Least Favorite Trail

[millerm277]

Pine Knot @ Gore. Take most of the skiers off of a triple chair and a decent portion of a gondola, and then send them down one narrow, twisting, difficult and bumped "intermediate" trail.

[bigbog]

Ralph's Run(Wachusett)...LOL, maybe cuz I largely learned @Wachusett...during midweek nights(6-10p = $8 back in the early 80s, when most people were enjoying the 80's snow on the bigger mountains.. Remembering opting for Ralph's Run often when the main beginner's trail was packed...brings a laugh everytime I think of it, but life was sure depressing before skiing...and Wa-Wachusett.

[maineskier69]

I hear ya deadhead skier. Eureka is the worst culprit as the wind just blows the snow right down to the base making it a skating rink. The exception was this past season where they didn't make snow on it. So the 7 days it was open because of a late season storm, it skied like a whole different trail with no man made base. Tin Woodsman/Lost Princess can ski quite well most days if you know which areas to avoid, but even then you get that "one section" that tends to be scraped each time, but you are rewarded afterward with some great little zipper lines of bumps to the bottom.

Now Kansas is a different story and is the first to come to mind as a least favorite ski trail. One must tuck it and hope you don't encounter a traverser (but you usually do). I feel especially bad for snowboarders on that trail and have been known to offer a pole pull in the right situation,

[WWF-VT]

Pretty much any trail at Middlebury Snow Bowl.

Why so harsh on Middlebury Snow Bowl? You can't complain about the price and there's lots of off the map options that make it a fun place to ski and ride. Some of the trails are always groomedand hard pack - but that'swhy the racers train there.

[2knees]

Double Dipper at killington. Not for what the trail is so much as for what they could've done instead of paving a superhighway down the canyon.

[marcski]

Why so harsh on Middlebury Snow Bowl? You can't complain about the price and there's lots of off the map options that make it a fun place to ski and ride. Some of the trails are always groomedand hard pack - but that'swhy the racers train there.

I was thinking the same thing when I read that harshin' post.

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Maineskier....Ever get down to the Shipyard Brewery? It's in your neck o' the woods and I was loving a nice Growler of the Monkey Fist IPA last night. Quite tasty, IMHO.

[skiadikt]

Double Dipper at killington. Not for what the trail is so much as for what they could've done instead of paving a superhighway down the canyon.

that was gonna be my choice but also for the fact that weekends it's usually a death slide by 9am.

[4aprice]

Double Dipper at killington. Not for what the trail is so much as for what they could've done instead of paving a superhighway down the canyon.

This is a little OT but your choice of DD made me think of it. Redesigning runs. Stratton's got a similar situation where they blew out a ton of trees when installing the gondola and actually eliminating a fun run. I'm wondering why some islands of tree couldn't be planted and these runs redesigned. I believe Elk Mountain redesigned their west side by doing this. Good snowmaking spots could be designed in as well.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

[uphillklimber]

American Express or Risky Business at the River. First, you gotta take the longest slowest chairlift where you have three trails down mid season, and one traverse trail. AE and RB are decent runs, but... down near the bottom of those runs, it gets scraped and icy early in the day. A lot of crossing traffic, and people always coming to a stop due to crossing traffic. I doubt they could keep the lower sections of those trails kin decent shape even if they groomed 3 times a day and blew snow there every night. It just is a tough area to keep good, too much of a bunch up area.

[amf]

At Stratton, while its not there anymore the huge open swath that used to be the main Sunbowl(?) face always gave me fits. Huge open expanse, breaking every which way. I like it a lot better now that they basically cut it in two with their superpipe.