Ski areas you've got to visit

[klar]

Little glacial areas near St. Moritz, blanking on name at the moment

Diavolezza is nice.

[UNIBONGER]

POWDERKING,B.C. CANADA

[crstlextrm]

1)Las Lenas
2)Portillo
3)Fernie
4)Taos
5)Squaw
6)Mammoth
7)La Grave
8)Crested Butte
9)Chamonix
10)Kirkwood

Oh, for all you people that put down kicking horse, dont go there. I hear its waaaaaaay overrated
http://tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50860
edat cuz i kant spel

[Lok]

Well,honestly, i kind of like the idea of a "train inside a mountain" in that area...
Hell, if your closest place to buy a hamburger is 70km´s away, AND you can still ride a train inside a mountain, hell, i´m intrested!

Lok, is there any written articles about that delirious idea?
And do you happen to be in the north in june?
We´ll might be around kebne+lyngen there,if you are looking for turns.

It was on local TV in Troms. I couldn't find much on the internet. This was pretty much it:
http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article1980343.ece (in norwegian)

I can't get back home until mid-June, that much I know. If I manage to get back while you are there, yes, we should definitely make some turns.

Ya heading there this year? If so, I fucking hate ya... and same to Jr.M as well, feakin' twat. I'm lucky if I can even make there next year...

I grew up there and just came back from two weeks of skiing. The snow wasn't great this time, but the weather was calm and sunny the whole time so I got to ski some really fun terrain. It's getting heavier for each time, though. I need a tram.

[xyz]

Gulmarg
La Grave

[xyz]

Gulmarg
La Grave

....and Shames,BC

[stomp]

las lenas
niseko
silverton
red mountain
fernie
whistler/blackcomb
powder king
la grave
verbier
jackson hole

[jonski]

MD9: I'd still go to Yurp if I was you - so much good terrain that runs out to trails cos it is only a 15 min bootpack along a ridge from a lift.Officially OB, but so close it is easy to dump your pack in the locker, ride a few chairs, walk a little, drop a line, then ski over to a mtn resto and drink a coffee on the deck and look at your tracks. Especially true in the bigger areas - Tignes/Val d'Isere, Les Arcs, Cham, etc...

W/B
Silverton
Taos
JH
Lenas
Red
Fernie
Mt Olympus, NZ
Engleberg
Verbier

wow, it would be so easy to extend this list, haven't even got any UT or French areas on there, let alone the Pyrenees or Asia...

[weibo]

Bachelor
Whiteface (Lake Placid)
Marmot
Sun Peaks (The last 4 of the 30 biggest vert NA resorts)

La Grave
Courmayeur
Engelberg
St Anton
Japan
....and either Yawgoo Valley or Wisp (There seems to be no love on this board for Rhode Island or Maryland)

If you ever have the chance to make it to Marmot just call me up and I can set you up for a place to stay and maybe some tickets and I'll head down to SunPeaks with you too.

So too Sun Peaks I'll add
Powder King
Shames
Castle
Mammoth
Jay Peak
Le Massif
Baker
Crystal
Mt Cain

[snoboy]

Jackson
Moonlight
Mammoth
Las Lenas
Sunshine
Silverton
La Grave
Fernie
Targhee
Mt. Cain

[Tippster]

Las Lenas
Gulmarg
That place in Russia...

Not likely to hit any of the above, but damn - I'd love to.

[Kellie]

I guess I'll play . . .

La Grave
Engleberg
Verbier
Cortina
Ushuaia (Cerro Castor, I believe)
Craigieburn
Gulmarg
Krasnaya Polyana
Fernie
Snowbird

Not so much ski areas, but places I'd really like to ski . . .
Kryzkstan (?sp)
El Valle Hermoso . . . Las Lenas, the extended version
Bolivia

[addict]

Sun Peaks (The last 4 of the 30 biggest vert NA resorts)

Sunpeaks? Really?!?!? For me:

Hakuba
Alagna (last time in La Grave everyone had Alagna on their list, so I'm in)
(another shot at) La Grave
Arlberg
Chimbulak
Himalayas
Gulmarg

Hopefully will all get hit this coming season.

[golden powder]

jackson hole
silverton
kirkwood
alyeska
crested butte
telluride
la grave
st anton
squaw
... somewhere south of the equator

[Endlessseason]

... somewhere south of the equator

Heck, why not south of the equator AND the other side of the world while you're at it. I've always been fascinated by the South African ski area Tiffindell. I somehow got on their email list a few years ago and they aways send me stuff.
http://www.sa-venues.com/ec/tiffindell.htm

[Endlessseason]

Sunpeaks? Really?!?!?

Yeah. I can't afford to go to all the exotic kinds of places on your list so instead I focus on quantity.
Those last 4 ski areas will complete all of the top 30 for me. I think I need another 5 after that to complete the top 50 vertical resorts in North America. It's just one of those weird OCD things. You know.

[addict]

Yeah. I can't afford to go to all the exotic kinds of places on your list so instead I focus on quantity.
Those last 4 ski areas will complete all of the top 30 for me. I think I need another 5 after that to complete the top 50 vertical resorts in North America. It's just one of those weird OCD things. You know.

Oh, it's not all about exotics for me, it's cost. I'm not in N.America, so a round the world ticket costs the same as a ticket to N.Am or Europe alone. Makes sense to hit up all I can. The last few winters have been in poverty at WH20 and Golden incidentally. Just didn't expect to see Sun Peaks in this thread!! No offence to Sun Peakers, but it's a "fine family resort".

[Tri-Ungulate]

Do we have to limit ourselves to 10?

10 in North America
Fernie
Kicking Horse
Aspen Highlands
Ajax
Baker
Alpental
Taos
Moonlight Basin
Bridger
Whistler/Blackcomb

10 in Europe
Engleberg
Andermatt
Verbier
St Anton
Alagna
Stryn
Narvik
Serre Chev
Ovronnaz
Zinal

10 Exotics
Las Lenas
Portillo
Cerro Castor (Ushuaia)
Cragieburn
Ohau
Niseko
Gulmarg
Krasnya Polanya
Dizin
Oukaimeden

And that's just the lift-served destinations...

I was thinking about this thread, planning a trip fo the upcoming winter, if it happens... looked it up and realized over the past 15 years I've knocked off 22 of the 30 from my to-do list, several of them skiing with other mags.

Hoping to get to Zinal this season.

Edit to add: I didn't bump this as a humblebrag, I was just really kinda psyched that this community has truly developed and helped me realize some of my ski dreams. Also it was kind of a trip down memory lane, especially with a thread started by bad_roo.