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Hi everyone. I love large amounts of dry snow in the winter. Luscious green summers. Mountains. Snowboarding. All of my research points me to Hokkaido, but Japan is not an easy place to live for an American. Interior BC is appealing, particularly the revelstoke area, but again not the easiest place to move to. Am I left to lust after foreign lands, or is there somewhere else that can satisfy my needs?
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, etc. Those are the areas in the US with the closest climates to Hokkaido...which isn't very close but there you go.
Valdez, AK sounds like a good fit. Winters get even more snow than Sapporo at 300 inches, and a good amount of precipitation throughout the year. No shortage of mountains and forests. Summers are cool, but winters are actually not that cold, cold enough for lots of snow but rarely bitterly cold. The forests look more boreal though, they remind me of those around Lake Superior's North Shore whereas those of Hokkaido are more like here in Southern Ontario.
Thanks everyone, I should have mentioned to rule out the northeast, as that is where I grew up and I am looking for more, drier snow and a change of pace. AK is a good rec, a place I have considered. Michigan and Minnesota are not mountainous enough.
Thanks everyone, I should have mentioned to rule out the northeast, as that is where I grew up and I am looking for more, drier snow and a change of pace. AK is a good rec, a place I have considered. Michigan and Minnesota are not mountainous enough.
Then AK is your only choice, really. The interior West might be too dry for lots of snow, even though it does fall.
Some slightly close places, though they are tiny if anyone even lives there. Holden, Washington gets a ton of snow but summers are far drier and don't have the warm nights of Sapporo. Hayes River, Alaska gets a lot of snow as well, and warmer summers than Valdez, but nowhere near as warm as Sapporo.
Talkeetna is an hour or two from plenty of mountains, and has almost 1000 people, Talkeetna, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unless you're looking for interior towns like Fairbanks, most places in Alaska have too much oceanic influence to get dry snow. You may consider some mountain towns in the interior west:
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