Ski Area Count 2023-2026 Updates

[Tony Crocker]

Brévent/Flègère became 2 areas as at the time, both areas we separate and had separate lift passes.

They were combined when I skied there about 4 hours. I count as one even though they fit the Skitistics no-piste connection as two.

Counted separate at the time:
Mannlichen-Kl. Scheidegg and Schilthorn-Murren

Obvious, as they are 45 minutes and 3 lifts apart. Grindelwald-First, which Jimk skied but Liz and I did not, is a third area a half hour train ride separated.

I might have skied a separate area when in Flaine, but still counting it as 1.

The "4 Villages" are a separate lift ticket so I count as two. ChrisC counted three with Les Carroz separate. Jimmy Petterson counts 4 with Samoens and Morillon being separate also. Jimmy does not count Sixt, which has a piste going to it but no lift out of it.

Tony counted Zermatt and Klein Matterhorn as 2 separate areas.

I suppose this is my most controversial call, but geographically it looks a lot like Whistler and Blackcomb, two vast areas rising out of the same base. Just this year I looked more closely on the map of the two gondolas out of Furi. There is no piste into Furi from the Gornergrat side. There is yellow ski route, which I suspect is rarely skiable at that elevation without grooming and snowmaking. So I believe it fits the Skitistics no-piste connection definition.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

Counting as 4. Val Thorens, Meribel, Courchevel and Les Menuires.

Then you should also count Orelle, which has 1,000m of vertical with lots of varied offpiste from very gentle to spicy hike-to lines.

 

[Tony Crocker]

Goegraphy says Orelle is the 4th area, but lift ticket boundaries, the vast majority of skiers and history (Les Menuires was built first, then Val Thorens, and last Orelle) say Les Menuires is the 4th area. I decided to yield to consensus on this one.

 

[Patrick]

Then you should also count Orelle, which has 1,000m of vertical with lots of varied offpiste from very gentle to spicy hike-to lines.

Add +1 as I skied down to Plan Bouchet. I don’t think, but I might be mistaken, it was an independent area as we skied w our VT pass without an extra back in March 2003.