Where to take a winter vacation??

Living in Tahoe offers the chance to live right in the middle of the perfect vacation land.  It makes it hard to figure out where to travel for a vacation while keeping the cost reasonable.  Obviously there is the option to visit a new area of Tahoe on the weekends and see a different place with different people from the everyday Northstar grind.  Homewood and Heavenly offer amazing views, Squaw and Alpine give steep runs, Mt. Rose and Sugar Bowl have unique mountains that are away from the crowds, and Kirkwood is always buried in powder.  Clearly staying at home is not a bad way to do it.  However, the Northstar epic pass gives access to the Vail resorts in Colorado, and Utah, Sun Valley, and Jackson Hole are not too far away for a nice road trip with friends. Colorado has big mountains which means big crowds, there is a lot of fun to be had at their resorts and its near family making it a pretty complete trip.  Utah has the best snow and multiple resorts very close to each other.  Utah is often overlooked by the Colorado folk, but it has great terrain and truly is a skiers paradise.  Keep going north and you reach the small epic ski towns of Sun Valley and Jackson Hole.  These are small places with huge skiing.  Jackson has it's reputation and it surely lives up to it by all accounts (including my own from growing up there).  Sun Valley is a smaller place out of the way, but steeped in tradition and fun times on the mountains.  So many good places to go and Oregon, Montana, Southern Colorado, Taos, and BC haven't even made it into the conversation.  My solution: ski Tahoe all I can and aim for one great trip every winter.  Jackson will always be high on my list, but what a list it will be when they are all checked off.