The Best Ski Area you have been too?

Crystal Mountain when they got around 6 feet in 4 days. That was EPIC.

Sugarbush for awesome park laps, you can get sooo many laps in one day.

Brighton's real fun as well.
 
Anyone that said Sunday River over Sugarloaf is just nuts. In my opinion.

Sunday River does not have more terrain. It is more spread out. Sugarloaf has more skiable acres than anywhere on the East Coast.

Sugarloaf has more glade skiing and hidden stashes (and ultra hidden stashes) anyone know what Bracket Basin was before it was Bracket Basin? than Sunday River.

Sugarloaf also has better bars.
 
When I was last there they had 8 parks and 6 half pipes. The back country is sweet there as well, not the best around but still great.
 
la grave / les duex alpes if you were to count them as one resort. Its essentially just a lift to the backcountry on one mountain thats right up there with the stuff in cham, and then a fuckin dope park on the other. They arent really the same mountain or resort, but you can go from one to the other via cat track at the top.

whistlers not too shabby either, i cant really think of anywhere more well rounded and consistent as here.
 
Les Portes du Soleil, with more than 650 km of marked pistes and about 200 lifts in total,

spread over 14 valleys and about 400 square miles (1036 square km).

On the border of the French/Swiss Alps, 8/12 resorts are French the other are Swiss.

And because of the elevation you can choose between trees or no trees.

Nine major snowparks, including a Stash. (There are more but those aren't too big.)

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This is not all the trails and lifts, they can't fit that in too one map:

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haha if that figure of 400 square miles is referring to actual skiable terrain, thats the same area as 31 whistler/blackcombs
 
I'd have to say Bridger is my favorite on a weekday, it gets tracked out quick but the terrain is amazing.

Lost Trail is super fun any day of the week, chill people and sick snow.
 
I do enjoy Austria too, St. Anton is a really nice resort with pretty good snow conditions too, they just finished building a dope park setup last year.
 
The only thing with les Portes du Soleil is that it's not very high and rain can be an issue (not for Avoriaz but like resorts like Champery or Morzine).
 
With all things consider (Terrain, Snow, Village, Accommodation etc)

I would have to go with whistler, it literally has everything.
 
But the resort to go to is pretty much Avoriaz, location, architecture, proximity to the parks, nightlife.
 
Val t is probably the best i've been too.

I prefer going to solden or flachau cause its a lot less packed and its very big aswell
 
Surprised that no one has said Whitewater, BC. THE BEST café ever and sick terrain. Closely followed by Mt Olympus, Broken River and Revvy
 
Super fun terrain, phenomenal snow. and the slackcountry is second to none. The lodge is a fucking nightmare, but they're going to upgrade it soon. WH20 is in my top 3 with Whistler and Revy.
 
i love squaw but its almost impossible to ski on pow days with all of the people there. alpine meadows is where i love for everything
 
I only got to spend one day there but it was fucking amazing. The swiss side was socked in but I headed to the French side and it was sunny and amazing! Nothing like a steak and beer to refuel yourself at lunch.
 
Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows. Yeah, it's my home mountain, but rarely does a place truly compare...

Then again, I haven't been to Europe or Japan and i've only had sporadic days in Whistler (never a pow day), only hit up altabird and Jackson Hole 2 times each, and I've only been to Mammoth about 11 times, and 7 or so of those times were late season parklap days, once everywhere else is mostly closed.

I will say though, places like Stevens Pass and Crystal Mountain up in Wawa deserve some mad respect... same with the likes of Big Mountain and Big Sky in Montana. Bachelor is also crazy fun if it's a tuesday after it snows a bunch, and you just go Summit down to Rainbow all day long, shredding constant pow.
 
Serre Chevalier is the only one I have done in Europe and its a tad better than the North American ones I have done all the Tahoe/Utah/Co mountains and the northeast but nothing else.

Honestly I don't think anywhere I have been is better than Kirkwood which I ski a ton or even Rose if the Chutes are open. I can toss Vail in there with those 2. And if Alta/Bird was one resort I'd consider them an equal too but individually I'd take Kirkwood over each its better than Alta and I hate that fucking tram.

Squaw is too skiied out. Would be as good as anywhere mentioned above if it wasn't ruined by all the people. But it is.
 
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