There's even a gourmet-lunch snowshoe tour, during which guests explore the mountain with a private guide and are served lunch by a local caterer. It sits at 9,600 feet, with views of the New York Mountain to the west and Gore Range to the east. It boasts 32 kilometers of treed trails. Although the cross-country center is his baby, in some ways Goldberg is torn between his love for Beaver Creek and his fondness for Vail. Vail gets skied off a lot quicker.
Beaver Creek is a wonderful place for powder stashes.
Ripsaw is the more open of the three. They've got an incredible fall line, Ripsaw in particular. It's long and steep and the bumps get big, but at the top you get a chance to warm up before dropping down into it. The chair for the Rose Bowl is slow, so the area doesn't get skied off quick. If you care to move on to steeper and bigger slopes with a faster chairlift, Goldberg recommends Grouse Mountain, which is above and to the west of Rose Bowl.