With 5,289 skiable acres and 33 lifts, Vail is enormous. Getting your bearings on the slopes can take days, but you'll never get bored cruising the range of glades, bowls, and wide-open groomers. Even better, the snow is pristine...
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With 5,289 skiable acres and 33 lifts, Vail is enormous. Getting your bearings on the slopes can take days, but you'll never get bored cruising the range of glades, bowls, and wide-open groomers. Even better, the snow is pristine Rocky Mountain powder that averages 350 inches a year—forget about those ice chutes they call runs on the East Coast. Vail's Front Side, which rises up from the village, offers a good mix of terrain, including double-black diamonds off the old Highline chair to the west (Roger's Run and Blue Ox are two favorites), and easygoing groomers off the Avanti Express to the east. But to get the full value from your lift ticket (more expensive every year), frolic in Vail's incomparable Back Bowls, accessed mid-mountain over the Patrol Headquarters peak from either the Mountaintop Express chair or the Northwoods Express (follow signs to Sun Up Bowl or China Bowl). Sparsely groomed, but beautiful and wide open, they're perfect for advanced skiers. Just past the bowls you'll find epic
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