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#1 ·
Best Hills in North America, Go
 
#2 · (Edited)
You asking the best ones we've been to or???

Here's my top 5, in order, of ones I've been to:

- Fernie (my fave combination of terrain, vibe, lifts, and lack of people)
- Jay Peak (I consider this the East Coast equivalent of Fernie)
- Whistler (awesome terrain, sucks about the crowds)
- Kicking Horse (awesome terrain, maybe the best, but poor lift design and no real town vibe at all)
- Lake Louise (this has it all, good terrain, good vibe in Banff, good lift access, you can avoid crowds if careful, but it doesn't excel at any one aspect)

Honourable mentions to some of the NH and PQ resorts I've been to: Mount Sutton, Loon, Cannon, Tremblant, Stoneham, Mt St Anne. They were all fun in their own way.

I've also had good times at Sunshine (too many flats), Kimberley (poor lift system), Nakiska (I patrol here and it's got many pluses, but no extreme terrain), the Vancouver North shore resorts are fun too, Cypress in particular.

edit: I want to eventually hit Revelstoke, Jackson Hole, Schwitzer, and Mt Baker.
 
#3 ·
I'll play, but true Bucket List is places you have yet to do. On my list:

Whistler ( get to strike it off in 4 weeks :yahoo:)
Telluride ( Hopefully next spring with no Altitude sickness:hope:)
Revelstoke
Snowbasin
Steamboat

If I can pull these off in the next 5 years, I'll be doing great and start another list. :D
 
#4 ·
wow... for me....

i want to hit in no particular order:
Jackson Hole
Mammoth
Breck
Aspen
Vail
Park City
Whistler
all of tahoe
Baker
Mt. Hood (i wanna go to the camp)
im sure theres others and im probably missing a few obvious ones...


Where Ive been in order

Snow
Cannon(Can't beat it on a pow day.)
Waterville(i work here love the park set up.)
Stratton(went on a super bitter cold icy day.)
Bromley
JFBB
Montage(Love white lightening)
Hunter
Blue Mtn.
Camelback

I really havent left the east coast...
 
#26 ·
Should look into mt collective pass , 5 resorts 2 pass each for 350. Great deal.

This year all my mammotth season pass holder switch over to that. Pass. We average 30-40 ppl for each trip and went to whistler, snowbird snowmass aspen buttermilk highlands going to Jackson hole, mammoth, squaw maybe depends on conditions.

Vail is great must go

Breckinridge is crowded

Park city u r not missing anything
 
#8 ·
I want to ride vail
aspen,
hood,
bachelor,
kicking horse,
lake louise,
mammoth,
snow,
bear,
and revelstoke & big white
Jackson Hole,
and some teton resorts

Currently ride whistler and grouse every week,
rode tremblant and marble(far east coast) and all the vancouver mountains
 
#10 ·
Bucket list:
1. Vail
2. Steamboat
3. Jays Peak
4. Mt. Hood
5. Big Sky
6. Baker

In terms of mountains I've ridden...I've been fortunate enough to hit up some of the bigger names. Here is my list, but some of it skewed by my ability level at the time of going.

1. Whistler (most acreage and was not crowded when I went)
2. Jackson Hole (gnarly terrain. I learned at JH by taking group classes and it kicked my ass)
3. Snowbird
4. Park City
5. Brighton
6. Solitude
7. Okemo
8. Stowe
9. Windham
10. Hunter Mtn.
11. Sugar Mountain in NC
 
#11 ·
This is a North American mountain request....

Places I have been and really liked the best, aside from where I live.
1) Jackson
2) Revelstoke
3) kirkwood
4) silverton
5) Taos or wolf creek tied

Places I haven't been and want to hit.
1) baker
2) squaw(going in a couple weeks)
3) bachelor
4) jay peak or Stratton, one of the big east coast places for the hell of it.
5) whistler

Best I have or haven't been and want to go.
1) Japan is number one on the bucket list
2) les 3 valles area France was amazing and I will return
3) st Anton, arlberg region of Austria was awesome
4) New Zealand
5) sochi, some friends have been telling me it's the most incredible lift serviced terrain they have ever been to and beats a lot of the cat and heli terrain they have experience in AK and BC.
 
#14 ·
Places I have been to and really liked the best:
1. Vail - huge, great terrain.
2. Revelstoke - epic snow. Definitely coming again next year.
3. Snowbird - was late in the season last year. Amazing snow, amazing mountain.
4. Heavenly - beautiful views. It was my first mountain in NA and first day of snowboarding ever.
5. Breck...

On the east coast:
1. Stowe and Jay
2. Stratton

Upcoming trips this season:
Stubai Glacier early March
Snowbird - end of season late April.

Want to go in no particular order:
Jackson Hole, Squaw, Brighton, Whistler, Fernie, Red and many others and of course Japan.
 
#16 ·
west:

breckenridge
vail
aspen/snowmass
jackson hole
squaw
whistler/blackcomb
snowbird
powder mountain
park city (preferably during the sundance film festival)
big sky
mt bachelor
heavenly
crystal mountain, WA

east:
stowe
sugarbush
sugarloaf

europe:

dolomiti superski
st. anton
zermatt
courmayeur
 
#22 ·
Bucket List:
Vail
Jay Peak
Park City
Mont Tremblant
Telluride - happening in a few days tho, so gets to move to the been to list :)

Been to:
Stowe
Stratton
Mt. Snow
Killington
Hunter
Chamonix
Crans-Montana
Zermatt

No particular order for either list, but so far on the East Stowe is my favorite.
 
#24 ·
I prefer Tremblant to Jay, but....

I only hit Tremblant mid-week after a storm and I'm only able to get to Jay on weekends so it's an apples to oranges comparison.

But...places I've been that I'd go back to:

Kicking Horse
Revelstoke
Whistler
Lake Louise

Places on the bucket list

St. Anton
Anywhere in Japan
Vail
And the Castle, Fernie, Red Mountain area.
 
#25 ·
Gotta read my full list, But I've done most of New England and Tahoe.

Starting from the South;

Mohawk, CT
Sundown, CT

Catamount, MA/NY
Jiminy Peak, MA
Butternut, MA
Wachusett, MA
Berkshire East, MA

Mount Snow, VT
Okemo, VT
Killington, VT
Pico, VT
Stratton, VT
Bromley, VT
Bolton Valley, VT
Burke, VT
Sugarbush, VT
Stowe, VT
Jay Peak, VT

Sunapee, NH
Ragged, NH
Loon, NH
Cannon, NH

Kirkwood, Tahoe
Heavenly, Tahoe
Homewood, Tahoe
Alpine Meadows, Tahoe
Squaw Valley, Tahoe
Mount Rose, Tahoe
Diamond Peak, Tahoe
Northstar, Tahoe
Sugar Bowl, Tahoe
 
#27 ·
Powder Highway Mountains are all in my dreams - Fernie, Baldface, Kicking Horse, the list goes on. Jackson Hole is something I'll sneak to soon, and I have not hit up the Sierra's in Cali or done all of the best NorthEast has to offer even though I live there. Here's my knock on out West.

1 - Whistler - Best terrain & best ski town on the planet. You could stay here for 2 weeks and not get bored. For one day of boardin', open to close, you can't beat it. The 2 mountains of Whistler/Blackcomb with the Peak2Peak gondala and the newly built harmany quad chairs... you can cover some serious acres/miles/kilometers/whatever in just one day, and not be bothered with lines. Stay too long, and maybe you get a Pineapple Express. Best resort in North America in my opinion.

2 - Aspen - I give it to Aspen for their shuttles. And, the town is legit, only a choke down from Whistler Village, but probably the best in the states for a resort. If you want to challenge yourself one day, go rip Highlands, if you want a great mountain one day with everything goto Aspen or Snowmass. Only bother is the drive from Denver Airport, or the crazy chit jumper plane you goto to get to the Aspen Airport. Have to make sure the passes are open if you go by vehicle. Side Note: Definitely need some coin like Whistler to enjoy your stay.

3 - SnowBird/Park City - This area can seriously get dumped on in Utah. The Wasatch Mountain Range is known for getting a ton of annual lake effect or lake enhanced snow from the Great Salt Lake. Only other areas in North America where this enhanced stuff stacks up is in the Great Lakes around Tug Hill Plateau. Also, Park City is a great town, and you can shred a couple other close mountains within 20-40minutes. After a nice NW bitterly AM squall, nothin' beats a bluebird at SnowBird.

4 - Steamboat - Lightest pow in the states. Best glades in the states on the backside. Probably the real-estate/time-share I would buy one day would be here, because I am selfishly always looking, every winter, for good glades with light snow. Town is awesome too, and there is amazing fishing around there.

5 - Vail - Some of the best bowls like Breck. I was fortunate enough to go at the end of the 2010 season, and there was a ton of snow everywhere. New tracks if you went out a little, and you could just rip the bowls. Have to say, Thursday & Friday were awesome, than a crowd definitely peeped in for the weekend. Vail is for the carver... I think it's more of a skier's paradise.

There's my bucket list... for now.
 
#30 ·
Bucket List (North America):

-Revelstoke (resort & b/c)
-Kicking Horse
-Whitewater
-Red
-Lake Louise
-Rogers Pass(b/c)
-Glacier Nat Park (b/c)
-Bella Coola (b/c)
-AK
-Aspen
-Jackson Hole
-Mad River Glen :D

Some places I've been:

-Whistler
-Big White
-Sun Peaks
-Sutton
-Tremblant
-Orford

Bucket List (international):

-NZ
-Japan
-Chamonix
-Patagonia
-Nevis Range (Scotland)
 
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