Ocean View Chairlift

[Muleski]

It's a pretty neat view from the water, but what's really spectacular is looking out over Penobscot Bay, on a bright sunny winter day after fresh snow, when all the islands are white and the water is glittering. Really beautiful. Camden is a great town. Ski area is classic small, local, New England.

 

[cantunamunch]

Can you see the water from Hermon Mountain?

 

[Rainbow Jenny]

Japan? Many ski resorts close to the coast. That's where the snow is coming from, ocean 'lake effect'. Going there in February with my daughter, hoping to get some photos and post a TR.

A photo of niece at Snow Cruise Onze, outside of Sapporo by Otaru. You can see the Sea of Japan and it's powder snow. We went on two consecutive New Year's weekend afternoons/evenings, no lines. Just a tiny hill but tons of fun for < 20USD for lift ticket and cafeteria curry plate or ramen.

http://www.snowjapan.com/japan-ski-resorts/hokkaido/otaru/snow-cruise-onze

 

[coskigirl]

I skied Alyeska many moons ago. Personally, I would call it a view of the ocean but I guess it's subjective. Turnagain Arm has tides (actually, the tides there are pretty extreme), beluga whales and is part of Cook Inlet which leads directly to the Gulf of Alaska. Sadly, I have no pictures from skiing there.

Side note, when we used to drive from Anchorage (where we lived) to a friend's 10 acres on the Kenai River for camping and fishing nearly every weekend in the summer we often would come upon scores of cars parked on either side of the highway along Turnagain Arm. We only had to look at which direction everyone was staring figure out if it was mountain goats or beluga whales.

 

[Muleski]

Can you see the water from Hermon Mountain?

In Maine? I've only been there once, and it was heavy overcast. But, it's only about 300 of vertical, and inland. I'm pretty sure that Hermon Pond can be seen from the top, not salt water, but water......

 

[Jed Peters]

Mt Eyak, in Cordova, AK qualifies, because that big blue you see is salt water. If it's salt water, it counts as "ocean" or "sea" to me!

http://www.mteyak.org

 

[Read Blinn]

You'd like some water? We got the hard stuff.

 

[Bad Bob]

All of the Anchorage area ski areas; Arctic Valley, Hillside, Hilburg and of course Alyeska give you an ocean view.

Arctic Valley might have one of the most amazing view I have ever seen coming off the mountain on a Spring late afternoon. You get an optical illusion, like a mirage, that makes some of the mountains ranges across Cook Inlet look like nuclear clouds. I don't have a photo of that unfortunately; a beautifully disturbing view.

 

[4ster]

Eaglecrest in Juneau, AK may qualify...

(Not my photo)

 

[Jim McDonald]

From the top of Rusutsu's East Mt on a good day you can see the Sea of Japan looking west past Mt Yotei & the runs at Niseko, and the Pacific looking past Lake Toya (with the island in it). I have photos somewhere; will post if I can find. Other places with ocean views: the defunct Niseko Iwanai in Hokkaido and Itoigawa Seaside (not quite, but just a few km inland) north of the Hakuba range. No lifts, but Mt Chokai on the Yamagata-Akita border is a famous spring touring area very close to the Sea of Japan coast.

 

[Tricia]

I was digging around to find a picture I had of a friend's son racing at Nubs Knob in Michigan. The shot was incredible with him making a great turn with Lake Michigan in the background. Not an ocean, but the Great Lakes are pretty....well, great!
I'll keep digging for the picture and see what I can find.
@Kneale Brownson do you have any shots like that?

Here is a stock image I found -

 

[Kneale Brownson]

Lake Superior from one of the hilltops at Lutsen:

I used to have a picture of me skiing Awful Awful at SugarLoaf with Lake Michigan in the background, but I can't seem to find it now.

 

[Tricia]

Lake Superior from one of the hilltops at Lutsen:

I used to have a picture of me skiing Awful Awful at SugarLoaf with Lake Michigan in the background, but I can't seem to find it now.

I remember seeing a photo of Awful Awful like you're describing. Was it you or someone else? Hmmmm, now you have me thinking.

 

[Michael Kane]

Looking out over the Mississippi Ocean from Chestnut.

 

[Kneale Brownson]

I remember seeing a photo of Awful Awful like you're describing. Was it you or someone else? Hmmmm, now you have me thinking.

Someone turned the picture of me into a postcard.

 

[Tony S]

Someone turned the picture of me into a postcard.

That has definitely never happened to me.

 

[markojp]

Nobody's mentioned Cypress or Grouse in Vancouver.

 

[Olesya C]

Several posts already mentioned Alyeska - here are some pics from April 2014 trip.

 

[Rob W]

Cypress Mountain Vancouver
Edit: make image full size.

 

[Tricia]

@Rob W WOW!