Mountain High is the closest mountain to southern California. It is actually split into two different resorts called the West Resort and East Resort. Mountain High is a fairly small mountain compared to any other mountain. In my opinion, this is my fifth choice of all mountains I have boarded at.
By the numbers: - 14 Lifts - 59 Trails - 290 Skiable Acres - 1 Big Terrain Park, 1 Half Pipe - Hours of Operation: 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. - Night Skiing Available: up until 10:00 p.m. *All information is ftaken from Mountain High's website |
Pros
1. Distance. Mountain High is about 30 minutes to an hour drive from southern California. It is very close and a great place to go if you a have free day.
2. The West Resort is a great terrain park. So if you are just a free style/park boarder, then Mountain High is definitely a place you should check out. 3. Ticketing System. Mountain High has a very unique ticketing system. First, you can buy tickets of time intervals (e.g. 4 hour or 8 hour tickets) and you can use the ticket anytime between 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Or you can buy a point ticket which gives you an certain amount points depending how much money you pay, and each lift will deduct a certain amount of points from your ticket until you hit zero. This kind of ticketing system gives more freedom to skiers and boarders which allows them to come whenever it is more convenient. |
Cons
1. Snow quality. Mountain High has terrible snow quality. It is probably the worst snow you will ever board on, but it is the closest mountain to southern California.
2. Since it is the closest mountain to southern California, it gets super crowded and sometimes it is just not worth the wait. 3. Poor variety of trails. Mountain high does not have many difficult runs (and the ones they do have are closer to moderate level runs) and have a redundant amount of moderate level trails. |
Summary:
- Great for one day trips
- Awesome terrain park
- Poor snow quality
- Poor variety of trails
- Unique ticketing system
- Great for one day trips
- Awesome terrain park
- Poor snow quality
- Poor variety of trails
- Unique ticketing system