My investigations have shown there is not a ski area in colorado that profits from lift tickets. All the side business and real estate are where the profit comes from.
Its because the US federal government controls all the available land in the west, and since NEPA, creating new ski areas in national forests is basically impossible, building new roads is impossible, and expanding existing terrain is challenging. Combine that with increasing market power of Vail and Alterra, and the monopolies are perfectly happy with current environmental regulations that make it impossible for any new entrants to expand.
Shiffrin managed it perfectly. Assessed the situation, knew she was in trouble, hit the brakes and calculated the fall-slide. All at terrifying speed. Still a painful fall. The bad thing about high speed or high impact sports is that a few thousandths of a second or millimeters can cost you for the rest of your life. Or your whole life. But to excel, overcome and triumph at those risk levels....Thats also lifelong. Pros and Cons. Stay gold.
Petra Vlhova was not racing a slalom course. I raced for 12 years and coached for another 5. Slalom has one gate per turn, no flag and you wear a face guard and poke guards to cross block the gates out of your way. Poor Petra, recover soon! For the AI that wrote this… Check yourself before you wreck yourself
how did Big Couloir from Big Sky not make this? It's consistently over 50 degree pitches, and you need authorization and avalanche training to ride the tram up to it.
Love seeing Lake Chutes. When I’m on a more “family friendly” ski trip to Breckenridge, it’s nice having some extreme terrain available with just a short hike.
Great video and well produced. Fun to watch. The problem with Lewis like this as it’s very subjective. A list like this is bound to upset some people. I’ve heard kill the banker is tough. I don’t think the lake shoots at Breckenridge are that difficult.I’d love to try some of them but the risk reward is just too freaky.
Rambo isn't nearly the hardest run. Rambo is my warmup run you forgot to mention the Highlife Run, Body Bag, Dead End, Slot Rocks I can name 20 runs at CB that are harder than Rambo
Sorry but you might wanna do some more research I’ve skied corners and most of the other runs on this list and ther are way steeper and more challenging runs.
I went to Gornergrat by train for the best view of Matterhorn, had a stop at Riffelberg's Heini's bar for a few beers in a chaise longue, he gave me some sun cream for free, enjoyed the timeless view. Then went down with the same train to stop at Riffelalp to walk to eat at Al Bosco, a ten minute snow walk from the station. spend a lot of money, saw an avalanche. It was father's day my daughter was with me. I can die happy. Too old to do any skying. Enjoy life all the mountain lovers.
This is a very interesting list but you are missing some great runs. If you are going to include hike-to runs, I would rank Pipeline at Snowbird over Great Scott. Even Elevator Shaft at Snowbird is more difficult than Great Scott and you can ski right to it. I would also include Main Chute at Alta or the more difficult run to the left called Little Chute. Then there is High Rustler at Alta but I'm not sure it should be on this list unless you include the jump over the rocks at the top instead of the cheater side entry that 99% of skiers use to get in. Finally there are many code-brown-inducing runs at Kicking Horse and at least one of them should be on this list. Unfortunately Kicking Horse doesn't get as much publicity as some of the other resorts on this list and so it is easy to overlook them. Do yourself a favor and make the trip. It is the real deal.
Yah, was my first complaint back in the 80's when snow boards first started appearing on the ski slopes. If they actually know how to carve turns they're no problem, but there is a huge number of people riding those boards that just do scrape descents on anything steep, so they should stay off stuff they can't carve, and that goes for skiers as well.
hey buddy u forgot the entire headwaters ski area at Big Sky, where it is a 40 minute hike along a cliff where you only have about 1 1/2 widths of your foot to step ... and once you actually get to the trail there is almost never anywhere to go. On top of all this, once you actually get to ski the trail, you have to have a complete knowledge of the area because a wrong path on any of the chutes could take you to some mandatory air that could potentially be dangerous It is one of the scariest things I have ever done in my 13 years of existence I legitimately almost died 3 time in the past 3 years that I have skied them
I went skiing every year between 1986 and 2000. In the mid 90’s went 5 times to US/Canada due to a few poor snow years in Austria/France. At the time there was not a huge difference in the overall price between Europe and North America despite having to fly to the US - even to Alaska! It seems things have now changed substantially.
