Best Ski Resort
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Ski_ThEast
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east coast?
californiagrown
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were did you come by these awfully correct answers? just curiously?
monkatizer
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bristol mountain ny. ftw
Skithedeep
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haha, couldnt be more correct
Style+eeze
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Whistler.
I've gone since I was two years old every year, and it's just the best! Granted I am biased, of course, but I do like Vail and Breck. Hopefully I can get to Mammoth and/or Utah soon for a week or so and check it out.
I've gone since I was two years old every year, and it's just the best! Granted I am biased, of course, but I do like Vail and Breck. Hopefully I can get to Mammoth and/or Utah soon for a week or so and check it out.
Yung_Gnarley
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Agreed.
Skithedeep
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well it rained in LCC a week or so ago
chitownskiier8
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How is Jackson being left out here? Im very biased, but for pure terrain value this has to be one of the best in the United States at least, havent been to Whistler so I can't speak for North America.
H8CH
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ugh too many....
I'd like to add that for partying, nothing in N America comes close to european resorts (especially Austrian resorts...).... Utah is the hardest place to get drunk i've ever been!
But anyway, i digress... as for the most incredible places I've skiied.... to me it's a no brainer as follows
Chamonix, La Grave, Beaver Creek on a pow day, Whistler (although it does get fucked by being SO low and close to the ocean... for that reason it can suck baws sometimes... and be inconsistent - but when good - it's very good)..... Breck and Keystone and Park City for perfect parks, Brighton in Utah for the most fun, epic and easily accesible terrain in America - and I mean quick laps too on Milly etc... and probably also Kicking horse for some steep as shit stuff.... oh and Revvy....
Partying -
Les Deux Alpes (france), Mayrhofen (austria), and for a the best partying in a ski resort in N America, will probably say Breck or Whistler... but Whistler is a little bit too shiny, expensive and gucci... (same goes for Vail etc.. ) Breck is just fun....
I'd like to add that for partying, nothing in N America comes close to european resorts (especially Austrian resorts...).... Utah is the hardest place to get drunk i've ever been!
But anyway, i digress... as for the most incredible places I've skiied.... to me it's a no brainer as follows
Chamonix, La Grave, Beaver Creek on a pow day, Whistler (although it does get fucked by being SO low and close to the ocean... for that reason it can suck baws sometimes... and be inconsistent - but when good - it's very good)..... Breck and Keystone and Park City for perfect parks, Brighton in Utah for the most fun, epic and easily accesible terrain in America - and I mean quick laps too on Milly etc... and probably also Kicking horse for some steep as shit stuff.... oh and Revvy....
Partying -
Les Deux Alpes (france), Mayrhofen (austria), and for a the best partying in a ski resort in N America, will probably say Breck or Whistler... but Whistler is a little bit too shiny, expensive and gucci... (same goes for Vail etc.. ) Breck is just fun....
undercover_skier
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in the east I'd say Cannon Mtn in the states and Mont Ste Anne in Canada
ThaLorax
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LOL, did you really just list Beever Creek as one of the top 3 resorts in the world for a powder day?
And OP's list is crap.You can't really say one resort is the best or others since they all have their own respective levels of gnarness.
My personal Opinion:
In the world for big mountain: Never skied there but from all the footage/first hand experience I've heard, it has to be somewhere in the European Alps
In N. America for pure big mtn skiing: Revelstoke, Jackson Hole, or Squaw Valley
In N. America for pure park Skiing: Keystone or Breck
In N. America for best all around skiing: Aspen/Snowmass, Mammoth, or Whistler
And OP's list is crap.You can't really say one resort is the best or others since they all have their own respective levels of gnarness.
My personal Opinion:
In the world for big mountain: Never skied there but from all the footage/first hand experience I've heard, it has to be somewhere in the European Alps
In N. America for pure big mtn skiing: Revelstoke, Jackson Hole, or Squaw Valley
In N. America for pure park Skiing: Keystone or Breck
In N. America for best all around skiing: Aspen/Snowmass, Mammoth, or Whistler
AlexMartini
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jackson hole, by far
magic_raven
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Fairest way to do this is state by state.
California its Squaw vs. Mammoth.
Wyoming its Jackson Hole.
Alaska is Alyeska.
etc etc.
California its Squaw vs. Mammoth.
Wyoming its Jackson Hole.
Alaska is Alyeska.
etc etc.
H8CH
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Just from personal experience...
How can people claim the best resorts in the world if they've never skiied them in the conditions they were meant to be skiied in...
For me, some of the best pow days i've had in the USA have been at the Beave... but, in Canada, i've had epic days at Kicking Horse.... i've just had more at the beave and love it... it's quieter then Vail, lots of fun quick laps. I skiied in Utah this season, but in recent shitty snow conditions (By Utah standards)... so I cannot calim it's epic... until i experience it for myself.
But that said, I would imagine Squaw and Jackson would be much much better - I've never ridden there though, so cannot comment.
Craziest LIFT ACCESSED big mtn skiing is nowhere in North America - it's easily La grave in France, one lift - no pistes, glaciers (real big, dangerous serac'd glaciers, not Blackcomb) and rappels and craziness...... you could NEVER have a resort like La Grave in the USA or Canada simply because of the liability... it's too risky for them to have lift accessed terrain like that...
How can people claim the best resorts in the world if they've never skiied them in the conditions they were meant to be skiied in...
For me, some of the best pow days i've had in the USA have been at the Beave... but, in Canada, i've had epic days at Kicking Horse.... i've just had more at the beave and love it... it's quieter then Vail, lots of fun quick laps. I skiied in Utah this season, but in recent shitty snow conditions (By Utah standards)... so I cannot calim it's epic... until i experience it for myself.
But that said, I would imagine Squaw and Jackson would be much much better - I've never ridden there though, so cannot comment.
Craziest LIFT ACCESSED big mtn skiing is nowhere in North America - it's easily La grave in France, one lift - no pistes, glaciers (real big, dangerous serac'd glaciers, not Blackcomb) and rappels and craziness...... you could NEVER have a resort like La Grave in the USA or Canada simply because of the liability... it's too risky for them to have lift accessed terrain like that...
californiagrown
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all around for park and REAAL SKIING it is between three mtns:
Squaw
Mammoth
Whistler
Nothing else is nearly as well rounded. Nuff Said
Squaw
Mammoth
Whistler
Nothing else is nearly as well rounded. Nuff Said
rudager
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+1 for Kicking Horse.
Seeing as it's my home mountain, I'm a little biased.
But why shouldn't I be?
It almost has it all. Steeps, huge fall line, powder. all mountain, lower half is pretty good for learning and intermediates. Some of the easiest sidecountry access you can get, simply go up the gondola and you're there.
It's even a resort, not just a ski hill. They have condo's, non-skiing activies, summer fun activities (crazy ass biking hill). Also plans on putting another golf course in the near future.
-1 for a little park. So if you're looking for a go to place with everything, don't have high expectations on the park.
But that's not what you go there for.
Seeing as it's my home mountain, I'm a little biased.
But why shouldn't I be?
It almost has it all. Steeps, huge fall line, powder. all mountain, lower half is pretty good for learning and intermediates. Some of the easiest sidecountry access you can get, simply go up the gondola and you're there.
It's even a resort, not just a ski hill. They have condo's, non-skiing activies, summer fun activities (crazy ass biking hill). Also plans on putting another golf course in the near future.
-1 for a little park. So if you're looking for a go to place with everything, don't have high expectations on the park.
But that's not what you go there for.
mistahfabbydavis
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mt. hood skibowl
correct. i would say there's at least a dozen, maybe even 20+ resorts in europe which have bigger, badder, lift-accessed terrain (and more of it) than anywhere in north america, squaw, jackson, alta, whistler etc included. the only aspect where north america is superior is park, but the parks over here are getting pretty close now. once you factor in mountain town life, partying, culture etc, there is no question that the best resort in the world is in europe.
for the all-around package I'd argue Val d'Isere/Tignes takes it but I wouldn't have too much problem accepting arguments for Chamonix, Verbier or the St. Anton/Arlberg area.
for the all-around package I'd argue Val d'Isere/Tignes takes it but I wouldn't have too much problem accepting arguments for Chamonix, Verbier or the St. Anton/Arlberg area.
Karma_Police
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Thank you,
Also VAIL SUCKS
Also VAIL SUCKS
Bar_Down
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ive only skied real mountains on 2 seperate occasions (Fernie and Kicking Horse)
Fernie was having a real bad year when i went, barely any snow. but then it snowed the night before our last day and it was decent.
kicking horse was just some next level shit. hands down best skiing experience ive had in my life. it snowed like a foot every fuckin night and the terrain is fantastic, the mountain is just a huge playground.
Fernie was having a real bad year when i went, barely any snow. but then it snowed the night before our last day and it was decent.
kicking horse was just some next level shit. hands down best skiing experience ive had in my life. it snowed like a foot every fuckin night and the terrain is fantastic, the mountain is just a huge playground.
WakeBakeFapNap
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Whistler BC Lots of Pow+ Iillin Parks
come_at_me_bro
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On a powder day, aspen hands down. I know its not big, but it is amazing. the night life, the terrain, all of it
Emma_Watson
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WakeBakeFapNap
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whistler for all
.squirrely.
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i havent been to many of these places but from waht people say...
park- Keystone
big mtn- Revelstoke
pow- alta
backcountry- brighton
cliffs- snowbird
party- aspen
being rich- aspen
gapers- black mountain nh
park- Keystone
big mtn- Revelstoke
pow- alta
backcountry- brighton
cliffs- snowbird
party- aspen
being rich- aspen
gapers- black mountain nh
.squirrely.
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they groom the morning of pow days