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Why focus on “Mountain Top Ski Lodges”? My earlier post, “Experience the Mountain” described what this site it intended to be about and how it came about, but here I want to share why these places are so special. Mountaintop… Continue Reading →

Taeyame Murodo Sanso is one of the rare mountaintop ski lodges outside of Europe. It ticks all the boxes – high elevation, expansive vista, on the slopes, not connected to a road. The website is pretty basic, and frankly, the… Continue Reading →

Probably the most important question to ask when planning a trip to a mountaintop ski lodge is how to get there. Now, mostly that concerns getting from the bottom of the mountain to mountaintop, but also we often consider where… Continue Reading →

Our first ever ski trip 20 years ago was to Avoriaz, France in the Porte de Soleil where you took a gondola up to the snow-bound, car-less town where pistes crisscrossed the “downtown” and local transport was a horse-drawn sleigh…. Continue Reading →