What do you need après ski? An après T of course!
Liftopia is working with our friends over at Marine Layer (a brand new company that makes awesome fitting t-shirts) to design a new long sleeve t-shirt for Liftopia. We have narrowed our field of designs down to two, and wanted to get your take. Which [...]
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Killington Ski Resort is huge. Its seven peaks include the 4,241-foot Killington Peak, 141 trails, 22 lifts, 2 gondolas, five terrain parks, and a 430-foot SuperPipe. Add more than 3,000 feet of vertical, five on-mountain lodges, and 250 inches of average annual snowfall, and it is easy to see why Killington is called “the [...]
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Arapahoe Basin, popularly known as A. Basin, is one of Colorado’s smaller, less known mountains. But, A. Basin is truly one the loudest, biggest, and baddest mountains in the Front Range. With a base lodge that was once a missile testing facility, the highest terrain park in North America, a parking lot with parties that [...]
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They don’t call it Sun Valley for nothing. With the sun shining 80% of the time in this world-class Idaho resort and a snowfall of up to 350 inches, Sun Valley’s 2,054 skiable acres are not to be missed. Founded in 1935 by an Austrian Count looking for the ideal site for America’s first [...]
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Jay Peak Resort reports more snow than any other Eastern resort and has Vermont’s only aerial tram. This meteorological marvel can sometimes get close to 30 feet of powder, making it a skier and snowboarder’s favorite on the East Coast. Located a few miles from the Quebec border, and only four hours from Boston, [...]
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With in bounds cat-skiing, the most acreage in Colorado’s famed Summit County, an organized layout that benefits skiers of all levels, and a new indoor park training facility, Copper Mountain has plenty to keep any skier busy. Located 75 miles from Denver, in the middle of all of the I-70 ski resort madness Colorado [...]
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Located an hour south of Bozeman, Montana, part of the charm, and the draw of Big Sky Resort is its remoteness. Such isolation means that skiers often have most of Big Sky’s (and nearby Moonlight Basin’s) 5,000 acres all to themselves. This means some of the trademarked; “Biggest Skiing in America” can be all yours. [...]
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Revelstoke Mountain Resort offers 500,000 acres of skiing. That is half a million acres of some of the best snow in the world for any skier or boarder willing and ready. Revelstoke offers each of these 500,000 acres straight from the base village via cat-skiing, heli-skiing or on the lifts. This makes it the [...]
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I am not sure how many of you were able to watch the coverage of the mens’ downhill last night, but for many, the coverage was surprisingly limited. This is especially frustrating considering how much skiing is an integral part of the Olympic Games, and how the sport of skiing (which is accessible by many, [...]
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Like any athletic event, the Winter Games are more engaging to watch when you understand the nuances that make the sport unique and can follow the observations made by the commentators. Just [...]
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