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PeppermillRenoHell yes. You have a pass? They are doing a great job limiting the crowds and keeping an appropriate number of people on the hill its not empty.
I am planning on next being there for night skiing NYE. Might go this Sunday.
animatorYeah I copped an NH college pass! I’m workin mostly this coming week but this Tuesday I think I’m gonna head up there
DummyBearsPost how conditions are I am also looking to head up.
abar.Was taking an aiare 1 outside of meadows the last 2 days. 1st day it took 1.5 hours to get from meadows to govy, next day it took 2.5 hours. I know it's the holidays, but jesus christ that made me never want to have meadows as my home resort
eheathCO, MT, WY, MT, CA all have dry spells where it wont snow for a week.
DrailBC ski resorts. As someone that does the backcountry, I consider the only quality of a ski hill worth anything is terrain and lift layout (maximizing fall line, minimizing traversing). so:
Over rated: Revelstoke (by far). Revy gets a lot of snow, but for the biggest vertical in North America it sure has really long lap times with bootpacks and traverses for some pathetically small fall line vert per run when you are skiing the goods.
(dis)honorable mention: Whitewater. all the good terrain isn't actually inbounds.
Under rated: Red Mountain. It is not actually an 'under rated' hill, but it has the best lift layout and lift accessed fall line terrain I have come across. People (myself included) will say that they don't get enough snow, but when it's good - there's nowhere else I'd rather be.
honorable mention: Silver Star. Sure, it's basically groomers, but they are the best groomed runs this side of Quebec.
Rated fairly: Whistler - bitch all you want about all the bullshit, but the place is huge.
honorable mention: Kicking Horse. lift layout is annoying, but they have the terrain and the vibe is all about skiing.
theabortionatorLol, beaver creek is underrated as fuck. Go hit the trees sometimes. You can get fresh pow laps weeks after storms. Get a season pass, buying day tickets at bigger resorts is for people from texas.
Also nice tag on the end. VR are the only corporate resorts I guess lol.
DrailBC ski resorts. As someone that does the backcountry, I consider the only quality of a ski hill worth anything is terrain and lift layout (maximizing fall line, minimizing traversing). so:
Over rated: Revelstoke (by far). Revy gets a lot of snow, but for the biggest vertical in North America it sure has really long lap times with bootpacks and traverses for some pathetically small fall line vert per run when you are skiing the goods.
(dis)honorable mention: Whitewater. all the good terrain isn't actually inbounds.
Under rated: Red Mountain. It is not actually an 'under rated' hill, but it has the best lift layout and lift accessed fall line terrain I have come across. People (myself included) will say that they don't get enough snow, but when it's good - there's nowhere else I'd rather be.
honorable mention: Silver Star. Sure, it's basically groomers, but they are the best groomed runs this side of Quebec.
Rated fairly: Whistler - bitch all you want about all the bullshit, but the place is huge.
honorable mention: Kicking Horse. lift layout is annoying, but they have the terrain and the vibe is all about skiing.
DrailBC ski resorts. As someone that does the backcountry, I consider the only quality of a ski hill worth anything is terrain and lift layout (maximizing fall line, minimizing traversing). so:
Over rated: Revelstoke (by far). Revy gets a lot of snow, but for the biggest vertical in North America it sure has really long lap times with bootpacks and traverses for some pathetically small fall line vert per run when you are skiing the goods.
(dis)honorable mention: Whitewater. all the good terrain isn't actually inbounds.
Under rated: Red Mountain. It is not actually an 'under rated' hill, but it has the best lift layout and lift accessed fall line terrain I have come across. People (myself included) will say that they don't get enough snow, but when it's good - there's nowhere else I'd rather be.
honorable mention: Silver Star. Sure, it's basically groomers, but they are the best groomed runs this side of Quebec.
Rated fairly: Whistler - bitch all you want about all the bullshit, but the place is huge.
honorable mention: Kicking Horse. lift layout is annoying, but they have the terrain and the vibe is all about skiing.
donotreplyi agree with everything you said. never been too whitewater.. but people do love to get a lot of shit to whistler since it’s been owned by vail but the terrain is huge like ive been living here for 3 years and i still get lost on it 🤷🏻♀️
PeppermillRenoWhistler should be more/bigger too.
There should be lifts all the way through the canyon so you could ski from Blackcomb to Whistler without taking that tram over. And some sort of lodge/village in the middle of the two.
Whitewater you need skins to get to the good stuff its a waste with only an alpine set up. IDK how the inbounds gets tracked so fucking quickly too compared to Red.
PeppermillRenoWhistler should be more/bigger too.
There should be lifts all the way through the canyon so you could ski from Blackcomb to Whistler without taking that tram over. And some sort of lodge/village in the middle of the two.
Whitewater you need skins to get to the good stuff its a waste with only an alpine set up. IDK how the inbounds gets tracked so fucking quickly too compared to Red.
DolanReloadedId say jackson hole because the bottom half of the mountain is a wet slushy vag past february.
during christmas they will usually have alot of natural snow tho, so i think that is the main draw for all the rich mofos who vacation there.
but the base elevation of j hole is way too low.
also mammoth has a great park but very dodgy conditions.
thats probably why mammoth takes their park so srsly; bc if they didnt have a good park nobody would go there
LonelyTarghee>Jhole IMO.
I mean, they're both sick, but I'll take fewer crowds, better snow, cheaper drinks, and the Targhee views over Jackson any day of the week. Plus, the Targhee locals are sick and it's cheap to stay in the Driggs Idaho area.
Targhee also has one of the most slept on parks in that locality.
thedarkwolfwhiteface, ny. they brag about the vert but honestly all the terrain is pretty mediocre.parks are ok tho.
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first_rodeoStratton, VT comes to mind.
backyardcrackerStratton is pretty good, I don't think I would consider it overrated, but still very expensive.
Done_and_doneSun Valley: Again not an especially snowy place, but if you say skiing and Idaho in the same sentence this is what people think of.
So many better places to ski in Idaho.
DummyBearsI like the terrain at Stratton however because its a mega resort and ridiculously overpriced its hard to not consider it over rated when you have to deal with those aspects.
GodStowe
Killington
Sugarbush
Stratton
Okemo
I could go on
