The Great Ski Area Count

James, I figured there was some reason for your coming all the way out west, and spending your ski days at little-known areas like Sipapu, Red River, and Pajarito.
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Has nothing to do with list-making... I like skiing the small joints as much or more than the big places.
 
USA

Arizona

Sunrise

New Mexico

Ski Apache
Santa Fe
Sipapu
Taos

Montana

Big Mountain
Blacktail
Montana Snowbowl
Discovery Basin
Great Divide
Bridger Bowl
Red Lodge
Moonlight Basin
Big Sky
Lost Trail
Showdown
Teton Pass
Bear Paw - HIKED
Maverick Mountain

Idaho

Silver Mountain
Schweitzer
Lookout Pass
Pomerelle
Pebble Creek
Sun Valley
Bogus Basin
Tamarack
Brundage
Payette Lakes - HIKED
Rotarun - HIKED
Kelly Canyon
Soldier Mountain
Magic Mountain

Washington

Mt Spokane
49 North

Utah

Beaver Mountain
Powder Mountain
Snowbasin
Park City
Deer Valley
The Canyons
Brighton
Solitude
Alta
Snowbird
Sundance
Wolf Mountain
Brian Head

Colorado

Steamboat
Howelsen
Solvista Basin
Sunlight
Powderhorn
Eldora
Winter Park
Echo Mountain
Keystone
Copper
Cooper
A-Basin
Crested Butte
Telluride
Monarch
Loveland
Snowmass
Wolf Creek
Purgatory
Kendall - HIKED
Buttermilk
Aspen Highlands
Aspen Mountain
Breckenridge
Vail
Beaver Creek

Wyoming

Grand Targhee
Jackson Hole
White Pine
Big Horn
Hogadon
Snowy Range

California

Mammoth
June Mountain
Tahoe Donner
Soda Springs
Donner Ski Ranch
Boreal
Homewood
Grannlibaken
Sugar Bowl
Northstar
Kirkwood
Sierra-at-tahoe

South Dakota

Terry Peak
Deer Mountain

Nevada

Mt Rose
Diamond Peak
Las Vegas

Canada

Norquay
Sunshine
Lake Louise
Whitetooth
Panorama
Fernie
Kimberley
Nekiska
Fortress

Scotland

The Lecht
Glenshee
Aonach Mor

Austria

Zell am See
Scheffau
Obertaurn
Sallbach

Andorra

Pas de la Casa

France

Valmorel
La Rosiere

Italy

La Thuile

Chile

Termas de Chillan
Antillanca

Argentina

La Hoya
Cerro Bayo
Chapelco
Caviahue
 
Q: for someone based on that side of the pond, your Alps pickings are relatively meager compared to the huge number of western U.S. mountains... what up wit dat?
 
Only took up skiing aged 10 spent the next few years skiing Europe with family and then drifted a little before finding how much I love the whole US experience. It might change in the future but for now I am happy to come west :D
 
Sharon":3gv5umqv said:
rfarren":3gv5umqv said:
You should move to the states. Chicks dig an accent. :lol: :wink: :wink:
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This may be true...but dudes also dig the accent...just ask Admin...
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Tabarnak de câlisse, y fait frette icitte, j'veux les tropiques!!! :wink:
 
Maybe by spring I'll have time to find where my list is buried to play this game (too much skiing to do to spend time re-creating it right now!). Though I have to say I'm most impressed with James' list for only 8 years of lift served. Both in absolute number and breadth of states. In my experience most people by then only have one or two dozen - at best.
 
I took artistic license with this, but basically:
"M*th*rf*ck*ng tabernacle of the chalice; it's cold as hell here, I want the tropics!"

Funny how no one goes to church in Quebec anymore, but the religious cussery persists.

Google isn't the only one to have comprehension trouble up there. Once I go into the hinterlands (or even some Montreal suburbs), I'm often groping to understand 50% of what they're saying.
 
Marc_C":1xl4cgtw said:
Google doesn't understand "putain" either. :roll:
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Google, maybe not. But the Google translator certainly does.
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It understand the context, but putain and F-word don't have the same meaning.


q":1xl4cgtw said:
Termas de Chillan
Antillanca
La Hoya
Cerro Bayo
Chapelco
Caviahue
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I was looking at your SA list, off the beaten-path. I've heard very little stuff on Antilanca and nothing on Caviahue. I've been to the 4 others, what is your opinion on the two areas I mentioned above?
 
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