10 Most Unusual Ski Resorts in the World | Part 1 

Another one: mount Etna, Sicily. Literally skiing on a vulcano :)

Hey there, fellow snowboarding enthusiasts! I just wanted to share my amazing experience of staying in Gulmarg for 2 months in 2011, and shredding some of the most breathtaking slopes I've ever encountered. The beauty of Gulmarg is unparalleled, with its snow-covered peaks and untouched wilderness. As a snowboarder, there's nothing quite like carving through the fresh powder and feeling the adrenaline rush through your veins. But beyond the incredible terrain and stunning scenery, what really made my time in Gulmarg special was the people. I met some of the most welcoming, hospitable locals who showed me the true essence of Kashmiri culture. It was humbling to experience firsthand their resilience and strength in the face of adversity, and I left with a newfound appreciation for the importance of community and connection. So to anyone considering a snowboarding trip to Gulmarg, I cannot recommend it enough. Not only will you have the time of your life on the slopes, but you'll also come away with a deeper understanding of the world and the incredible people who inhabit it. Also, if any of the friends I made during my time there happen to see this comment, please don't hesitate to reach out! I would love to catch up and reminisce about our amazing experiences in Gulmarg. Keep shredding, my friends!

So you missed Mount Hermon, a bunch in Iran, some more in Lebanon, a couple in Iraq, and Algeria for sure. I once many years ago as a naive teenager had the idea to ski in every country with a ski lift for natural snow. Then I discovered how many countries that was, and there was no way in hell I was visiting some of them.

Bro mispronounced every single location 😭

You showed videos of mt Olympus in New Zealand when talking about Greece. Mt Olympus and all the club fields in NZ are worth talking about in another video

The lodge shown on Greek MT Olympus is actually the ski hut at the Olympus ski field in New Zealand!!!

"From December to February, this place reaches 2000m in altitude" So wait, in the summer the mountain shrinks ? XDD

@3:30 "from December to February this area reaches almost 2000m in altitude". Mate, the altitude is the same the whole year! 🤣

I’ve skiied in 2 of these places they’re both great and I’ve actually been skiing in Lesotho quite a few times

There is a ski lift on Tenerife up to mount Teide. There is barley any snow there ever, but when the conditions are right it's skiable 😇

Great informative and original video!!!

Another exotic skiresort is Tochal in Teheran Iran. It goes up to 3850m

The most interesting resort that I have been to is probably Malcesine/Monte Baldo at Lake Garda in Italy 🇮🇹 Malcesine is a Picturesque village with a beach, but on the town square you can take a gondola 🚠 to 1.450m above sea level. When you’re up you’ll find yourself at the base station of a ”large” ski resort. Probably the best place to own a home. You can swim for 4-5 month and ski for 3-4. Probably can enjoy the food and view the 3-4 month in between 😎

Tank you for this great videos

very proffesional video, good work!

I like that you included some Telemark footage :) Telemark looks so awesome!

Nice vid

Interesting. At one time you could also ski in the tropics in both Bolivia and Taiwan but those areas disappeared many years ago.

Gulmarg has 14 m of snow which is a tonne and the terrain looks good as well. Cheers

Cool video, never would have thought you could ski north Africa! I am curious though whether the footage shown was accurate for all the resorts? It looked like decent powder in India if so!

Nice video and stoked to learn about these places. Watch out though you have a clip showing Whistler Blackcomb speaking about European resorts! hehe but I might be the only one who noticed and it doesn't really affect on how rad the video is. Great work for the travellers!

Are you telling me that the Troodos resort in Cyprus changes height after February...? How does it do that? :D

Can’t believe you mentioned tassie, barely anyone knows we exist

Mate, i can tell you that whilst i love skiing up Ben Lomond, you dont often get 3 months of season. Its cool when its on though. Also they way you said "Tasmania" and "Lomond" made me chuckle, so thanks for that!

excellent.

Snow skiing in Hawaii never knew they had that it's awesome.

I'm actually going to Lesotho sometime this autumn, kinda bummed its only open from june to august.

Wow so does it get lower in Winter?

Thumbnail pic is not in the video...

Where do you leave mount Etna?

Look out! VAIL is going to buy it!

Fun fact, 6:35 is Mt Olympus in New Zealand, didn’t make the list but is pretty sweet!

great video Lesotho is pronounced like leh-soo-too

Hi there I spotted my content here (Gulmarg). The least you could do is to credit all of the footage being used.

The ski resort in Lesotho looks like the snow cover in most American resorts after February

Have y’all skied at Bog Sky MT?

@3:31 Good to know that Cyprus reaches 2000m of altutude between December and February

You should also add Riksgränsen in Sweden, the worlds most northern ski resort and also one of the coldest ones

Yeaaaah! :D

Well it live w20 km away from the first ski resort in Greece and most beautiful, and less than an hour away from another 3 and Olympus also. Try visit em and you gonna love em.

yoo i just did a season snow making at the resort in tasmania didn't expect the mention

So how does Cyprus grow and shrink throughout the year? From December to January it reaches almost 2000m! That must cause a lot of problems with earthquakes and what not.

Ski Dubai is a blast! It was on my bucket list. The first runs seem soooo unreal. It's 90 degrees outside and I am skiing!?! But then it was just a nice day of easy skiing - it's a green/blue run. It's just steep enough at the top to get up some speed and make some nice turns. What's really great is that it's open until 11 PM. So, you can have a full day at the beach or ride camels in the desert, have dinner, and then ski for a couple of hours. Not s bad day! It's located in the Mall of the Emirates, a huge Dubai mall. You walk past Vuitton and Gucci stores and then go inside Ski Dubai. It suddenly feels like the base lodge of a small area. People are "clomping" around in ski boots. You can rent all the gear - skis, boots, ski suit and gloves. You go through two sets of sliding glass doors....and suddenly it's freezing cold! There is a toboggan run and penguin area. There is a big 4 passenger chair and a small poma on the side. The chairlift runs very slowly, so it takes a lot longer to go up than go down. The snow, as you would expect, is perfect packed powder. I saw a bunch of hot-shot kids running gates - it's steep enough for that. The coach said the kids's parents live there, but go to the Alps in the winter. You can also see the windows of the Kempinski hotel that overlooks the slopes. They have "chalet suites" decked out with fireplaces and look like a sleek Swiss ski hotel - quite bizarre. Anyway, I recommend it highly. It's not challenging - obviously. But then there is no fear of blizzards or avalanches!

You missed out on Timberline Lodge, Mt Hood, Oregon. They’re open from November to September. 11 months out of the year!

Learnt to ski at Troodos, Cyprus in 1978. My bindings were too loose one morning so dropped into the cafe and asked for a screwdriver. Ended up with a vodka orange!

Serra da Estrela in Portugal has a long history of skiing.

Good video but next time include Tenerife too

I definitely want to shred Olympus now

The lodge clip is Mt Olympus in NZ lol not in Greece haha or is there a portal between them wtf !!!!

Gambarie in South Italy you can ski watching the highest volcano of europe, two seas and the eolian islands

Hay you got O_leeps on there 🎉

Lesotho is pronounced lasutu. Afriski is not the only resort in Africa as there is a resort in South Africa called Tiffendale

5:57 Morocco is not in subtropical Africa.

Australia ski season is from June to October

Well,I live in sunny Cyprus and I went snowboarding yesterday 😀

You could have included the Riksgränsen resort, Sweden. There is nothing special with skiing in Sweden, is there? Well, at this particular place you can ski under the midnight sun and THAT is unusual! The resort usually closes in late May and they get the midnight sun from around the 22nd of May.

Only Tasmania in Australia? We have a few in Victoria, Falls Creek, Mt Buller, Mt Hotham and the best here, is Perisher, in New South Wales Australia, I think. I hate the cold, I’ve been to the snow once in Victoria Australia, and froze lol. 🥶

I've been to the one in Africa!!

Hey hey hey!! Mzaar, Lebanon!!!??!? The biggest ski resort in the Middle East!! Hor could you not mention it? 🇱🇧

Europe's southernmost ski resort is not in Cyprus but in Spain (Sierra Nevada)

It is Sisimiut. And it is not the only place to go skiing in greenland.

I'm surprised you mentioned Ski Dubai but not Big Snow in New Jersey - just outside of New York City, it is North America's only indoor ski facility.

You left out mentone Alabama

Try Pamporovo Bulgaria!!!!

would it hurt if footage actually matched the discussed location?

Big snow new jersey

Yellowstone Club...private mountain next to Big Sky

The Copen Hill might be good for skiing, but if you were to fall you will definitely get a lot of pain and possibly break something! The terrain is just millions of plastic straws!

My friend Jimmy Petterson has written two giant-sized coffee table books called “Skiing Around the World” Vol 1 & Vol 2. Awesome books. He has skied more countries than anyone in the World: 75 Countries, all 7 Continents. I’m at 50 countries, all 7 Continents myself. Stoked on Skiing forever, both of us.

The most southerly ski resort in Europe is not Mt Troodos but Sierra Nevada in Spain!

There is also skiing in Iran. It's really the only place in the country where men and women interact freely.

Add Scotland to the list and it will be complete!

I have skied / snowboarded in Mauna Kea. If you time it right, you can do that and surf in the same day!

I knew people who went skiing in Turkey. In fact there were locals who would put your chains on for you for $10 (at the time). I'm a klutz with tire chains and would gladly pay for a service like that.

Indian one is OG , people are skiing there from ancient times

So, what is the run in your thumbnail? Clickbait?

How about honorable mention Mount Baldy in Southern California 10,064 above sea level on the edge of the desert literally looking down to the Pacific Ocean and millions of people in Los Angeles... super steep runs we skied from mid-December until mid-may this year

"from december to february this ski resort reaches 2700 meters". so after february if just collapses down to sea level?

You showed the same clips from multiple areas. You showed clips not from the areas you were talking about. B.S.

i thought this channel has like 500k subscribers, anyways i´ll leave a sub here to be og.

Bruh I learnt to ski in Afriski Lesotho 😅

Australia has better ski resorts in new south wales in the snowy mountains region.perisher is in that region and is the largest ski resort in Australia

There are other ski areas in Africa beyond Lesotho... you mention this later in your own video?? Skiing on Mauna Kea is not a resort. Sometimes you just get lucky and it snows there.

@2:00 I'm pretty sure that's not how you pronounce Kashmir !

You have forgotten Gdansk in Poland!

Too bad that the video doesn't appear to actually show all the places being described.

Leostho is pronounced more like Le-so-TO or Le-sue-TO. The h is somewhat aspirated.

What the...? Now you're telling me the wombats are WIRED?!!! (5:13) Have they been up all night because of the skiers? Haha. Maybe you meant 'weird'...?

comment for engagement.

ski dubai will give you 2 mins ride ? haha

You can't take a rental car up Mauna Kea. Many people say screw it and do it anyway. But if you damage your car up there (eg. burn up the brakes while going downhill) or get stranded and the rental car agency finds out you were up there, you will be solely responsible for all of the damage and costs and not your credit card CDW or personal auto policy since you violated your rental agreement. Do you feel lucky?

Hm, your information is false regarding Mt. Olympus. There is only a tiny military ski center on Mt. Olympus, mainly accessed by military personnel. Definitely not the most famous in Greece. However there is a larger ski resort 30 minutes away (Pieria mountains) and you can ski having great views to Olympus and the whole valley (on good days you can even see the sea!). The footage is from another resort though.

Not only have I heard of Lesotho, I can pronounce it properly

Tasmania is definitely NOT known for surfing and sandy beaches . Tasmania is known for Apples , Tasmanian Devils , Thylacines , inbreeding and Russell Robertson and Jeremy Howe .

Someone teach this man how to use OBS

Mt. Hermon Israel.

The films they are showing is not if the skiing they are talking about.

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why did you pronounce lesotho like that lol

I'm sorry Tasmania is definitely not known for its surfing and sandy beaches and the ski resort is lucky to be open for a few weeks a year