Dont go off piste!!!!!

stratton over smuggs is criminal

A video without having Big Sky listed loses credibility. Lone Peak is for experts.

Brighton may be last on this list, but it’s the best resort I’ve ever been to! I am but a humble Midwest skier and couldn’t handle Snowbird (was also only 12 at the time), but I was able to progress to blue runs at Brighton (essentially black diamond in the Midwest)

Wow glad to see baker up there!!! It’s truly a majestic place. I live nearby and this is my local hill. Need to get up to bc soon

Meaningless bullshit. Taos rules!

Your cadence and affect gives me nightmares

2:40 my local resort hidden valley, mo is on track for another terrible year due to poor weather.

At my local midwest resort (owned by Vail), a single-day pass plus lesson and rentals is ~$200. That's quite a chunk, and is more than the average employee there makes in a day. It's more than a teacher here makes in a day. And even factoring in transportation and lodging, it's more than it would cost to go ski at a locally-owned resort in SW Colorado. And as a beginner, I could go elsewhere and get a surface-only pass for about half that. Not that skiing was ever a big deal here, but not a fan of our corporate overlords. Golf is way cheaper to get into than skiing. In Colorado, the ski-touring, skin-up, ski-down approach seems like the way to go.

I'm a ten year Deer Valley season pass holder who sold out in Park City and got a weekday pass at Willamette Pass, close to a family property outside of Eugene... Park City was awesome for decades, but its getting brutal these days and it was time to check out smaller local areas... fingers crossed for this season!!

Ikon pass sucks and has screwed up skiing here big time

Cascade cement isn’t what “destination” skiers are looking for.

Lake Louise #1 💯

Skiing… the sport that has been ruined by the insane cost to participate. Skied Vail once years ago… had to pay to park my car….. that was the first and last time for me at Vail.

10:23 corbits! (or however you spell it)

8:48 I almost broke my arm there

I love that most of the footage is from Colorado and I can recognize almost every run!

Missing from this list: Cypress Mountain, BC Diamond Peak, Tahoe Crystal Mountain, WA Sun Valley, ID

Balsams has been a pipe dream since I started skiiing 35 years ago it doesn’t seem to be happening

All the mountains out in Banff have amazing views, 360 degrees. Funny moment at Mt. Norquay when my friend said something about the view being great and I agreed; then realized we were looking in completely opposite directions

Look, as an american who grew up skiing in Europe, and only skied in the US as an adult, it still baffles me that people would qualify marked and managed runs as "off-piste." That being said - many ski areas in Europe, especially the higher resorts do in fact avalanche control most of the dangerous areas IF they are easily accessible from the pistes. Usually done with electronic explosives, and you can usually hear/see them do it after a heavy snowfall and you get to the lift early.

My favorite part of backcountry is the lack of people. Just our group and nature

Unless you know to stay on the interior of the NW to ski, you’re stuck with trying to ski in PNW cement. It’s horrible. Skiing true powder is much better!

Not true. There are marked off-piste runs in Europe. Still, of course, have propper training and gear and buddies

Palisades deserves at least 5th place if you are going to put Heavenly at 6th and Homewood at 3rd. Very beautiful mountains with diverse terrain and stunning views. Also, it provides ANOTHER viewpoint of Lake Tahoe.

Not sure why Vail is not on a list

i just went to gore mountain is that not like top 25

I have been using skies for2 weeks and i would not say no to this route lol. Maybe without all the coffee breaks you would get down faster.

I grew up in a ski town in Montana. I've only skiied there, and on other continents.

Oh the drive to Mt Hood is terrible! Stay away! Awful mountain, not worth it!

All I know is any time I tried to ask anyone about skiing in south america they tried to sell me coke

I get why local surfers get protective and territorial!

Don’t come to Washington to ski, stay away we are already full! There is absolutely no room!

Lol I just noticed the less then 50k sub. Irrelevant channel 😂😂😂😂😂

it’s already crowded here, we don’t need a resort. Plus the snow isn’t that great. along with the fact that there is no public transportation. For me I’m waiting for a blue sky day middle of the week!

All that for that

Lots of great Airbnb 20 min from Timberline. I stay at Fir Tree Haus

thanks for not mentioning White Pass (oops..). It will never be a destination resort, given there is little to no private land available for resort development. And, thankfully, it is not readily accessible to the Seattle Metro area as the mountain pass that would otherwise facilitate more or less direct travel to WP is closed in the winter months. White Pass for over 20 years attempted to expand, which would nearly double the skiable terrain but was fought at every turn by a well-connected private group, with the backing of the Sierra Club. The Forest Service had signed off on the plans early on, but it took some very slow, deliberate planning on the part of WP involving cleverly designed lawsuits to get it completed. WP filed suit against the objectors with a lawsuit that if, granted would undo years of successful Sierra Club efforts to guarantee wilderness areas. When the Sierra Club read the intended lawsuit, they withdrew their support from the private group and the expansion was granted. There is far less "Cascade concrete" (the affectionate term for very wet snow) at WP as the elevation is higher than Snoqualmie and farther outside the line of fire for some of the wet snowfall that hits Stevens, et, al. The snow at WP reminds me of that I learned on at Mt Crested Butte in Colorado. The only drawback I see at WP is the infamous "flat light" one frequently encounters there. And, since I am now a "super senior", I can ski the deck or the bar if I do not like the conditions and not lose much, if any, money.

My dad taught skiing and worked ski patrol in Portillo back in the 1960’s. It really hasn’t changed much since then! He made the pilgrimage down there on multiple occasions until a massive avalanche took out the housing where he slept, killing “several” of his friends. The evening before the storm hit, he inexplicably took the train down to Santiago. He said that he was compelled to take the last train off the Mtn, that he knew he couldn’t stay there, and had tried to convince several of his friends to go with him. He returned to the base area after the railroad reopened to help with the rescue, then flew back north with the bodies of his friends. He returned one more time to support the 1966 World Cup race. He was the ski patroller who evacuated Billy Kidd after he broke his leg during the race. My brothers and I followed in his footsteps back in the 1990’s, but as alpine ski racing coaches in New Zealand at Mount Hutt. …Roy Schaefer, my dad, started working at a local rope tow when he was only 7, cleaning up after guests, went on to manage multiple resorts, owner of Berkshire East which he bought from the bank for a dollar in 1976. At 84, dad’s spent his entire life working at or running ski areas…pretty cool. Skiing is amazing!

I have been skiing at Vail Resorts for the last 17 years. There is a noticeable difference in fewer number of skiers on the mountain.

Best urban ski resort. Canada Olympic Park night time too .

Uhh Bachelor???

Yep, terrible, don't bother

Have you ever been to Jay peak at all?I been there many times.

If you don’t mind spending some money you can ski from Italy through Austria and Switzerland to France.

Cool run if they stop spraying aluminum in the skies damn the glacier will stop receding....

Gotta keep the riff Raff out!

I have an opinion as to why Americans struggle to read European ski signs and/or struggle to navigate the pistes but I don’t want to offend our ‘across the pond’ juvenile friends! 🤣😉

Imagine being a skiing authority and making a 25-minute video about Zermatt, but not once pronouncing the name of the town correctly.

Was sad at first to see none of my New England gems make the cut . . . Then I remember that I'm ice skating for 60% of the season up here 😂