This is a very fair assessment. I've skied all over Europe, plus the US, Argentina and Chile. We went to Aspen and experienced the driest, lightest powder we've ever had in nearly 50 years of skiing. This year we're going to ski Utah for a week, then drive to Colorado and try out all the resorts around Vail. We bought the Epic pass back in May, and it's not massively more expensive than Europe (day passes are another matter). An added benefit is that you get 5 days in Andermatt, Switzerland thrown in. They get about 300" of snow during the season, and the Gemstock is a legendary mountain. You take two cable cars (trams) to 3000m, then you can ski all the way back to town (1400m) on black level gradients. The quantity of avalanche bags, ice picks, shovels and ropes worn by the skiers is testament to the amount of backcountry options.
I watched another RU-vidr and when she compared the US to Europe. She pointed out that the US has something like 400 resorts while Europe has like 4000 resorts (numbers are just an example not the actual numbers) so the supply and demand causes the US prices to be higher. Not to mention that most of the resorts in the US are owned by like 3 major companies and they want to make as much money as possible.
So Europe resorts get less snow but have way more vertical. How do they manage that? The answer is SNOWMAKING! In North America we have snow guns, in Europe they have snow cannons! And lots of them, Dolomiti Superski has 4700! These systems are very impressive, without them the amount of skiing in Europe would be far less. The good thing is the resorts can open lots of pistes, the bad thing is the surface is HARD.
I live in Colorado, but I've skied a couple of times in Austria. The skiing itself in Europe wasn't as spectacular as I expected, but the vibe and culture is a lot different and very cool. And the views are awesome. Skiing in Colorado ranges from great to unbelievable. But....VERY expensive at the best places. I got a late start this year and didn't have a season pass, day passes are ridiculous. I paid $279 for the day at Vail last weekend, plus $30 to park. About the same at other premier resorts. Ouch
In general if you wont ski resort with more snow you should consider the France alps most of them are very high and have more snow and also in my opinion more value for money then the Austrian ones specialty if you are a big group and avoid the holiday seasons
Go to france val thorens for exemple a part of the biggest ski resort in the word "tri vale" 600 km of slops , almost no lines most of the season and the price with oll the diskont can go as low as 200 euro for 6 day ski pass the full price is 350 euro ......its like 35 euro per day
Great video! Personally I don’t recognize the lines experience in Europe. Been to around 15 resorts in Europe but at least 12 of them hardly had any lines. Didn’t yet get to ski in the US unfortunately.
Europe is better for charm, access, hotels, lifts, lift connections, ability for lifts to resist bad weather, resort size, variety, apres ski, beer, socialising, number of runs, length of run, lift ticket price, atmosphere and US is better for snow over the course of a season.
Man I lived in oak harbor before I started paragliding, I flew Rc gliders there, but I would love to come up there to paraglide there now that I’m a paraglider pilot. Beautiful video and wonderful flying!!
Great video and nice to see the diffrence . But you missed the biggest one. It is the apres-ski. The parties at the end of the day on the slopes and at the villages at the end of the slopes are great and that is something i really missed in NA.
It's so weird to see you gracefully ski these slopes, when I am still learning, I remember all these slopes and you just make them look so easy. Thank you for coming to Snoqualmie, i'm glad it was so calm that morning, it's normally bustling at night.
@@yani5352 you mentioned Lake Louise and Revelstoke but right in the middle is a place called kicking horse which is a little bit smaller version of Revelstoke. You haven't been there have you?
@@yani5352 you're right about those ticket prices. The nice thing about working for a ski hill like Lake Louise is staff get reciprocal deals with all of the other big resorts so we can use our staff pass at most of the resorts in the Canadian Rockies so I went everywhere for free.
@@yani5352 I know music in the background can make videos more engaging. Not sure this is useful but part of the challenge, I think, is that the music sounded like it had sounds that were vocals so a person's brain is trying to listen to two things (your voice and trying to listen to vocals although there are no pronounced words).
It is not true that it is less snow in the Alps. In some seasons, it may be milder weather that causes the snow to decimate due to the Gulf Stream that drives in hot air. From America.... But the Alps are always snow-sure as soon as you reach a height of a few thousands of meters. There is no disadvantage to having to fly from the US to the Alps. It is a disadvantage to NOT live in Europe. There are more people skiing in Europe compared to the US. That is why a ticket costs less and therefore there are more people at the slopes. You can never get the culture, the cuisine, the views and the atmosphere anywhere else but in the Alps. The cross border skiing is unique. The slopes in the Alps are longer, steeper and far more advanced.I always take the car to the Alps in a few hours ... I like your video though..
