This is just to start a discussion, no hate towards east vs west coast skiers. In my book, any skiing is good!

I hear a lot of people talk about skiing steeps out west and how badass they are, or phrases such as “West coast slopes are way more steep than east coast”

Sometimes I feel like only a small section of the run is actually steep, maybe a few hundred feet then the rest is decent. Some runs are steep all throughout. But east coast ice vs west coast pow is night and day. So if you take a 30-35 degree east coast run that’s icy, and go out west and run a 40 degree in pow, it’s not apples to apples.

Granted, some runs have other features that make it more difficult, maybe cliff drops, moguls, rocks, you name it. I’m not getting into all the different features of a run that make it challenging, but just looking at steepness.

In my own personal opinion, some of the runs people say are super steep and hard and badass, are underwhelming in my book. I’ve literally gone out west and thought damn this is going to be hard, it’s 10 degrees steeper. Then after completing the run, wow this is a joke. That being said, it’s not all about degrees. I’d take a 40 degree pow run (again, no features) vs a 30 degree icy run any day.

That’s just me, what’s everyone else think? I love skiing out west but don’t get to often, so have to learn to love the ice coast for what it is. Again, just a discussion. No wrong answers here.