No one likes obnoxious city slickers yammering into cell phones in the tramline. But we also recognize that working via satellite may earn you an extra powder day or two. Such is the logic, anyway, behind resort WI-FI, which may just be your ticket to getting the job done remotely-without announcing it to everyone on the mountain. Squaw Valley and Whistler have both gone fully wireless this season. Stuff your G4 in your pack and log on from just about any building, be it the mid-mountain lodge or base-area brewpub. Your boss will be none the wiser. And fellow skiers won't be tempted to clobber you with snowballs.
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Opened in 1939 with help from Walt Disney, Sugar Bowl retains its old-school charm with a 1950s-style gondola and a rustic base lodge. But it’s plenty modern too. It offsets 100 percent of its energy through wind credits and has a remodeled 35,700-square-foot lodge and a new skiercross course that’s home to Olympian Daron Rahlves. The best thing about Sugar Bowl, however, may simply be the snow. Each year, the resort gets around 500 inches of Californian fluff.
Kirkwood is off the grid in more ways than one. The whole place runs on generators. Lift lines are six people deep on a powder day. Sierra storms fill the ski-porn-worthy terrain, closing roads and shutting down lifts for days. But with inbounds runs slanted up to 42 degrees, the most reliable snow in the area, and chutes that make big-mountain skiers queasy, it’s hard to believe the resort stays so low-key. Thank the hourlong drive from South Lake Tahoe’s packed casinos and resorts, which ensures Kirkwood remains unsullied by the masses. Just the way skiers there like it.
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