hard to beat Truckee/Reno. Surf is only 4hrs away.

For pure variety and access then Mammoth/Bishop is a no brainer.

A- I was gonna keep that one a secret since that is my first choice if I could move. 😀

We don’t know where your coming from? Background Knowledge (throw that one at your wife it’s teacher talk she’ll appreciate it) is important! I want to make connections and build on the BK and don’t listen to any of these Cali guys, they think it’s all about stable snow and surf, they don’t know shit (e.g. there BK is limited).

or Bozeman!

SW Colorado. (Durango/Silverton area)
Trade in your Surf boards for Kayaks and you’ll have all of your toys in use nearly all of the time. Winter time, you can split and ride your Mtn. bike on consecutive days. When the snow is shit, Moab is 2.5 hrs to the west and I’ve heard there’s a trail or two over there to bike on. Summer, you can ride for years and not ever get bored (the local trails are more fun than a room full of well oiled midgets) and there is tons of rafting and kayaking locally as well as in every direction.

If you’re headed through Durango, hit me with a PM. I’d be happy to show you some San Juan love.

I would look for something in California, they have nice mountains, beaches and grass. The Pacific northwest seems cool too. Interior Rockies has unstable snow, cold temps, and most of the mountain towns are over priced.

Im going at the Surf angle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolinas,_California

Bolinas

close to San Francisco . Point Reyes
Mavericks
ocean beach , even Santa Cruz is within reach. Cold water, but hey your coming from jersey. Heavy , Large cold surf. Hawaii heavy all winter long but nobody out. Think overhead, double overhead, tripple overhead. they dont call it the wild coast for nothing

Splitboarding near- Tahoe Shasta lassen and the Eastern Sierra

Housing cost are off the hook (expensive) but lots of Victorian Homes that need constant restoration

yep, funky hippie bolinas. Thats it

Oh yeah,

edited to add

STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MONTANA
😯

Lot’s of great spots all over you could go to. It all depends on what you want.

Rockies will have colder temps (powder sticks around for a long time) but as mentioned avy danger is off the hook. No 24-48hrs after a storm and it’s all good. Still, big lines get done, and there is a ton of fun stuff. Season to season, snowfall is pretty reliable. Rare that there is two bad seasons in a row. Unlike the better part of a decade I experienced in Cali. The backcountry is a huge area out here. Especially in Colorado. It’s mind boggling how much there is. Of course there are popular spots, like Berthoud Pass. There are also places you can go where the only people you’ll likely see are the people you are touring with. I’m sure Montana is like this too, again, not familiar, but damn it looks good up there.

West Coast, surfing is accessible, though you’ll have to pick which one you want to be close too. At least in Cali that’s true. I think you could find a good central location in the PDX/PNW area, but I am just not familiar with it. Hope to change that this season ale! Steep ass lines go in the middle of winter too. I am so jealous of that. The snow sticks to higher angles too. It may not be the champagne powder of Colorado or Utah, but I think that’s a great trade off. Besides, a pow day is a pow day. With Hood, you’d have nearly year round opportunities. I have no idea how expansive the bc is around there.

Just depends on what you want.

@TEX wrote:

Im going at the Surf angle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolinas,_California

Bolinas

close to San Francisco . Point Reyes
Mavericks
ocean beach , even Santa Cruz is within reach. Cold water, but hey your coming from jersey. Heavy , Large cold surf. Hawaii heavy all winter long but nobody out. Think overhead, double overhead, tripple overhead. they dont call it the wild coast for nothing

Splitboarding near- Tahoe Shasta lassen and the Eastern Sierra

Housing cost are off the hook (expensive) but lots of Victorian Homes that need constant restoration

yep, funky hippie bolinas. Thats it

Oh yeah,

edited to add

STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MONTANA
😯

My favorite part of that town is the fact that everytime the county puts up a road sign saying “Bolinas” anything (pop. elevation, direction etc), the locals sneak out in the middle of the night and tear it down.

I honestly don’t think the full time population there would sustain a construction job though, it’d require a willingness to drive into other parts of Marin and Sonoma counties. I also think (having surfed 3 full winters in the area) that the reason there’s nobody out is the fact that it’s Hawaii heavy without the Hawaii setup. Lots of close out and ridiculous winter wind. When it’s not windy as hell or closed out, it can be socked in with fog so dense you have to paddle out to see if the takeoff spot is working. Something most surfers don’t know about that area? (Shhh!) It’s got extremely high quality summer surf with nothing to obstruct the swells as they come in, mild sunny weather, and a far enough distance away that when the Southerly groundswells finally arrive, they are clean and machine like.

Lots and lots of sharks though. Bolinas Bay is a known great white breeding ground, and the spot known as Shark Pit is no misnomer.

I loved my time on the Sonoma coast, but it’s a long road to ho for splitting, Lassen is hours away and Shasta another hour 1/2 beyond. Also Tahoe is kinda far too. Surfing and splitting, while seeming to attract alot of us, are kind of independent pursuits, and if you want to do both in CA you gotta be willing to drive for one or the other.

Remember, in CA a long drive is far longer than a “long drive” in the NE.

That said, lets see how much surfing you do if you live in Bozeman 🙂