I wasn't expecting you gguys to include Magic Mountain, but I'm SO glad to see you guys included it. It's such a great local spot. I have been waiting for the black line quad for years now and its finally here. The conditions aren't always the best, but on a powder day, it's absolutely amazing.
Whistlers Fitzsimmons was game changing for summer bike park ops! Maybe peak rankings can expand into bike park. After all the name is Peak rankings not ski rankings, great video
Sunday River Barker 6 Lift has to be the ideal lift setup; indoor loading and indoor off-loading stations that shelters guests and the lift from winds; heated chairs with bubbles that also shelter the guest from winds and cold days. Especially resorts with alot of very cold days should take notice; this is how you get people to come in January even though the weather is rough. Great video! Hope you make one for european upgrades aswell.
Steamboat’s new expansion was my incentive to ski the Boat again. Steamboat’s my personal favorite ski resort, and seeing these upgrades in first place was a huge treat for me.
@@Bushwacked487 I’m not from Colorado, but I’m at school in Colorado, so Steamboat’s one of my go-to ski places. Also, since I was younger, we would go on some spring break trips to Steamboat, so I’ve gotten to see how Steamboat has changed over the years. As of 2024, I have been to Steamboat eight times, and it was the first big mountain I’ve ever skied, so I have a soft spot for Steamboat.
First trip out west last winter season and my AirBnB was only a 20 minute drive from Keystone! Got to spend two full days at Keystone and the Bergman Express is insanely fast for a six chair. I was essentially lapping the Ten Mile and the blue bowl runs every 3-5 minutes! Even on a busy holiday weekend the lines were never more than 5 minutes long. Most definitely an amazing upgrade to catch and I hope more people can experience it next season.
Glad you called out the absolutely ridiculous design choices of the new Brighton lodge. What a waste, the restroom lines are always incredibly long even on weekdays.
@@PeakRankings The lines for the bathrooms can get long during busy times, which is annoying, but as a Brighton regular and coffee junky - I'm really glad there is a mid-mountain option for a break on the snake creek and great western lifts. Maybe I'm the only one, but I think it's welcome improvement.
Yeah, the bathroom set up is a joke, but I know why they did what they did. The burgers there are REALLY good tho. I miss the Milly cafeteria and it's not the congestion at the bottom of crest that sucks, it's that you're having to line up on a hill. I hope they grade that.
Kehr's at Stevens is a downgrade! That sketchy old 2-seater was the KEY for beating lift lines on weekends in the whole Seattle area. I was so disappointed when I found out they replaced it.
Maybe this is a topic for a later video, but the replacement of the Broadway Express (Chair 1) lift at Mammoth is pretty major, hopefully improving crowd flow at a major choke point near Main Lodge.
What about new lifts being installed right now for the 24-25 season? I can't wait for that video. The only two I can think of are the new lift at Lake Louise and the upgrade of Sublette. The Sublette upgrade is huge.
@@PeakRankings Thanks for the reminder. I forgot about those, but not as excited about those. I cannot confirm the vertical drop of the new (non-bunny hill) lift at DV that should open in a few months (Keetley Express??). Appears to be around 1000 feet (but props to them for getting it open a year early). Also, the new Lightning Ridge lift at Powder will access new lift serviced advanced terrain which is cool (no more $20 cat rides) but for some reason they chose a slow fixed grip quad which is unfortunate.
No mention of Powder Mountain? Taking half the resort private members-only has pissed a bunch of us off, but at least they are expanding the resort for public access in the other direction (Wolf Creek Csnyon).
For 2024/2025 Sunshine is replacing the venerable Angel express with a bubble six pack. This should help reduce crowding on the Teepee Town LX (the one last sore spot at Sunshine besides the gondola) even if it isn’t also heated, but the real awesome part is the old Angel is going south to Castle Mountain, where it will be the hill’s first high-speed quad and if rumours are to be believed, part of a terrain expansion!
You should talk about the biggest ski resort in my province. Its part of the Appalachian mountains. (ski Wentworth). They recently built a new lift right next to the old one that follows it parallel and is also fixed griped.
These 'improvements'' simply lead to higher ticket prices and more crowds and lines. My other sore spot is that the IKON pass does not have a Senior discount. Us boomers funded the ski industry. EPIC has a senior discount but I don't live near one of their resorts. I am 72 living on SS and modest savings. I do not travel fly/drive to ski resorts outside of Inyo County (Mammoth/June) as I did when in my prime. I have skied 40 resorts in many states such as Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada and California of course. I can only afford to ski locally, plus I am wearing down. That and the grooming resources seem too focused on half pipes, terrain parks and stuff I never ski or use. The grooming on Blue runs is inconsistent and pathetic. Us older folks ski those runs, but we are trashed/disregarded by IKON/Alterra. Btw I am a retired level III PSIA instructor having taught at Northstar, Diamond Peak, Kirkwood, Mammoth, Park City and Aspen. Otherwise I am clueless. 🎃
Cry me a river. Most skiers haven't been able to visit 40 resorts. Nearly every ski resort has senior discounts, some even free! Improvements are improvements. And old cranks are old cranks.
Should move to Deer Valley, sounds like the perfect place for at your current age and terrain requirements. Plus none of us snowboarders to worry about.
@@climbingcue Deer Valley is an IKON resort. No senior discount. Btw, taught at Park City for 2 seasons and skied Deer Valley before one or two areas were open, with my good friend Jim Silva who was the Ski Patrol director at the time (circa '83-'84)
@@climbingcue Nope. IKON and Epic (Alterra and Vail) have become large corporations and only care about profit. Skiers of all ages are a walking dollar sign. That said, Sugar Bowl (Tahoe area) now offers free skiing to those 70 and over. I wish others would fall in like (Like Mammoth and June). Cheerski.
Great content. This upcoming winter, I’ll be headed to Big 3 (Calgary area), Steamboat and Taos. Let me know if you need any first hand info or footage.
Calling Loon's North Peak green run choices "limited" is being generous. 😂 There's technically zero options, because Brookway is considered part of the East Basin rather than North Peak
Ikon and Mountain Collective are still excluded from the tram, so we’ve decided to keep the two separate ratings for now. But we’ll continue to assess based on how next season goes!
@@PeakRankings I think it’s a good step forward that they didn’t include ikon because the locals are pissed at ikon coming to Big Sky in the first place. However paying that much for a lift ticket is a scam so most out of town people will still be using their ikon pass in the future lol
Canada is not a province. And I've never heard of the place despite having a map of over 130 ski areas I'd like to visit. Then again, maybe that means your place deserves some coverage.
Big Sky should have been #1. There's PLENTY to do at Big Sky without the tram access pass that 90% of people wouldn't use anyway. There is no lack of terrain at Big Sky. The tram is mostly for experts and people who want to see the view from the top.
Bergman bowl at keystone was no 1. You didn't even find the best part. Look on the map right off the lift and go hard skiers right. You will find you were wrong about the length of this area and that it is now the BEST LIFT on any mountain I've ever ski'd. Don't get me started on Brec...
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Whitewater Ski Resort is bringing the Goat’s terrain inbound, which adds 60 new acres of terrain, marking their first expansion into the iconic Ymir Bowl. Surely, deserves a place high up on your list.
Thank you for dinging Big Sky a few points for charging extra for tram access. I love ski bums. Big Sky is awesome but they should re-name themselves Big Money.
Looks like the resort operators have seen how well the big resorts in Europe are structured, and decided that US resorts need to move away from their previous near third world status.
More investment means higher costs. I gave up on skiing long ago now. It's been priced out of normal people's budgets. Give me back cheap, basic skiing, not overpriced yuppie skiing.
Can't wait for my trip to Steamboat with the boyz this coming season! Will be all our first times. I didn't even know they opened a bunch of new stuff this past year until watching this.
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I appreciate that you now include mountain maps
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You know the video is in-depth when they have to omit certain resorts to keep the video under 45 mins
I wasn't expecting you gguys to include Magic Mountain, but I'm SO glad to see you guys included it. It's such a great local spot. I have been waiting for the black line quad for years now and its finally here. The conditions aren't always the best, but on a powder day, it's absolutely amazing.
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Ski season needs to be here now. I'm itching to get out and go.
I need a few days to get new bindings.
Glad I could help you guys out with the Barker 6 videos! So stoked for next year, it's gonna be great.
Love the attention you paid to the East Coast. We may be small, we may be icy but there are a lot of us!
Whistlers Fitzsimmons was game changing for summer bike park ops! Maybe peak rankings can expand into bike park. After all the name is Peak rankings not ski rankings, great video
Sunday River Barker 6 Lift has to be the ideal lift setup; indoor loading and indoor off-loading stations that shelters guests and the lift from winds; heated chairs with bubbles that also shelter the guest from winds and cold days.
Especially resorts with alot of very cold days should take notice; this is how you get people to come in January even though the weather is rough.
Great video! Hope you make one for european upgrades aswell.
Boyne sure loves those D-Line chairs with heated seats
Brighton also added night skiing on Milly
that will be a new feature this upcoming season, the past 23-24 season only had crest express and snake creek express for night riding.
Steamboat’s new expansion was my incentive to ski the Boat again. Steamboat’s my personal favorite ski resort, and seeing these upgrades in first place was a huge treat for me.
What makes it your favorite, out of curiosity?
@@Bushwacked487 I’m not from Colorado, but I’m at school in Colorado, so Steamboat’s one of my go-to ski places. Also, since I was younger, we would go on some spring break trips to Steamboat, so I’ve gotten to see how Steamboat has changed over the years. As of 2024, I have been to Steamboat eight times, and it was the first big mountain I’ve ever skied, so I have a soft spot for Steamboat.
Sugarloaf, wow, I last skied there in 1976. It's a great mountain, if I can remember correctly 🤔
It’s my home mountain. It’s a very good mountain with tons of terrain especially in the spring when the snow gets deep. Awesome atmosphere too.
You guys are doing such a great job for the skiing community with these comprehensive rankings and review videos. This one is a prime example 🙌🏼
Bergman Bowl was phenomenal. I got to hit it with about 8 inches of powder. Easily the best turns of my life! Erickson was also seriously fun
I live in steamboat and omg on powder days the new gondy literally saved the resort
First trip out west last winter season and my AirBnB was only a 20 minute drive from Keystone! Got to spend two full days at Keystone and the Bergman Express is insanely fast for a six chair. I was essentially lapping the Ten Mile and the blue bowl runs every 3-5 minutes! Even on a busy holiday weekend the lines were never more than 5 minutes long. Most definitely an amazing upgrade to catch and I hope more people can experience it next season.
Glad you called out the absolutely ridiculous design choices of the new Brighton lodge. What a waste, the restroom lines are always incredibly long even on weekdays.
For me it’s the location. Why put it above the lift? At least make stairs going up
Never thought we’d have to include restroom flow in our resort review checklist, but here we are!
@@PeakRankings The lines for the bathrooms can get long during busy times, which is annoying, but as a Brighton regular and coffee junky - I'm really glad there is a mid-mountain option for a break on the snake creek and great western lifts. Maybe I'm the only one, but I think it's welcome improvement.
Insert a urinary catheter. Best way to maximize vert during your ski day 😜😜
Yeah, the bathroom set up is a joke, but I know why they did what they did. The burgers there are REALLY good tho. I miss the Milly cafeteria and it's not the congestion at the bottom of crest that sucks, it's that you're having to line up on a hill. I hope they grade that.
What about the Deer Valley expansion? There is a new lift and hundreds of new acres and more coming soon...
so good to see the industry blooming and competing!!!
That challenger lift at sun valley was so long and cold
Hero’s at Aspen is awesome.
Wow that whiteface footage is amazing. Very skilled videographer!
I’m happy I got to experience 5 of these last season. That was good times
Kehr's at Stevens is a downgrade! That sketchy old 2-seater was the KEY for beating lift lines on weekends in the whole Seattle area. I was so disappointed when I found out they replaced it.
IDAHO MENTION RAHHHH
Maybe this is a topic for a later video, but the replacement of the Broadway Express (Chair 1) lift at Mammoth is pretty major, hopefully improving crowd flow at a major choke point near Main Lodge.
I was thinking, where is the Mammoth upgrades in this video?
What about new lifts being installed right now for the 24-25 season? I can't wait for that video. The only two I can think of are the new lift at Lake Louise and the upgrade of Sublette. The Sublette upgrade is huge.
Deer Valley and Powder Mountain have some big changes in the works too 👀
@@PeakRankings Thanks for the reminder. I forgot about those, but not as excited about those. I cannot confirm the vertical drop of the new (non-bunny hill) lift at DV that should open in a few months (Keetley Express??). Appears to be around 1000 feet (but props to them for getting it open a year early). Also, the new Lightning Ridge lift at Powder will access new lift serviced advanced terrain which is cool (no more $20 cat rides) but for some reason they chose a slow fixed grip quad which is unfortunate.
Sun Valley updates were done last year. This year they’re updating the Seattle Ridge lift
No mention of Powder Mountain? Taking half the resort private members-only has pissed a bunch of us off, but at least they are expanding the resort for public access in the other direction (Wolf Creek Csnyon).
Great content!
For 2024/2025 Sunshine is replacing the venerable Angel express with a bubble six pack. This should help reduce crowding on the Teepee Town LX (the one last sore spot at Sunshine besides the gondola) even if it isn’t also heated, but the real awesome part is the old Angel is going south to Castle Mountain, where it will be the hill’s first high-speed quad and if rumours are to be believed, part of a terrain expansion!
this video was ranking this past seasons lift facilites and terrain upgrades
You should talk about the biggest ski resort in my province. Its part of the Appalachian mountains. (ski Wentworth). They recently built a new lift right next to the old one that follows it parallel and is also fixed griped.
That wild spur mid load area was a nightmare when loading from the bottom with a chair full of snowboarders
Beaver Mountains Marge's Lodge should be done end of this season or beginning of next, so it would be cool if you included it!
These 'improvements'' simply lead to higher ticket prices and more crowds and lines. My other sore spot is that the IKON pass does not have a Senior discount. Us boomers funded the ski industry. EPIC has a senior discount but I don't live near one of their resorts. I am 72 living on SS and modest savings. I do not travel fly/drive to ski resorts outside of Inyo County (Mammoth/June) as I did when in my prime. I have skied 40 resorts in many states such as Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada and California of course. I can only afford to ski locally, plus I am wearing down. That and the grooming resources seem too focused on half pipes, terrain parks and stuff I never ski or use. The grooming on Blue runs is inconsistent and pathetic. Us older folks ski those runs, but we are trashed/disregarded by IKON/Alterra. Btw I am a retired level III PSIA instructor having taught at Northstar, Diamond Peak, Kirkwood, Mammoth, Park City and Aspen. Otherwise I am clueless. 🎃
Cry me a river. Most skiers haven't been able to visit 40 resorts. Nearly every ski resort has senior discounts, some even free!
Improvements are improvements. And old cranks are old cranks.
Should move to Deer Valley, sounds like the perfect place for at your current age and terrain requirements. Plus none of us snowboarders to worry about.
@@climbingcue Deer Valley is an IKON resort. No senior discount. Btw, taught at Park City for 2 seasons and skied Deer Valley before one or two areas were open, with my good friend Jim Silva who was the Ski Patrol director at the time (circa '83-'84)
@@brianoconnor3407 with all those years in the industry you can not get a discount through friends?
@@climbingcue Nope. IKON and Epic (Alterra and Vail) have become large corporations and only care about profit. Skiers of all ages are a walking dollar sign. That said, Sugar Bowl (Tahoe area) now offers free skiing to those 70 and over. I wish others would fall in like (Like Mammoth and June). Cheerski.
Love seeing Whiteface on this channel!
My footage! A great mountain for sure
Great content. This upcoming winter, I’ll be headed to Big 3 (Calgary area), Steamboat and Taos. Let me know if you need any first hand info or footage.
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Jackson hole upgraded Sublette to a high speed quad! Probably just worth an honorable mention. But another state as well.
this vid was talking about this past seasons (2023-2024) lift upgrades so thats wy sublette wasnt in the vid
nice
Zero mention of the new triple at Red River, NM?
It’s being built for the 2024-25 season.
How long is your list of resorts to visit this year?
I miss the mid segment sound effects!😢
Calling Loon's North Peak green run choices "limited" is being generous. 😂 There's technically zero options, because Brookway is considered part of the East Basin rather than North Peak
No mention of no name expansion at monarch???
That’s supposed to open for the 2025-26 season. This video is about the lift upgrades from 2023-24.
'Knob lift' 😂. North America's equivalent of Garmisch's 'Wankbahn'.😅
Aspen Snowmass has had "Sam's Knob" as not only a lift but a restaraunt for a while now
@@ultrab2777 I need to go!
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Since Big sky now includes the tram in its lift ticket, you won’t need separate ratings anymore correct?
Ikon and Mountain Collective are still excluded from the tram, so we’ve decided to keep the two separate ratings for now. But we’ll continue to assess based on how next season goes!
@@PeakRankings I think it’s a good step forward that they didn’t include ikon because the locals are pissed at ikon coming to Big Sky in the first place. However paying that much for a lift ticket is a scam so most out of town people will still be using their ikon pass in the future lol
Please make a video about the biggest ski resort in my province (canada). Its called ski wentworth.
Canada is not a province. And I've never heard of the place despite having a map of over 130 ski areas I'd like to visit. Then again, maybe that means your place deserves some coverage.
Go release the full explanations for all of the honorable mentions. I dare you. I just watched the full video gimme the rest
Big Sky should have been #1.
There's PLENTY to do at Big Sky without the tram access pass that 90% of people wouldn't use anyway. There is no lack of terrain at Big Sky. The tram is mostly for experts and people who want to see the view from the top.
Bergman bowl at keystone was no 1. You didn't even find the best part. Look on the map right off the lift and go hard skiers right.
You will find you were wrong about the length of this area and that it is now the BEST LIFT on any mountain I've ever ski'd.
Don't get me started on Brec...
what resort is that at 1:00 ?
Sierra-at-Tahoe, the lift is the Easy Rider Express
@@alexconrad2904 Thank you!
They took schweitzer 😭😭😭😭😭😭
when was steamboat ever considered a below average resort? rankings are funny because its all relative...
I bet that Sam could have talked all day about this.
Repenting from sins.
I love it.
Keep developing like drunken sailors and there won't be any skiing!
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We will see how Mammoth's new Chair 1 helps things next season.
Sugarbush is replacing Heavens Gate!
theyre replacing it for upcoming (2024-2025) season. this vid talked about this past (2023-2024) season
Deer Valley is opening up 3 new lifts and a section of their Mayflower purchase.
Prices might be skyrocketing but atleast they're reinvesting into the mountains
Whitewater Ski Resort is bringing the Goat’s terrain inbound, which adds 60 new acres of terrain, marking their first expansion into the iconic Ymir Bowl. Surely, deserves a place high up on your list.
Thank you for dinging Big Sky a few points for charging extra for tram access. I love ski bums. Big Sky is awesome but they should re-name themselves Big Money.
I don't want huge resort investments, I want small mountain vibes 😢
Looks like the resort operators have seen how well the big resorts in Europe are structured, and decided that US resorts need to move away from their previous near third world status.
More investment means higher costs. I gave up on skiing long ago now. It's been priced out of normal people's budgets. Give me back cheap, basic skiing, not overpriced yuppie skiing.
"Won't turn Surarloaf into a top tier East Coast ski resort"
Really???? Sugarloaf has been the best ski are in the east coast for only about 70 years.
The new 6-pack out of Canyon lodge at mammoth is enough of an improvement that I’ll consider dropping in to the lodge for lunch.
If only Deer Valley would expand that tiny little ski hill... ;)
agree with the comment on Brighton’s giant electronic sign at the bottom of Crest6. it does not fit the vibe of the mountain whatsoever
New Brighton lift has a perilous Jerry chute I love that place but that lift line is too steep lol
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Can't wait for my trip to Steamboat with the boyz this coming season! Will be all our first times. I didn't even know they opened a bunch of new stuff this past year until watching this.
Steamboat’s a great place! Hope you enjoy it this season!