Favorite Trails - By Resort...

[polski]

I've long loved classic long trails and have come to prefer them with substantial but not relentlessly excessive challenge. Lower Antelope at MRG fits that bill perfectly (preceded by Catamount Bowl > "Cantaloupe"). So does Lower FIS at Sugarbush/Ellen. Cannon's Taft>Upper/Middle Hardscrabble is pretty pleasing too.

In a similar but easier vein, Polecat at Wildcat and Hudson's Highway at Saddleback when the kids were starting out. (As of this past spring they now do Lower Antelope with me.)

 

[riverc0il]

Wow, some good picks here.

How about Obsession at the River? A great steep cruiser....

For Sunday River, I would go for one of their lift line trails. No other mountain in New England has as many great lift line trails as Sunday River (maybe because no other mountain in New England, save Killington, as that many lifts!). The lines under Oz and (I think) Jordan Bowl are sensational.... Carramba and Ruby Palace as I recall. Agony is a really nice bump run for straight up bump run without obstacles.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

Robins Run: Smuggs

 

[hobbes]

Killington: Roundabout

Smuggs: Doc Dempsey's Glades

Bromley: Avalanche Glade

 

[BackLoafRiver]

The Loaf - Binder or Widowmaker.

Saddleback - Ungroomed Peachey's Peril or Blue Devil

Sunday River - Excaliber and American Express. (although Sal, I agree that Lazy River can be fun when you can rip down it without a big crowd)

Not enough experience at other places to determine favorites.

 

[Zand]

MA

Wachusett - 10th
Berkshire East - Liftline
Jiminy - Wild Turkey

ME

Sunday River - Based only on October experience... Sunday Punch

NH

Loon - Sunset
Cannon - Hardscrabble
Sunapee - Lynx
Waterville - Epiphany

VT

Mt. Snow - Olympic & the Trials
Stratton - Spruce
Magic - Redline
Okemo - Outrage, Double Diamond
Killington - Growler, Anarchy, Royal Flush
Sugarbush - Rumble, Castlerock Run to Cotillion
MRG - Lynx to Beaver
Stowe - Goat, Hackett's Highway, Goat Woods
Smuggs - Drifter, 3 Mtn and Red Fox glades
Burke - Dippers (limited experience)

 

[4aprice]

Smuggs: Doc Dempsey's Glades

This WAS one of the best runs on the east coast. I went back to Smugglers 2 seasons ago and they had cleared most of the trees. I was really shocked. Really took the character away from it.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[ta&idaho]

Great thread. Not a ton of experience, but here goes:

Hunter - Cliff/Racer's
Plattekill - Plunge
Belleayre - Onteora
Windham - Webel
Toggenburg - Nubian

Mt Snow - Challenger
Killington - Needles Liftline
Sugarbush - Paradise
Mt Ellen - Exterminator
Stratton - Bear Down

Jiminy - Fox
Berkshire East - Liftline

 

[bigbog]

.....Agony is a really nice bump run for straight up bump run without obstacles.

..HA!...at my level of bump expertise...virtually Everything on Agony is an serious obstacle..LOL.

 

[hammer]

MA

Wachusett - Hitchcock

NH

Crotched - Satellite Summit to Meteor
Pats Peak - Tornado
Sunapee - Lynx or Blastoff
Gunstock - Flintlock to Trigger (or Pistol for straight-lining :smile
Dartmouth - Don Worden

VT

Jay - Upper Ullr's (one time, didn't get to do too much)

 

[dmc]

Hunter - Claires
Killington - Devils Fiddle

 

[moguler6]

Killington - Julio
Stowe - Starr
Sugarbush - Rumble
Smuggs - Lift Line
Jay - Staircase/Everglade
Mad River - Lift Line

Sunday River - Agony
Sugarloaf - Skidder

Sundown - Gunbarrel

McIntyre - Trail #2

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

love all of Smuggs...everytime i go there i find more trees...got to love a resort that has more tree acerage than trail

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

mrg- paradise