Post your Top 10 favorite trails / runs / trees in the Northeast..

[MadMadWorld]

Good points. With certain exceptions, this thread could be name the 10 most well known expert runs in the East. Not questioning any individuals candidness, but the replies do make one scratch their head.

As for my list, can't really come up with one. Too many variables that make a trail or individual run special.

There are definitely different tastes for different people. I personally get bored with groomers and anything that doesnt make me stop and think about how I am technically going to have to ski something. The trails that I tend to enjoy are some of the "old school" types....

Lynx, Polecat, and Feline @ Wildcat

Antelope @ MRG

Organgrinder, Spring Fling, Jester @ Sugarbush

Chilcoot @ Smuggs

Talisman @ Magic

Balance Rock @ Wachusett - This one brings back memories to my childhood. I used to love skiing this trail because it was like a roller coaster with all the little dips and whales that form on it.

 

[jerryg]

Thanks for understanding what I was trying to get across.

Good points. With certain exceptions, this thread could be name the 10 most well known expert runs in the East. Not questioning any individuals candidness, but the replies do make one scratch their head.

As for my list, can't really come up with one. Too many variables that make a trail or individual run special.

 

[2sons]

No particular order, nothing horribly challenging, just the shite I like-

Lift line Berkshire East
Chin Clip Stowe
F.I.S. to Lower F.I.S. Mt. Ellen
Vermont 200 Bolton Valley
Adam's Solitude Bolton
Poma Line Jay Peak
Beaver Pond Woods Jay
Wizard Magic
The Hallows Magic
Plunge Plattekill

 

[Smellytele]

No particular order, nothing horribly challenging, just the shite I like-

Lift line Berkshire East
Chin Clip Stowe
F.I.S. to Lower F.I.S. Mt. Ellen
Vermont 200 Bolton Valley
Adam's Solitude Bolton
Poma Line Jay Peak
Beaver Pond Woods Jay
Wizard Magic
The Hallows Magic
Plunge Plattekill

Chin clip has to be one of the longest twisty bump runs I have skied with barely an escape. Fun

 

[snowmonster]

I enjoy glade skiing the most and these lists reflect that. I also do most of my skiing at Sunday River and these are my favorite on-map glades there:

Blind Ambition
Flying Monkey
Celestial
Last Tango
Wizard's Gulch

In other places:

Goat Woods - Stowe
Brackett Basin (Birler, Edger) - Sugarloaf
Casablanca 4 - Saddleback
Beaver Pond/Andre's Paradise - Jay
Slidebrook - Sugarbush

My favorite backcountry runs:

Central Gully - Gulf of Slides
Right Gully - Tux
Thunderbolt Trail
Airplane Gully - Great Gulf
Monroe Brook

 

[2sons]

Chin clip has to be one of the longest twisty bump runs I have skied with barely an escape. Fun

Totally. Last time I was there 4/21 in '07. Riding up the Gondi and my son who was 5 at the time says -"What's that smell"? My lame response was -"Oh I think somebody in the Gondi ahead of us farted. One of college kids who were riding with us said- I wish my farts smelled like that!
Needless to say gotta get back up there.

 

[from_the_NEK]

My top 10:
East Bowl (When ungroomed and 5-8 inches of powder) - Burke
Dixiland - Burke
Jungle - Burke
Gunsight - Cannon (I have no idea where this is, so don't ask :wink
Castlerock Liftline - Sugarbush
Antelope - MRG
Liftline - MRG
Upper Dipper/Big Dipper - Burke (when skiing first chair on a groomer day and the race netting is up)
Kitz Woods - Jay Peak
Liftline - Smuggs

Lots of places I need to get back to and sample in prime conditions.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

Paradise - MRG
Robins Run - Smuggs
Liftline - Smuggs
Black Hole - Smuggs

 

[Smellytele]

My top 10:
East Bowl (Ungroomed and 5-8 inches of powder) - Burke.

While the middle part is fun this can lead to a most unenjoyable traverse at the bottom though.

 

[mark`]

Top 10 trails

Wilmington - Whiteface, 2800 vertical, no trail cross trails, spectacular views
Goat – Stowe, ski it
Cave Glades – Gore, it’s cool to ski by a cave + very little traffic since it is out of the way and a little climb into.
Summit Glade – Pico, goes on and on
Antelope – Mad River Glen, upper is a cruise, lower is a nice birch forest.
Twilight Zone – Magic, first glade I skied and still one of the best.
Escapade – Killington, no one seems to ski it and no snowmaking
Skyward – Whiteface, ladies downhill from1980
Slides – Whiteface, unlike any other eastern lift serviced terrain
Havoc – Bromely, great bumps for a warm sunny day.

 

[from_the_NEK]

While the middle part is fun this can lead to a most unenjoyable traverse at the bottom though.

And that keeps the crowds away, making it even better

 

[Nick]

bump ... all this great "end of season" discussion topics

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[benwhiteskis]

UVSHITSTORM you're a mess brah! I forgot are we supposed to be internet enemies or something? lol, grow up my man

Yeah my list was mostly double blacks... that's the kinds of trails I consider to be most epic.

Also to whoever asked if this list only applies to marked trail or no.. I'd say, no, I'd love to also hear your favorite unmarked stashes!

1. Cannon Cliff
2. Lions Head
3. The Duchess
4. Any of the stuff people ice climb up in Franconia
5. My secret stashes with mandatory 50 foot drops into chutes

My list is pretty much triple blacks. If you don't need trad-climbing gear to get up it, it's not even worth looking at to ski. I consider "epic" to just be one of those words that can't even begin to describe the kind of stuff I do. I just made up my own word, but I can't tell you, because it's also the password to my secret clubhouse that has the swedish bikini team ready to massage your feet after a day of triple backflips to glare ice or whatever usual stuff I'm doing. Also, if I don't have at least like 5 internet enemies within a week of posting in a forum, I just consider it a bunch of people who suck up to my sheer awesomeness and just try and want to get access to the secret unmarked stashes that I have. I think that this whole thread was made to find out where people's unmarked stashes are. Not cool brah, we're internet enemies now.

I'm just having a little fun, no need for anybody's panties to get in a knot

 

[marcski]

Sundae - Plattekill

My girls last spring:

 

[ScottySkis]

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My girls last spring:

Another great reason to love Platty, such great family place.

 

[deadheadskier]

5. My secret stashes with mandatory 50 foot drops into chutes

Pics?

 

[Nick]

1. Cannon Cliff
2. Lions Head
3. The Duchess
4. Any of the stuff people ice climb up in Franconia
5. My secret stashes with mandatory 50 foot drops into chutes

My list is pretty much triple blacks. If you don't need trad-climbing gear to get up it, it's not even worth looking at to ski. I consider "epic" to just be one of those words that can't even begin to describe the kind of stuff I do. I just made up my own word, but I can't tell you, because it's also the password to my secret clubhouse that has the swedish bikini team ready to massage your feet after a day of triple backflips to glare ice or whatever usual stuff I'm doing. Also, if I don't have at least like 5 internet enemies within a week of posting in a forum, I just consider it a bunch of people who suck up to my sheer awesomeness and just try and want to get access to the secret unmarked stashes that I have. I think that this whole thread was made to find out where people's unmarked stashes are. Not cool brah, we're internet enemies now.

I'm just having a little fun, no need for anybody's panties to get in a knot

Broooooooooo!

 

[vdk03]

Upper Twister to Lower Twister at Big Brom.

 

[Zand]

In no particular order...

East Bowl (the woods not the trail) at Burke
Upper Liftline-Deliverance-Lower Liftline or Bonnie Glades at Jay
Rumble at Sugarbush
Lynx at MRG
Anarchy at K
Kinsman Glade at Cannon
Redline at Magic
Staircase/Everglade at Jay
Goat at Stowe
Lookout at Stowe

 

[hammer]

Here's my "non-expert" trail list in no particular order...

1. Polecat at Wildcat
2. Brookway at Loon
3. Velocity at Crotched
4. Worden's at Dartmouth
5. Bushwacker at Jay
6. Vertigo at Magic
7. Trick at Magic
8. Wizard at Magic (yes I really liked Magic)