Bryan Petersen

The Skiing experience is a combination of Three things; The Mountain, the Snow Conditions that day, and Most importantly the People you are with. Using that as my rating criteria, here is the top ten on my life list so far:

10) Giants Ridge, MN - Only three hours away and always fun, it beats out five big mountains and seven midwestern hills on my list.
9) Park City, UT
8) Beaver Creek, CO
7) Keystone, CO - Night skiing!
6) Breckenridge, CO
5) Snowbird, UT
4) Alta, UT
3) Arapaho Basin, CO
2) Whistler/Blackcomb, BC
1) Buena Vista, Bemidji, MN - I'm an adaptive ski instructor there, the smiles on the skiers faces make it the best Mountain of all!

Some yet to be skied:
Whistler/Blackcomb for the second, third and fourth times.
Mammoth Mountain, CA
Sun Valley, ID
Aspen Highlands, CO
Telluride, CO
Alyeska, AK
Chamonix, France
Zermatt, Switzerland - In the shadow of the Matterhorn
New Zealand's Mount Cook Glacier
And last but not least, the snowfields fo Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii!!