If I had to rate ski areas on terrain in Washington Crystal, Baker, and Mission Ridge would be on top of the pile. Stevens and Alpental are up there too, but they're a little too close to big cities to thin out the numbers no matter what the pass price is.
I've never skied at 49 Degrees North
Actually going back to my past the Mounties Meany Hill ruled too..(that is if you could deal with all the polka dancers in the evenings. ) It paid there to be a teenager since you and your buddies could sneek out at night and do bad stuff