Skiseason advice in North America? Mostly powder.

Gjermund

Gjermund

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Next year Im planning a trip to North America too go skiing a whole season. After watched thousands of edits and movies over the years, Im finally gonna get my ass over the atlantic ocean (from Norway). I have skied park and powder for about 8 years or something and looking for a good powder ski resort. With much natural playful terrain and good snowconditions. A terrain park is a plus, but not necessary. I have watched edits from Alta, Big Sky (US), Whistler (CAN) and so on. They are looking nice, but I dont know how much crowded they are? Im also capable to do some small hiking to find good spots. But I certainly prefer mainly to take the lift! A small place is also a plus for me (village, town). I have no idea whats best, but hope I get more suggestions from you guys. I would like to stay at one place and maybe move around. (Several resorts in one skipass?)
 
First of all, this sounds dope af.

You basically have two routes you could take.

The first would be to focus your skiing in one area (example: only skiing in Colorado). If you were to do this, the best thing you could do imo is to go to Salt Lake City because you have Alta, PCMR Canyons, Snowbird, Solitude, Deer Valley, etc. about an hour away. With this you'd have a shitton of options open all the time. The downside though would be that if it's a shitty season, you're kind of stuck there. Also, there's not THAT much variation in terrain mountain-to-mountain over there if you're looking to experience a lot of different types of mountains, it's not the best option.

The second thing to do would be to bum aroun all of the major ski resorts. You'll spend a lot of time driving or on planes/busses/trains, whatever, but you'd have an opportunity to stay a week or two at a lot of classic Northern America resorts like Big Sky, Mammoth, Jackson Hole, Vail, Whistler, etc.. I think this would be more of a pain, and potentially more expensive than the first option, but you're minimizing risk for a bad snow year and get to experience a ton of mountains, which is something most people don't get the chance to do.
 
Big sky is great and has extremely short lift lines for the most part. As for whistler and Alta, I've heard good things about both but I've never been to either.
 
Alta/Snowbird always get solid coverage. Last year was one of their worst and skiing was still great. There isn't a town though so if you wanted anything to do after skiing you would have to go into SLC. Liftlines are usually tiny on powder days because of interlodge but you have to make sure you aren't one of the people locked out because of it.
 
I'd say do SLC and do alta/snowbird and teh rest of the mountains there. Arguably the best ski city in N America.

Also Whistler would be amazing. Tahoe is another sick area. That would be my personal top 3
 
Revelstoke

-They have a park now, but who cares

-They normally have good snow

-Good terrain

-Rogers pass is so close, so if you're into touring is a major plus

-Town is chill
 
13597933:KravtZ said:
I'd say do SLC and do alta/snowbird and teh rest of the mountains there. Arguably the best ski city in N America.

Also Whistler would be amazing. Tahoe is another sick area. That would be my personal top 3
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I would agree with this. I think your best bet is to go to one of these areas. You could have a bad season, there is always that risk, but the places mentioned in this post would give you the best chance to score.

Someone mentioned traveling from place to place. That would be really cool, but also incredibly expensive. If you lay down roots you buy a season pass and occasionally go to other areas. Spending money on every lift ticket would get expensive. The exception would be the Epic pass, which gives you lots of resorts in Colorado and some in Tahoe for a very good deal. If you want to travel around in Colorado and come to Tahoe to hit Kirkwood (one of the sickest mountains anywhere) it would be a good investment.
 
13597994:Banane. said:
Revelstoke

Getting close to choose Revelstoke! Is it hard to find a place to live? Also, do you know about any cool edits from Revelstoke backcountry and the park?
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As far as skiing goes you can't go wrong with SLC, so many options! You could go big with Snowbird for a real resort feel or drive a little to park city or canyons. Or you could do smaller ski areas like Brighton or Solitude or travel a couple hours to Powder Mountain. The only thing you miss out on in my opinion is the village vibe because you can't really stay to close to mountains but can't go wrong.
 
Anyone else planning a season next year? Looking for people to maybe rent a house together or something like that. Im thinking of BC somewhere, since the US dollar is much more expensive now.
 
It's super cheap to go to Canada, and there is tons of the absolute best terrain in the interior of BC. Like, crazy good. Whitewater, revelstoke, fernie, you name it. It really is amazing. Want to go big? take the trip to whistler and ski that backcountry. BC really is the best for the stuff you seem to want.
 
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