America sucks for skiing!!!!!!!!!!

^^^yes, b-wald is right utah sucks. we never get enough snow. infact, we only got 630+ inches this year at alta... what a bummer. oh yeah and the water content is horrible here... all the pow is really light and perfect. it just pisses me off.
 
400 Euros = 492.68 U.S. dollars... thats really not a deal seein that you can live anywhere in the US for like 200 a month..for a whole apt.. not just a room.. and plus.. if america sucks for skiing.. then why are the xgames always here.. half the olympics train here.. and mammoth gets 500inches of snow.... duh.. ur an idiot..
 
The terrain is Europe is great but a ton of the resorts just don't get the snowfall we do here, I've talked to tons of euros on the lifts at alta saying that it is their favorite place to ski in the world because of the consistant snow quality and fun terrain, I've actualy heard that from a lot of people who have skiied worldwide.
 
Mmmmhmm, sometimes people forget that Alaska is actually a part of the US since it's, you know, so far away and on the other side of Canada and all.
 
rediculous thread i know, but there are two sides. europe has had really good snow on average this year, but places like alta still gets it better. however, no resort in north america could come anywhere near matching the terrain of top euro resorts like tignes, verbier, chamonix, lgrave, engelberg. furthermore, even the euro parks are getting there with places like laax and les deux alpes really stepping it up.

as for the idiot who said why isnt the x games held in europe... i wont even dignify that with an explanation. EXPN? and the olympics?? what a fool.

in conclusion, north america- better/more snow, europe- better terrain. parks, mammoth etcstill have it, but only just.
 
^ tru, but unless you are super rich and can afford heli or sleds its pretty unrealistic. when it comes to big terrain in resort, nothing touches the best euro resorts
 
i think we have established that that isnt true. for snow, yes. for park, no. for terrain, no. please think before you sound like an idiot, just coz you've never been anywhere else...
 
heyyyyyyy! your gay ive been to wyoming and tahoe and utahs the best so before you sound like an idiot, why dont you shut the fuck up
 
utah may be better than tahoe. frankly if you think anywhere in utah has better terrain than jackson or whistler, or eurpe for that matter, you truly are an idiot. for parks, mammoth is light years ahead- park city best in utah and not on the same level.
 
America has the best skiing in the world. The best Snow is in Utah and the best parks are in Califonia and Colorado and Park City of course. Europe doesn't even compare. They have badass terrain but crap snow.
 
a year or two ago i would have agreed about parks, but seeing laax step it up this year... not so sure.

as for snow- last couple of years that was true, but almst all top euro resorts have had it sick this year. most still have deep bases and i for one have had as much and as light this season as any i've seen in the us. therefore, sweeping statements like "America has the best skiing i the world" are invalid- you have to be more specific.
 
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Or you could by skins, and backcountry bindings, and actually do some work going up hill. I love the feeling of being on top of a mtn that I had to work hard to get up. It makes me enjoy the run down much more. And there are never lift lines or lift tickets.
 
conclusive proof that europe's big mtns can rival even those in alaska and eat any in the rockies for breakfast...

http://www.ilkansivu.net/Verbier_2004/CRW_2831_RT8_Bec_des_Rosses.jpg

http://emmanuel.varoquaux.free.fr/fonds_ecran/grande_casse.jpg

http://www.skivaldisere.com/id17.htm

and as for those saying europw can't do parks- peep the features created by jon and candide at ther invites, searchbar laax and look at the jumpopotamus kicker. yeah- the 3 biggest ever competition kickers, and in sweden, france and switzerland respectively...

yeah, how correctyou are, euros can't compete with america park wise...
 
^^ biggest competition jumps is where you went wrong, if they could keep parks like they do in north america year round you'd have an argument... but hell i say we just start a third world war in this thread, anyone down?
 
^^ point taken that those aren't there for the whole season, but i just didn't have the energy to get pics of real parks. take my word for it- laax and increasingly other euro parks- e.g. Are, 2 Alpes, Avoriaz, Hintertux etc- are really pushing hard
 
fair enough, never been out there so honestly i dont even know, it just seems that way through the videos i see and mags and all... cool though, i hope they keep getting better
 
Well if you wanted to live in a shit hole in say, texas you probably could. But no where near skiing.
 
i think the atmosphere in europe is better too, everyone is so positive and there to have fun and u never have ride up the charlift with a rich texan who brags too much...except in the lift lines...their vicous
 
I would love to say that Europe is better as its so much easier for me to ski there but having skied at resorts in both i'd have to go with the US.

Europe is better for terrain and BC cos you can ski for miles from one valley to another- there's so much more terrain you can access- if you're lucky enough to get any fresh pow. Trouble is though the snow is so inconsistant that its difficult to make the most of the terrain. The skiing below 1800 m is usually sketch cos of the snow inconsistancy and you have to work a lot harder to access safe steep and deeps

In the US and Canada on the other hand there are so many regions (in the west obviously where the amount and consistancy of snow is better, and it also tends to be much lighter, drier powder than in Europe. Though there isn't the same amount of terrain as Europe there are still sick steeps which are much better patrolled and therefore much safer. i'd take fresh turns on US terrain over staring at lines you might not be able hit cos of lack of snow in Europe anyday.

Also Alaska has probably the best big mountain skiing you can find anywhere

As for parks Europe is light years behind the US. There are some places that people have pointed out like laax and les deux alpes that consistantly have good parks but even those don't compare to even average parks in the US. At most other European resorts they might have rails and jumps but often they are set up so badly you can't really do anything with them, eg jumps built in places where you can't get enough speed, rails that haven't been reshaped in weeks so theere's no lip/jump onto them and either flat or rutted landings.

Using Olsson's or candide's invitationals as an exmple of how good Eoropean parks are is ridiculous, they're only there for a few weeks in the year and only pros get to hit them. In the US however there are parks on the east, west and now in midwest it seems where there are pro size features throughout the season.
 
I dont hardly every want to go back to a resort to ski. I just love having the whole mtn to myself. Where there being several other people is crowded, not several hundred.
 
a lot mountains in the US have have Parks whereas when you go out of the country you find a lot more of like real good big mountain skiing and less park. I think it depends on what you like to ski
 
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