What's the most exotic location in which you have gone skiing/riding?

Question

I was thinking of going on a ski trip to a destination nobody ever talks about, and settled on Kyrgyzstan, which is known as the "Switzerland of Central Asia".

What are some other good "unknown" places to ski?

Answer 1

Not exotic by any means...but unique nonetheless.

I skied through Rocky Mountain Park the first weekend the roads were open and a bunch of us hitched rides back up to the top. I did that for a few runs.

Company on the rides back up was always interesting. One ride back up was in the bed of a Ford Ranger with a Swiss Montain Dog and two hippie chicks as my co-riders. Another was in the backseat of an '86 K-car driven by an old lady and her neighbor. They offered my cookies and rice krispie treats. Strangely enough...the old ladies had a ski rack on the car! (They weren't skiing the park though....but I wouldn't have put it past them.)

I want to try Iceland. I hear fjord skiing is the bomb. Then you go hit a hot spring for th rest of the day and hang out with dark haired, blue-eyed beauties.

Answer 2

There was an article in Skiing Magazine (October 2007) about skiing in Iran. It looks incredible! The mountains there are monstrously huge. I may try it someday.

For now, though, I'll just have to "suffer" skiing the beautiful, light, dry powder of Utah! :)

Answer 3

While not exotic...Tuckerman's Ravine.

I would love to ski Hawaii's big island. I lived in Hawaii for two years, and never made it there. Shame on me!

Like hillbilly above...I "suffer" in Utah. Oh well...life's such a drag!!

Answer 4

I have skiied Tuckermans Ravine twice. You have to hike into the bowl at the foot of Mount Washington.

Answer 5

Bled/Bohinj in solvenia, it was beatuiful and it had this lake with a church right in the middle ! =] !...