Where to snowboard near North Carolina

You might be asking the wrong crowd here dude.
Most of us hit North Carolina, we're not skiing.

Seriously. Tell'em to go mountain biking, or kayaking -- apparently they've got world-class rivers around there. Or hit the beach for some po'boys w/ crabcakes. (Might mean I gotta quit the marines, but then I'd probably do that too, and then move to northern Cali and look for some actual mountains.... )
He wants to ski? Tell him to save his cash, split to Canada for President's Week in February and shred his brains out in waist-deep powder in gigantic mountains. He can look at the photos all winter. Hell, he could even smoke pot and dodge the draft while he's up here...

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Hey,Coldsmoke- kind of thought so. He bought himself a mountain bike this year but gets distracted w/ alcohol & interests in women. The kayaking sounds cool, I think maybe the one thing he hasn't done... unless I missed a year somewhere.
Probably done the crabcakes & po'boys, for sure drinks at the beach.
Yeah- he was raised in N.CA (snowboarding) & to not join the Marines; his dad would be right there w/ the pot & a way out of the military, but whadaya gonna do?
Thanks.

Haha, that's pretty sweet Pat...

I'm aware that my post wasn't exaclty very helpful,... so I'm glad you took it in the right spirit! ;) 'Whadaya gonna do' is right. hehe. Maybe you should convince him to go on that BC ski holiday afterall -- he might never come back!!

I really did hear great things about the rivers in those parts though. My wife's from Maryland. A friend of mine found this out, and being an avid whitewater paddler, started raving about the rivers, at least in Virginia anyways...
Maybe you just gotta hook your boy up with a Santa Cruz surfer girl to get'em away from all those army men and guns. ;)
Sure glad my wife married me, anyways, and not her highschool sweetheart who ran off to Fort Bragg or some base to become a soldier... he's in Iraq, and she's married to a Canadian ski bum. Life can be interesting.
Best wishes to your boy... the snow will find him someday.

your closest place is going to be Snowshoe Mountain, West Virginia. www.snowshoemtn.com

There are several hills in NC - Appalachain has a sick terrain park scene if he is into that. Sugar Bowl has ~1000 feet of vert and might have already opened. There are 8 of them to choose from.

http://www.skinorthcarolina.com/resort_locations.htm