North America's Ski Resorts Have the Best Snow
December 19, 2007. When it comes to time to pick a luxury vacation rental for a ski or snowboard trip, stick with North America. That's the verdict from Forbes Traveler, which recently published an article on MSNBC.com called "Top 20 Snowiest Ski Resorts in the World." Only one resort – Japan's Niseko – was not located on this continent.
That's largely because of the orientation of our mountains, according to the report. Storms travel in a West-East fashion. Luckily, the north-south orientation of ranges like the Cascades, Sierra Nevada and Wasatch act like walls against which the storms slam up against, dropping all of their snow. Europe's Alps have an East-West orientation, which doesn't pull as much snow out of storm systems.
That's good news for our ski resorts and the luxury vacation rental industry. Europeans already have the incentive to travel here, thanks to the good snow. With the Euro favorable to the dollar right now, their money will also go farther here than it ever has before.
