3D Ski Maps With Color Mapped Steepness

Whether your a first timer or a powder junkie, Alpine Meadows has enough white stuff for everyone. No, there is no boutique-filled village at this understated resort, no sushi restaurant, no wine bar, and no movie theater, this place is made for those who wants nothing but the white stuff, sorry destination skiers. Just kidding, I found a review with all the amenities Alpine offers, check it out...http://skiresorts.com/content/alpine-meadows

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Why do the colors not match the terrain like they do on most of the other ski maps.

montezuma is nothing like blue sky. be real

hi~ I have a problem,that I want to show a drop_down menu over the google earth plugin, but it always under the google earth plugin, can you show me how to do it? Thanks! My skype ID: jianchao.wang Can you add me?

Upper east wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Cff0v4yx4

pali

the hike is def worth it!!!!!

montezuma kicks ass..like blue sky except smaller

east wall rocks

A Bay Rules!!!

Way cool

Way cool

These are cool but why only cut runs? What about the tree runs?

The lower mountain has some of the steepest runs on the mountain.

Hi Dale Quick question on the lower section of the Aspen Highlands map. It looks way too steep (compared to my recollection) on the section from Golden Barrel to Upper Jerome, and the bit that bypasses Upper Jerome. Could there be an error do you think ? These maps are so useful. They are a great service to us skiers. Any chance of adding Snowmass some time please ? ciao David

Looking at the interesting map , I would very much like to see the ski routes, Then it would be really interesting.

more of this at www.skitirol.nl

this is only grizzly bowl...not even most of bear valley as a whole

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Spy Glass

Hibernation has changed - it's now a high speed quad called Polar Express.

This is a very cool map! I noticed two runs are missing - Home Run and Lunch Run - which are two of the longest and lead back to the town of Bear Valley. Can these be added?

3D map of skiing in Beaver Creek http://sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/124667

nogs

haha yep

Hey Pooch, this looks sweet! Can't wait till January!

wow

I like it

I like it

The blues on both 8 and 7 are some of the easiest blues in Colorado.

going to Breck Mar. 12. Is peak 7 or 8 better for a beginning blue skier?

Yes peak 7 is flatter, but the rolling hills make up for it, and are very fun

goin breck 4 christmas 4 a week cannot wait :)

flat

Peak 7 data is missing

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Very Cool!

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hi

Nice ski area. Went there over thanksgiving. Runs are narrow but fun to speed down,

No yellow atop Resolution

Probable all blue in northern Copper Bowl

These aren't designed to mirror the resort map trail ratings (i.e. mogul or park runs), they're only useful in showing you the "steepness" of the runs. You should always refer to the trail map published by the resort before selecting your run.

Cool maps. But they're not accurate. Some slopes are 50 degrees or more.

The maps are pretty accurate. However, there are a couple of mogul filled blue square intermediate runs like I-Dropper that though they are not too steep can be a bit "interesting". Also the runs to the left can get icy in the afternoons (and scrapped off by riders as well).

Really helpful in planning to do my first blue.

I just wish they would show mogul runs. I don't know how they would do it but it would be cool.

this map is awesome

These maps look, seem, and most likely are extremely accurate. I never would have viewed it this way.

I've skied both, like many, and can say without a doubt that CB has more extreme terrain than any, hands down. There are few in the world that can ski everything this mountain has to offer. Breck is good, but CB has shorter lines and a better "feel."

I lived in Breckenridge for 7 yrs. before i made my first trip to Crested Butte. Needless to say, i immediatly packed my bags and MOVED to CRESTED BUTTE :) The skiing rocks and the sense of community and people that live in blow Breckenridge right out of the ballpark. The only thing the 2 towns have in common are that they are both ski towns. Growth is inevitable. The skiing is what its all about. Enjoy it, live it, love it!!!

No idea how you can compare CB to Breck like that Crusty. Sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me, especially with the unwarranted "-stans" comment. Pretty obvious what political fringe you hail from. Back to the mountain itself, there are never any lines here. A skier's dream! You can find me in Teocalli Bowl.

this map is incorrectly made. i ski at crested butte rather commenly, and they have a slope called rambo labled as have one pitch of 45 degrees. Rambo is the steepest cut slope in north america, averaging 58 degrees. google it

Not quite Breck, thank the gods! I just moved here and yes, I left the east coast, but the attitude and atmosphere is sooooo awesome! It goes with the amazing "huge" mountain! Come visit a mountain without lift lines (ok, maybe a 3 minute wait on weekends) but come with a nice attitude! :) trishgiassa@gmail.com

Lot's of others to rival/compare, but this is a "small"/special mountain that skis "huge"! A-game is warranted on many of the upper t-bar served parts... Used to be a "locals place" with a few rich Texans... Sadly, CB is now looking more like a destination resort for kalis, back easters and those that want it to look like Breck. Hmm, we all hated TX until we met the kali-stans and nu-york-i-stans? The Ice Bar in the middle is awesome...

FYI, Diamond Peak is in Nevada, not California. Thanks

could you do one for courchevel?

wack

completely inaccurate as the colors don't correspond to the google earth terrain at all

can you put a new map up? this is hard to read

dis one no worky. ynot move?

Now i can prove to my frind that he did survive 40 degrees!

I think its perfect! Now I no were to go and were not to go! Its better than enything else ive seen.

One other question - in the zoomified version, it seems like double diamonds and double squares are not shown. Is that the case for the poster as well? Thanks.

Is the current version of the poster at CafePress accurate? I was thinking of ordering the poster now, but wouldn't want to if you are going to be making corrections. Thanks!

Yeah, pretty much everything above orange is 40 degrees or more. Now I see I need to update Jackson Hole. The Zoomified version is right, but the other still images are out of date since I made a correction to my slope calculations.

Very cool. Now I can prove to my wife that she has skied 40 degrees and survived!

Can I get this in a printed form to take on the slopes? This would be perfect to stay out of trouble and know where we are all the time. Nice work!

Wow! c'est la premiere fois que je vois ça!

its just what i wanted...but better

amazing

And it was AWESOME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnBhJ61gNcw

This is great! As a geographery/mapper I've always wanted to see this. Keep up the good work

totally

This place is soooo cool. I go there every year, and it is always good. I would reccomend it to anyone.

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fuck

yup, yup, yup jeez Go killington!!!!!

When i went it bite my face off cuz i was on a doulbe diamond and my ski randomly fell off and yup i tumbles the rest of the way down and yup i had to walk back up for my ski, googles and poles and yup my other ski stayed on and i twisted my leg pretty bad yup

this message is for all the lum-bum heads of the askiban. This mountain can be hard and not hard.DONT LOOSE YOUR SKIIS. And the mountain might bite your face off. POOP TO THE WORLD!

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I feel like James Bond when I'm skiing sunrise at kirkwood! AWESOME

I like how the steepness meter actually goes up to 70 degrees for K-wood. There is talk of reopening the Cirque (60 degrees) which was closed because of an avy years and years ago.

this place is pwnage

The Wood has as much steepness as anyone could wish for! Love it!

This map is great...I'm going to Kirkwood for the first time next week so now I know where to go!! Thanks

beautiful!thank you. very useful ,especially slope angles in double black terrain. cant get google plug-in to load.

vulgar is not provocative, just crass

Loser

fuck u mr priest or something!!!!!!

geez guys cool it on the cussing

everything to do with east coast is shit

yeah damn okemo!

Or your butchering of the English language

QFT about the Okemo crowd. The only thing worse than those little Okemo brats is their parents.

That was what I mean, it was showing the slope of the hill, not the run cutting across it. It is so shallow you have to skate it. A good guide to about what to expect though. Can't really expect it to take wind loading etc. into account. I just feel sorry for okemo locals, no wonder their race team is always so crabby and rude when they are skiing LL preseason.

Shut up and ski! It's all snow...

In Colorado there are few runs with slopes less than 20% all the way down. Almost every resort has some greens runs with short spots of 25% slope. To be fair some also have old fire roads that run across the slope like the "Cinch Run" at Beaver Creek. These mitigate the slope for beginners. You can't really parallel but you do get a nice gradual decent under control.

According to this, a green trail is 22-35 degrees.

*Paradise looks fun

Palisades look fun...

Best mountain in VT

Really cool 3d look. Not sure how the folks above are using it, works great and I found the top of the gondola in seconds. I guess if you do not know the mountain very well or you are not good with spatially...

Hard to find a lift chair. For example, where is chair 9? I looked for fifteen minutes and I still cannot find it. Very disorientating

It doesn't work!

really easy to go past the area boundary on the outer bowl run (bottom right of map); if you don't cut across you're lost in the woods. I know from experience!

hi!

Yes, Baldy kills Big Bear in terms of terrain... no real park here though. They have plans to develop the backside and add more snowmaking... like someone else said...I think they need to go corporate to get the funding and influence...

Mt baldy is a world class mountain! How about some corporation just buys it and make it into world class resort with ten times more lifts and snow making! It's also so close to LA.

Great map! Is there a park?

Thanks. One of these days I hope to do all the resorts everywhere. I'm sure there are a lot of interesting ones out there.

Great visual. Really gives a true trail map to this hidden gem of a resort.

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! I SHALL CALL THE INTERNET POLICE TO HAVE THIS DISTURBANCE RESOLVED!

Mt. Rose in in Nevada! Outrageous.

Rose is in NV,not CA.

this is weird

Wait, is Lookout Mountain included on this map?

There is no comparison of the terrain between Squaw and Northstar (Squaw is obviously superior), but no way could you say Squaw has a better park. The run Northstar's park is on is steeper than Squaw's too.

HI!

Best all around parks for where? Not even the north shore, Sugar Bowl and Squaw have it trumped. Maybe if going slow is your thing, but the best parks need some steep to get speed, but then again you are probably one of those knuckle dragging apes that speed checks before the jumps only to land on the table top.

northstar is one of the greatest all-around parks out there, who cares if there is no pink you homo

flatstar for sure. no pink.

hi!

great! wat about lookout Mt?

soooo no new map lol?

I know that south face and jackson gore are missing but i still consider okemo to be a mountain that lacks challenging trails

This thing is truly ancient, and yes it is easily 15 years old. Look at the Solitude area, "The Plunge" isn't even there and that trail was cut for the 1993-94 season I believe. No South Face, which was 1995 or so. No Jackson Gore. May as well take down this map its so far from being an accurate representation of the current resort. Dale, hope you eventually get around to an update!

looking forward to the new map.

So, do you skate ski down everything?

Okay, I found a recent SPOT image of Okemo, so I'm going to buy that and update my map. Should be a week or two. Yeah, getting close to end of ski season, but still.

As stated, this Okemo map is ancient - whether 5 years or 20 years. No South Face, No Jackson Gore - but the map is fine for the half of the mountain it shows.

Yeah, some of the images I'm working with are pretty old, but not 20 years, more like 5 or 10. In some cases I've been able to find recent images. I'll see if I can find something to update Okemo.

this is a map of okem from at least twenty years ago, the south face not showh here at all seems to have a bit of a purple glow to it

LOL

AND IM SUPPOSED TO BE DOING WORK OMG

OMG IM IN SCHOOL

I agree with Red River; New Mexico is a team and that's how it should be. I prefer Taos as well but I love love love Red River too. Both mountains are outstanding and quaint, just like I like it. Went to Winter Park in CO and it was just too big...

Thanks Dave, we appreciate your support. Jon, we like to think of ourselves as a team under Ski New Mexico, as all of us offer something a little different throughout the state.

Get Real... Red River is great!

red river sucks taos rocks

could you get Alpine Meadows added??

Just testing

This is where I learned how to ski and where many of the area schools have ski club. You can see why. It's a perfect place for beginners an/or low-level intermediates.

This place might be all beginner trails, but if you can ski here... with gapers on all sides of you, 2 feet away, and with the bad snow - well my friend you can ski anywhere! Might not be steep, but that doesn't mean it doesn't present its own unique challenges!

WOW! this place is really really small and like all of the trails are for beginners except on the bottom left WOW! LOL

aawesome i love the bird

Untrue, actually, because with these maps I can also see where the steepest spots are, and make sure I get to them

Need to color the palisades as well. All yellow I suppose

It is extremely helpful to take my entire family around the mountain without worrying that one of us could not make it down.

Only legit map of Squaw bro!

Thanks for the maps. I'm a beginner skier and it helps me to see who has the easiest runs. Thank you again!!

For me, I find them useful because as an intermediate skier they show me right away where I can go to maximize my enjoyment of the slopes. It seems like they are least useful for expert skiers because they're not concerned, they just go wherever and have fun.

it was neat and yet at the same time worthless...

Wow... there is no way that the chutes are 65 degrees... I'm not even sure if they reach 50 degrees Bruce.

The chutes are angled away a bit in this map and T-Bone is right that the steepness of the chutes is not maintained for very long (I'd guess it's more like 300 feet or ~90 meters) but Chute 1 and Chute 3 are ~65 degrees and Chute 2 is ~70 degrees for that strech.

The chutes are angled away a bit in this map and T-Bone is right that the steepness of the chutes is not maintained for very long (I'd guess it's more like 300 feet or ~90 meters) but the steep part of Chute 2 is 71 degrees for that time, Chute 1 and Chute 3 are ~65 degrees and Chute 2 is ~70 degrees.

I'm lookin at it now. If u have google earth plugin u can do that. no, it does not sustain a 50 degree slope, or if it does its very minor one or two turn pitch. steamboat is not steep.

Yeah, for about 50 meters.

Is there a way to see this map at a different angle? I'd like to see how steep the chutes and the christmas tree bowl are. Im willing to bet that chute 1 sustains a 50 degrees slope.

just saying. castlerock is about 3-4 degrees shallower then paradise at MRG. Acording to this map, sugarbush has no double blacks

Rumble and Liftline in the castlerock area are steep shit. Stowe is the only mountain in vermont steeper than this

hi

Overall the best place to ski in the North East!!!!

Castlerock(Rumble!!!) GReat stuff!!

Best Mountain in Vermont. Castlerock terrain is amazing!

Pointless lift off to the right

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been here it was awesome but c-c-cold -30 summit.

Sugarloaf USA is the best! I learned there, have skied out west - the LOAF is the best!

more trails....this mountain is beautiful lets skii the whole entire thing

White Nitro, Powder Keg, and the backside are pretty steep. On the backside, you can extend your uphill arm and touch where you've already been!

NICE

wtf is tthis :)

3 items. 1. You have a problem with the Taos Ski Valley West Basin image. It is currently labled as Loveland Ski Area. The rest of the Taos maps are accurate. 2. I think it is a problem with your coloring engine, but it might be worth repainting some of the catwalks that run along sides of steep slopes. The slopes show up as 33 percent or higher grades, but the actual catwalks are a more leasurely 8 to 15 percent drop. Even with this shortcomming I love the steepness coding. 3. Can you offer an option to supress the color coding and just show the runs on the 3D map? Thanks.

Innovative! :)

be more helpful if these were up to date with expansions

This is very useful, and it would be even more useful if you could overlay it or key it to a legend with trail names.

sweet program

I CANNOT LOAD THE PLUG IN !!!!!!!!!!!!HELP

try clicking on back bowls...on the left there superstar

How about the back bowls and blue sky basin?

Yeah, I really want to see if the trails at Cannon are really steep, or if the ice just makes it seem that way!

Could you please do Cannon Mnt, NH

nuclear is not around guys........I,ve lived there for years......this is my hill

windham is open and still skiable

I know that and we are not allowed to show where the leaks are

windham has a new owner and there are more trails plus now windham now is an un skiable mountain because of sewage and nuclear leaks