Dan Sculnick, who is the snow-school director in Revelstoke, British Columbia, turns and looks at his altimeter after our first run. “Five thousand six hundred twenty-three feet,” he says. “And it’s only nine o’clock.”
Welcome to Revelstoke, home of the most vertical ski terrain on the North American continent, where you’ll pass through four different climate zones (alpine, sub-alpine, coniferous, and deciduous) all on the same run and campaign for the footrest every lift ride. Of course, all this vert comes at a price. It’s a skier’s mountain, meaning no furs or high-end stores and that the gender ratio … More