NY Ski Magazine
The Mountains Less Traveled
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Spending a week at an interconnected Alps ski region that’s multiple times as big as Whistler or Vail is, no question, a bucket-list item for us northeasterners. At the same time, there’s an equally compelling value proposition for dozens of lesser-known regions like Austria's Vorarlberg boasting ski areas that are still far larger and more varied than anything on this side of the pond, but small enough to avoid feeling like an industrial tourism meat grinder.
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At 3 am on a Friday in early January, my taxi wound through the streets of Revelstoke, a town of 7,000 along the banks of the Columbia River in the British Columbia interior. A Greyhound ride from Vancouver took nine hours. Driving, the more reliable option, takes six. In short, from the east coast U.S. this is not an easy destination to reach.
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Portes du Soleil, FR: Room to Roamin Europe
Although I spent a semester in France as a university student and visited the country many times since graduating, I’d never gone on a ski vacation in the French Alps. Last season, I made it a point to end that omission in my portfolio and spent a week at the Portes du Soleil, just south of Lake Geneva along the Swiss border.
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The airport of Spokane, Washington is often used by long-distance destination skiers as a convenient gateway to access the highly regarded lift-served, cat-, and heli-skiing in British Columbia's southern Kootenays, but the ski areas on the U.S. side of the border really deserve a second look.
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Ischgl, Austria: More Than Just A Partyin Europe
Even though the Austrian town of Ischgl has attained international prominence as one of the hardest partying winter resorts anywhere, my recent visit proved that you can have a world-class ski vacation there without the booze, euro disco, or lap dances.
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Whitefish and Big Sky: Montana Means Mountainsin The West
I had always wanted to go to Montana for a ski trip. I visited one summer for a whitewater expedition and when I saw how beautiful and mountainous, as the name implies, I knew a ski trip was in order.
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Lech, Austria: Powder and Porschesin Europe
Mention the Austrian ski resort of Lech and people immediately think of a snowbound Monaco, filled with celebrities, powerful diplomats, and the insanely rich. However, two visits during consecutive winters proved that you don't need to be part of the 1% to have a memorable ski vacation there.
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Kitzbühel, Austria: Springtime in Tirolin Europe
While the Kitzbühel Alps aren't considered the top tier of ski regions in the Alps, my spring 2003 visit showed me what's missing from the North American ski experience and transformed Austria into my favorite winter destination.
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White Mountains, NH: Wandering Skisin Northeast US
When it was time to begin debating the merits of prospective host locations for the second Northeast Ski Blogger Summit, our group put several lift-served mountains on the table. Following several weeks of intense e-mail lobbying, we agreed on New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
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San Juan Mountains, CO: Continental Diamondsin The West
The small towns, cowboy mystique, and jagged peaks of southwest Colorado have been on my mind for years. The fascination may have started with a dusty issue of Snow Country Magazine featuring an impressive night shot of a range called "The Needles" that loomed across the valley by Durango Mountain Resort.
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With more than 80 ski areas in operation, Québec is a great place to plan a ski safari, where you can mix up one-day visits to well-known mountains that everyone has heard about with those that will raise a “huh?” from most Americans. And just like the province's two other ski regions, the Laurentians, a short drive from Montréal, lends itself well to this approach.
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Before the ski season began this year, I made a pact with a buddy around a warm campfire on a chilly Vermont evening that this would be the season we made it to the Chic Choc Mountains. A week or so later, I called to ask if it was just the bourbon talking, or if he was seriously interested. The follow up discussion left no doubt that we were going to Quebec.
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Alta, UT: Searching For First Tracksin The West
When an online ski magazine has the words "first tracks" in its title, it'd normally be safe to assume that the person who edits and publishes it is living somewhere with convenient access to untracked lift-served snow. But for the first decade of his website, Marc Guido was based out of several locations that very few hardcore skiers would have called home.
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Loveland and Winter Park, CO: I-70 Outliersin The West
What makes these two Colorado mountains — one a no-frills day area right next to the Eisenhower Tunnel and the other an Intrawest destination resort only 67 miles from Denver — must-do stops on Colorado's I-70 ski scene?
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Solitude, UT: Channeling The Wasatchin The West
On paper, Solitude is a mountain that’s easy to dismiss — especially when you compare it to the high-profile ski areas in Little Cottonwood Canyon a couple miles away. But there are a bunch of good reasons I've made it my go-to mountain for the past few seasons.
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The fashionable cafés, cobblestone streets, and beautiful people of Québec City serve as a gateway for a classic northeastern ski vacation along the stunning Saint Lawrence River.
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Bearpen Mountain, NY: The Original Beast of the Eastin Northeast US
If events had unfolded differently, Bearpen could have become the biggest ski area east of the Rockies. Instead, it closed after its fifth season of operation and became a forgotten footnote.
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Among British Columbia's more than two dozen ski resorts, the Kootenay Rockies boast some of the province's most reliable dry powder conditions, but are still relatively undiscovered by most U.S. skiers.
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Jackson Hole, WY: One Man's Paradisein The West
Have you ever wondered what it was like to ski a world-famous resort before it was "discovered?" If you're curious about Jackson Hole, Bob Peters might be able to give you some answers.
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Teton Valley, ID: Tapping The Powder Kegin The West
Only a short drive across the Idaho state line from Jackson Hole, Teton Valley is coming into its own as headquarters for a soup-to-nuts winter vacation that now includes lift-served, cat-, heli-, and cross-country skiing.
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Burke Mountain, VT: Pride of the NEKin Northeast US
Only seven miles from busy I-91, but still hiding in the proverbial shadows, it's tough to find a mountain anywhere less deserving of such a low profile as Burke: a big-league hill with piles of potential.
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Le Massif, QC: Mountain by the Seain Québec
With a 2,526-vertical foot ski area sitting tumbling down to a nine-mile-wide Saint Lawrence River, Le Massif is one of the most unique ski areas you'll find anywhere: east or west.
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Monarch Mountain, CO: A Rough-Cut Gemin The West
Colorado's Monarch Mountain doesn't have the big vertical, thousands of skiable acres, or luxury trappings of the I-70 big boys., but if can put aside your need for superlatives, this non-resort will really surprise you.
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Pajarito, NM: A Labor of Lovein The West
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Most people couldn't pick New Mexico's Pajarito Mountain out of a police lineup, but it's a classic Land of Enchantment ski hill that's worth a stop on the way to Taos.
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If you're looking for a ski trip that's truly different from any other on this continent, pack the car and head north to this picturesque region that seamlessly combines two unlikely cultures.
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