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I am wondering which resorts (not in the US) have the steepest terrain (mostly counting inbounds terrain). My online searches have come up with very limited results. Most of the resorts listed as 'expert resorts' only have 15% advanced terrain.
thanks!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Vanessav27, you haven't found La Grave yet then.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Vanessav27, Welcome to snowHeads 
Bear in mind when doing online searches that percentage figures can be misleading, as the resorts are so large that for instance the 3 Vallees has 400 miles of runs, so for example 15% of that is 60 miles.
The resorts with a decent amount of advanced terrain that I've been to are; 3 Vallees, Les Arcs, Val D'Isere, Tignes, Verbier, Zermatt, St.Anton, Chamonix. All massive resorts with plenty to keep an expert busy.
La Grave is expert only with a guide,as it's all off piste.
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Vanessav27,
Welcome..
If you can ski pretty much the whole of the mountain...you'll ski what you can see, whether it is marked or not...
You can't quantify the mountain as this or that. Even the smallest hills will have some great little gems, more than likely.
So, I doubt an expert will have pre-concieved views about 20% terrain...or whatever.
I suspect that your searches are looking at designated black runs...so they can quantify that as expert terrain and as a percentage, which is just the start of it, AFAICS.
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JT is right. I doubt that a search for runs classified as 'expert' would bring St Anton to light; it seems to have very few black runs. It is regarded as one of the more demanding resorts, though.
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Even the smallest hills will have some great little gems, more than likely.
right. My son is a really expert skier and he can find nice bits round here, in a ski area not noted (to put it politely) for expert terrain. On a powder day - of which he had two last week - he said it was incomparably better than Val D'Isere (where he's spent two seasons) where the best bits would have been tracked out in the first hour of the day.
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Try Red Mountain over half the runs are black or double black diamond, unlike some other resorts they deserve their ratings!
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Of the ones I've been to you won't be disappointed with these:
Argentina - Las Lenas
Austria - St Anton
Chile - Portillo
Canada - Kicking Horse
France - La Grave
Italy - Algana
Japan - Kurodake
Switzerland - Engelberg
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| JimSearle wrote: |
| Try Red Mountain over half the runs are black or double black diamond, unlike some other resorts they deserve their ratings! |
Red had very few 'runs'. Really it's just a big gnarly steep treed mountain (with a smaller sibling) that you ski on where you want. Most of the expert 'runs' are more advisory, and sign posts are rare.
As others had said, experts don't ski pistes/runs much, and except in the flattest and smallest of places, can find challenge anywhere. That's all part of the fun 
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Red had very few 'runs'
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It has also produced nearly all of Canada top skier  It is on the to do list! Jackson Hole just epic the most perfect expert resort ever and if the terrain is not dangerous enough most of the wildlife will either kill you or at least cause you seriously bodily harm on a bad day
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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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Ordhan, Red highly recommended, and for lots of expert inbounds in North America add Snowbird, Alta, Big Sky, Whistler, Kicking Horse, Revelstoke and Crystal Mountain. And probably a few others
And bears are asleep in Jackson in winter. Just gotta watch out for the moose!
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pam w, i reckon your son is right .. i've had some amazing skiing in tiny little resorts with a couple of lifts ... it's about the snow after all and the less people the better.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Mike Pow wrote: |
Of the ones I've been to you won't be disappointed with these:
Argentina - Las Lenas
Austria - St Anton
Chile - Portillo
Canada - Kicking Horse
France - La Grave
Italy - Algana
Japan - Kurodake
Switzerland - Engelberg |
Would you put Engelberg over Verbier? (I haven't skied either yet)
Last edited by You know it makes sense. on Thu 3-04-08 8:09; edited 1 time in total
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Haven't been to Verbier so can't comment. But friends who have skied at Verbier have not been disappointed.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Vanessav27 wrote: |
I am wondering which resorts (not in the US) have the steepest terrain (mostly counting inbounds terrain). My online searches have come up with very limited results. Most of the resorts listed as 'expert resorts' only have 15% advanced terrain.
thanks! |
Your problem here is the concept of "inbounds terrain". This concept only really applies to the US and Canada. There is no such thing as a ski area boundary in Europe, nor AFAIK in most of the rest of the workld.
All that you will be seeing is the lists of marked (usually groomed) runs which are classified as "expert". This does not take any account of off-piste which is accessible from the lift system, but which is not usually patrolled or avalanche controlled.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Ordhan wrote: |
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Red had very few 'runs'
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It has also produced nearly all of Canada top skier It is on the to do list! Jackson Hole just epic the most perfect expert resort ever and if the terrain is not dangerous enough most of the wildlife will either kill you or at least cause you seriously bodily harm on a bad day |
Not quite true - of the current crop Emily Brydon is a Fernie girl, Britt Janykk Whistler, Grandi's family owned Norquay.
All of which have some decent steeps.
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