Has anyone skied at over 100 ski resorts?

[grskier]

I've been skiing at the same places for a very long time.. and spend my money so I can live here, as opposed to on travel..... So, the list is short:

CO:
Arapahoe Basin
Loveland
Copper
Steamboat
Keystone
Breckenridge
Vail
Beaver Creek
Sunlight
Aspen
Snowmass
Aspen Highlands
Buttermilk
Silverton
Wolf Creek

Utah:
Canyons
Park City
Snowbird
Alta

New Mexico:
Taos

New York:
Holiday Mountain
Kutchers
Windham
Hunter
Belleayre
Highmont
Mt. Peter
Gore
Labrador
Toggenburg
Song
Greek Peak
Whiteface
Bristol
Brantling
Deer Park


Vt:
Stowe
Mount Snow
Killington
Okemo

Total 40

[k2skier112]

I feel wimpy at about 42

[PNWbrit]

Is "Chamonix" one area?

[k2skier112]

I skied Whistler Blackcomb so long ago it counts as 2. Didn't become 1 until 1997 or something

[Tri-Ungulate]

Continent	Country	State	Resort
North America	USA	Alaska	Alyeska
		Washington	Mt Baker
			Crystal
			Alpental
		Oregon	Timberline
			Mt Hood Meadows
		California	Soda Springs
			Boreal
			Donner Ski Ranch
			Tahoe Donner
			Sugar Bowl
			Northstar
			Palisades
			Alpine Meadows
			Homewood
			Granlibakken
			Heavenly
			Sierra at Tahoe
			Kirkwood
			Bear Valley
			Dodge Ridge
			June
			Mammoth
		Nevada	Mt Rose
			Incline Village (Diamond Peak)
		Utah	Alta
			Snowbird
			Solitude
			Brighton
			Park West/Canyons
			Park City
			Deer Valley
			Sundance
			Snowbasin
			Nordic Valley
			Powder Mountain
			Elk Meadows (now Eagle Point)
			Brianhead
		Idaho	Sun Valley
		Montana	Bridger
			Big Sky
			Whitefish
		Wyoming	Jackson Hole
			Grand Targhee
			Snow King
		Colorado	Crested Butte
			Aspen Highlands
			Ajax
			Snowmass
			Sunlight
			Fail
			Breckenridge
			ABasin
			Silverton
			Telluride
		New Mexico	Santa Fe
			Taos
		Massachusetts	Berkshire East
			Mt Tom
		New Hampshire	Loon
			Cannon
		Vermont	Stowe
			Killington
			Okemo
			Bolton Valley
			Jay
			Pico
			Mad River
	Canada	BC	Whistler Blackcomb
			Fernie
			Kicking Horse
			Revelstoke
			Red
			Whitewater
		Alberta	Lake Louise
			Sunshine Village
			Norquay-Banff
			Castle
South America	Argentina		Catedral
			Las Leñas
			Cerro Bayo
			La Hoya
			Glacier Martial
	Chile		Nevados de Chillán
			Arpa
Yurp	Norway		Stryn
	Andorra		Grandvalira
	Spain		Boí Taüll
	Italy		Alagna Valsesia/​Gressoney-La-Trinité/​Champoluc/​Frachey (Monterosa)
	Austria		St. Anton/​St. Christoph/​Stuben/​Lech/​Zürs/​Warth/​Schröcken
			Sonnenkopf – Klösterle
	Switzerland		4 Vallées – Verbier/​La Tzoumaz/​Nendaz/​Veysonnaz/​Thyon
			St. Moritz – Corviglia
			Corvatsch/​Furtschellas
			Grimentz/​Zinal
			Andermatt/​Oberalp/​Sedrun
			Titlis – Engelberg
			Disentis
			Rinerhorn/Jakobshorn (Davos Klosters)
			Diavolezza/​Lagalb
			Gemsstock – Andermatt
	France		La Grave – La Meije
			Serre Chevalier – Briançon
			Alpe d'Huez
			Brévent/​Flégère (Chamonix)
			Grands Montets – Argentière (Chamonix)
			Aiguille du Midi (Chamonix)
Asia	India		Solang Nullaha (Kullu Valley)
	Japan		Niseko United – Annupuri/​Grand Hirafu/​Hanazono/​Niseko Village
			Chisenpuri
			Moiwa
Oceania	New Zealand		Cragieburn
			Broken River
			Temple Basin
			Mt Olympus
			Mt Cheeseman
			Ohau
			Treble Cone
Africa	Morocco		Oukaïmeden

Lift served. Skiresort.info is a good resource to keep track.

Doesn't include touring, though TBH some of the resorts on the list were skiied when lifts weren't running.

[petey_]

100? Yeah, no! 30 to 35 would be a good guess. Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Pikers'r'us ski team.

[VTskibum]

Fellow Hokie grad here... Bit later than you in 2011 though.
Grew up in SWVA and now live in the DC metro area. Was not expecting this much mid-atlantic participation in this thread lol

Used to be a pretty good contingent of DC mag's. Big E, Tippster, Iceman/Otzi, Snowslider, Mcwopski(?), maybe some others I can't remember. Even had a few gatherings and would meet up w/ folks who visited from out of town. I moved up to PA from NoVA/DC in '05.

[Jonathan S.]

Is "Chamonix" one area?

I vote No on that!
(Especially since if Cham counts as only one ski area, then Killington and Pico have to count as one, since skiing/skinning from one to the other is really easy.)
Although if the consensus is yes, then I'm down from lift-served skiing at 108 lift-served ski areas to only 104 ... or 103, since in that case Sugarbush North and Sugarbush South should count as only one ski area (even if I did ski them before the connector-of-sorts lift) ... or 102, with the same logic for Whistler & Blackcomb (ditto re lift).
Either way, given that the list is heavily weighted toward dinky little hills that I grew up skiing at or later raced or coached at, not an envious list!

Other interesting (or not?) tallies:

• 17 = ski areas that I've skied at only once the lifts were permanent closed (without having previously skied there)
• 13 = ski areas that I've lift-served skied at that then subsequently closed for years (high % of the 100+ total!)
• 9 = subset of the above closures that were permanent (with Ascutney, Haystack, Magic, and Whaleback arising from the dead)
• 8 = lift-served ski areas that I've skinned at yet not ridden the lifts (not included in the 100+ total)

[uglymoney]

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.

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[From_the_NEK]

Despite growing up 8 minutes from a resort in VT, I didn't start skiing until college/grad school. And then I only concentrated on northern VT for the most part. I really need to grab the bull by the nuts and hit central and southern VT, as well as NY, and QC to get my numbers up a bit.
In my 30's I took advantage of some business trips to hit areas in WA, WV, and NJ.

Here's my meager 23
VT-
Burke
Lyndon Outing Club
Jay Peak
Stowe
Smugglers Notch
Bolton Valley
Sugarbush
MRG
Okemo

NH-
Cannon
Loon
Wildcat
Tenny Mtn

ME-
Saddleback
Sugarloaf

NJ-
Mountain Creek

WV-
Snowshoe Mtn

CO-
Copper Mtn
Keystone
Breckenridge
Arapahoe Basin

WA-
Crystal Mtn
Mt Baker

[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.