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[ISMrider]

awwww this is much better than ski magazines ratings. Just got my copy and I am very pleased with the ratings....

[SkiBachelor]

How can Skiing Magazine's ratings be better than SKI? Both magazine companies are owned by the same company.

[floridaskier]

Anyway, could you post like the top 10 or so? It wasnt on their website

Do they have the same resort rankings in Ski and Skiing magazines?

[ISMrider]

Well they may be owned by the same company but they each put out their own list.

West:
1 Whistler/BC
2 Alta/Snowbird (Alta wasn't found on SKI mag's list at all!)
3 Vail
4 Squaw Valley
5 Jackson Hole
6 Mammoth
7 Bill's Crystal Mountian
8 Big Sky
9 Aspen/Aspen Highlands
10 Fernie

Also is tips on skiing KT-22 and the famous Spankys Ladder.

[pyrotechnik]

skiing has way better ratings than ski. can you believe ski ranked whistler like... #7? thats downright insulting, i'll say. lets see if i can find it... ah, here it is. shameful. whistler got numero cinco.

[SkiBachelor]

I read in SAM that Skiing is more orrianted towards the younger crowds while SKI is for the older people. Older people tend to favor cruiser runs so I guess it kind of makes sense if you thinkg about it that way.

But what is weird is that Mt. Bachelor or Meadows isn't on there at all and I think both of these resorts were on there last year. Mt. Bachelor was ranked #23 I think, but it has no night life. I saw that Aspen Highlands appeard on there for the first time along with Kicking Horse.

[hyak.net]

SkiBachelor, on Oct 18 2004, 07:10 PM, said:

I read in SAM that Skiing is more orrianted towards the younger crowds while SKI is for the older people. Older people tend to favor cruiser runs so I guess it kind of makes sense if you thinkg about it that way.

But what is weird is that Mt. Bachelor or Meadows isn't on there at all and I think both of these resorts were on there last year. Mt. Bachelor was ranked #23 I think, but it has no night life. I saw that Aspen Highlands appeard on there for the first time along with Kicking Horse.
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Well, if that is Crystal Mtn. WA listed as #7 it has NO nightlife and night skiing might as well be a zero..... I like Crystal, but it should never be in the top 10 of the USA for ski resorts...

Where is Grand Targee and the other Utah resorts? That list is really lacking...... I'd like to know what they use as a qualifier for their requirements to be a 'top' resort.

[SkiBachelor]

I spent a few nights at Crystal in 1998 I think and I thought there was a little night life, not much but more than what Bachelor has. We had dinner at the restaurant across the creek, plus the different little hostles where you could stay.

[liftmech]

Rankings are so subjective it's hard to put any stock into them. I rank areas differently than SKI would, for example; Loveland and Monarch rank ahead of Vail in my book because they have better snow and little to no liftlines. Crystal would also be up there based on skiing and liftlines. I don't look at nightlife because I don't stay at resorts (although if I did I'd give Whistler top marks).

[coskibum]

it seems loveland always get overlooked. that place has great terrain! granted it can be a little chilly sometimes.

[Kicking Horse]

My top Five Resorts for Colorado

#1.Snowmass
#2.Aspen
#3.PowderHorn
#4.Silver Creek
#5.Breck

All 5 of them have great terrain.

[hyak.net]

altaskier, on Oct 20 2004, 01:43 PM, said:

Thusly, I would give such areas as Big Mountain, Red Mountain, Targhee, etc a higher rating than some better known 'destination' resorts. For example, I know that Fernie now rates high with many but in the days since Heiko Socher sold the place to RCR, it has lost a lot of its 'charm' (gasp!) despite its many improvements. And I'm talking as a Snow Valley powderhound from the late 1970s, when my brother and I took a chance on this place that supposedly got mythical dumps of snow. We arrived and overnight two feet fell! Now, its just another overdeveloped and occasionally crowded resort that I usually drive past on my way to Whitefish or (this year) into the Kootenays.
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I really want to give Red Mtn a try one of these days.... I read about it 5 or 6 years ago and all the pic's I've seen from others who have gone look awesome. Maybe when my kids get a bit older I can drag the whole family.

[Bill]

Have Allan give ya a tour, maybe even a discount, if he can swing it. :)

- Bill