Patrick
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After this post from Frank on his Mt.Hood experience:
I've never heard any great things about the Alpe d'Huez, Val d'Isère or Les Deux Alpes glaciers. The people that I know have always mentioned that Tignes had the best summer skiing in France.
Any opinions on where is the best summer skiing on the planet. Southern Hemisphere is pretty obvious, so I'll break this down in two categories with two sub-categories.
1) Best Summer skiing in Northern Hemisphere (after June 21th) :wink:
a) North America:
Blackcomb / Whistler
Timberline / Mt. Hood
Mammoth on record snow years.
b) Europe and others
Les Deux Alpes FR
Tignes FR
Val d'Isère FR
(I believe that Alpe d'Huez, La Plagne, Val Thorens and Courmayeur (IT) have stopped summer skiing)
Zermatt SW
Saas Fee SW
Val Senates IT
Hinterlux AUT
Stryn NOR
Iceland(?)
c) Snowdomes :roll:
Domes in France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, the UK, China and Dubai.
2) Best Summer skiing in Southern Hemisphere (after June 21th) :wink:
a) South America (best known):
Portillo (CH)
El Colorado (CH)
Valle Nevada (CH)
La Parva (CH)
Pucon (CH)
Las Lenas (ARG)
Bariloche (ARG)
Los Penitentes (ARG)
Esquel (ARG)
b) Others (a few)
Whakapapa / Turoa NZ
Cardrona NZ
Treble Cone NZ
The Remarkable NZ
Coronet Peak NZ
Mt. Hutt NZ
Porter Heights NZ
Thredbo AUS
Hotham AUS
Tiffendell RSA :shock:
So any opinions out there????
Frankontour":33usri4z said:What I can say now is that the mountain was just way better than our best expectations !
I seriously thought I would only have the chance to ski the general public line + the lower palmer trail to the Palmer lift.
We had (other than that) :
- skied at least 40 runs down other lines on the Palmer snowfield
- access to 3 other runs to get back to the Palmer Chairlift
- the Magic Mile skiable on East Mile, groomed, adding almost 1000' vertical
- A snowfield and glacier almost just for us
- The huge snowpark canyons at the bottom of the Palmer, (closed but who cares after skiing down the glacier, at 3h PM). One of these canyons was skiable almost to the hotel, with just a short walk of 100' long in the middle part and a 1000' long walk at the bottom.
- Access to the top part of the Magic Mile trails, with a short walk to get back on East Mile.
+ there was no crowd, the skies were blue and the weather was nice, not too warm, not too cold, on 4 of our 5 days out there (the 1st day was in freezing rain, sleet and a bit of snow)
It's sure that I've not skied anything else on the west coast or in the rockies, but especially in august, this was a wonderful trip and for us, Timberline Lodge is quite far to be over-rated. Obviously, this is just our opinion...
Actually, Christophe told me this week that the summer skiing on the mountain was better that any of the numerous glaciers he has skied in this time of the year, in the Alps...
I've never heard any great things about the Alpe d'Huez, Val d'Isère or Les Deux Alpes glaciers. The people that I know have always mentioned that Tignes had the best summer skiing in France.
Any opinions on where is the best summer skiing on the planet. Southern Hemisphere is pretty obvious, so I'll break this down in two categories with two sub-categories.
1) Best Summer skiing in Northern Hemisphere (after June 21th) :wink:
a) North America:
Blackcomb / Whistler
Timberline / Mt. Hood
Mammoth on record snow years.
b) Europe and others
Les Deux Alpes FR
Tignes FR
Val d'Isère FR
(I believe that Alpe d'Huez, La Plagne, Val Thorens and Courmayeur (IT) have stopped summer skiing)
Zermatt SW
Saas Fee SW
Val Senates IT
Hinterlux AUT
Stryn NOR
Iceland(?)
c) Snowdomes :roll:
Domes in France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, the UK, China and Dubai.
2) Best Summer skiing in Southern Hemisphere (after June 21th) :wink:
a) South America (best known):
Portillo (CH)
El Colorado (CH)
Valle Nevada (CH)
La Parva (CH)
Pucon (CH)
Las Lenas (ARG)
Bariloche (ARG)
Los Penitentes (ARG)
Esquel (ARG)
b) Others (a few)
Whakapapa / Turoa NZ
Cardrona NZ
Treble Cone NZ
The Remarkable NZ
Coronet Peak NZ
Mt. Hutt NZ
Porter Heights NZ
Thredbo AUS
Hotham AUS
Tiffendell RSA :shock:
So any opinions out there????