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"Artificial" Open Bowl Skiing in the East

Black Phantom

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Man...to smooth it all out to some extent...what gives the feeling of a bowl = would take a lot of dynamite. Could just see the crowd at MRG putting up with the dynamiting of Mansfield...

This is East Coast bowl skiing.

I reckon that the OP would need some Depends if she could ever get herself up there.

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UVSHTSTRM

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Grilling some Buffalo steak and cocktails at home. However, cocktails tomorrow may be at the institution in Andover or the Common Man in Windham. I have a craving for escargot.

I need to hit the Common Man up in Claremont this week. My wife and I got a discount book from the local high school fundraiser that has buy 1 entree get the second free for everyday but Saturday. Really works out quite well. Plus I love getting Tuckerman's on tap.
 

bobbutts

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open areas are overrated
trees and rocks give visual perspective and protect the snow from exposure

I wish NE has more naturally spaced trees.
 

mister moose

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open areas are overrated trees and rocks give visual perspective and protect the snow from exposure

I wish NE has more naturally spaced trees.

Like waterskiing at dawn, sking down a 5 acre powder filled bowl has to be experienced to be appreciated. If you have never felt the zero G entry off the cornice, the fluid immersion of skis planing as they accelerate, the limitless expanse beneath you, the speed tugging at every part of you that is within the snow, and the feeling of skiing the pressure balance instead of the surface, then you will continue to think that open areas are over rated.

I have trouble believing that any ski area in the east could ever offer that type experience giving the wet snow and rain we have to deal with here, let alone the higher skier density and environmental issues.

On the subject of why some older trails are so wide -
Back when skiing was dominated by the Austrians there were two kinds of areas to ski at a resort. Trails were long narrow paths from the top that were meandering adventures down the mountain. Slopes were wide blue and green pitch fields where Austrian Instructors would drill you on traversing and step turning. Come ski our wide slopes was the clarion call to skiers who wanted to emulate the Austrian above treeline style of skiing. Many of those slopes still exist today. This is not the same thing as the wide machine groomed boulevardes like Superstar, Outer Limits, and Double Dipper at Killington that were made for the masses, not the Austrians.
 

skiersleft

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Like waterskiing at dawn, sking down a 5 acre powder filled bowl has to be experienced to be appreciated. If you have never felt the zero G entry off the cornice, the fluid immersion of skis planing as they accelerate, the limitless expanse beneath you, the speed tugging at every part of you that is within the snow, and the feeling of skiing the pressure balance instead of the surface, then you will continue to think that open areas are over rated.

I have trouble believing that any ski area in the east could ever offer that type experience giving the wet snow and rain we have to deal with here, let alone the higher skier density and environmental issues.


On the subject of why some older trails are so wide -
Back when skiing was dominated by the Austrians there were two kinds of areas to ski at a resort. Trails were long narrow paths from the top that were meandering adventures down the mountain. Slopes were wide blue and green pitch fields where Austrian Instructors would drill you on traversing and step turning. Come ski our wide slopes was the clarion call to skiers who wanted to emulate the Austrian above treeline style of skiing. Many of those slopes still exist today. This is not the same thing as the wide machine groomed boulevardes like Superstar, Outer Limits, and Double Dipper at Killington that were made for the masses, not the Austrians.

What examples of wide Austrian type wide slopes are out there? Bottom of Spruce Peak is one, right? Any others?
 
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