Ski Mountaineering in the USA
The USA is a huge and very mountainous country that gets some serious winter weather and has no shortage of ski-mountaineering opportunities, both day trips and long wilderness trips are great to ski.
Sierra Nevada
Skiing through the trees on the way to , near Mammoth Lakes, California.
Cascade Volcanoes
These volcanoes provide a chain of great skiing opportunities, from the biggest and most serious like Mt. Rainier to the smaller and easier peaks like Shasta and Mt Baker. Vast amounts of snow fall in the cascades most winters, with Mt. baker in particular often recording more snow than almost any other ski resort in the world.
See Amar Andalkars website www.skimountaineer.com for more details
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Pictured above is a ski tour on the circuit of Table Mountain, which we did from the Mt. Baker ski resort.
Colorado
Hawaii
Check here for details of skiing on Mauna Kea in Hawaii..
Practical stuff
| When to go | March and April are probably the best months for the Sierra Nevada mountains with the Cascades and Colorado being skiable thru to May or even June | |
| Where to go | Fly to Seattle or Vancouver in Canada for the Cascades, Denver for Colorado or Los Angeles for the Sierra Nevada. A hire car (with chains) or a 4x4 can be useful for reaching the more remote skiing areas | |
| Costs | The USA is really not too expensive to travel round. | |
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