Ski Area Count 2023-2025 Updates

Tony Crocker · Jul 1, 2025

Updated through June 2025:

Region	ChrisC	TonyC	James	Patrick	Liz	Lonnie	EMSC	JimK	MarzNC
Eastern Canada	4	4	18	75	4	0	0	2	2
US Northeast (NY+New England)	67	8	28	33	23	1	35	29	27
US Atlantic+Southeast+Midwest	25	1	7	3	3	0	13	16	19
US Northwest	18	16	2	4	7	30	2	1	2
US Southwest	24	28	0	4	18	34	9	9	9
Colorado	23	22	12	2	20	27	26	15	18
Utah	10	14	9	2	12	15	11	10	10
Other US Rockies	23	32	13	6	25	50	7	8	11
Western Canada	23	39	3	22	20	26	10	6	0
Austria	6	16	33	9	14	0	0	5	0
France	28	25	33	16	26	0	9	0	0
Italy	17	16	1	4	16	0	0	0	0
Switzerland	28	25	48	4	20	0	0	0	0
Other Europe	0	4	3	3	4	0	0	0	0
Asia	5	14	0	0	11	0	0	0	0
Southern Hemisphere	7	26	0	30	10	0	0	0	0
Total	308	290	210	217	233	183	122	101	98

Patrick added 4 areas in winter 2024 and SNØ Oslo earlier this month. I expect he will add Galdhøppigen while he is still in Norway in July. I do not know if he added anything during winter 2024-25. ChrisC revised per post #102 below. Patrick revised per his 2025 season recap post, and the conclusion of his 2024-25 season in New Zealand.

ChrisC · Jul 3, 2025

New Additions over the last 12 months

Europe - Trip #1 (Switzerland, Italy)

Engelberg - Brunni - .5 day
Zinal - .5 day
Grimmentz - .5 day
Courmayeur - Skyway Monte Bianco - 1 day *1 Guided day
Crevacol - 1 day

Europe - Trip #2 (Italy, France)

Via Lattea - Claviere - .25 day
Via Lattea - Montgenevre - .5 day
Pila - 1 day

South America (Argentina)

Las Lenas - 8 days *1 Guided day
Bariloche - Cerro Catedral - 2 days
Bariloche - Cerro Bayo - 1 day

Harvey · Jul 8, 2025

A new thread every year?

Tony Crocker · Sep 7, 2025

Harvey said:
A new thread every year?

I'm lazy; I changed the title. I also updated Patrick's info in post #101 to add the two new places he skied last week in New Zealand.

The summer heat and humidity discussion is moved here, with my recent expensive experience added since real summer heat finally arrived in SoCal starting Aug. 20.

ChrisC · Sunday at 12:45 AM

I did not realize how allergic James is to Italy.

I was browsing his Austrian ski trip reports using the helpful geographic-based search feature on Google Maps and saw this!

It's as if there is a 'Maginot' line or something (wrong metaphor, it didn't work) preventing James from skiing in Italy during the last 10-20 years.

Well, I guess there was one - Bardonecchia. He's always on the border, just not on the Italian side. I joke and understand his language fluency.

Me: I was always a bit less interested in skiing in Italy because I perceived less snowfall. This is somewhat true compared to the Northwest fringes of the Alps (Chamonix to Arlberg), but not entirely true for all Italian areas (i.e., the Aosta Valley). And depending on the storm track, the Alps might be due for a winter favoring Mediterranean storms. There was one in the mid-2010s where the Dolomites were just buried.

Anyways, I have checked off/skied a lot more Italian resorts than I ever planned to. Generally, if the snow is ON, Italy is an incredible value compared to Switzerland and France: guide costs, lift tickets, food, drink, lodging, car rentals, Milan airfares, etc. And if you want to cruise around ski-wise in beautiful scenery, the Dolomites will almost always be good due to the best snowmaking in the world.

It will be interesting to see what the snow conditions are like for the Milan-Cortina Games 2026, coming up! Events are scheduled all over the Dolomite region.

Tony Crocker · Sunday at 8:05 AM

ChrisC said:
There was one in the mid-2010s where the Dolomites were just buried.

That was 2013-14. That was the season our fabulous mid-February week in Zermatt reversed Liz' prior negative impression of skiing the Alps.

jamesdeluxe · Sunday at 2:50 PM

ChrisC said:
It's as if there is a 'Maginot' line or something (wrong metaphor, it didn't work) preventing James from skiing in Italy during the last 10-20 years. (...) I joke and understand his language fluency.

As ChrisC alludes to, the only allergy preventing me from skiing in Italy is that it's more fun/fulfilling/educational/efficient to travel in countries where I speak the language. I look forward to going there on my own terms and get started on the Italian ski scene that the prolific blogger Starli has visited over the past 17 years. These include more "James areas" than I'll ever be able to check out.

Given the heavy Germanic influence in South Tirol, I'd long planned to visit sub-regions like Vinschgau, the Dolomites, and Puster Valley but always got distracted by hundreds of ski areas in the other Alps countries. Now that our son is out of the house, we can put that on the table again.

ChrisC · Sunday at 6:00 PM

jamesdeluxe said:
As ChrisC alludes to, the only allergy preventing me from skiing in Italy is that it's more fun/fulfilling/educational/efficient to travel in countries where I speak the language.

I am fulfilled if I do not butcher French and German pronunciations of basic geographic locations, such as the town you are in or the place you are skiing.

In Italy, they can somewhat comprehend my Anglo-accented Spanish, so I feel pretty successful there.

Sbooker · Sunday at 10:09 PM

I think I can realistically add 8 new destinations this coming winter. That will get me to 90. I’m going to take a wild guess that may be very inaccurate but I’m tipping there wouldn’t be too many life long Brisbane residents with 90 ski hills on their resume.

*It doesn’t matter that they are skied badly.

ChrisC · Monday at 12:40 AM

Sbooker said:
I’m tipping there wouldn’t be too many life long Brisbane residents with 90 ski hills on their resume.

I don't think there would be many Australians with that many ski mountains on their resume unless they left the country for an extended period (winter in the Alps, working in Whistler, etc.).

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