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Best mountain to ski in the world?

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CalumSKI
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3...2....1...GO
Oct 15 2018 8:31PM
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JoeF2661
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Home mountain. You can ski chamonix, big sky and Jackson but theres no feeling like coming back to where it all started. Unless you live in the midwest. Lol

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Oct 15 2018 8:50PM
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CalCarson
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winter park
Oct 15 2018 10:03PM
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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Ruapehue
Oct 15 2018 10:55PM
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Non_State_Actor
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Probably Everest?
Oct 15 2018 11:05PM
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methscratchface
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Mountain Dew!
Oct 15 2018 11:22PM
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CalumSKI
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mystery3Probably Everest?


i knew someone would say that
Oct 21 2018 2:09PM
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skistupid
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K2.
Oct 21 2018 2:54PM
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B_K
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Oct 21 2018 6:09PM
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Redrobin
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JoeF2661Home mountain. You can ski chamonix, big sky and Jackson but theres no feeling like coming back to where it all started. Unless you live in the midwest. Lol

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Deadass tho. I'd love to spend a season back home just for the nostalgia but that 2 month season is a no bueno.
Oct 21 2018 10:59PM
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Rum_Ham
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Paoli peaks, Indiana
Oct 21 2018 11:11PM
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powpatrol
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Matterhorn,straight down from the top of it
Oct 22 2018 7:23AM
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LackeyDittos
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Surprised no one has built a booter off mount Rushmore yet.
Oct 23 2018 2:03AM
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theabortionator
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The smaller home mom and pop hills in your hometown for sure. Something about that never gets old. I think in a couple years I'm going to try to take over a fixer upper park program at a small mountain and get back into that zone. Something about the charm of those smaller hills. Would I vacation there? Fuck no. Would I spend the season there? Absolutely. Tearing around the hill, hot laps in the park, and cold beers with friends in the lodge. Knowing nearly all of the employees and a good chunk of people on the hill. I dig them vibes

Kirkwoood, Aspen Highlands, and Jhole are probably my favorite mountains I've ridden.
Oct 23 2018 2:19AM
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freestyler540
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theabortionatorThe smaller home mom and pop hills in your hometown for sure. Something about that never gets old. I think in a couple years I'm going to try to take over a fixer upper park program at a small mountain and get back into that zone. Something about the charm of those smaller hills. Would I vacation there? Fuck no. Would I spend the season there? Absolutely. Tearing around the hill, hot laps in the park, and cold beers with friends in the lodge. Knowing nearly all of the employees and a good chunk of people on the hill. I dig them vibes

It depends if your working with private owners or a board member owned hill. If you know the owner, its pretty easy getting your foot in the door to build a park, a park team and a community on that mountain. When you are dealing with a board, you are dealing with a bunch of 70 year olds that truly believes that if they 6 year old granddaughter cant do it, it shouldnt be there in the first place. I gave up trying to get my foot in the door to work in the park; it was a scene I was super committed to, but was always turned down. Its why I left Quebec and the maritimes.

I love whitewater. Most people there are locals who come up almost every day. Riding with the 60+ age group locals is sick. They have no expectations and every run was an awesome run, no matter the conditions. Its a place you can high five the lifty every run.
Every hill has their charm, you just got to find it.
Oct 23 2018 2:37AM
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theabortionator
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freestyler540It depends if your working with private owners or a board member owned hill. If you know the owner, its pretty easy getting your foot in the door to build a park, a park team and a community on that mountain. When you are dealing with a board, you are dealing with a bunch of 70 year olds that truly believes that if they 6 year old granddaughter cant do it, it shouldnt be there in the first place. I gave up trying to get my foot in the door to work in the park; it was a scene I was super committed to, but was always turned down. Its why I left Quebec and the maritimes.

I love whitewater. Most people there are locals who come up almost every day. Riding with the 60+ age group locals is sick. They have no expectations and every run was an awesome run, no matter the conditions. Its a place you can high five the lifty every run.
Every hill has their charm, you just got to find it.


I mean I've gotten fucked over by a couple of mountains in the past but I still love it. Actually the last fixer upper I tried was a total bust. At least I fixed some of the beat old stuff and built them 4 more features. 1 got bent getting yanked out of the ice with chains because why dig it out, another broke getting yanked out. I think the other 2 still exist. Wanted to build more stuff but ended up having 0 employees and almost no time to build anything. I think one of the tube rails was finished at 4am working for free with everything on blocks because shop was under 6 inches of water. Ultra safe.

That said I'd absolutely do it again. I really liked one mountain I did it at but was hometown so 2 seasons was all I was willing to devote to living in the town I grew up in.
Oct 23 2018 2:59AM
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bigwhite.steeze
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In Canada, its definitely Revelstoke, or Whitewater. I've never met a European who said a Resort there was better than Interior BC, and while America has Trump, everything there unfortunately inherently sucks... sooo... Interior BC?
Oct 23 2018 10:29PM
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freestyler540
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bigwhite.steezeIn Canada, its definitely Revelstoke, or Whitewater. I've never met a European who said a Resort there was better than Interior BC, and while America has Trump, everything there unfortunately inherently sucks... sooo... Interior BC?

Yeah, but Europeans are really picky. Took in a girl from Austria last year. All she did was complain how the Kootenays suck and how she wanted to go back to europe. She was the biggest buzzkill
Oct 23 2018 10:56PM
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.SHAGGY.
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the mountain of diarrhea I left on your moms chest
Nov 11 2018 3:04PM
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Dddsz
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JoeF2661Home mountain. You can ski chamonix, big sky and Jackson but theres no feeling like coming back to where it all started. Unless you live in the midwest. Lol

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Big sky is for pussies
Nov 11 2018 4:53PM
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michigang
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JoeF2661Home mountain. You can ski chamonix, big sky and Jackson but theres no feeling like coming back to where it all started. Unless you live in the midwest. Lol

**This post was edited on Oct 15th 2018 at 8:51:20pm

You're right about the Midwest lol. Still will always be the home ditch though haha
Nov 11 2018 8:21PM
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corona
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What would make a mountain super awesome would be if they had random rails and jumps and stuff all over the mountain, not just in the terrain park. Flat spot on a run? Throw in a rail or two.
Nov 11 2018 9:39PM
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Lonely
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Mount bohemia. Hands down.
Nov 11 2018 9:59PM
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theabortionator
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VinnieFWhat would make a mountain super awesome would be if they had random rails and jumps and stuff all over the mountain, not just in the terrain park. Flat spot on a run? Throw in a rail or two.


Maybe outside of America. Problem is the liability side of things. Anything man made is a risk. Obviously lift towers have pads cause center of trail but thats why snow guns are marked and padded as well, even if there are trees closer to trail. Anything you build a feature pretty uch has to be designated as a park and have some signage for such.

Mt snow was talking about doing it on lil john or whatever that trail is to the gulch. Just to slow down the park rats cause green trail. That would be interesting to see how that works if it happens or happened.
Nov 12 2018 3:29AM
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skiguy04
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any rope pull that does not wreck my mittens
Nov 13 2018 11:27PM
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r00kie
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LonelyMount bohemia. Hands down.


Boho for sure. No frills, all about the snow. Also, where else do you buy a season pass for 99 and take laps with the owner?
Nov 14 2018 10:57PM
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Lonely
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r00kieBoho for sure. No frills, all about the snow. Also, where else do you buy a season pass for 99 and take laps with the owner?

My thoughts exactly. They acknowledge actively that they are not in the Business of money making, but in the business of skiing. Plus their web series boho tv is hilarious.
Nov 14 2018 11:00PM
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clorox
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mystery3Probably Everest?
CalumSKIi knew someone would say that

Seems like we gotta throw a rope tow and some rails on Everest. Engine will prob need to be at the bottom cause of the lack of oxygen thing. I hear crevasse ladders are the new trend in new wave park features. Just wait til you see the the volume of the mitts the people there use.

skiguy04any rope pull that does not wreck my mittens

Abenaki ski area in Wolfeboro NH . Their ropetow runs at 14mph in the day but sometimes they run it significantly faster after the main run closes for the night. They also sell Kinco Axemen for dirt cheap in the lodge. You can probably get more total vert in one day than a lot of significantly larger ski areas.
Nov 15 2018 11:14AM
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iskeaah
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Whistler prob. Best place I think for skiing but prices are insane.
Nov 15 2018 12:49PM
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