Skiing Gadgets - The Resort Web Cam
Several resorts have web cams that you can actually control from your home computer. You may have to wait in line but when it's your turn, you are free to roam, zoom, check the ski conditions and generally do all those things you can do with a camera except actually be there on you skis..
On a bright spring skiing day at Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington, NY, I observed a family from NJ conversing by cell phone, talking to their friends and waving at the web camera. They were sharing their ski day with their friends back home. A lot of fun but certainly good PR for Whiteface. With that thought in mind, I immediately whipped out my cell phone and called my son in Truckee, CA. Fortunately, with the 3 hour time difference, he was just getting up. Within minutes, he was online and looking at us soaking up the sunshine at the Mid-Station Lodge. He was thrilled to see us and so were we. The picture you see is what he captured that day. He reminded me that Squaw Valley has the same type of Web "Uber" Cam. He uses it to see his friends "Hucking" the cliffs at Squaw Valley.
What follows is a list of a few available web cams at different ski resorts. Check before you go on a trip to see where the cameras are located. Just about all resorts have some sort of web cam and a few have the user controllable kind. Please remember where you are when you call. Nobody wants a phone call in the dead of night just to see you on a web cam!
Have fun out there,
The Ski Traveler
Heavenly - Lake Tahoe Fixed live camera
Whiteface Mountain - Wilmington/Lake Placid - controllable (down for the season)
Squaw Valley - Lake Tahoe - the Uber cam, controllable
Aspen-Snowmass - Aspen, CO Aspen Mt. Gondola Cam - Controllable
Val Thorens - France Fixed cameras
Big Sky - Montana Live and controllable
Switzerland - Wengen, Murren and the Schilthorn Fixed cameras
Earthcam - Source for just about all webcams
On a bright spring skiing day at Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington, NY, I observed a family from NJ conversing by cell phone, talking to their friends and waving at the web camera. They were sharing their ski day with their friends back home. A lot of fun but certainly good PR for Whiteface. With that thought in mind, I immediately whipped out my cell phone and called my son in Truckee, CA. Fortunately, with the 3 hour time difference, he was just getting up. Within minutes, he was online and looking at us soaking up the sunshine at the Mid-Station Lodge. He was thrilled to see us and so were we. The picture you see is what he captured that day. He reminded me that Squaw Valley has the same type of Web "Uber" Cam. He uses it to see his friends "Hucking" the cliffs at Squaw Valley.
What follows is a list of a few available web cams at different ski resorts. Check before you go on a trip to see where the cameras are located. Just about all resorts have some sort of web cam and a few have the user controllable kind. Please remember where you are when you call. Nobody wants a phone call in the dead of night just to see you on a web cam!
Have fun out there,
The Ski Traveler
Heavenly - Lake Tahoe Fixed live camera
Whiteface Mountain - Wilmington/Lake Placid - controllable (down for the season)
Squaw Valley - Lake Tahoe - the Uber cam, controllable
Aspen-Snowmass - Aspen, CO Aspen Mt. Gondola Cam - Controllable
Val Thorens - France Fixed cameras
Big Sky - Montana Live and controllable
Switzerland - Wengen, Murren and the Schilthorn Fixed cameras
Earthcam - Source for just about all webcams
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