Yesterday morning, Joe Skier published an article listing reasons why Whistler is better than Squaw. We all know how much those Canadians love Canada and everything Canadian. However, down here at Squaw, we wouldn’t be doing a good job of upholding our ‘merican reputation if we didn’t remind lil’ Joey who invented this “ski game.”
Hence, our list of why Squaw reigns supreme over Whistler.
10. You don’t have to speak Canadian or Australian to communicate.
9. You don’t have to take 2 lifts to get 1 run.
8. Mid-weeks are quiet and empty, not packed the entire season.
7. It doesn’t take 22+ minutes on a gondola, plus one more chair ride to get to our best terrain.
6. We have produced more pro skiers and Olympic athletes.
Shane McConkey Threading the Needle. Granite Chief Peak, Squaw Valley.
5. People around the world have heard of KT-22. What’s the name of that one chair on Whistler?
4. People don’t stop skiing when the Leafs or Canucks are on the television.
3. If it’s not snowing, it’s SUNNY, not raining.
2. 4’ overnight snowfalls aren’t uncommon.
1. It’s in California. What’s cooler than California?
KT at Sunrise. Squaw Valley
In response to Joe Skier’s article: Top 10 Reasons Whistler is Better than Squaw
We all know that The Bird is The Word.
Word!
squaw and whistler are both the BEST, idk what all the hate is about.
But make sure u guys dont go to snowbird, just ice, rocks and heavy snow.. also there is no real alcohol in utah. and everything is closed sunday.
Ha!
Our weed is better. our beer is better, and the girls are fitter
are you talking about California or Colorado? because canadian beer tastes flat, and their weed is mass produced and shitty.
Squaw Sucks
http://bit.ly/qlAyM6
Im not really sure who you are but you are being a douche by starting all of this hate between resorts. I have no side in this argument I ski Alta-Bird but your being pathetic.
Dick
Jumbo how can you claim another country’s beer or weed as yours? You’re clearly not American or Canadian. Saying that a girl is fit is sooo English.
No worries mate, I’m Norweigen, Love Canada
Not many of those reasons are working out for ya’ this year are they..?
yea “this year” so what! one year not so great..that happens on this planet. still early and we are gonna get our snow..matter of fact it’s starting right now..
dude i gotta check out squaw, better than whis? mmmm maybe they both have annoying titles like “squallywood” and “traversler”. Canadians are chiller, Californians have more $, whis has a huge supply of everything, squaw seems to be complaining alot, either way i wouldnt be caught dead waiting in any of their ridiculous lift lines, skiing with 2000 of my closest friends trying to send KT22 or JORDANS. Good topic, worlds collide.
I like your attitude John Wells!
Your rebuttal is rather weak.
Known fact, the cocaine here is much better
wheres here u idiot ..
Hey Everyone,
Heckler does coke. Isn’t he cool?? He’s referenced it 3 times now between 2 articles and 70 comments. What a cool dude!
Dude you are wrong.
I don’t do coke, however I do enough the way it smells.
I just enjoy the smell of it gezzz
WILDFLOUR COOKIES!!!!
$4 a pop.. yeah, I want one.
Really? Used to be under a buck when I lived there…
They’re $2.20
to #6, wow your so humble, and don’t sound like a dbag,
#10 washington is better, your in desparate times right now and this post shows.
4 inches over night not uncommon? You had 12 inches at the start of January, that 3 not so common 4inch snowfalls. Whistler had 65 inches in 48 hours….
Correction: 65 cms in 48 hrs. In Squaw Terms that is very little. 25 inch storms are commonplace, in Whistler that was the biggest storm of the decade.
feet, bro, feet.
4′ is 4 ft
Stupid metric system.
They use comma’s for decimal points too. Not sure what that’s all aboot.
only the french.
hecklers not coooool! bragging about coke is for silly aussies or cdns whos only friends are aussies.
and to answer “whats cooler than california”..
british columbia of course. our license plates dont lie when they say “the best place on earth”.
I live in Whis and am so not on with this comment.
Don’t speak for other people this is your opinion of Aussies, not the majority. And no I am not Australian.
As far as license plates go they actually say “Beautiful British Columbia” The ones your referring to were the VANOC edition ones which you had to pay extra to get and in my opinion make us look like we’re full of ourselves. But you probably haven’t lived here long enough to even know what VANOC is.
ok gaper
Pete,
” = inch, ‘ = foot. Probably why your girlfriend thinks 8″ is the length of her pinky finger.
Watch the storm in Tahoe this weekend…
time for a good old fashion ski off
“Did you bring it?” “Oh it’s already been brought!”
Chinese downhill!
What the fock is Chinese Downhill?
We really need some snow to come because you guys obviously have nothing to do but continue with this pointless pissing contest.
ok, so actually I totally think Squaw could have come up with 10 reasons to trounce Whistler, but this article is pathetic. First up 2 of your reasons should have just been: 1. Shane McConkey 2. G.N.A.R.
Your 10 reasons blow:
10. Everyone speaks English, I know the US has ruined our language for everyone, a better reason would have been you don’t need to speak Asian!
9. 7th Heaven/Harmony/Peak/Glacier Express etc all provide “one run”
8. I work here year-round – mid week right now, slopes are dead ~4000 on both mtns, good call.
7. The Village Gondola took 15 minutes yesterday, running at 6.5m/s is faster than wait, nearly all of your lifts? Best terrain isn’t even partially on Peak chair -shows how well you know Whistler.
6. The Camp of Champions has produced more medalists than anyone else…
5. Yes, because nearly all of our lifts provide access to unique and varied terrain – we don’t have one good chair we rely on.
4. People don’t stop skiing when the Hockey’s on – it’s on in the evening. When the hills are shut. Otherwise Mr. PVR sorts it out.
3. It’s true it does rain intermittently, but not in the alpine where the good skiing is, and we receive far more snow than Squaw. Also we’ve had an unprecendented number of bluebird days this season, just sayin’
2. No, they’re not. We enjoy them as much if not more than anyone else bar Mt. Washington.
1. British Columbia, end of.
10. Racist
9. If you ski the lift line….Poser!
8. Big Fucking deal, good for you
7.Thats still 15 min of uploading while we are shredding. And, 6.5 m/s isnt faster..
6. You’re wrong
5. By “unique and varied” you mean all groomers below alpine, right?
4. Hockey sucks anyway
3. Intermittently??? Really? Its in a temperate Rain forrest ya jack wagon. Bluebird doesnt count on a high pressure ridge is aloft and the mtn is bullet proof.
2. 4′ = 48″ = 122cm. Pretty sure you don’t get those in Whistler.
1. I don’t need to explain
the best shit below treeline ain’t on the trail map. thankfully. have fun ripping groomers though!
#5…. Really? you ride the groomers if you’re below the alpine. Is someone afraid of the tree runs?
great response mate… I’d take time to reply properly but I’m going up to ride powder on Whistler… something you don’t have…
hockey is the greatest sport known to man
AGREE AGREE AGREE!!!
Uh, Shane was Canadian
but he lived in squaw and repped squaw and jumped out of our gondola for fun not canada’s
You my good friend are an idiot
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=56fgfetA4Qo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56fgfetA4Qo
If you have a DUI in the USA you cannot go to Canada for 10 years. Are you kidding me?
Gayest article ever btw.. Unofficially lame!
For a lot of us we can buy cannabis legal from the stores here. Can’t do that in Whistler.
Uhhhh… anyone, Canadian, American, or other can walk into hash bars in vansterdam (Vancouver BC) to buy or publicly consume cannabis. you don’t have to pay a “doctor” either.
who wants to sit with a bunch of weirdos..i hit up mah boy down the street an in 5 minutes im posted super baked watching the niners woop ass
It’s the attitude (like this) that makes squaw so terrible. Almost every resort in WA, OR, and BC trounce Squaw in terms of gnar and snow, but they dont all act like dbags. All squaw has is cali sun and kt22. oh and a swimming pool on the mountain. that should tell you all you need to know about squaw.
LOL. what resorts are those? you have got to be kidding me. baker? no a chance. hood. HA. meadows? right. there’s the only resorts worth even mentioning in OR and WA as you say, and they are no where near squaw in terms of gnar, and baker may get more powder days, but you’re skiing baker.
and you have whistler in BC, in bounds whistler is not gnarly. sorry bro. theres no way it compares. maybe ob, maybe. but your ob is barley on par with our in bounds. get it straight.
the only thing you have up there going for you is your year-round park. thats it. maybe you have a sicker night life, coolstorybro. we have better skiing. get with it
If you haven’t skied the baker or crystal back country, you havent skied. stick with the posers at squaw dude http://unofficialnetworks.com/huge-cliff-drop-beast-area-mt-baker-57783/
Yeah…given Squaws current snowpack and the fact that your signature chair currently provides access to only rocks I would have waited a little while before posting this. Unnoficial bad timing. Right now I think every other resort in the northern hemisphere is better than poor, dry Squaw.
Squaw sucks. Please don’t come. Tell all your friends.
I tell my friends squaw sucks, but they go anyway.. and everyone comes back and says i was right. squaw sucks.
Yep!
http://bit.ly/qlAyM6
yeah dont come, it sucks here. really sucks stay in whistler.
Wonder what the writers definition of “common” is? According to Squaw’s snowfall records from last year there wasn’t a single snowfall over 48″ or 4′ (i can do math!) and definitely not this year. Man it needs to warm up I wanna go ride our 193cm base errr 77″. Have fun with your foot of snow.
And where are you pulling these records from?
umm Squaw valley snow fall tracker????
http://www.squaw.com/snowfall-tracker-2009-10
Looks like thre bulk of the storm is heading north of Tahoe. Bummer for you guys. Do you believe in Karma? All of you Tahoe people are such whiny liittle children.
um ur dum cuz were gonn a have 3 to 5 feet by mon,,,so ur an idiot ,,,,,,so many gapers up there ay
And at squaw we dont drink piss warm beer like Canadians
Good one.
Squaw is better because of KSL and me!
gape
hahaha
if you take this shit seriously you are definitely insecure about where you live
I take this very seriously, and I am not insecure about where I live! I’m not being defensive either!
WHY DO YOU GUYS ARGUE WHEN YOU ARE BOTH OUR LITTLE BROTHER!
ya’ll can keep yer bitchin.
Talk to me once you have skied Cloudmont!
These articles are as low as the current snow pack at squaw
http://unofficialnetworks.com/bomb-explodes-whistler-hells-angles-68408/
thats a really good reason
Hmmmm…funny shit…Im a Squaw local but heading to Big Sky Montana and Moonlight Basin for a comp as I speak….Maybe Montana is better than both Squaw and Whistler? It sure does look that way from what I have seen…
who cares they both get heavy as hell snow
Here are the top 5 reasons why Squaw Valley is better than ANY other mountain.
5. U.S.A.
4. California
3. Northern California
2. Lake Tahoe
1. North Lake Tahoe
As you can see from the list above, I win and you can’t even argue and/or disagree. By the way, I’m radder than you!
Squaw good, squaw better than Whistler, squaw have no snow and still better than Whistler. Why? Cali days are warm, Cali women are good looking, in shape, easy and don’t bother me when I want to ride. Our beer is better and our summers are so beautiful. Hiking, biking (no one cares about your lift access, be a man and peddle) climbing, boating, surfing, base jumping, diving, clif jumping…..this list goes oonnnnn.
Canada is fucking rad, but it is not beautiful California
Way f-ing homo,,, all you dicksmokers need to get a girlfriend or blow-up doll or something.
the douche factor on this site is through the roof.
Sure Squaw may be quieter than Whistler.. but that’s because people know what is better for them. In all seriousness though, we get it Squaw.. you’re loud, you’re obnoxious and you’re ‘American’ thus why most of us don’t care.
p.s. KTtwentywho?
OK! im going to settle this for all you people!!! squaw is better because we dont have any damn Cohn brothers!…… I cant figure out which one I hate more
Please… Whistler is awesome…. And BC Bud is the best…. The only place I’d say is better than whistler it’s Mt Baker WA…. During a weekday powder conditions you have 8 hour fresh lines you only cross another track getting on or off the lift
Why can’t we all just get along, like we did in junior high… I don’t even ski these resorts, I just have so many feelings
Bottom Line: Squaw is in America, Whistler is in America Jr. Sorry, I mean Canada
Americans…. always think there shit dont stink
Who cares if it does? It’s still bigger, better, and dammit, IT IS stinkier!
benchy are you a terrorist, you dirty trickster
I’ve skiied in Tahoe my whole life. Squaw is just about as sick as they come. I visited Whistler for a week last January. It was INCREDIBLE!!! The village, the nightlife, the terrain, the views, the snow quality. There is really only one knock on the place that I can think of… THE BOOZE!!! Stopped at the liquor store on the way up to Whistler, grabbed a 1/5 of Jameson, and a 24-pack of Molson Candian Beer. $130Can which equalled about $140ish American at the time. It was literally $4 or $5 per 12 oz.!!! Was even worse in the bars in the village. At least at squaw the average joe can afford to drink at Le Chamoix or the Dubliner after shredding the slopes…
OK look at a trail map of squaw, then look at a map of wish/black. Whistler looks like frickin heavenly or flatstar. Yeah trees are cool and all, but dont compare with a wide open bowl, steeps, cliffs, or some of the best inbound freeriding anywhere. Please…
uhh, youre kind off an idiot if you you compare mountains by their trail map
I’m pretty sure an aerial view of a mountain gives a pretty good idea of the terrain you’ll be riding……idiot. Ones covered in trees and ones not.
You’re all playing for second place…..Mams dominates both.
Montana is cooler than California.