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I do agree that Lake Louise is amazing - and the view from Courmayeur too.
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stanton wrote: |
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+1
also many other NZ fields are up there with the best for views.
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Scotland takes some beating when things are just right. |
Totally this. My three favourite skiing views that I can remember are Zermatt, Chamonix, Nevis. |
Agree, parts of the Scottish West Coast are simply the most gorgeous places on the planet. Just a shame Fort Bill squats there too, a lot like a genital wort. |
Yep both Glencoe and Nevis have some of the best views of any ski resort on the planet. Megeve I'd have thought was ho hum (backside of teh MB massif).
I'd add La Grave - something about the space and being up close to La Meije
How about worst views?
Vail, Copper - views of a motorway, like being up the tower at Forton services
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Juddernaut wrote: |
Scotland looked very naff to me TBH |
I feel sorry for you. You were most probably visited by a soul stealer in the middle of the night when you were a child.
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So everybody has to love a few hills with a few inches of snow and Scotland now? IMHO it looks naff, especially compared to the other places mentioned here. I have been visited in the middle of the night by a succubus though.
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The view from Grouse Mountain is pretty cool:
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Surprised the pow capital of the ski world hasn't got a mention. Our friends in Nippon blessed with the stuff. Gotta get there one day.
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Arno, Always wanted to go back there… Visited it once as part of my gap year travelling, but slipped off a kerb the day I arrived in Vancouver and sprained my ankle badly… Think they'd just had a monster dump as well which kind of twisted the knife…
Amazing hill with great views and snow record as well… Be awesome to live somewhere where you can grab your board after work and hit the slopes for a couple of hours...
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AlpineAddict, My sister in law lives just down the hill from Grouse and Cypress but is totally dismissive of them and drives up to Whistler every weekend. She doesn't know how lucky she is!
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Arno, I guess you always take what is on your doorstep for granted… I live in and around Bournemouth and Poole and NEVER go to the beach, or do any waterspouts at all… Instead I chose to focus all my attention on a land far, far away… full of rocky things and snow…
I suppose living in Vancouver (which must be an awesome city to live in) you are blessed with the best of everything...
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You know it makes sense.
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clarky999, that's a lovely photo. Empty glens; people gone, trees gone, and now the sheep gone.
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It looks like a list plucked from the most popular package holiday ski resorts
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hardly. Most don't figure largely - or at all - in the brochures of the main British TOs. |
The only ones not in the Crystal brochure are St Moritz and Megeve.
Neilson is also missing Madonna di Campoglio, but does have St Moritz.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Is anybody going to take this seriously. We have had Scotland (looked very naff to me TBH) and now The Lake District.
Raise in the lake district is the only one in a national park. A place actually designated for its scenic quality.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Another vote for Raise - just above Ullswater in the English Lake District (on a clear day) - closely followed by Selva in the Dolomites.
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Is anybody going to take this seriously.
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I shouldn't think so; these "best ski resort" efforts are such a silly gimmick, really.
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choose their top ten resorts for scenic drama ... |
"their" is the key word in the original question. I've seen loads places far more beautiful than many mentioned here in my opinion. Key is "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
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Dot. wrote: |
I've seen loads places far more beautiful than many mentioned here in my opinion. |
Well, go on then, tell us (or even better - show us).
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snowball wrote: |
Dot. wrote: |
I've seen loads places far more beautiful than many mentioned here in my opinion. |
Well, go on then, tell us (or even better - show us). |
Castleford Xscape around bar closing......now that's scenic.
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Dot. wrote: |
snowball wrote: |
Dot. wrote: |
I've seen loads places far more beautiful than many mentioned here in my opinion. |
Well, go on then, tell us (or even better - show us). |
Castleford Xscape around bar closing......now that's scenic. |
I'll see your Castleford and raise you late Friday night in Folkestone
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Panorama in Canada is very scenic. They have a run from the top called view of 1000 peaks... and it's not wrong!!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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DB, where, where, where
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You know it makes sense.
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snowball, Where was your second photo taken? Is that an off-piste gulley near the Sella massif?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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For me, Heavenly just didn't do it... but I do like the town of Truckee at the other end of the lake, famous for Donner kebabs I think.
The road going between Banff and Lake Louise is just jaw dropping spectacular if you catch it on a "blue bird" day.
Zermmat .. Yes .. wake up in the morning and open the curtains and find a big pointy mountain in your back garden.
Chamonix if you get the weather right it is just amazing, even just looking up from the town at that huge glacier that looks like it could fall off on you at any time.
In France there is a little place with spectacular views over Lake Geneva where you can get a season ticket for the price of a six day pass in other places.
Thollon les Memises
But we can thank God that he has given such a beautiful world to play in.
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