StringGrrl sees the World

World's Best Ski Runs: 100 to 1 As it happens I can only claim 3 on this list. No 60, Curnius, Laax, Switzerland   Laax -- long runs, high quality. Pro skier Chris McCormick cites No 60 as one of his favorites. "This is because of how long the run is, but every feature is of really high quality," he says. Watch out for: Sudden changes in grade. Rating: Red LOOONNNNNG runs some of them. On the day we were there we skied down through 3 distinct thermal zones. Up near the top of one run we start just above 2400m and ski down to 1600m.  At the top is very crisp powder and pack powder, toward the middle we got into some crud, corduroy, and corn snow. The very bottom was like skiing on a slurpee. Ride two lifts back up on and right back into the pack powder. This bowl is nearly 250 degrees skiable. From here down to the lift in the very center of picture with no traversing a few degrees of fall line brings us right there.  LAAX is an expansive a...