Where is the best skiing in the World

that's like asking what the best car is... depends on what you want.

parks: california or colorado usual suspects + whistler

heli accessible terrain: ak + bc

concistent snow: bc + japan

lift accessible terrain: french + swiss alps

nightlife: st. anton, austria or val d'isere, france

 
snowboarder-less? what the hell you talking about?

actual answer: try verbier, zermatt (swiss) or tignes/val d'isere, avoriaz/morzine (france) then... you'll get powder days, decent enough parks (maybe 30-40% of the size of a whistler or mammoth), and enough lift-served terrain to last you a lifetime (maybe 10 times the size of whistler/vail) with no patrol telling you where you can't ride.

 
at this time of year.... Zermatt.

other than that, Switzerland has the best skiing in the world and none of you ghetto bitches can afford to come here ha ha ha.

no seriously, everything is relative, and people have vastly different priorities, and I'm quite sure none of the people replying in this thread have tested all the different spots in the world. So just go ski.
 
true that, but having never skied at say, killington, i can still say with some confidence that tignes has better terrain, no?

be that as it may, i would imagine the guy wants the best all-around resorts. in north america, it has to be whistler.

in europe i'd go with...

France: Val d'isere/Tignes

Switzerland: Zermatt

Austria: St Anton/Arlberg

(i.e. all have ok parks, wicked nightlife, diverse clientele, but most of all, sick terrain to romp around in...)
 
No, because everyone has different tastes, and one could argue Tignes is a tourist trap filled with thousands of annoying arrogant and opinionated Brits like yourself ... 

for France some would argue Les 7 Laux is the best resort, and you would disagree because you obviously prefer big touristy resorts. What are you gonna do about it?

If ANYTHING, I love it when people have their OWN styles and tastes and name a resort like Flumserberg as their favorite (three times as much pow as Tignes per year, sweet as terrain and a better park than Val d'Isere).... while you are just rehashing what every average BRIT thinks and that's why you find yourself between thousands of other BRITISH tourists in Tignes which is why we don't even like to go there anymore because it's a cheap, ugly tourist trap. It was cool 10 years ago before easyjet.
 
that's funny.

so a resort that was "cool" 10 years ago is no longer cool because of the amount of british people? you seem confused by the guy's question and think he said "what's the coolest most non-touristy place to ski"... he didn't, he asked what's the best place to ski with good nightlife.

now, i am canadian, and i have lived in the alps for 5 years, so i have a tiny bit of idea that the combination at tignes/val d'isere would be a bit more impressive to a north american than some "cool" smaller resort with their own style. yes, it's more touristy, but guess what, usually means better nightlife (by the way, most of the people hanging in the park there last year where scandinavians, not british) and better lifts.

so yeah, i like your little shots at the brits and sleazyjet, but still doesnt have much to do with the thread.
 
i have to agree with you on that one, but change a few things too:

powder: japan, and west coast us (much dryer snow than the wet stuff in bc)

lift accessible terrain: french, swiss, AND italian alps (dolomites have stupidly huge amount of skiable terrain all connected through one huge supernetwork of lifts - you could basically ski across all of northern italy with one pass)

the dolomites would also fit somewhat into nightlife although it isn't really the night time: just that wherever you ski there, there are always bars or restaurants wherever you look on the hill - at least two bars within 100 feet of the top of each chair-lift. You also ski from town to town so you're never really in some isolated community, ur always somewhere with things to do.
 
No, I didn´t confuse the question, I just gave ONE example why the other guy confused the question in his endless attempts to praise Tignes in every loosely related thread.

And regardless, there are still plenty of huge resorts that the Easyjet masses haven´t found out about yet. Thank God.

And I think enough people will agree that nightlife among masses of British tourists is not good nightlife. Just pull up the going out in Stockholm vs. Manchester joke. It hits the spot.
 
wow, you are a really snobbish anglophobe aren't you? i was trying to make a reasonable post, based on my opinion, which included your favourite Zermatt. you then come back with a rant against me and my countrymen which, as far as i can decifer, was completely uncalled-for. you then preceded to get owned by d686 who isn't even british, yet still argued the same points as me.

if you want to go to your remote, undiscovered places, with 5 old germans wearing lederhosen that's fine, but don't hate on me beacuse i like the company of other people from all over the world. if cheap flights bring in a wider cross section of society, awesome! do you really want skiing to remain the sport of exclusive rich people? if the answer is yes, you are the kind of person that made skiing so "un-cool" a few years back. skiing is about enjoying shit together, not selfishly preventing others from enjoying it too. you're an idiot anyway, if you really wanted to keep your "amazing" spots secret, than stop screaming how great they are on the internet.
 
I'd say it also depends on the way you like to ski...for instance if you like to rip powderfilled glades, smoknig joints, dropping cliffs, and bouncing off trees...then whistler is much better than europe. But if you like to rip above the snowline, occasionally dropping into a crevasse and breaking your spine, the alps are definitly the way to go.

What I want to know is......what're the himalayas like?
 
Haha! lol, everyone loves a bit of spine snappage once in a while!

As for the Himalayas, i read there's the most incredible terrain. unfortunately i think it's mostly in kashmir, which is still basically the highest war zone in the world. there was an article in Fall Line about some freeriders who went. they said it was incredible, but they kept having problems in that the military kept closing the gondola for high altitude training and wouldn't let them ski. i believe there are some heliski operations down there too. as for resorts, give it a few decades and we/our children might be in for some asian delights...
 
i have 4 words for you, shut the fuck up.

so what if we come over and ski tignes, if it's fucking it up for, then dont go!!, stop you shity complaining. iv met so many amazing people in tinges, french german, aussies and brits who i still ski with back home. a friend asked me yesterday what the best resort to go for a ski holiday to, after hearing you say that iv just struck zermatt and tignes of my list if we are going to fing people like you there, or maybe i should send him there just to annoy you.

so what if its only £50 to get on a plane to lyon and drive up for a week. il be lucky if i get over 6 ft of snow this season so im quit happy to go over there.

oh by the way you now the big ugly hotels in tignes, they were built for tourests

you are the annoying arrogant shit!
 
Aside from all the knobs posting bollocks. Best places are-

May-October - Wanaka, NZ to get to Treble Cone and Cardrona.

Early season - Glacial resorts in Switzerland and Austria, like Mayerhofen, Saas Fee etc.

Mid season in Whistler/BC

Late season - Back to the Alpes. I have had great experiences in 2Alpes, Portes du soliel, 3Vallees, Espace Killy. Touristy or not, they have good snow late season as they have high altitude towns.

 
There's this wicked sick secret toboggan hill that only I, and the local 6 year olds know about. It has a solid 30 foot verticle and you can usually boss the local kids into letting you ride there sweet sleds. If they don't comply you can always just take it... they're like 4 feet tall.

It's also free... that's pretty cool. And whenever your not riding you can hit on all the hot soccer moms that accompany their kids. It's awesome.
 
Looks like Whistler comes in every time. I was in Treble Cone NZ this years and was lucky to get a few powder days. was so good.

Has anyone heard much about how hard it is to get accomodation this year in Whistler?
 
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