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Listening to Michael Palin discussing how high he had got to last week made me wonder as to how high I have ever been (excluding planes of cours).
The four resorts that came to mind were Argentier:3842m, Breckenridge:3962m, Tignes:3456m, Val Thorens:330m. So my highest know skiing is at 13,000 feet in Breckenridge.
What surprised me was the height difference between Argentiere and Tignes considering that Tignes has year round skiing and Argentiere closes in April/May. Height facts taken from SCGB in case of error.
I remember getting breathless in Argentier climbing down the steps from the cable car. Breckenridge was far more serious. Due to the height of the resort I found my appetite for beer dulled for a week!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Highest resort I have been to is Loveland, CO.
The base is at 3231m with the top being 3965m (from skiclub website).
I wonder if this resort has the highest base in the world?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Are the resorts in the Andes higher?
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stuarth, Regular? I'm sure that some obscure volcano with a tow rope is going to be higher, but I was thinking of the sort of resort that we fequent regularly.
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| Cymru am Byth wrote: |
| stuarth, Regular? I'm sure that some obscure volcano with a tow rope is going to be higher, but I was thinking of the sort of resort that we fequent regularly. |
Portillo and Valle Nevado (to name a few) are proper resorts - though a bit further away than the 'normally frequented' ones.
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stephen bleakley, Oddly the link you have gives Loveland as the highest in North America at 12,700 feet, but the Breckenridge site confirms the SCGB site as 12,998 feet. However SCGB shows Loveland as highest by 2 metres.stuarth, Regular for users of this site not the odd Yak or drug baron. Having said that both are lower than Breckenridge anyway.
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Cymru am Byth, I think the figures quoted on SCGB (and on the Breck website) are for the highest point you can ski from.
If you look at the Breck trail map then you will see that the highest point quoted is only accessable by hiking.
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Breck is planning lift access to just short of that point - see this story for a map of the proposed lift:
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20041014/NEWS/110140017
Loveland (like Breck) has hike-to terrain that is higher than the highest lift - hence the differing figures.
I thought I heard somewhere that Chacaltaya had closed, which would be a shame as it was head and shoulders above the rest.
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For me its the Klein Matterhorn on the Zermatt / Cervinia pistes at 3820 m
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I've skied at Breckenridge and went up the T-bar to the Horseshoe Bowl, but didn't hike up any higher so maybe 3700M for me
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Re Chacaltaya, Bolivia
I woulcnt make a special trip there unless you want to claim you ski the highest. There is just one rope tow after a jeep ride up . only a couple hundread mete vertical skiing if that . There is however a Great view.
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