LEJUP

Ski and snowboard 63 real mountains, free, right in your browser.

LEJUP started as a Mount Hood project. I wanted a ski game set on the mountains I actually ride, so I built Timberline, Meadows and Skibowl from real data: USGS elevation, the real runs and lifts from OpenStreetMap, and the Forest Service's tree cover. From there it grew to Mt. Bachelor and the rest of Oregon, then to other mountains I know and love — Crystal, Schweitzer, Sun Valley, Whistler, Sun Peaks and RED — and, at players' requests, it keeps expanding (Utah, Colorado, Vermont, Quebec, even Zermatt) so more people can ride their own home hills, and now reaches Japan, New Zealand, Chile and Kashmir. (Up-front disclosure: I code it with the help of AI assistants, but the mountains, runs and lifts are real data, not AI-made.)

• Oregon: Mount Hood (Timberline, Meadows and Skibowl), Mt. Bachelor, Hoodoo, Willamette Pass, Mt. Ashland and Anthony Lakes
• Washington: Crystal Mountain and Mt. Baker · Alaska: Alyeska · Montana: Big Sky and Whitefish · Idaho: Sun Valley (Baldy and Dollar) and Schweitzer
• California: Palisades Tahoe (Olympic Valley and Alpine Meadows)
• Utah: the Cottonwood Canyons (Snowbird, Alta, Solitude and Brighton) and Snowbasin · Wyoming: Jackson Hole
• Colorado: Copper Mountain, Arapahoe Basin, Steamboat (with Howelsen Hill), Winter Park–Mary Jane, Breckenridge, Wolf Creek and Aspen Mountain · New Mexico: Taos Ski Valley
• Vermont: Killington, Stratton, Stowe and Smugglers' Notch (either side of Mount Mansfield), Jay Peak, Bolton Valley and Sugarbush · Maine: Sugarloaf · New Hampshire: Pats Peak
• Minnesota: Spirit Mountain, Buck Hill and Coffee Mill · Wisconsin: Trollhaugen · Michigan: Boyne Mountain
• British Columbia: Whistler Blackcomb, Sun Peaks, RED Mountain, Revelstoke and Whitewater, and Sol Mountain in the Monashees (heli, cat and touring, no lifts) · Quebec: Mont Tremblant
• Switzerland and Italy: Zermatt and Breuil-Cervinia, one ski area across the border under the Matterhorn · France: Chamonix (the Aiguille du Midi and the Vallée Blanche) Les 3 Vallées (Val Thorens, Les Menuires, Méribel and Courchevel) and Avoriaz with Champéry–Les Crosets (the Swiss Wall) · Andorra: Grandvalira (seven sectors, Soldeu to Pas de la Casa) · Austria: Kitzbühel (race the Streif), Patscherkofel (the 1976 Olympic downhill) and Mayrhofen (the Harakiri) · Slovenia: Krvavec · Bulgaria: Bansko
• Japan: Niseko United · New Zealand: The Remarkables, Craigieburn Valley and Mt Ruapehu (Whakapapa and Tūroa) · Australia: Mount Hotham and Perisher
• Chile: Portillo · Kashmir: Gulmarg

Want your mountain? Suggest a mountain or a fix (in the mountain chooser, Options, or the title's footer) asks for a full, hand-detailed version in the game — or tells me what's wrong or missing on one that's here; Bake a mountain lets you ride any ski area's real terrain right now, in a quick version.

Sixty-three mountains and 101 ski areas (plus a touring lodge), built from real elevation data and the real runs and lifts, so the Palmer snowfield, Heather Canyon, Snowbird's Tram, Alta's High Rustler, Snowbasin's Olympic downhill, A-Basin's East Wall, Mary Jane's bumps, Corbet's Couloir, KT-22, Taos's Al's Run, Killington's Superstar, Whistler's Peak 2 Peak, Klein Matterhorn, Niseko's gates and Portillo's Super C are where you remember them.

• Every named run on the trail map; pick one right off the mountain, ride it, or race its gates against the clock (and three AI riders) — and every run you've skied turns gold ("34 of 62 at Timberline")
• Real chairlifts to ride, with lift lines that move and board (mazes, RFID gates, "Any singles?"), lodges, trail signs and the resorts' own slow zones — with ski patrol who'll chase you if you blow through one, duck a closed gate or send it big on a green; lose them in the trees, or they pull you over and tell you so, out loud ("This is your first warning") — three strikes and it's a trip to the ticket window
• Last chair on a late afternoon: the lifties call it, the lifts close, and patrol sweeps the mountain behind you
• A living mountain: wind holds on the Magic Mile, Palmer and Bachelor's Summit; avalanche control booming at first light; groomers with their lights out after dark; the red Palmer snowcat; Bachelor's snow ghosts; skiers who carve and plant their poles
• Ride Snowbird's red and blue Tram cars, the Peruvian Tunnel into Mineral Basin and Snowbasin's gondolas; race the 2002 Olympic downhills against the real winning times; Alta's lifts won't load a snowboard (its rule); watch for moose at Brighton and Solitude (give them room), and on a stormy morning Little Cottonwood goes into interlodge — watch from the lodge window as the crews bring the slides down off Mount Superior (one comes close), then the rope drops and it's a race to first chair
• Powder days, blower pow, Cascade concrete, storms that roll in, inversions, night skiing where the resorts really run it — and the real skyline out to 250 km: Shasta from Ashland, Rainier and Adams behind Hood, the Sisters from Bachelor
• Hike it: the Cone's skin track at Bachelor, Fantasy Ridge at Solitude, the Super Bowl bootpack at Meadows; a ghost of your best line on every run
• Music on the title and from the lodge speakers (and a riding radio if you want it), and voices on the mountain
• Tricks, spins, flips and grabs; rollers, wind lips, cliffs, roofs buried in snow you can ride off
• Replay your day: load the GPX from Slopes, Ski Tracks or your watch and your skier rides your line at your speed — your lifts, your runs (named off the trail map), then the day in numbers
• Your kit: pick your jacket, pants and helmet colours, or tap them from a photo of your fit (the photo stays on your device)
• New in the West and up north, on lidar ground: Big Red to the top of Rendezvous Mountain and the drop into Corbet's Couloir; Palisades' Tram to High Camp, the Funitel and the Base to Base Gondola, with Lake Tahoe open water below; the Highline Ridge bootpack at Taos; the Banked Slalom down Mt. Baker's Natural Halfpipe in Cascade concrete, Mt. Shuksan across the valley; Revelstoke's 5,620 vertical feet over the Columbia; Whitewater's Ymir Bowl above Nelson
• In Colorado, on lidar ground: Copper's American Eagle chondola, the tailgates on A-Basin's Beach and the East Wall bootpack, Steamboat's two-stage Wild Blue Gondola and Howelsen Hill in town, and the ski train's platform at Winter Park under the Moffat Tunnel's West Portal
• Out east, up north and in the Alps: bare hardwoods and frozen granular in Vermont, Stratton's fire tower on the Long Trail, frozen Lac Tremblant; Mount Rainier filling the sky from Crystal's Summit House; the Peak 2 Peak across Fitzsimmons Creek; the Sunnegga funicular in its tunnel, the Gornergrat trains, and Klein Matterhorn at 3,883 m, the ski area running on over the border into Cervinia
• Farther away and new ways up: Niseko's Japow under Mount Yōtei, with its backcountry gates, night lights and onsen steam; the Remarkables above Lake Wakatipu and Craigieburn's nutcracker rope tows under a northern sun; Alyeska's Tram over Turnagain Arm; heli drops, cat roads and skin tracks at Sol Mountain; rails, boxes and a wall ride under Trollhaugen's lights; Portillo's slingshot lifts above Laguna del Inca, with Aconcagua on the skyline; Gulmarg's Gondola up to Apharwat
• New: race the Streif at Kitzbühel against the course record, with the Mausefalle, Steilhang and Hausbergkante called as you pass them; the Aiguille du Midi and the Vallée Blanche at Chamonix; the Lone Peak Tram and the Big Couloir at Big Sky
• Today on your mountain: each day brings its own snow, sky and a featured challenge — the same for everyone — and a streak for coming back
• Short climbs without taking your gear off: herringbone up on skis, or walk a board up with one foot out; for anything longer, take them off and bootpack
• Your progress on each mountain (runs skied, stars, medals) on the title and pause, and a link to share any run or challenge with a friend
• Something wrong on your home hill, or an idea? "Suggest a mountain or a fix" goes privately to me — local knowledge makes the next version better
• Summer on Palmer, a GPX route loader for your own tracks, instant replay and photo mode
• Works on phones and tablets (held sideways) as well as keyboards and gamepads

Controls (all of them, any time: the Controls button on the title, or H in the game)

• Keyboard: ← → (or A D) steer · ↑ tuck (from a stop, skate) · ↓ brake · hold Space to load, let go to jump · in the air ← → spin, ↑ ↓ flip, J K L U I O grabs · E ride a lift · B skis off to hike · M trail map · Q instant replay · P photo mode · R reset · Esc pause
• Gamepad: left stick steers (and spins and flips in the air) · RT tuck · LT brake · A jump · X Y B LB RB grabs · Y on the ground: ride the lift, skis off or on · L3 fast hike · D-pad up trail map · Start pause · Back the controls
• Phones and tablets (held sideways): the thumb stick, anywhere off the buttons, steers (up to go, down to brake) · JUMP and GRAB on the right · ❚❚ pause · ? all the controls. Tilt steering works at lejup.studiozalktis.com.

Made by one Oregon skier with an AI coding assistant. The ground is USGS 3DEP elevation data; in Canada, NRCan's (Open Government Licence – Canada) and, at Whitewater, the Province of British Columbia's LidarBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); in the Alps, swissALTI3D © swisstopo, the Valle d'Aosta Region's DTM (CC BY 4.0), IGN's LiDAR HD in France (Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0) and Land Tirol's lidar in Austria (CC BY 4.0); in Slovenia, ARSO's LiDAR (CC BY 4.0); in Japan, the Geospatial Information Authority's elevation tiles; in New Zealand, LINZ's lidar (CC BY 4.0; at Ruapehu, copyright in the underlying dataset is owned by the Ngā Tāngata Tiaki o Whanganui); in Australia, Chile and Kashmir, the Copernicus DEM (© DLR, Airbus). Runs, lifts, forest and buildings are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); tree density from the US Forest Service, and outside the US from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Resort and run names describe real places; LEJUP isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any ski area. "How true is it?" in the game's Sources & controls says exactly what's real and what's made up.

Also at https://lejup.studiozalktis.com/ (same game; your progress there is kept separately).