Top 5 Steepest Ski Areas of North America - 2024 Update
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- This video is an update from my Top 5 Videos in North America from 2 years ago. During my travels this season, I finally found a new ski area to replace one of the original 5. If you don’t agree with the list, please feel free to leave a comment with your favorite steep ski area. The original video can be found at: • Top 5 Steepest Ski Are...
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Top 5 Spring Ski Areas of North America: • Top 5 Spring Ski Areas...
Top 5 Sidecountry Ski Areas of North America: • Top 5 Sidecountry Ski ...
Top 5 Lunch Ski Areas of North America: • Top 5 Lunch Ski Areas ...
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That's an excellent top-five list, although I haven't skied Kicking Horse yet. Alta-Bird is my favorite ski area in the US. In my mind, the only other places that might make this list are Telluride, which, if memory serves, is similar to Taos in the steeps department, and Mad River Glen, which is quite different from all the areas on your list-probably an honorable mention.
I grew up skiing, racing, and patrolling back east in the '60s and '70s. My favorites are Mad River, Sugarbush, and Stowe in Vermont; Wildcat and Loon in New Hampshire; and Sunday River in Maine. Tuckerman Ravine can be fun in Spring when the weather is good, but it's a five-hour hike.
Thanks for the recommendations. I thought about making Mad River Glen an honorable mention but listed Alyeska as I have been there in the summer and have seen the steeps first hand. I thought about doing a trip out east this winter but kept hearing that it would snow and then rain so the conditions never warranted the flight.
I was concerned Kicking Horse wouldn't live up to the hype which is why I made the trip this year. I'm glad I went out of my way as it really made for a great place to ski. It was the highlight of my Canadian trip this year. I highly recommend it.
Love Taos and Telly, but they both suffer the same fate as another favorite (Crested Butte)...no snow.
@@nadakidd I keep planning trips to Telluride but cancel because of snow conditions. Some day I just need to go regardless. Crested Butte had good snow when I skied there but the lack of it kept a lot of the steep stuff closed.
Hi Matt thanks for the vid! Nick
Is this the local Nick from Kicking Horse? If so, now I can add your last name in the video description as you took one of the photos in the video.
Nice update! I still recommend some of the northern NE steeps, up past waterville is where the action is at!
Thanks, I will try to get there in the near future.
Steepest in the east is cannon nh,killington vt,Burke vt,saddleback Maine,whiteface ny
@@bobl6139 Thanks for the recommendations. That is a great list.
Too bad the conditions were not great at Lake Louise when you were there. If you come again, hit the 'Gullies' which are very steep (gully I being the steepest), ER 3 & 6, Swedes, Big 7. You will be impressed.
Thanks for the recommendations. We had a great time skiing and definitely want to come back.
What about crested butte the body bag run/ Rambo, Palisades fingers/chimney/ McConkey, Breckenridge Wack's Chute? Pretty impressive runs
Thanks for the recommendations as they are all impressive runs. Growing up, I always thought Palisades had some amazingly steep stuff but when I returned recently, I found it to be a lot more tame than I remembered and so I didn't add it to the list (look for an update to my Sidecountry video where I give kudos to the area).
As for Crested Butte, I love that place and had a great time when I skied there. I've gotten a lot of comments about Rambo not making the list. When I was there, it was unskiable due to lack of snow. I've since done a bit of research and it never has enough snow so that you are always dodging rocks. I have to question if you can really call it a run. It sounds more like a cliff sprinkled with snow every once and awhile. That being said, it is a very steep run and kudos to anyone that skis it. I left Crested Butte off the list due to the other resorts having quite a few steep runs to choose from.
I did Rambo this season, there is some exposed stone close to the entrance and probably you can get into the run from the trees on the right side. When you ski down 1/4 of the run, there are no more stones. But I am thinking about going back to it sometime later because there are lots of challenging routes in the Phoneix bowl and third bowl. Body bag and deadend chute will make you miss Rambo.@@matthewbennettutah
@@zhezhang3055Sounds like you hit it with the right amount of snow. That's great.
So far in the west steepest I’ve experienced were snowbird,aspen highlands,crested butte ,alpine meadows,copper
That is a good list. I like all of those areas and a number of skiers agree with some of them being in the "Steepest" club, especially Crested Butte.
There’s this unmarked line called the saddle at Jay peak in VT that’s like 55 degrees for 60 feet
I should mention it is still steep after that 60, but it’s more like 40 degrees. You don’t have to hike if you know where to cut in as well. In total, about .4 km of tight trees and steeeep pitch
Thanks for the recommendation.
@@elliottmusic2416 This year I had plans to do a trip out east but then I kept getting reports of horrible snow conditions where it would snow and then warm up to the 60's and melt everything. Perhaps next year.
@@matthewbennettutah yeah… wasn’t great this year
@@elliottmusic2416 Hopefully it is better next year.
Schweitzer Mountain resort in Sandpoint Idaho is a gem probably not a top 5 bit a gem none the less
I've only heard good things about Schweitzer and need to get up there. Thanks for the recommendation.
Revelstoke BC is steeper than Sunshine Village, Lake Louise and Kicking Horse. Check it out next time you're up in Canada!
Thanks for the recommendation about Revelstoke as I wanted to try it on my last trip to Canada. Unfortunately the lower half of the mountain didn't have a lot of snow. A lot of people staying at Revelstoke made the 2-hour drive to Kicking Horse to ski there. Perhaps next year.
Mt Bohemia on the Keeweenaw!
Those that know Mt. Bohemia love it. I get a lot of recommendations for it.
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Also, I'm with you on that the runs need to be longer than 15', but that said, day for day I get more enjoyment out of Soli than Bird. The latter is simply overrun with people and turns to hard pack in about a day...sadly.
My first seasons pass in Utah was to Solitude but I switched to the Bird after a few years because of the terrain. I agree that the Bird has gotten very crowded and so I only ski it on weekdays and non-holidays. Sorry, I did not ski the Dutch Wallet.
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Glad you liked how long steeps really need to be.
Watching the peak of skiing or what we are really watching is it's demise. We have seen vastly the increase of prices on and off resort just ski rocket .
Sure you thinking (till you worked at one) the price is what it takes to run the place(s) is in reality farfetched thinking.
Maybe your new at skiing ( I hope you are) or maybe a long skier/rider have noticed or accepted the little things not done or skipped over think it's for now and will be taken care of, will never happen.
The very first thing that any money goes to anymore is to the investors. The last thing any money goes to is the resort.
So Keep an eye open for the deterioration, methodically grow.
Though working part time as an instructor. I seen behind the scenes just how the initial cuts are made...
But, when the milking runs out, the investors leave, you'll have a run down unsafe ghost of a resort rot that new how to emptied your pockets. By the taking something of fun and destroying it while you paid for it...interesting isn't .
Seems a bit off topic but you are not wrong. This past week I had friends from Japan staying at my house who commented on how climate change has dramatically shortened the ski season in Japan to the point that about half of the ski areas there are closed down. So you have climate change conspiring against skiing on one side and out-of-control prices on the other. That is a recipe for decline in the sport.
Sugarbush vermont
Thanks for the recommendation in Vermont. I really need to spend some time out there and perhaps put together an Eastern North America list.
@@matthewbennettutah yeah, there’s a few other places like Stowe, Mad River Glen, Jay peak, and Mt Snow
Oh and smuggler notch, all great places with challenging expert terrain, my recommendation if you want something really hard is GOAT at Stowe, rumble at sugarbush, paradise mad river glen and Madonna and black hole at smugglers
@@fletcher8137 Great recommendations!
@@fletcher8137 Thanks for all your recommendations. I actually looked into doing a week-long trip out East this season but the locals kept telling me how it would snow and then get warm. I'm hoping for a better season next year.