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Worldskitraveller's home page has a reference to Marko Schuster, who has skied 751 ski areas in 28 countries. This quote on Schuster's page caught my eye. Italy has Schuster's highest ski area count at 186. I came prepared for the crossing from Zermatt into Cervinia, here at top of Plateau...

His more detailed answer earlier in this thread: WST recognizes that the broad ski public and media relates more to counting ski areas vs. ski lifts, and so ski areas are a secondary objective. WST averages 8.4 lifts per area skied, identical to Oliver Kern and substantially more than Peter...

Of course I had to look it up and it hit one of my prejudice buttons being heavily south facing, like Crans-Montana and Flims-Laax. I asked Jimmy and he said he likes it much more than those places. Scuol is also quite remote from big population centers and thus I suspect not crowded. So it...

Yes, my presumption is that the trains are great if you going for a week from Geneva or Zurich to one ski region. But once the trip gets longer and moving from one ski area to another, no one wants to retrace to a hub to do that. ChrisC did do the research! I was certainly thinking in terms...

Done, those impressive scenery posts are now here.

I'll disagree with this. Whenever I found out, it was on his website somewhere. ChrisC and I Iikely "didn't get it" as WST's trip was unfolding because: We may have reasons to critique WST's ski priorities but I'll admit it wasn't entirely fair before we actually knew what they were...

My assumption has been that trams are the only lifts that can handle very long spans between towers, and are also more wind resistant. The Alps have a lot more of that topography than North American ski areas. And sightseeing is a much higher component of revenue in the Alps, like Palm Springs...

Skiing big picture should prioritize terrain (whatever each individual enjoys most personally) and snow conditions. Yes, I know the saying, "there's good snow and there's snow that's good for you." But when bad conditions reach the point of lifts/terrain closed (that includes off-piste if...

Switzerland is the alpine country most strongly committed to public transportation. At Saas-Fee and Ovrannaz we parked in lots/garages not an easy walk to the lifts and took a shuttle bus. So that's an unusual feature of Gstaad. 1) These places had close in parking near the slopes for...

We have driven through Megeve 3x and it has always looked unappetizing from either complete lack of snow or obviously rain soaked snow. These reports are helpful to keep in the back of our mind to seize the day if we are ever over there when conditions are favorable. That's what we did in 2017...

ChrisC did not post his vertical in these last 3 TRs. But he has the same objective I do in visiting new place, to see and ski as complete an overview of the area as possible. The difference is that he covers ground a lot faster. Our survey of Grand Massif was 60K vertical over two days...

That explains @Worldskitraveller's totally misleading comments about Stowe after presumably riding the Forerunner quad only once. What really takes the cake is being close to ends-of-the-earth Mt. Bohemia and passing up a 2 foot powder day there to stay on his molehill tour schedule. I'm...

ChrisC is making a great sale for James sometime! If James resumes the annual trip in late Jan/early Feb he'll hit it right eventually. There is a big difference though between the places with base 1500-1600 and the ones at 1000-1200. The former bases were slop and thinning in late March...

Strictly regional. Nov.-Dec. Percent Normal California Pacific Northwest Interior Canada U.S. Northern Rockies Utah Northern & Central Colorado Southern & Western Colorado Northeast US West West All 04-05 171% 59% 92% 100% 157% 78% 98% 71% 110% 108% 103%...

As long as it's not book with $$$. That view came from Fraser, who said Gstaad and Megeve were the least reliable major resorts in the Alps. My view is "have an open mind." See the last 7 days of our recent trip. Fraser again: Late March means rather strictly adhering to high altitude...

The monthly snowfall data I collect at the end of each season from about 85 locations.

AltaGuard UDOT data was just posted this week. It includes total precipitation as well as total snowfall. The driest years: Season Snow Precip Ratio 1960-61 326 28.7 8.80% 1976-77 314.5 23.7 7.54% 2011-12 329.5 32.6 9.89% 2014-15 276.8 26.99 9.75% 2017-18...

Somebody likes to ski powder in Gstaad. :icon-lol: How old were those tracks? Looks ideal for James or me; not steep enough for avy risk, no guide needed to search out a nice line.

Yes terrain looks way more interesting that the one we used at Courchevel in 2024. The Larch forests are way better for tree skiing. With the conspicuous exception of Steamboat, I find most Colorado forests way too tight for comfortable tree skiing. You mostly need to be in a subalpine...