Has anyone skied at over 100 ski resorts?

[dunfree]

Is "Chamonix" one area?

can you count the aiguille du midi tram as a ski area?

[Jonathan S.]

can you count the aiguille du midi tram as a ski area?

I sure did for my max count of 108:

• I paid for a lift ticket.
• I rode lifts to the top.
• I skied down.

How is that any different than a normal ski area?
Okay, sure, I had to walk down a little bit to reach the skiable snow, but how is that any different than Killington in late May or early June?
(I recall noticing at the time that the warning sign at the tram base was smaller than the sign for the Loon NH terrain park.)

[dunfree]

Less barbed wire than Gulmarg but most “ski areas” make an attempt at a ski area (including Gulmarg which had a couple rarely running lower lifts). The midi is a scenic tram, not a ski area. Flegere-brevent, les grand minters, les contamines are ski ateas

[PNWbrit]

I think the permanently closed areas on people's lists is super cool. I only have one regrettably. You can't tag em without time travel. Score for the elders.

Beckton Alps.

[dunfree]

Super St Bernard is my closed area.

[Jonathan S.]

Less barbed wire than Gulmarg but most “ski areas” make an attempt at a ski area (including Gulmarg which had a couple rarely running lower lifts). The midi is a scenic tram, not a ski area. Flegere-brevent, les grand minters, les contamines are ski areas

How is this not a ski area?
I see a mountain, I see snow, I see an idiot tourist from Massachusetts (i.e., myself) who did not ascend a single vertical foot (or should that be, meter?) under his own power, I see massive gaping crevasses -- pretty much the same as Wachusett early on spring mornings before the ski patrol places hazard bamboo in front of the holes opening up in the snowpack.

[Jonathan S.]

Beckton Alps.

Oh my:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckton_Gas_Works

"The toxic spoil heaps from the works are known ironically as Beckton Alps. Originally covering an extensive area to the west of the works, they have been landscaped and much reduced in size. From 1989 to 2001 a dry ski slope, opened by Diana, Princess of Wales, was operated on the small remaining section [...], though the nickname pre-dates this."
"The gasworks buildings were also used in a number of scenes representing a dystopian 1984 London in the 1984 film version of the George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four."
"In the final hour or so of Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick's 1987 movie portraying the Vietnam War, Matthew Modine (Private Joker), Adam Baldwin (Animal Mother) and their platoon go into Huế, a Vietnamese city, to clear it of Viet Cong and snipers. Kubrick had the whole gasworks selectively demolished and the art department then dressed the 'set' with latticework and appropriate advertising hoardings to make it believable."

[Jonathan S.]

Super St Bernard is my closed area.

A wee bit different than the typical closed ski area in New England!

https://www.hakski.com/super-st-bernard

[dunfree]

A wee bit different than the typical closed ski area in New England!
https://www.hakski.com/super-st-bernard

a bus of school kids and some québécois when I was there

terrain wise, very different

[Tri-Ungulate]

A wee bit different than the typical closed ski area in New England!

Been to Mt Tom lately?
See ya in June.

[Jonathan S.]

Been to Mt Tom lately?
See ya in June.

Mt Tom is a bit further from me than other local options, so I've been there only once, post-closure, in 2009, which prompted me to write the following TR at the time:
"If you have never been there before, I highly recommend visiting around twilight, with high winds, dark skies, ever-so-slight sprinkles, and no other people. Combined with the ski area detritus and rather stark vegetation, the outing had a delightfully post-apocalyptic air. If some post-production shooting is necessary for The Road, and Pennsylvania is no longer available after such horrible publicity, then with a few extras as cannibals, the setting would be perfect."
Last winter though we happened to be returning from the Mass Pike via a different route, and while driving along somewhat of a plateau, I caught the most amazing view of Mt Tom: from a distance, looked like an open ski area! Apparently some gov't agency is periodically clearing the trails for some sort of reason.

(Unfortunately though a microburst a few years on Mt Tom wrecked the exit from this alpine couloir on the other side of the ridge: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WjANxQou2jVyvA738)

I'll plan to stop by your 35th reunion tent to steal some food!
(A ski teammate is staying with me the prior week for her son's graduation, how'd we get so old?)

[Ski to Be]

I thought I would break a 100 easily but only came up with 67. I am sure that there are a few that I missed and when skiing in Europe I counted the town not the many ski areas that comprise them. Also omitted heliskiing.

[allmountainsnowskating]

I thought I would break a 100 easily but only came up with 67. I am sure that there are a few that I missed and when skiing in Europe I counted the town not the many ski areas that comprise them. Also omitted heliskiing.

I think that it is fair to break down the Euro towns to individual resorts

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[maskinut]

I am around 200

[muted reborn]

can you count the aiguille du midi tram as a ski area?

I thought it was a regular ski area when I showed up extremely hung over from a long train ride. I thought I'd hit some afternoon groomers up there and drug my mogul skiing friends with me - they were cursing me most of the run down as they had never skied anything like it. It was kinda an intense run on an extreme wine hangover. In the tram line was a buncha guys in harnesses and that's when I realized we might be in over our heads. Two dudes spoke American so I asked a few questions of them and they were nice and 'guided' us through the crevasses. Small world - it was Hick (and his brother) from this board, ha.

Anyways I'm counting it if I actually had motivation to count the resorts I've been too.