Advil Bump Runs

[highpeaksdrifter]

I pretty much limp around with a bad back from dec to may every year, living on advil. I got used to it. its been like that for years. I never skied with a good bumper who didn't take an advil at lunch and in the car ride home.

A lot of posts on bumps in here lately (which I like). Wicked's post about Advil made me think of another aspect for discussion.

What ski area do you think has the most kick ass bump runs?

For me it’s MaryJane at Winter Park. Trail after trail of long, steep bump runs. If I skied there everyday I’d either be in the best shape of my life or the place would kill me. Leaving there I have a smile on my face, but the body is exhausted.

 

[WICKEDBUMPER]

For me it’s MaryJane at Winter Park. Trail after trail of long, steep bump runs. If I skied there everyday I’d either be in the best shape of my life or the place would kill me. Leaving there I have a smile on my face, but the body is exhausted.

MaryJane is by far my favorite mountain.
their slogan "no pain, no jane" should have really been "know Jane? know pain".

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

MaryJane is by far my favorite mountain.
their slogan "no pain, no jane" should have really been "know Jane? know pain".

Dude, we should hook up sometime. Do you ever make it to Gore or Whiteface?

 

[ozzy]

depends what you like when your talking about moguls. if you're a left/right symetrical kinda guy and likes catted coursed then believe it or not Okemo is the place for you. four seeded courses all winter long.
if you like just straight up moguls in their untamed natural state, i would usually say killington, but that has fallen apart.
i have a friend who was telling me last night that the mougls on the ungroomed at Sugarbush were awsome this spring.
shaped skied definatelly took something away from moguls and the way they form.

 

[2knees]

If you are talking eastern, sugarbush has the most natural bump runs i've come across since killington went soft. All of castlerock, steins, the mall, black diamond, exterminator, morning star etc etc, the list goes on. I've never managed to make it a full day without completely giving out. And i agree with the shaped ski comment. I've always felt that they were detrimental to the formation of quality lines.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

. And i agree with the shaped ski comment. I've always felt that they were detrimental to the formation of quality lines.

Interesting, I never gave that a thought. Please explain how.

 

[2knees]

If this constitutes a hijack feel free to move or delete my response, admins.

My take on it. Shaped skis = shorter skis make for lower skill levels required to navigate tougher terrain. More unskilled skiers on steeper slopes = uneven bumps with more violently cross cut troughs and miss shaped bumps. Just to be clear, I’m not saying I cant or wont ski anything but seeded bumps. On the contrary, I highly prefer all natural bumps on natural snow. But try to find a decent non seeded line at many heavily traveled resorts and it can be difficult unless you hit it right after a snowfall or a man made refresh. It’s a lot of line adjusting and improvising. Nothing wrong with that, but it does wear me out a lot faster.

Or, my memory has a tendency to glorify the past.

 

[skibum1321]

I would have to agree that the Bush has some of the best bumps in the East. Morningstar and the Mall are 2 of my favorites. FIS and Black Diamond are a couple of my springtime favorites as well. Then there is: Hammerhead, Tumbler, Exterminator, Castlerock, Spillsville, Ripcord, Paradise, Twist, Steins and sometimes half of the Cliffs.

 

[Greg]

I would have to agree that the Bush has some of the best bumps in the East. Morningstar and the Mall are 2 of my favorites. FIS and Black Diamond are a couple of my springtime favorites as well. Then there is: Hammerhead, Tumbler, Exterminator, Castlerock, Spillsville, Ripcord, Paradise, Twist, Steins and sometimes half of the Cliffs.

Skied The Mall, Lixi's, Sigi's RC, Paradise and Stein's all for the first time last week. Great runs. Not big bumps right now but all skiable and fun. Stein's bumps were the biggest. Castlerock Run and Middle Earth were great too. More like uneven cruddy lines than true moguls there, but fun for sure. I love Sugarbush.

 

[riverc0il]

by the title, are you suggesting bump runs that kick your butt as in they are mean or are you asking for bump runs that kick butt!? upper can am to liftline under the bon quad is a mean bump run. big mean bumps and a lot of vert... you better have done some stretching in the morning cause that run kicks like a mule! for truly great bump runs, i would argue anything off the single at MRG hands down. wilderness and doug's drop at burke are fantastic.

 

[ozzy]

interesting...
I would say that the best bumps at Jay is on UN.
liftline is good too. CanAm okay. funny thing about moguls at Jay is that people there for the most part can ski and therefore make decent moguls.

 

[kcyanks1]

From the places I've skied the bumps at Sugarbush and MRG are the best. I haven't noticed a difference between bumps from shaped skis and straight skis, but maybe I just can't remember back to the straight skis days well enough. I think I actually prefer the natural bumps to man-made trail bumps, at least when I think of the natural bumps that form at SB (specifically Spillsville, Paradise, Mall, Castlerock Run, and Middle Earth). I think the snow quality, even when it's thin, is far
better, and they feel more even, perhaps because of the lack of snowmaking whales if snow-making trails aren't groomed properly. While I don't know for a fact, I suspect most of the man-made trail bumps I skied were not seeded, though I have skied at Okemo (not in the past few years, thankfully, as I don't particularly care for it), and I while I had fun on some of their bump trails, I never liked them as much as the bumps on SB's natural trails. So if they happen to be a prime
example of seeded bumps, I'll have to vote for the natural ones.

 

[Bumpsis]

I'll take bumps where I can find them. Sure, I always prefer natural snow to man made, but in a season like the current one... oh well.
I also share the opinion that a lot of traffic on very short skis (parabolics) makes messy moguls, but good lines can aleways be found.

Actually, I was very pleasantly surprized this past Saturday (3/25) by the bumps at Sunapee. I'm really bad with trail names, but it was one of the front facing slopes - Goose something. The bumps were super symmetrical - they must have been seeded (?).
I had a blast and of course, it did not take long for me to burn my legs to crisps - major lactic acid bath but I loved it.

My all time favorite bump run in North East is Bubblecuffer at Sugarloaf. Just a great trail, especially when the snow is deep and soft.
Stuff at Castle Rock at Sugarbush and Mad River are also great places - couple of years ago I baged a perfect spring corn on Middle Earth - a transcendental and consciousness altering experience that just stopped time for me.

And that's is actually the main reason I ski, to chase that ephemeral flash of brilliance when I manage to step outside the flow of time and experience timelessness

Out west, so much good stuff just about everywhere I've been, but what really sticks with me is a trail at Taos named Longhorn. Steep, with huge bumps and well above my ablity to ski down with dignity. True nemesis. Just awesome.

 

[Greg]

Middle Earth - a transcendental and consciousness altering experience that just stopped time for me.

Yup. Middle Earth has a way of doing that.

 

[Greg]

Why didn't this thread catch on?

 

[wa-loaf]

West: Pallavachini at A-Basin. Some of the runs on the town side of Telluride.

East: Bubble Cuffer, Winters Way and Skidder (for wide open and steep) at Sugarloaf. Anything at MRG.

I'm sure there's plenty I'm missing, these are just what I know best or what have made an impression on me in the past.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Why didn't this thread catch on?

It's hard to figure what threads will catch on and what ones don't. Sometimes I think of a thread start that I believe will work great, and it just sits there, other times I just through something up and it goes on for days.

I think for forum participation the best threads are very general, something everyone here has experienced, you don’t have to think about it too much and requires only a short answer. Roll call threads. Ex. Where is everyone skiing this weekend?

 

[Greg]

It's hard to figure what threads will catch on and what ones don't. Sometimes I think of a thread start that I believe will work great, and it just sits there, other times I just through something up and it goes on for days.

I think for forum participation the best threads are very general, something everyone here has experienced, you don’t have to think about it too much and requires only a short answer. Roll call threads. Ex. Where is everyone skiing this weekend?

Agreed. And you are the master at starting interesting threads. I wish more members would be as creative as you. :beer:

 

[kingdom-tele]

I would second riv's choices at burke, doug's is my favorite with the natural rollovers and boulders- slide into mtn marsh to shoot hte culverts and by the time yuo reach the bottom you can't feel your thighs

i would also add powerline (top to chair) at jay to the list of great runs, double fall line and great pitch for metronome bump turns

 

[nycskier]

I am a big believer in Advil!

When I did a week in Whistler with 2 friends of mine (one of whom happened to be a Doctor) we went through about 100 pills in 7 days of skiing. My Doctor friend kept saying it was good for us and kept perscribing more.