campgottagopee
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Riv, welcome to the Smuggs club!!!!! I too love the place---just waaaaay cool all the way around. And yes, liftline is the real deal. My fav on trailmap trail 4 sure.
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Makes skiing the Headwall at Tuckerman seem like a walk in the park.
huh ...
Yea, The Lip... sorry for the confusion on that one. 60* with 20 foot drops and extreme navigation Liftline at Smuggs is not!I assume he meant the Lip not the Headwall. No way that run is harder than the Headwall.
Why not just go straight behind the bullwheel off of Sterling---cross the pond then skiers right???? Ain't that easier???
Well yea, but that get skiied way harder.
Yup. Totally different spots.
never explored the area you're talking about as I haven't been with others familiar with the area and would be concerned with going too low and ending up on the Spruce Golf Course.
Wrong spot. Off of Madonna lift. Take skier's right most trail....ski along, you'll see a huge chain linkl on the right...and peak down into the backside (away from notch road), at the end of the fence...drop into a gully with obvious cut marks. Skin back up chillcoot to LT, turn left...rejoin ski trail a few hundred feet below where you dropped in. Prolly and hour round trip....There are also 2 4 season shelters down in that meadow...you could drop down last run, skin up in the morning. Berlinger and beaver meadow shelters.
got me all spun around. :lol:
that area you're talking about is no man's land for me. without a touring background, I suppose that would be the case for many.
Was there in 8th grade or so on a bad snow year. The terrain looked incredible, just unskiable at the time. On the list of places I want to go for a midweek powder day, but Stowe and Sugarbush are up first.
Wrong spot. Off of Madonna lift. Take skier's right most trail....ski along, you'll see a huge chain linkl on the right...and peak down into the backside (away from notch road), at the end of the fence...drop into a gully with obvious cut marks. Skin back up chillcoot to LT, turn left...rejoin ski trail a few hundred feet below where you dropped in. Prolly and hour round trip....There are also 2 4 season shelters down in that meadow...you could drop down last run, skin up in the morning. Berlinger and beaver meadow shelters.
Nice, still on the hit list for me. Let me know when you go again. I'll drag djspookman with us and make him show us all his secrets....
Smuggs > Bush or Stowe. IMO.Was there in 8th grade or so on a bad snow year. The terrain looked incredible, just unskiable at the time. On the list of places I want to go for a midweek powder day, but Stowe and Sugarbush are up first.
Smuggs > Bush or Stowe. IMO.