly (family) for many many years—but the extensive network of mountain biking trails just can’t make up for the lack of vertical. Skiing-wise, Bachelor is low angle cruising, and the BC is pretty limited if you don’t want to mess around with a sled approach.

The dirtjump scene qualifies as mecca-level at least.

**Meadow Skipper** · 11-16-2018, 03:12 PM

Colorado.

**skaredshtles** · 11-16-2018, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

Colorado.

This.

**frorider** · 11-16-2018, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

Colorado.

You including San Juans?

**Meadow Skipper** · 11-16-2018, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by frorider

You including San Juans?

Well...no.

**skaredshtles** · 11-16-2018, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

Well...no.

But they're basically Texan...

**TAFKALVS** · 11-16-2018, 03:38 PM

Leavenworth, WA - I live here, it sucks.
Maui - overpriced, crowded, Disney type experience almost everywhere.
I 2nd Bend, the mountain biking is boring unless you're a XC nerd.

**KyleLanTheman** · 11-16-2018, 03:53 PM

Alyeska. You can have a blast if you live near there, but you have to fly past a lot of badass skiing to get there from the lower 48.

**AdironRider** · 11-16-2018, 04:46 PM

Mt. Baker.

Sure they get epic snow, followed immediately by epic rain.

**Peruvian** · 11-16-2018, 04:53 PM

x2 on Maui

Whistler (see comments on Mt Baker above).

**dunfree** · 11-16-2018, 05:32 PM

yellowstone
jackson hole
most any place that "rates" according to people now is actually overrated.

**Dromond** · 11-16-2018, 06:02 PM

Whistler or anywhere in the coastal NW is questionable as a destination for skiing because it's so crazy variable. If you live in the area and are flexible it's a different story. What I've seen/skied in Alaska kind of gives me the same opinion on that.

I think Moab is super beautiful and I enjoyed riding Whole Enchilada for the experience and scenery, but large portions of that trail are hammered BS compared to what I'm used to.

**dunfree** · 11-16-2018, 06:23 PM

every skiing destination is variable based on conditions.

**k2skier112** · 11-16-2018, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by dunfree

every skiing destination is variable based on conditions.

Exactly. And from mid Jan thru March just about anywhere in the NW is a sure bet there'll be skiing

**hutash** · 11-16-2018, 06:53 PM

Any where in the east.

I disagree about Jackson, great all around region, overpriced but still a great place (hence why it is overpriced.)

**Viva** · 11-16-2018, 07:08 PM

Hooters if ypu like gravity-defying.

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**iceman** · 11-16-2018, 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by Leavenworth Skier

Maui - overpriced, crowded, Disney type experience almost everywhere.

Originally Posted by Peruvian

x2 on Maui.

I've never been to Hawaii but I'm pretty surprised by this.

**BCMtnHound** · 11-16-2018, 07:28 PM

Put me down as X3 on Maui. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice place, but not as nice as my inlaws seem to think. Too developed for my taste. MIL spends 2+months of the winter there every year, and invites the family. I accompany my ladies about every 3rd year on their pilgrimage. But then I love our winters, so there is that.

**dunfree** · 11-16-2018, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

I've never been to Hawaii but I'm pretty surprised by this.

if you want a cheapish untouched island fantasy, Hawaii ain't it. probably hasn't been for 40 years or more. still pretty.

overrated is the mismatch between expectation and reality. a pretty, nice, safe, undeveloped tropical destination doesn't stay that way for long.

**splat** · 11-16-2018, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

I've never been to Hawaii but I'm pretty surprised by this.

It sure ain't what it used to be...

**Benny Profane** · 11-16-2018, 09:03 PM

Zion N.P.

**Angle Parking** · 11-16-2018, 09:06 PM

Anywhere with lift lines and lots of people.

**Kenny Satch** · 11-16-2018, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by flowing alpy

mediocre at best

When your choices are limited mediocre is as good as it gets. Sucks when you enjoy a once a year trip out west then have to come home to shifty terrain and icey conditions.

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**Angle Parking** · 11-16-2018, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by flowing alpy

it’s not the lines so much as the people, usually when there’s a big lineup, there’s a shit ton of folks that really should be on the bunny hill riding the lift to the mediocre stuff, clogging up the hill and blowing up while offloading the chair.

Split hairs if you will but me no do lift lines or anything resembling crowds for that matter.

**dunfree** · 11-16-2018, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by Angle Parking

Split hairs if you will but me no do lift lines or anything resembling crowds for that matter.

that's nice. are you rich, or are you taking advantage of places that will soon go out of business? awesome ski areas with no crowds, now, depend on largess or cluelessness. smug doesn't change that.