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Roxbury best Sat. today well epic comes to mind.
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ScottySkis
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o3jeff
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Looks like a snow boarder in the last picture.Is that last picture me?
ScottySkis
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I love this trail,on the hill it looks steeper then this picture.
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Eh nah that's pretty in line. It's not really that steep, probably a steep black steepness, but it's totally consistent for like a thousand vertical.
ScottySkis
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It is a great trail.
BenedictGomez
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Nope. Both Blockbuster and Freefall are > 30 degrees, which IINM would be double-black just about anywhere.
hippiechick
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30 degrees would put you in a solid blue. I recently wondered about the classifications, so I looked it up, and every site I read would put a blue to at least 40 degrees. Also depends on trail width, and other obstacles, etc. that would make it more (or less) difficult. BB and freefall are both wide open runs, so it's less challenging.
I'm not an expert skier by any means, but the ratings at Platty don't seem near what they're supposed to be. I had a blast there, but I didn't find anything really steep there at all. I would put all of their trails at no more than a blue. Not trying to be a buzzkill or a snob, just an observation.
IMHO.
ScottySkis
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spring_mountain_high
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wiki sez:
based on that logic, block and freefall are the 'most difficult' trails at platty, only relative to their other trails, not trails at other resorts
hippiechick
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This is kinda what I was talking about. Was just disagreeing with the statement of those two runs being comparable to other blacks/doubles at other resorts.
BenedictGomez
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Dunno what/where you're reading, but that's definitely false.
When you get into the 40s+, you're getting into the steepest trails in all of North America, east, west, north, south, Narnia, I dont care where. Hell, the steepest part of Corbet's Couloir in Jackson Hole, is just barely 50 degrees[FONT=arial,], and I believe it's the steepest on-map run in all of North America.[/FONT]
hippiechick
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http://www.trails.com/list_802_ski-run-difficulty-ratings.html
Here's one. I hate to quote Wiki as well, but it says basically the same. All I was arguing was your statement saying that Platty double black compare to other ski hills' doubles. They don't. I'm not an advanced skier, and on a good day, I'm ok on the average black. I was bombing down these when I went, so that alone tells me they're not steep.
That's my point.
Here's one. I hate to quote Wiki as well, but it says basically the same. All I was arguing was your statement saying that Platty double black compare to other ski hills' doubles. They don't. I'm not an advanced skier, and on a good day, I'm ok on the average black. I was bombing down these when I went, so that alone tells me they're not steep.
That's my point.
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abc
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hippiechick, you're in error here. The page you quoted was talking about percentage grade. Translate percentage grade to degree, you can roughly devide it by 2. So 40 percentage grade is only about 20 degrees.
So blues are anything less than 20 degrees, give and take. Anything approching 30 degree (60~70 percentage grade) will be black. 40 DEGREE is definitely double black. (an easy one to remember, 100% is 45 degrees, that's when the height is equal to the horizontal distance)
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ScottySkis
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I can ski in sick drops at Alta and have with fresh fresh snow, I can't ski those drops on non fresh powder day. Maybe that helped you to.
hippiechick
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I stand corrected, as previously discussed, I know little about the rating/grading systems, that's why I went looking it up. My main point still stands, that I was disagreeing with the fact that BG was saying the Platty doubles were like those of other hills. No way. If you took those runs and plopped them on most any other hill in the US, they would be rated a blue. That's my point. I was wrong for using numbers to back my point up, I wasn't familiar enough with the rating system.
ScottySkis
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Well I have skiied their 2 black runs a lot hippychick and I think Blockbuster and Bumps with moguls they usually have on them are worthy of double diamond status.
hippiechick
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Ok, with moguls they would be more challenging. They were a hot mess of deep powder when I went, so it was like floating down the whole time.
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