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Whistler, British Columbia
Whistler Blackcomb, formed by the merger of two adjacent mountains under one resort operation, hosted the alpine skiing and other events for the 2010 Winter Olympics in nearby Vancouver, an Olympic legacy that significantly raised the resort's international profile and drove substantial infrastructure investment in the years leading up to the Games. The resort holds one of the largest vertical drops of any ski area in North America, at roughly 5,280 feet from summit to base, and the Peak 2 Peak Gondola connecting Whistler and Blackcomb mountains holds the record for the longest unsupported span of any gondola lift in the world, stretching nearly two miles between towers. Whistler Village, the pedestrian-only base area built specifically to serve the resort, was designed from the outset around a walkable, car-free layout, a deliberate planning choice that's made it one of the more consistently well-regarded resort villages in North America for its ease of movement between lodging, dining, and the lifts themselves. Whistler's combination of its 2010 Winter Olympics legacy, one of the largest vertical drops in North America, and the record-setting Peak 2 Peak Gondola has made it one of the most internationally significant ski destinations anywhere outside the European Alps.
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Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort has built its reputation specifically around expert-level terrain, with the resort's famous Corbet's Couloir — a narrow chute requiring a mandatory cliff jump of ten to twenty feet just to enter it — widely regarded as one of the most intimidating inbound ski runs at any resort in North America. The resort's aerial tram, nicknamed "Big Red," rises over 4,000 vertical feet from base to summit in roughly nine minutes, one of the largest continuous vertical rises of any single lift in the country, giving skiers access to sustained steep terrain without the multiple lift transfers many other large resorts require. Jackson Hole's position at the base of the Teton Range, directly adjacent to Grand Teton National Park, gives the resort a genuinely dramatic mountain backdrop distinct from resorts built into more rounded, forested terrain, and the nearby town of Jackson has retained a Western ranching-town character alongside its ski-resort economy. Jackson Hole's combination of some of the most challenging inbound expert terrain in North America, the dramatic vertical rise of its aerial tram, and its position directly beneath the Teton Range has made it the resort most specifically associated with serious, expert-level skiing rather than a broader family-vacation ski experience.
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