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

[bdfreetuna]

This is really in no particular order...

1. The Ridge (also Tucks and Face chute) - Jay Peak
2. Paradise - Mad River Glen
3. Fall Line - Mad River Glen
4. Paradise - Sugarbush (Lincoln Peak)
5. Devil's Playground / The Preacher - Bolton Valley (these are not really seperate trails more like one big steep and narrow group of chutes)
6. Lower Antelope - Mad River Glen
7. Rumble - Sugarbush (Castlerock)
8. Adam's Solitude - Bolton Valley
9. Stein's Woods / Egan's Woods - Sugarbush (Lincoln Peak)
10. Everglade (tied with Timbuktu) - Jay Peak

post your top 10!

and if you have any recommendations for me based on the kind of terrain you can see I much prefer, I'd love to hear them! thanks

As you can see I spend most of my time skiing in Vermont... so if there's anything that stacks up to the above in NH, NY or (I'm sure) Maine, let me know too

 

[Scruffy]

1. Paradise and anything in the woods - Mad River Glen
2. Rumble - Sugarbush (Castlerock)
3. Goat woods - Stowe
4. Goat - Stowe
5. Star woods Stowe
6. Star - Stowe
7) Old abandoned lift line skiers left of Giant Killer - Pico
8) Anarcy - Kmart
9) Westway ( AKA 44 ) when it's filled in - Hunter
10) Plunge - Platty

Oh almost forgot- for bonus - almost anything at Magic in the wood or glades when it's filled in

 

[MadPadraic]

1. Avalanche-Cannon
2. Upper Cannon
3. Misery Whip--Sugarloaf
4. Brookway--Loon.
5. Polly's Folly--Cannon
6. Skidder--the loaf.
7. Poleline--sl
8 Rocket
9 gary's
10, chute

 

[Cannonball]

1. C
2. A
3. N
4. N
5. O
6. N
7. T
8. R
9. E
10.E
11.S

Ooops that's 11.

 

[Smellytele]

Very hard to do because on any given ski day a trail I didn't like one day can be my favorite on another and visa versa. conditions vary.

 

[Puck it]

1. C
2. A
3. N
4. N
5. O
6. N
7. T
8. R
9. E
10.E
11.S

Ooops that's 11.

+1

That makes 12

 

[ScottySkis]

In lowe ny glades at platty and glades at gore are fun but i don't know their names

 

[tipsdown]

Paradise- MRG
Dark Wizard-Saddleback
Liftline- Smuggs
Casablanca Chutes-Saddleback
Goat-Stowe
Face Chutes- Jay
Lower Antelope- MRG
Star- Stowe
Rumble-Bush
Everglade- Jay

 

[Skimaine]

In no particular order:

Narrow Gauge (from the very top) - Sugarloaf
Blue Devil - Saddleback
Obsession - Sunday River
Twister - Gore
Le Gros Vallon - Mt Saint Anne

 

[4aprice]

Very hard to do because on any given ski day a trail I didn't like one day can be my favorite on another and visa versa. conditions vary.

Agree with this. Give me a trail with good base, good surface, nice bumps with or without trees and I'm one happy camper.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[zinger3000]

I’m an intermediate skier, and my favorites tend to be easier blue trails that wind their way through the woods. (Note that not all of these meet that criteria)

In no particular order:

Deer Run – Belleayre
John Hancock – Jiminy Peak
Freewheeler – Butternut
U/L Applejack – Butternut
Big Chief – Berkshire East
U/M/L Rumrunner – Smuggler’s Notch
Williamson Trail – Mt. Sunapee
U/L Sidewinder – Catamount
U/M/L Lynx – Wildcat

That's only 9 for now. I'll be visiting Mad River Glen and Killington for the first time later this season, so I'll pick one more favorite from them to add to this list.

 

[Cheese]

1. C
2. A
3. N
4. N
5. O
6. N
7. T
8. R
9. E
10.E
11.S

Ooops that's 11.

Skiing the trees between Mittersill and Cannon I've run across the cliffs on many occasions. What always amazes me is that the snow, moss and dirt has been scraped from the cliffs and is often visibly laying at the bottom of these cliffs. Do skiers repel down these cliffs with ropes for the snow below or are there winter climbers that are in there doing this destruction?

 

[Cannonball]

Skiing the trees between Mittersill and Cannon I've run across the cliffs on many occasions. What always amazes me is that the snow, moss and dirt has been scraped from the cliffs and is often visibly laying at the bottom of these cliffs. Do skiers repel down these cliffs with ropes for the snow below or are there winter climbers that are in there doing this destruction?

Neither. It's state workers and the Governor.

 

[rocojerry]

top favorite trees in the northeast

1. Birch
2. Beech
3. Maple
4. Ash
5. Oak
6. Cypress
7. Elm
8. Fir
9. Hickory
10. Poplar

I think these are my favorite trees to ski near, mainly trees that don't have shrublike low branches that stab holes in your jacket/self.

 

[Cheese]

Neither. It's state workers and the Governor.

Thanks! Glad to hear I'm not missing anything good down below.

 

[Puck it]

Neither. It's state workers and the Governor.

Come on, it was Threecy!!!!!! And it sounds like environmental damage.

 

[Cannonball]

Come on, it was Threecy!!!!!! And it sounds like environmental damage.

You might be on to something. Speaking of Threecy, has anybody heard from the guy? There have been a few news stories about Cannon leasing lately but not a peep from him. I wonder if he was eaten by a bear or hogtied by some state employees. He was kind of annoying here but I hope he's OK.

 

[Smellytele]

You might be on to something. Speaking of Threecy, has anybody heard from the guy? There have been a few news stories about Cannon leasing lately but not a peep from him. I wonder if he was eaten by a bear or hogtied by some state employees. He was kind of annoying here but I hope he's OK.

He is too busy making snow on high country at Waterville because that is the only place that it makes sense to make snow with the weather we have had this year.

 

[Puck it]

No. I hear is starting an Occupy Cannon Movment!

 

[abc]

1. Birch
2. Beech
3. Maple
4. Ash
5. Oak
6. Cypress
7. Elm
8. Fir
9. Hickory
10. Poplar

I think these are my favorite trees to ski near, mainly trees that don't have shrublike low branches that stab holes in your jacket/self.

I actually prefer evergreens.