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Dec. 18, 2007
Today I have an article for you about the 'Top 20 snowiest
ski resorts in the world'. Before you put on your skis take
a moment to find out if your heading to one of the snowiest
locations to hit the slopes.
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Top 20 snowiest ski resorts in the world
Where to find yourself waist-deep in cool, white powder
By Stephen Regenold
Waves of powder snow parting like feathers. Blue mountain
sky beaming above.
To ski downhill through hip-deep fluff is to experience
an archetypal form of being, an avocation so epic as to
realign priorities, refocus expectations, betray axioms
even. "Better than sex" doesn't come close.
Just ask Jamie Pierre, a pro skier who in 1992 was lured
away from his home by a single snow storm in Utah. "It
snowed 54 inches, white powder as light as air," he says
of his first visit to Snowbird Ski Resort in the Wasatch
Mountains above Salt Lake City. "These waves of billowy,
airy powder were actually rolling over our shoulders as
we skied."
Pierre, a native of Minnesota who fled West by way of
Colorado, moved to Salt Lake City the next season. And
he's never left. For powder snow, he picked a good place
to settle. Bestsnow.net, a clearinghouse for worldwide
ski-area snowfall data, ranks Snowbird as the No. 9
snowiest spot to ski on Earth. Alta Ski Area, a neighbor-
ing resort up-canyon from Snowbird, claims spot No. 3 on
Bestsnow's list, accumulating an average of 523 inches of
fluff that buries chalets and keeps the powder pilgrims
smiling all season.
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This story highlights the top 20 snowiest resorts on the
planet, as tracked by Bestsnow, which pulls meteorological
records from weather stations, data from avalanche-forecast-
ing centers and monthly snowfall amounts from ski resorts.
Bestsnow's numbers—which are used by publications like
Skiing magazine and Powder magazine to rank resorts—differ
from average snowfall numbers touted by some resorts. This
is because, among other factors, Bestsnow looks at monthly
averages spread over time periods of up to 40 years.
Our list includes big boys like Snowbird as well as little-
known mountains like Whitewater Resort in British Colombia,
which is smothered each season under an average of 397
inches of snow. Alyeska Resort near Anchorage, Alaska, made
the list with its yearly 513-inch figure, as did Kirkwood
Mountain Resort (473 inches) and Boreal (395 inches), both
near Lake Tahoe in California.
Surprisingly, no European resorts make Bestsnow's chart.
According to Tony Crocker, the site's editor and founder,
the Alps have a geographical disadvantage to the mountains
of North America. "Snow does not fall in the same
quantities in Europe, where the mountains are oriented more
east-to-west," he says. "In North America, particularly
with the Cascades, Wasatch, Tetons and the Sierra-Nevada
Range, the mountains run north-south, creating giant
buffers where clouds run into land and dump snow." In fact,
other than Niseko in Japan, North American resorts claim
every other position on the list.
The Wasatch Mountain Range is the first-contact for many
big clouds coming off the deserts of Utah and Nevada.
Ground zero is Alta Ski Area, a high and exposed resort
ready to take storm after storm from its perch at the top
of Little Cottonwood Canyon.
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Each area listed here averages 360 inches of snow or more
annually. Which means, essentially, that you can't go
wrong. In addition, there are five major North American
ski areas that just missed the top 20 mark, including
Alpine Meadows, Calif. (368 inches); Steamboat Ski Resort,
Colo. (367); Mammoth Mountain, Calif. (367); Jackson Hole
Mountain Resort, Wyo. (366); and Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort,
Ore., (364).
The deepest of all? That title goes to Mt. Baker Ski Area,
a resort on the flanks of its namesake 10,778-foot strato-
volcano in northern Washington State. Indeed, Baker once
recorded a snow year so mythically deep that it's regular-
ly cited as the most snow measured anywhere, ever, on the
planet. Baker has always been known for its tremendous
annual snowfall, but during the winter of 1998/99 the
gloppy snow of the Pacific Northwest literally buried any-
thing in local memory. What began with some wisps of white
in late fall intensified to snowstorms and blizzards around
Thanksgiving. As Mt. Baker Ski Area cranked on its lifts,
there was already a deep base. Then it really started to
dump, swollen clouds rolling in, flakes flying from a low
sky relentlessly, sometimes for days on end.
Skiers and snowboarders struggled for momentum on Baker's
flats, but then plunged in semi-controlled and sightless
descents on Baker's steeps, giggling, turning, flying
through fluff as blissful balls of exploding white. By
season's end, Baker recorded 1,140 inches of snow—a near-
apocalyptic 95 feet of the frozen white stuff. "It was a
legendary year," says Crocker.
Read on to discover which resorts can rival Baker's
propensity for wintertime precipitation. With some luck
you'll hit a powder day, and ski or snowboard as a big
ball of exploding white as part of your own legendary
experience.
Well, that's it for this week, group. Thanks again for
reading, and please keep those comments, complaints and
questions coming in.
You can send me an e-mail message at: Email Pierce
Until next week, thanks for reading.
Your Tipmeister,
Pierce
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