Worlds Best Ski Runs: top 100 via CNN Alpine Edge

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 area. The Flims-Laax-Falera ridge line will definitely take some serious time to traverse. We had the misfortune of parking closer to Falera once then finding ourselves on the Flims side of the valley as the lifts started closing. Some tricky traverses and a little bit of off-piste skiing took us only as far as the village of Laax and then a bus back to the car.

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43. Rambo, Crested Butte, Colorado

I was there but predating my digital camera and StringGirl by a long shot. Back in 1996 went there with my now wife then girlfriend. She did not brave RAMBO but my fraternity brother and I did. Most memorable part of that run. I did 2/3rd of it with a ski on my shoulder. He had a yardsale after 4 turns and I brought his gear down to where the sliding stopped more than halfway down.

Once you commit to this 300-meter run with a 55-degree pitch, there's no going back.
For steep terrain, it's one of the best runs in the United States.
Watch out for: Other skiers and snowboarders. It gets crowded.
Rating: Double black diamond

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18. Rotegg, Titlis, Engelberg, Switzerland

 I have mixed feelings about Titlis. I have been there probably the second most times of any swiss resort. It is reasonably close to Zurich and offers some great terrain at very nice elevations. EVERY single time I have been there the weather in Zurich was the worst. Two of the four times the mountain and glacier were great, and two of the times disastrous.

Dynastar World Cup Ski Racer Dominique Gisin loves the first run he ever skied.
"My favorite slope in the world is called Rotegg and it's part of my home ski area, Titlis in Engelberg," says Gisin. "It's the first black slope I skied as a kid. It's a steep and impressive couloir that connects the glacier to the rest of the ski area.
"There are big bumps all over the place. I think that's why I was never that impressed with all the tough courses in World Cup."
Watch out for: Local speed demons.

It is the fall back if the snow is falling at the lower elevations as the only show in town for skiing without a 4 hour train ride from Zurich.

This day the skiing above 2200m was good, the snow was really falling below, Rottegg is 90 degrees off camera to right 

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