Best skiing in north america? excluding alaska

i've never skied jackson or alta...i really wanna make it out to both someday cuz they seem pretty nice
 
yeah man, i only rode at Alta 150 days in season of '04-'05, the best season they had since the early '80's. so i guess that means i have no idea what im talkin about, or maybe its cause ur too stubborn to accept that ur home mountain (once mine as well, i ride at snowbird now cause its STEEPER)...alta's sick dont get me wrong, but it doesnt have the gnarliest terrain in N. America, let alone the fucking world.
 
seems like lots of people go to whistler between christmas and new years. thats a waste of money, i think thats the worst time of the year at any resort.
 
chris the thread is about the best skiing in north america.... not the gnarliest terrain. obviously alta doesnt have the gnarliest terrain in the world.

it doesnt rain at alta. cant say the same about snowbird though... even though they touch. the bird is sick on a midweek pow day.... other than that its kind of lame. the new lift will probably make it 20 times cooler.

i think i skied less than 20 flat light days in the wasatch in 2 years. and colorado is too cold for whoever said colorado has the best weather.

bottom line, you can ride the ice and brutal cold out east, the 300 inches of snow per year and cold ass temps in colorado, the rain in whistler or pnw even jackson, the heavy snow that falls in the pnw, too much snow that falls in the pnw and tahoe so you cant ski some days. ORRRRRR the WASATCH where its 20 degrees and 3-4 days a week its sunny 3-4 days a week it snows the lightest snow you will ever ski on, plus the coolest terrain features in the world.
 
if you skied less than 20 flat light days in the last 2 years, you must not get that many days in per season...not sure what you meant by "too much snow in the pnw", but please NEVER say too much snow.

"coolest terrain features in the world"? first off, quit sayin the world bud cuz that simply isnt true. plus there is not a single pillow line at alta (correct me if im wrong,but im pretty damn familiar w/ alta). there are cliffs galore, you can pretty much go up to 100 foot airs (bad news cliffs)inbounds, unless you inlcude wolvy w/ the 160 footer(alta bc for those unfamiliar).

pretty much i was correcting your first statement that "alta is the best resort in the world", please quit claimin.

yeah man i agree the new lift at snowbird is pretty lame, and yeah i guess you could say it rains there, basing that statement off of the ONE single day last season when it rained at the Gad base, at the end of the season (late april)

alta is sick, im not sure if ur that weathered of a skier to claim best resort in the world. :)
 
it does snow too much in the pnw because there are days the resorts cant open, and you cant go down the mountain because there is too much snow, you cant drive anywhere because tehy cant plow the roads fast enough. and its too heavy. all they do there is wait for days and think wow i wonder how utah is enjoying their neck deep blower.

i remember at least 5 days at the bird when it was raining all the way to westward ho. you cross that ridge and it turns to snow. but im from the east and it rains all of the time so thats not really a big deal. it is a big deal though when u can drive half a mile down the road and get out of the rain and into fresh falling snow.

and chris420 if you think the only back country worth mentioning at alta is wolverine and rocky then you are the uneducated one.

like i said there have been like 20 days (estimate) in my 2 years (over 200 something skiing days) where it has just been flat light with no snow falling or fallen. it doesnt really happen. half of those days were at the bird in mineral basin or on little cloud, away from the trees.
 
At an actual ski area......

NO doubt Silverton. Following close being would be W/B, Alta, and Jackson. But Silverton is, IMO, the best true inbounds skiing in N. America.

In terrain.....North Cascades, San Juan Mnts, and Bella Coola. Sickness to be had.
 
kicking horse is the best. there is never line ups some of the most vertical in north america and sick east kootney powder. and if you want crazy terrain i think sunshine might take it. have any of you skied wild west or silver city? it has to be the craziest inbounds skiing anywhere
 
thats not what i think, but wolvy and rocky are almost always what "alta bc" is referring to in captions of mag. pics, plus grizzly, and sometimes superior. i guess we'll agree to disagree, we both get the deeep turns in so im not fretting.

and depierre, i agree solitude is the shit. i dont really have a good reason why i dont ride there...all my friends already ride in lcc i guess. had a pass to brighton as well as snowbird last year, 1st time in bcc, got one at brighton cuz friends were, probly get one at solitude if friends did. pretty much imo snowbird is the gnarliest in utah, thats why its my choice.
 
 
ssssssshhhhhhhhhh dude....keep that on the DL.

yeah, everyone...that kid doesn't know anything. colorado is obviously the best. you should all go there. don't go to utah, it sucks. but if you have to go there, stay at PC...because their terrain is so sick. yeah, but definitely don't ski BCC...no good AT ALL. just don't even think about it. don't even think about that canyon. or look at it. or think about looking at it. it's not worth your time.
 
...not exactly... alta's drops get bombed the f out by 9:30... on pow days at snowbird im still droppin 'til the end of the day, and days after (area:"livin' the dream" for instance). tracked out is also relative to the skier. too many locals in utah see one or two tracks and consider it "tracked out", spoiled if you ask me. i dont think gnarly shit gets tracked out, but rather bombed. plus i never said solitude wasnt challenging

plus, arent those pics you kindly provided considered ob? just askin im not very familiar w/ solitude. if so, i stand by my argument that snowbird has the gnarliest inbounds terrain.

oh yeah to smuggs, i forgot to mention that "garbage chute" at alta is pretty steep
 
smuggs please refrain from sayin absurd comments such as..."too much snow" in a thread i created. or any thread for that matter.thanx
 
I was at Jackson Hole and Snowbird and i definitely preferred snowbird... But it's all about the snow you get when you are out there. It's hard to make this call..
 
pacific coast gets too much snow sometimes. you people can make believe all you want that there is no such thing. but yea there is. where u cant ski, drive to the ski area, or even leave your house yea that is TOO MUCH SNOW.

chris you are funny, "yea alta is bombed out by 930" which is a complete falacy "i huck all day long at the bird" if u sack up u can huck anything at anytime so it doesnt really matter.

and again i dont think u really know alta by including superior as the other out of bounds you can ski from there.

 
No. It is very inbounds.

And really I was just trying to piss you guys argueing about Alta nad Snowbird off. Just mixing shit up.

I hate to tell you, but Alta gets tracked out slower than Snowbird, but certainly not by much.
 
in the west i like snowbird cuz they have nice all around terrain but in the east where i live stratton's park kills all
 
you're saying the pnw gets too much snow and that resorts sometimes can't open. the canyon road to alta closes sometimes too, as does the mtn...

anyways, alta is the best!
 
yeah, the roads up here are closed less then the roads in UT.

and complaining about too much snow....dont see how that could even happen.
 
that is true, but the majority of people who are skiing there are not staying/living at the lodge. Most are in SLC. So....it kind of sucks for all of them.

it would be awesome if you were already up there.
 
plus with the roads in the cottonwoods when the road is closed for avalanche work by 9am when it opens even if it snowed 3 feet its usually black top pavement because they are so anal about those roads being clear, and utahans being terrible drivers.
 
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