Guess The Ski Area

Smuggs

Man, I'm waiting for it because it sure looks like Stowe.

it's taken from Smuggs looking over at $towe

Oh, I thought we were guessing what we were looking at. Cool shot, RA. What's the one out West?

Oh, maybe we are?? I could be wrong but I'm with you in that it certainly looks like Stowe.

I still have a pair of those x-screams....loved those when they first came out

It's been a long time but I have skied at Smuggs, must be why it looked familiar

campgottagopee wrote

I still have a pair of those x-screams....loved those when they first came out

I could go on all day about how much I love those skis. I bought new ones last spring but they're still at the shop waiting for bindings.

Yes! Sorry, I can see how it was confusing but I figured it would be the area I was at and taking the picture from. The ski area in the west? I'll basically give this one away with a few clues. The ski area in my photo 2. was a pretty big mountain even before the marketing team renamed it a resort. It has beautiful big sky views but they are often obscured in fog.

Great shot of the big Mt base area.All the locols miss the Alpenglow Inn in that photo it was torn down around 2005.
RA when was this taken.

Here's one for you guys to take a shot at

Kirkwood

That photo was taken in the fall of 1994. I spent that winter there living in Bigfork. It was my first season out West, I was 19 years old.

This is picture from that winter, probably around Christmas time that I took on my first out of bounds ski experience ever. I took a lap or two on Hellroaring Peak with a bunch of older locals. I don't think anyone had any avie gear, I know I sure didn't but it worked out and there were lots of high fives at the bottom. It was a gorgeous inversion day, the first one like this I had ever seen, I was completely gaped looking out over the sea of clouds and white capped islands poking through, stellar crystals floated in the air and in the photo you can see a classic sun dog brightly lit among the snow ghosts. In a way, it changed my life forever. the next twenty years or so I had a heavy focus on spending my time searching for more moments just like this one. I was instantly hooked.

Snowbird?

It looks like Utah to me and I can see a bunch of hikers on that ridge there but I can't put together the angle if it's Twin Peaks or Baldy so I'm confused.

I really think it's the cirque at Kirkwood, but it's been years since i was there.

Coach Z wrote

Here's one for you guys to take a shot at

To hell you ride.  Pretty sure that's Black Iron Bowl.  Those cliffs directly below the highest bump are on your right if you're skiing Mountain Quail.

 * * * EDIT * * * Never mind, looking back at my photos from Telluride I don't think that's this:

The rocks look like that drawn outward toothy Wasatch limestone to me but it's hard sayin from the photo. It's a tough one because it doesn't show anything iconic that I recognize.

Possibly the hike up to Highlands Bowl at Aspen Highlands? I've never been there but it's the only other hike to terrain of that size I can think of that I'm not familiar with.

It's Aspen Highlands for sure.

This thread makes me wish I had a camera back when I was bangin around in NE --- no cell phones in those days and camera's were expensive

Great picture and story RA, sounds like the big Mt treated you OK.
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I rolled into Whitefish in 1975, instead of failing in Vail.