Whiteface Mountain 3/17 - 3//18

[kingslug]

Originally Posted by 2knees

damn, how much snow does it take to open them? Or did the high winds with the 2 big storms scour them.

If you saw them you would see that they need a lot to be skiable. Truly scary steep. Awesome place.

[AdironRider]

I stand by my statement about skiing out west, the east really doesnt compare.

The slides have been skiable for a while now, patrol just acts like babies about it cause if they open em, they have to be skiable enough so Joe Shmoe from Jersey who skis once a year wont die. I know of several people who just hide out in the woods at the summit till after sweep then shoot in, or hike up the auto road.

[kcyanks1]

Originally Posted by AdironRider

I stand by my statement about skiing out west, the east really doesnt compare.

The slides have been skiable for a while now, patrol just acts like babies about it cause if they open em, they have to be skiable enough so Joe Shmoe from Jersey who skis once a year wont die. I know of several people who just hide out in the woods at the summit till after sweep then shoot in, or hike up the auto road.

Coming from another person who is totally freaked out by some of the terrain out west, I can't agree that the east doesn't provide close to a comparable challenge, at least for anyone but the very best. While it's true that a place like Jackson has inbound, sustained steeps that you can't find in the east, if those trails were so much harder, good-by-eastern standards skiers wouldn't be able to ski them. Yet I'm sure that many here would have no problem doing a decent job with things like Tower 3, Paintbrush, the Alta chutes, and others .. somehow, the east must have trained us well. That doesn't mean all of us are going to jump into S&S (I know I'm not!), but if you take away the really extreme stuff out there (and remember that you were just at the resort generally considered the most challenging on the continent), I think the east holds up better than most who don't ski here would think.