Posts Tagged: Alta

This Winter, The Best Skiing Isn’t in Winter

With the nation's most snow and killer views, you want to ski Heavenly and the other resorts of Lake Tahoe in the sunny spring!

Sure, winter 2010-2011 is off to a great start on the slopes, with record early snowfalls in Colorado, northern Vermont… Read more »

Ski Resort Personality Test (Part 2)

Advanced skiers visiting Aspen should head just out of town to smaller Aspen Highlands, which has the best expert terrain of the resort's four mountains.

I broke this piece which helps you match your needs with the perfect ski resort into two parts: in my… Read more »

Ski Resort Personality Test (Part 1)

The town of Aspen, viewed from the slopes of Ajax, is one of skiing's most popular destinations.

You’ve heard it said a thousand times: “no two snowflakes are exactly the same.” Well, it’s the same way with… Read more »

Steep, Deep and Cheap

The main high-speed chair at Crested Butte serves everything from groomed blue cruisers to the menacing double-black chutes off the right of the mountain peak.

I experience the closest thing to heli-skiing I have ever seen within a ski resort – over 2000 vertical feet of deep unbroken powder