The Best Slopes for Every Type of Skier
Ski trips to wow every type of winter sports enthusiast
Yellowstone’s winter landscapes are a cross-country skier’s paradise. Trails glide along hot springs, geysers, and wildlife – if you’re lucky, you might even catch the sight of bison enjoying a steam bath. Bison, elk, bighorn sheep, and wolves all take refuge in the lowest elevations where it’s warmer, which means spotting them is actually far easier than in the summer.
They say life is all about the journey and not about the destination, but a trip up – and then down – Mont Blanc shows both can be pretty incredible. The three-day climb is well worth the effort for the unreal snowboarding at the other end – although there's also a quick 30-minute helicopter ride to a drop zone at 4000 meters available if you're not feeling the hike.
Half a day's drive from New York City, Lake Placid is the oldest ski resort in the United States and the site of the Winter Olympics of 1932 and 1980. Nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York, the small lakeside village has been a retreat for affluent New Yorkers since America’s Gilded Age. Visitors can also take part in Gatsbyesque dinner parties; The Point hosts black-tie dinners twice a week inside the one-time camp of William Avery Rockefeller, Jr.
Avoriaz 1800 is a car-free ski resort, where apartments, chalets, and amenities are intertwined with skiable paths. Dreamed up in the 1960s by the architect Jacques Labro, his clever solutions for a sustainable future were built-in from the very start. The town’s southern exposure providing natural daylight is a significant energy saver (and means skiers can enjoy the sunshine for longer!)
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Jurriaan Teulings
Jurriaan dreamt of becoming an astronomer or a circus clown but got a law degree before settling on travel writing and photography instead. As such, he spent two decades spreading the gospel of Dutch stroopwafels across 100 countries, picking up awards of plexiglass, bronze, and beads along the way. Recently, he planted the first rainbow flag on the North Pole. Next stop: Antarctica.