2024年6月30日 · For advanced skiers looking for something formidable, this list of the most challenging resorts is for you. Palisades Tahoe is known for its legendary terrain. Deep powder, steep chutes, and big bowls give advanced skiers plenty of challenge. It’s tough to beat KT-22 and Silverado lifts on a powder day.

2023年12月24日 · Whistler Blackcomb is the biggest ski resort in North America, spanning over 8,000 acres and boasting a mile-long vertical drop. The resort has it all when it comes to ski trails, and that includes some of the most intense terrain on the planet.

2024年12月6日 · Simply, we’re not all in it for the extreme stuff. Chutes, steep trees, couloirs, and mandatory air are just not everyone’s jam. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But if the thought of standing at the top of a steep slope, skis hanging over the abyss, makes your stomach drop and knees knock in the very best ways, then this list is for you.

2023年3月24日 · Revelstoke has the steepest vertical drop in the continent, with Whistler Blackcomb, also easily within the top 20. Both these resorts have the only real slopes with a vertical drop of over 5,000 feet. Colorado has two of the …

2020年1月17日 · Here are 11 ski lifts that put the “X” into extreme, and give as good an experience going up as gravity does on the way down: 1. Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, France. Auguille du Midi promises...

2018年11月16日 · Resorts in the United States and Canada can hold their own against Europe’s most elite ski areas. From heli-skiing to uphill climbing to private backcountry tours, here are eight of the best...

Extreme skiing is a form of skiing performed on long, steep (typically from 45 to 60+ degrees, or grades of 100 to 170 percent) slopes in mountainous terrain. The French coined the term 'Le Ski Extreme' in the 1970s.

2021年12月13日 · Our contributors have shared their take on the biggest, the baddest, the steepest, the gnarliest, the no-fall zone, the super technical, the heaviest exposure, the stomach-in-your-mouth, the leg shaking, hand clenching runs within the ropes in North America. Take a deep breath and remember, don’t hesitate.

2022年1月10日 · From vertical chutes to massive cliff drops Whistler Blackcomb has some insanely gnarly and notoriously challenging marked and unmarked terrain you need to check off your steep skiing bucket list. In terms of steep skiing and INSANE in-bounds terrain Blackcomb has Whistler beat.

2009年2月10日 · The Body Bag Glades drop 275 feet at 55 degrees, so you’ll have to stick the landing if you want to live to tell about it. The topic of extreme skiing is a much debated one. At the Epic Ski forums, one user talked about the allure and difficulty of Schmidiot’s.