Perisher.

Positive. Awesome parks, Always sunny, can always get away with a hoodie.

Negative. Season is 3 months long. No pow ever, shit snow

Mt Ruapehu

Positive - Epic spring days, chill skiers, fun park

Negatives - Ice, massive queues, short season

7 springs

+ Big and well-serviced parks, long seasons, close to Pittsburgh

- Gapers everywhere, ice, the "I'm better than you" vibe is very eminent

Alpine Meadows

+ Decent Park, easy access side-country, spring corn skiing

- Owned by Squaw, Squaw changed french fries in lodge, Squaw sends ski school/gapers/ski team over to alpine, Squaw fired long time workers/friends of mine

Overall Squaw is the root of all the problems, and after Alpine got bought out nothing has been the same

Granite Peak (WI)

Positives- 2 high-speed quads and a high-speed 6 Person chair, 5 terrain parks, most snowguns in the Midwest.

Negatives- $74 day passes, lots of snowboarders, lots of gapers.

ShepuxMt Ruapehu

Positive - Epic spring days, chill skiers, fun park

Negatives - Ice, massive queues, short season

That ice is next level. Never seen anything like it and hope I never run into it anywhere else. Unreal.

IT was good shreddin with you down there

Going for a double whammy here:

Northstar California

posi: No wind, killer park, tree skiing is really fun

neg: Is one of the flatter Tahoe resorts, owned by vail, lift lines

Big Sky, MT

posi: No lift lines, unreal big Mountain, lots of terrain

neg: has shitty jumps, owned by boyne, really cold

Appalachian Ski Mountain

Pros:

1) Relaxed attitude

2) Fun parks

3) Lots of competitions

Cons:

1) Very small mountain

2) No powder

3) Unpredictable weather

Powder Ridge MN

Positives-

-Awsome lapable park

-Great staff

-Resonable pass price

(Feels like a home away from home.)

Negatives-

-Every Tuesday parasites known as middle schoolers invades the hill and devours all the snow and destroy the structural beauty of the park.

-Lots of Ice

-Using the main chair is always a risk because you might die of old age before reaching the top.

Kissing Bridge, NY

positives

+chill vibes

+relatively cheap passes ($45 to ski from 9 am until 10 pm)

+Ok park with tons of fun skiers/riders to ski with

negatives

-short seasons

-rains often, then everything turns to ice at night (especially the park)

-very lazy park crew

Magic in VT

PROS

Terrain

Vibe

No crowds

CONS

Short season

Old infrastructure problems

Weird closures at times

Pebble Creek Idaho

pros- good vibes, hardly any lines, ummm lots of rocks?

cons- terrible park and park maintinence, grooming, super slow lifts (we still dont have a highspeed quad). oh and did i mention lots of rocks?

Alyeska, AK.

Pros: pretty gnarly terrain for resort access, night skiing, only an hour away

Cons: it snows but not like everyone thinks, very small resort(crowded, and gets tracked up fast), and the park is pretty bad.

Sapporo Teine, Hokkaido

Pros

-Steep terrain accessed by a high speed quad

-Powder. Lots and lots of powder.

-Long season (November to May)

Cons

-It's next to the sea so has great views, but it can get windy which sometimes shuts down aforementioned high speed quad.

-The normal runs aren't too interesting, so not much to do when the top lift is closed.

-It's not a secret anymore, so it's getting busier and busier.

COP

Pros -

1) It is in the city.

2)Fun park.

3) Pretty long season ( November to mid April)

Cons -

1) Calgary is cold as shit all winter.

2) Ice

3) It gets realllly busy.

Lake Louise

Pros -

1) Great terrain in the mid winter and spring.

2) Generally has a fun park.

3) It is huge.

Cons

1) It doesnt get good powder / snow until February.

2) Expensive Season pass

3) It is one of the farthest hills from calgary.

Lake Louise, Alberta

Positives

1) Long Season

2) Good Snow

3) Good Parks

4) 2nd Most Amount of Terrain in NA

5) Good/Frequent Competitions

Negatives

1) Long Lift Lines

2) Lots of Gapers

3) No End-Of-Season Wrap-Up (Gaper Day, Slush Cup, etc.)

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I'm still semi bitter over it.h Tey've gotten better, but the second year after the purchase, the vibe changed SOOOOO much that it bummed me out.

Telluride

Great weather, no lift lines, possibly the best terrain in Colorado.

Not as much snow as we would like, some of the worst avy danger in the lower 48, and it's in the middle of nowhere.

Cannonsburg

positives- great park"best in the midwest", Fast tow ropes (when they dont break down, super fun

Negatives- shitty snow, verticle of 250 feet, overun by snowboarders

Vail/Beaver Creek

+ 300 days of sunshine

+ very consistent 350 inches of dry snow annually

+ Really decent sidecountry that is much more steep than inbounds with much more snow.

- Flat terrain in-bounds

- Parking

- Crowds on weekends from Denver/Boulder (Texans and other tourists stay on easy runs and are seldom in my way. Many Front Rangers on the other hand think they are all expert skiers and try to ski above their ability level and clog up the good pow runs. Not all of them, mind you, but enough to be noticeable)

Sunday River, Maine

Pros- super fun park, fast laps with a 4 minute lift ride, long season, short lift lines

Cons- Not a lot of snow, so many gapers and massholes, icy

Mount Snow, VT

Pros:

Best parks on the east.

Carinthia all park mtn face

the vibe is mad chill

free pass from work/family

Cons:

lift lines

fucking flatlanders gaping in their jeans and gucci jackets

carinthia gets mobbed as fuck on the weekends

the mountain besides the north face is pretty flat and easy

Andes Tower Hills (however now Detroit Mt but haven't been there yet)

Likes

The chalet is cool, idk why I like it so much because there's nothing too spectacular about it. But I just like it.

No lift lines really

When the park is properly set up, it's a fun little place to jib.

Dislikes

The park is never properly set up

Gapers

Tiny

Cairngorm Mountain, Scotland, UK

Pros

-Open most of the season (end of November to early May usually)

-Friendly

-Nice wee cafe

Cons

-Busy (as got no chair lifts or gondolas)

-Can get very windy and cold

-Too small and never enough snow!

Snowy Range, Wyoming

Positives: Short dive, uncrowded, good snow and park

Negatives: windy, small, Nebraskans

Summit at Snoqualmie, WA

whistler bc

Arizona Snowbowl

-park overrun by parents teaching their children to ski

-phoenicians on snowboards who think they are "DA Shit"

-we lost our jumps due to too many gapers gettin hurt #whydidyoudoitJP

+our park manager built a 50 ft jump a week after by convincing the GM that people would just land 5ft

away on the side because it was structured as a hip

+park significantly gets better because of the crazy hard work of the park staff

+they sponsor an event where they set up a slope downtown and put rails there for a weekend

The Prestigious Montana Snowbowl

PROS:

-Its like stepping back in time to when skiing was about being a dirtbag and not about boutiques and fucking timeshares.

-some bars have a pool table, snowbowl's bar has a ski hill

-2600 feet of continuous vert

Cons:

-not enough ratchets

-quite possibly the worst terrain park in the country (who gives a fuck)

-too expensive (40 bucks a day!!!)

Snowbird

Good: Gnar, pow, vertical drop

Bad: Long tram line on pow days, closed during summer and fall, no spine walls

Snowparadise Velká Rača (Slovakia)

Well, we dont have such a big mountains or good resorts in our country but this one is definitely my best ski resort where I ski since I've been 5years old so

+ I know every single section of it

+ lot of friend skiing there

+ I'mhelping to build park every year and thats the thing I like the most

- shit snow (cause of bad winter)

- lot of gapers and kids

- slow lift's

Sunshine Mountain

+Sunshine!

- highly exposed = windy as fuck most days

+ delirium dive

Blue Mountain, Ontario

Pros: park is never busy, decent glades (for ontario) if you know where to look, staff is pretty chill with the locals that come almost everyday

Cons: Park has been hit or miss the past few years. Busy on weekends and holidays outside the park, low vertical, YELLOW JACKETS ARE EVERYWHERE

Turoa, Mt Ruapehu NZ.

Pros - Slack country can be sick

- Spring skiing

- The very occasional powder day

Cons - Ice

- One of two ski mountains in the NOrth Island so it's crowded as F

- Gaper assholes

Arapahoe basin

+No lift lines

+Awesome Vibes

+Great Terrain

-Park has gone downhill in the past couple of years

-Iconic Steeps don't open usually until late march and are sometimes only open for a week of the season

-Relatively small

Mountain Creek, NJ

Pros: got to follow the shadow of Sam Zahner (look him up)

a TON of features and jumps

night skiing went until 10 or later if you knew the right people (hiked the rails until 2:00am once

Cons: ice EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME (this can be good though since it works on balance landing jumps and whatnot

gapers everywhere (mountain is close to NYC and vacationers come around and ski into landings and cut you off as you drop in, etc

snowboard gapers snow plowing left and right and pushing all the snow down and ruining landings and creating ice

overall i was happy to have it as a home mountnain, i got to see what a really good skier was in person and the amount of freestyle terrain was immense for an east coast hill

Ski Liberty

Positive- chill vibe, fun park

negative- short season, ice, gapers everywhere

a_shaky_gifPebble Creek Idaho

pros- good vibes, hardly any lines, ummm lots of rocks?

cons- terrible park and park maintinence, grooming, super slow lifts (we still dont have a highspeed quad). oh and did i mention lots of rocks?

This can be improved.

PROS

Tons of natural features

Small Liftlines

Plenty of awesome locals

CONS

Opens late

Bad snow coverage / bad snow base

Terrible park (although the new stash park has potential)

GrahamGouldTelluride

Great weather, no lift lines, possibly the best terrain in Colorado.

Not as much snow as we would like, some of the worst avy danger in the lower 48, and it's in the middle of nowhere.

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Snowbasin, UT

Positive:

Pow,Short lift lines, Great food in the lodges.

Negative:

Tons of old people, icy faces until January, terrain parks are small and not on point.

All around its an awesome mountain, they just need to step up their park game and get a younger crowd.

Greek Peak, NY

+ Finally a couple of new lifts

+ New trail section

+ Only 30 mins from home

- Took them a long time to even think about upgrading said lifts and trails

- Expensive as fuck

- Gets old fast, not enough terrain that suits my style

Bogus Basin, ID

Pros:(if I can think of any) decently long runs, night skiing?

cons: bad park, very few if at all pow days, douche ski patrol and ski hosts who think they are ski patrol, and many more

aceofbladeZ1) Calgary is cold as shit all winter.

Coming from northern Saskatchewan, Calgary winters are downright pleasant.

Kinsmen Ski Center

Pros:

Tiny (I've done more laps there than anywhere else)

Really well built park (some of the best shaped jumps I've hit)

Super chill vibe

Music on loudspeakers

Cons:

Tiny (like 90 vertical feet)

Ski club/school (take up all the space on club nights)

Saskatchewan winters (almost all of Jan/Feb is -20c to -30c plus windchill)

Big Sky MT

pros: biggest skiing in america fuckers, insane in bounds terrain, nobody skis there

cons: upper management is really good at dumping money into asinine shit when more important things need critical attention, we'll have spells of -30 degrees F for two weeks straight, the rocks are very sharp and with the terrain we have core shots are inevitable.