Top 10 Resorts

not that theres much to choose from but what about the midwest top pics??

wait, I've got passes to 3 of the top 10 resorts.

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word, but not that bad on weekdays, on weeknds and holidays its really bad

That list is PURELY based on advertising.

yeah and also some of the lowest snowfall records in the alps.


I can't believe someone mentioned Flums as a top 10 resort in Europe that's funny!!

Someone mentions La Clusaz, I'm sorry, but mentioning that tiny resort is 100% based on one rider coming from there and has nothing to do with the reality of the resort. It's a cool place, but there are hundreds like it all across the alps.

Regardless ratings suck and Europes #1 resort in terms of number of tourists per season is La Plagne / Paradiski (4.5 MILLION tourists per season). *puke*

However... if you're a rich fuck, here's your ranking:
http://www.bestofthealps.com

whistler
alta/snowbird
mammoth/june
jackson
all the tahoe resorts
big sky
steamboat
breck
keystone
telluride

not based on park but skiing

thanks for excluding the west coast. i like that. dont come to the west coast.

stowe and jay should be higher up on the list for sure jay has the sickest woods in the east and stowe has good bac country for the east coast

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I think skiing magazine has the best overall balance as far as these things go. Ski is for yuppie families and freeskier just doesn't seem to cover all aspects.

I actually enjoy reading a lot of the articles in skiing. I think their top10 would share many of the resorts, but would add some places like Mammoth, Jackson, Squaw and other mountains that are more for the skier and less for the yuppie.

^yeah, skiing is good. powder is my favorite, freeskier has been improving their written content (photos were always great), I miss freeze.

also note that these are rating of "Resorts" which includes towns, nightlife, etc and not just the ski mountain. If so, things would be different.

AND, it is probably good that there isn't too much press for places like Alta and Silverton. The people who need to know about them do. Alta doesn't have much of a base at the mountain, so it isn't going to rank highly amoung places like Whistler, Vail, and Aspen.

I just remember sitting at one of the lodges at Alta after an amazing day of skiing and listen to 2 highschool aged kids from some place on the east coast (sounded like Mass) decked out in nordica clothing/boots/skis bitch to thier dad about accomadations, the lifts, the people. "THIS (in a want-to-be snobby voice) didn't cost that much did it? I hope you didn't pay to much for this Dad, this place has crappy food, crappy on mountain lodges, IT SUCKS". There dad willingfully agreed to them and apologized for taking them to such a terrible place. Those people definently don't need to be at a place like Alta.

I see people like them all the time in Vail. I make little sandwitches out of the free crackers and the free veggies from the grill in the Two Elk Lodge and try to look pitiful, and then normally they buy me food to try to look/feel wealthy. I get free food from the employees there anyway, but it is my little way at getting back at them for taking up space in lift lines and being in the way on the mountain. After I get the food, I eat it as quickly as possible so I can get out of there before they A- ask too many questions and find out that my parents probably have a better financial portfolio than they do or B- do some simple reasoning in their heads and find out that if I ski Vail all the time I probably know to bring my own food or that I could quite possibly pay for it myself.

As the title says, SKI is ranking resorts, not just the hills themselves. And, if their ratings are like what they (and back in the day "Snow Country") have done in the past, categories such as "Grooming", "Service", and "Accessibility" are included, none of which are important to me and probably most people under 30.

If you were to just rank on important things like Terrain, Snow, Nightlife, and to a lesser extent park, the top of the list would look more like this:

Whistler
Vail
Jackson
Alta/Snowbird
Squaw
Mammoth

(note, not in any particular order, Ive only skied one of those)

first off, smuggs owns stowe. and yes, im not sure if tremblant should be in first, yeah sure it might be a pretty rad place for visitors and park skiers...but do they have any badass tree runs? smuggs, at least sterling and madonna have some straight up badass tree shit, and as of hte last 2 seasons, especially for this upcoming one...their park has been stepping up on the scene for sure. i know not a lot you may know, but just this past year smuggs has been spitting out some really, really, good snowboarders...and then as well as jon fay and lil john fuckers....if your not a local, go to morse mountain...otherwise smuggs shits the essence of a ski resort. awesome baselodge with really fucking cool people working there as well as the lifts, amazing terrain if you just explore a little bit, a pretty sick park, and the vibe...the vibe is what makes it. plus there is the clubhouse as well to go in and watch the latest ski and snowboard movies on loop and hotwire the dryers to get your gloves all nice and warm. and jay should prob be in first...they not only own on the terrain with big jay, but also have been putting forth a fucking solid park lately.

nice post, i totally agree with you also!

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