PEAK PERFORMANCE: ON MOUNTAIN TIME

Do you ski? If the answer is yes—or you want it to be—there are a select few mountains where the cool factor is worth the cold and the steeper-than-a-double-black-diamond price tag. So pack your Moncler, squeeze into your Cordovas, and hold onto your Prada shearling bucket hat

VANITIES

Elise Taylor

ASPEN

JACKSON

SUN VALLEY

YELLOWSTONE CLUB

NOTABLE REGULARS

Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Kendall Jenner in a $27K Phoebe Philo shearling coat, trailed by paparazzi powder hounds

Harrison Ford, Lauren Santo Domingo, Jimmy Chin, income-tax-avoiding billionaires

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Demi Moore, the Forbes 400 at Allen & Company's annual conference, Jann Wenner

Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Tom Brady

APRES-SKI HOT SPOT

Cloud Nine Alpine Bistro (The 11:45 seating is for the civilized, the 1:45 seating is for spending $5K to spray Veuve Clicquot Champagne.)

Caldera House, the private club from Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Wes Edens and friends, with original Ansel Adams photographs

Grumpy's

The Warren Miller Lodge

SCENEY HOTEL

The Little Nell

Amangani (when it reopens)

Sun Valley Lodge

Why leave your ski McMansion's screening room and cryo chamber?

ADRENALINE-RUSH ACTIVITY

Hiking the Aspen Highlands Bowl on a powder day

Corbet's Couloir

Heli-skiing trip to Smoky Mountain Lodge

The double black diamonds off of Ridge Road

53,000 SWEATER OF CHOICE

Miu Miu knit crop top paired with a Kemo Sabe 10-gallon

Ralph Lauren Western shawl cardigan

A trippy The Elder Statesman pullover

The $8,000 Brioni cable-knit cashmere full zip

IN-DEMAND RESERVATION

Matsuhisa

Snake River Grill

Lunch at The Roundhouse. Order the croque monsieur, named after Sun Valley founder (and former chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad) W. Averell Harriman.

BaBa, James Beard Award-winning chef Ming Tsai's Asian-fusion restaurant. But you'll have no trouble getting in—it's only for YC members.

YOUR MONEY CAME FROM...

Gordon Gekko-era Wall Street

Bitcoin

Your great-greatgreatgrandfather

Your stock as an early FAANG exec

BELOVED OLDSCHOOL HAUNT

Bonnie's. Get the pancakes after skimming up the mountain.

Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Come for the home brew, stay for the honky-tonk.

Pioneer Saloon (or "Pio"), where one of Ernest Hemingway's prized hunting shotguns hangs on the wall

Does Bighorn Bar, built circa the late 1990s, count? It survived the club's bankruptcy in 2008.

STATUS SKI JACKET

Prada puffer

Arc'teryx Macai

1980s neon onesie

Whatever jacket pops up first when you click "high to low" on Gorsuch

CAN YOU ACTUALLY SKI?

No

Yes

Yes

Yes. It only took $100,000 worth of lessons.

PARK CITY

GSTAAD

ST. MORITZ

NISEKO

SKI PORTILLO

Gwyneth Paltrow (whose ski trial went viral), Netflix chairman and Powder Mountain private club owner Reed Hastings

The Agnellis, the Grimaldis, Dr. Barbara Sturm

Mrs. Prada, the Niarchos clan, the British aristocracy

Red Bull co-owner Chalerm Yoovidhya, miscellaneous Singaporean billionaires

The Purcell family, who have owned and operated the ski area since 1961

The Vintage Room at The St. Regis

Club de Luge or the old-school Eagle Club

Paradiso

Bar Gyu+

Tio Bob's, where you can drink a pisco sour overlooking the Andes

Stein Eriksen Lodge or The Lodge at Blue Sky

The Alpina

Kulm Hotel and Badrutt's Palace Hotel, where some rooms cost $3,500 a night

Ritz Carlton Reserve and reportedly, come 2027, both an Aman and Six Senses

The canary yellow Hotel Portillo, which looks like a Wes Anderson movie set come to life

Oh, please. Unless it's getting a little too warm on Deer Valley's heated chairlift seats, you aren't breaking a sweat.

Walking the ice-slicked promenade in high-heel snow boots

The toboggan daredevil Cresta Run. Go down headfirst, you coward!

The elusive North Face ofHanazono

Roca Jack, only accessible by a va-et-vient lift

The Row alpaca and silk blend knit

Brunello Cucinelli turtleneck

Loro Piana bomber

Chanel, purchased at Isetan Shinjuku in Tokyo

Vicuna over cashmere any day

Riverhorse on Main, followed by a whiskey cocktail at High West Saloon

Hotel Olden (and its penne alia vodka)

Langosteria

The threeMichelinstarred Sushi Shin by Miyakawa

No Bagatelle here: Portillo is an all-inclusive resort where you'll have breakfast, lunch, and dinner all on the mountain.

Hollywood in the '80s. You followed Robert Redford here.

An offshore bank account

Shipping, oil, the slow subdivision of your family seat in Northamptonshire

The Nikkei 225

Forestry and mining

The Eating Establishment, the 53-year-old diner that serves breakfast all day

Gstaad Palace's Lobby Bar for port and backgammon

The Dracula's Ghostriders Club (as a guest of a life member)

Ebisutei for oden

The stone and leather room of Portillo Bar

Bogner

Moncler Grenoble, bought years ago

Your grandmother's fur. PETA? Never heard of them.

Moncler Grenoble, bought just last week

Patagonia

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes