Abandoned, Removed, Unused and Unlisted trails. What mountains? What trails? How to Find them?

[KustyTheKlown]

skiing on a light dose rules. a lil sparkle.

 

[deadheadskier]

skiing on a light dose rules. a lil sparkle.

I won't deny that it was a sparking experience, but also frustrating at times. It was a back and forth experience of feelings between this is so beautiful and dear God, is this run gonna end before sunset. Are they going to have to send out a search crew in the dark for Jeff and I? In reality we were only on the trail for about 90 minutes and that's just until the Bear base. That was enough and we had both skied the lower section before. We were pretty much the only people on it and stopped numerous times to just admire the solitude on skis, smoke bowls etc.

I remember the day so well. It was late March , spring slush bump day. My dad dropped us off at Bear and we spent the morning ripping bumps on DF, OL and WF. Jeff had an eighth of shrooms. We had planned on eating them at night after my parents went to bed and just stay up listening to Dark Side of the Moon or some other cliche tripping music that we did in highschool back then. Late morning Jeff suggests we just eat them now and go ski Juggernaut, should be easy to handle and safe even while tripping balls.

Pretty weird ride home when my dad picked us up while absolutely peaking and drove us back to Ludlow. That 20 minute ride also felt like 5 hours haha

Never ate psychedelics and skied after that. Plenty of booze and MJ, but that was the only skiing I've done while tripping. Not because it was a bad experience or anything. Quite the contrary. Guess I just never found myself on a mountain after that with either me or my skiing partners having psychedelics in their pocket.

I've skied 100% sober for at least 5 years now. I won't criticize those who choose to experience the sport altered because I used to ski altered A LOT.

I just like to ski as well as I possibly can these days because I feel father time on my shoulders., At 47 years old with a 50+ hour a week job and two kids under 7, I'm not the world's greatest physical specimen any more. I have so little time to exercise outside of skiing. So to ski as well as I want to, I'm straight sober and rarely even drink the night before because I can tell I don't ski as well as I want to when hungover. Some edibles before a 10PM bed time is about as hard as I rage now.

Sorry to go GraniteOne on this thread. Haha

 

[urungus]

The one and only time I skied Juggernaut was in highschool, high on mushrooms. Also the only time I've skied on mushrooms. Anyone who has ever tried mushrooms, knows that time gets way distorted. I thought we were on that trail for like 5 hours. Haha

Yeah it’s only supposed to take 3 hours

 

[Shredmonkey254]

Yeah it’s only supposed to take 3 hours

I used Jaggernaut to ride my bike up to the peak to make turns down Cascade back when they used to be open from the mid station to peak. some spectacular gear strapped onto that rig! On the bike ride back down afterwards, the brake pads would completely wear out before the end of that 10 mile decent!

 

[raisingarizona]

Nobody ever skiied juggernaut more than once in there life.

Oh yeah, it’s shit for alpine but probably a decent option on Nordic gear

 

[urungus]

Bruce is on my short list of trails to try next, looking for advice on best way to get back to Toll House chair from the cross country center where Bruce ends.

The bus.

What about skiing over to the Toll House double, like this ? I would like to ski all of Bruce, the purple line. Then the orange line is all green-rated XC trails (Burt, Cross Cut 2, Timberlane) over to Toll House ? I’m pretty clueless about XC, would I need a separate ticket to access those trails ? Do they even allow people with alpine equipment on the XC trails ? Are the trails one-way ? Etc.

 

[zyk]

Icicles at Bousquet... Don't know if is still there. Never really open but never really closed. Chopped up railroad ties under the ledge. Right of passage as a kid.

 

[crank]

I've skied the Bruce 3 times. We always end up at the bus/Matterhorn. Bit of a skate at the bottom.

 

[raisingarizona]

Pipeline and Rt. 80 at Vernon Valley/Great Gorge.

 

[Zand]

A few years ago on a frozen over spring morning, I skied Juggernaut from the peak to Bear base in 19 minutes. It was a good day to try it on the frozen hardpack.

 

[cdskier]

Pipeline and Rt. 80 at Vernon Valley/Great Gorge.

I know I skied Pipeline at least once...but not sure if it was more than that. I don't recall Rt 80.

 

[Newpylong]

Icicles at Bousquet... Don't know if is still there. Never really open but never really closed. Chopped up railroad ties under the ledge. Right of passage as a kid.

Still there, and on the map. Definitely a right of passage when the old double was there.

 

[ceo]

Yeah, I skied Juggernaut once. I love long winding trails through the woods, but that one needed a little more incline. I remember reading that it was laid out to have a consistent 5% (or something like that) grade.

 

[zyk]

Still there, and on the map. Definitely a right of passage when the old double was there.

Long gone but Ryan's Express in the dark on Friday nights...

 

[Newpylong]

Brodie?

 

[2planks2coasts]

The old Highmount trails are regularly poached from the Belle. Official expansion bringing those runs inbound rivals the 2nd ave subway for the longest plan-delay-cancel-revive-repeat cycle in NY.

 

[2Planker]

Spruce cliffs at Sunday River used to be on the map. Not worth it unless you get first tracks though doesn’t hold snow well

Skied it many times.
Before it was ever thought of (by Skip and Burt).
Took a few sleds down it too. No fun at all

Came off the official trail count when it was the lone trail keeping them from claiming 100% open
Great views from over there

 

[pinion]

Last skied that sometime in the early 2000’s. Cannot imagine navigating a sled down that.

 

[urungus]

The cliff on skiers left at the very top of the Berkshire East summit lift used to be a short named trail called “Avalanche”, you can still see kids sending it there after a big snowstorm. A few additional details:

Avalanche - Trails - SkiBerkshireEast.com

 

[zyk]

Brodie?

Of course.