Lake, River, or Ocean Views From Ski Areas

[jamesdeluxe]

Lake Pend Oreille (Pond-der-ray). Perhaps the most impressive lake view I've ever seen from the 100 ski areas I've visited.

Better than Tahoe from Homewood, Diamond Peak, Heavenly or even Palisades and Northstar?

You may have noticed that I'm a big fan of skiing alongside bodies of water. I lined up these pix a couple years ago during off-season and never got around to posting them but since Tseeb seems to be throwing down the gauntlet above to jimk above, maybe now's the time.

Following are mine taken from lift-served mountains during ski season. Feel free to add your one best shot from specific ski areas. It's likely that Tony has the most exotic one, from the bottom of the earth.

Thollon les Mémises, France: Overlooking Lake Geneva

Stoos, Switzerland: Overlooking Lake Lucerne

Rigi, Switzerland: Overlooking Lake Lucerne

Klewenalp, Switzerland: Overlooking Lake Lucerne

Zwölferhorn, Austria: Overlooking Wolfgang Lake

Axalp, Switzerland: Overlooking Lake Brienz

Corviglia, Switzerland: Overlooking the tip of Lake Silvaplana

Corvatsch, Switzlerland: Overlooking Lake Silvaplana

Bezau, Austria: Overlooking Lake Constance

Schweitzer, ID: Overlooking Lake Pend Oreille

Owl's Head, Quebec: Overlooking Lake Memphrémagog

Le Massif, Quebec: Overlooking the St. Lawrence River

Mont Sainte Anne, Quebec: Overlooking The St. Lawrence River

Mont Orford, Quebec: Overlooking Lake Memphrémagog

La Reserve, Quebec: Overlooking Ouareau Lake

 

[MarzNC]

Quite a collection!

Got my first lake view in Idaho from the top of Tamarack.

 

[Skieric]

Blue Mountain, my home mountain on the shore of the Georgian Bay (Lake Huron)

 

[jimk]

12 years ago I wrote an article on this subject.
I guess I'm way overdue for an update.

My wife retired from skiing about a dozen years ago, but skied for 40 years before that. Recently at Schweitzer she took a chair lift ride with me for a scenic lunch in the SkyHouse Restaurant. Here's a fun photo I took of her taking a photo of the lake from the summit.