 Poster: A snowHead
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This NZ photo, just posted on the snow.co.nz site, isn't identified by location (anyone know?) but it must be one of the more spectacular sea views* obtainable from a ski area.
Others that spring to mind include Nevis Range in Scotland and Narvik in Norway (which I think enjoys Norway's biggest vertical, too). You'd be lucky to enjoy a sea view from the Alps, but can you see the sea from the Alpes Maritimes - Isola 2000 etc?
How about the Sierra Nevada, close to the Spanish coast? Never been there.
Which US or Canadian ski areas come with a whiff of the ocean? Is the sea visible from any pistes in the Andes?
Photo links welcome!
[*That's assuming it's the sea, and not lakes!]
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 28-07-05 8:08; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The Sea to Sky Highway from Vacouver to Whistler is pretty spectacular.
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Terrific photo. I'd guess it's somewhere in NZ. Here's one of Lutsen XC Resort in Minnesotta
http://xcskiresorts.com/photos/Lutsen.gif
on the edge of Lake Superior (artistic licence - big enough to qualify as a sea)
We had a thread about Alaskan extreme skiing which had a superb shot of the mountain from sea level. If I find it, I'll link.
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Excellent Phote, thanks for sharing that DG.
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That looks like Treble Cone. I got some photos from there. I,ll have to dig them out.
I expect will see plenty of shots of Lake Tahoe
How about Catedral Alta Patagonia (Argentina). I tried to paste a few photo's to make a panoramic view form the summit looking down on San Carlos de Bariloche . I guess you get the idea. It truly is spectacular view.
http://www.snowmediazone.com/the_zone/showphoto.php/photo/794/cat/500/ppuser/80
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From the short but steep ski runs on Mt Olympus in Cyprus you can see the Mediterranean.
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In principle, I think there are spectacular sea views at Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. While I was there it snowed continually, so I didn't get to enjoy them.
Certainly views of Lake Tahoe are spectacular from quite a few resorts.
Kramer, it was a long time ago, but I don't remember seeing much sea on the way to Whistler - spectacular scenery though.
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laundryman, some quite good sea views at the start.
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You can see the sea from the pistes on Mt Etna.
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David Goldsmith, You don't have a sea view from Isola , however you do from Greolieres which is just behind Grasse and you see the bay of Cannes, La Napoule and Isles des Lerins.
I'll take a camera up this season and post the Med bathed in sunshine ... quite a view ...
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brian
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brian, nice spooky atmospheric pic.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Strangely the authorities keep on building the ski lifts in almost exactly the same location, then Etna keeps on knocking them down. If it wasn't such an expensive game they're playing it would be very funny. In the last 30 years they've lost two reasonably large cable cars, a very nice gondola and a handful of drag lifts!
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Best lava on upper slopes
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The Solway Firth is clearly visible from the top of Raise. In the other direction the view is across Ullswater towards Cross fell and the North Pennines.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=13&pos=70
From the summit plateaux of Cross Fell, (a popular area for ski touring), it is apparently possible to see both the North Sea and the Irish Sea . I think this is the only place in the UK where that is possible.
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Grouse Mountain overlooking Vancouver & The Pacific.
Watched a couple of surreal sunsets in January.
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Le Massif Quebec, with views of the icy St Lawrence river from the piste
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BTW - If that is Treble Cone, then I assume the water in the piccy is Lake Wanaka and not the sea at all, as Wanaka is quite a long way from the sea and the Southern Alps are in the way. I think you can see the sea from the top of Ruapehu (i.e. Wahkapapa, N. Island), but it's far off in the distance. The closest significant water there though is L. Taupo, but IIRC it's obscured from view by Ngauruhoe and Tongariro. I would suspect the only place in NZ you would see the sea quite that close would be heli-skiing on the western slopes of the Southern Alps (above Fox or Franz Josef?). Or is there any skiing on Taranaki? Maybe one of our resident Kiwis could confirm?
If I've remembered the article in Ski and Board (about 2 yrs ago? - I seem to have mislaid it) right, it would seem unlikely there's any closer skiing to the sea than in southern Greenland - the reporter said something about having to make sure you stopped in time to avoid falling off the end of the glacier into the sea.
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Then there was the article about skiing on an iceberg, but that turned out to be a hoax.
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In Storm - one of the Warren Miller films - there's a section about a trip to South Georgia where they end up skiing right down to the edge of the bay where their ship was moored. I wouldn't fancy misjudging my stop, overshooting and ending up in the S. Atlantic!
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My vote goes to Lake Tahoe, even though it's not a sea view!. If you stand on the upper slopes at Heavenly on the Nevada State Line, you can see the lake which is an amazing colour, plus on a really clear day you can see the desert over towards Reno, most spectacular.
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Have now added video clip of Le Massif views here
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snowbunny, my vote too!
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Nice image! I wish I could see the sea where I go skiing!
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You know it makes sense.
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Greenland - there was a Right Guard sponsored trip by some Brit pro snowboarders a couple of year's back. Lyngen Alps in Norway, Coastal mountains in BC which featured in one or more of the Matchstick movies, Alaska.
Ushuaia, Argentina has pretty good view of the Tierra del Fuego from its commercial ski hill if what I've read is correct. Although the Pacific really isn't far from the Chilean Andes the smog over Santiago doesn't make it that easy to see. Pucon is really nice skiing on a Volcano above the Lake. Bariloche & Chapelco in Argentina both have Tahoe like views.
I'd guess Mt Washington on Vancouver Island might have sea views.
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| This NZ photo, just posted on the snow.co.nz site, isn't identified by location (anyone know?) but it must be one of the more spectacular sea views* obtainable from a ski area............... |
Looking at the edges of the skier, poles, and skis, I'd say that photo had been edited to drop the skier into the picture.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Nick Zotov wrote: |
| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| This NZ photo, just posted on the snow.co.nz site, isn't identified by location (anyone know?) but it must be one of the more spectacular sea views* obtainable from a ski area............... |
Looking at the edges of the skier, poles, and skis, I'd say that photo had been edited to drop the skier into the picture. |
Such effects are also a possible consequence of jpeg compression, you dont notice them in the landscape but when you have straight lines and such like the effects of compression become more obvious.
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Also while not a sea view, Loch Morlich has been mentioned above, and actually this isn't a view from a ski area either, but towards CairnGorm Mountain from the beach on Loch Morlich on one of many a scorching May day in 2001.
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Grouse Mountain on Vancouvers north shore is a real mecca for the nobbly tyre brigade in summer too.
Could be that Vancouver is the "best" city to live in for outdoorsy types, although I understand it can be a bit damp.
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Hi TalkSki.com, welcome to snowHeads!  I haven't come across your forum before (assuming you're admin there!). Has it been running long?
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Yep, thats lake Wanaka looking down to Glendhu Bay from TC.
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GrahamN, Gidday mate. Yes I believe you can see the sea from Taranaki. There is a club feild up there call Manganui (think thats the correct spelling). You can see lake Taupo from the top of Ruapehu but not from Whakapapa or Turoa ski fields. You need to walk up to the top of the mountain and get to the North East side. On a good day you get great veiws from Ruapehu and can see Mt Taranaki (cone Volcano) in the distance.
I think the Ski Field nearest to the sea back home is Mt Lyford which is about 50kms from Kaikoura (where they do all the swimming with dolphins)
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| marc gledhill wrote: |
Could be that Vancouver is the "best" city to live in for outdoorsy types, although I understand it can be a bit damp. |
Well having just returned from a +28degC sunny in BC, to a +11degC rainy in the UK.... I'd say that it's all relative!
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I once nearly went on a ski holiday (I've seen other versions of it advertised since) which involved staying on a yacht off the coast of Norway. Each morning you were in a fijord and were rowed ashore. You put on skis and skins on the shore, then skinned up a mountain. Then you skied down to another fijord. Next morning you woke in yet another location and were rowed ashore ... etc.
Anyone here done a holiday like that?
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