Famous east coast lemming trails

[eastcoastpowderhound]

okay, we all know some...they're the trails all the joeys, gapers, wannabees, etc brag about skiing/riding at the bar that night...usually their version of "skiing" involves more skidding, sliding, swearing, and snow in their pants than anything most of us would recognize as skiing/riding. So let's hear your nominations for the biggest lemming runs in the east...do you like them, hate them, or just ride the lift next to them for a laugh?
My vote here in Maine goes to Sunday River's White Heat...formerly know as the "steepest, longest, widest" trail in the east...home to lots of skidding and seller of many tee shirts. I like the heat when the conditions are good...the sides are usually pretty nice...but the headwall in the middle is a ginormous lemming magnet and to be avoided on all but the freshest of days.

 

[JimG.]

okay, we all know some...they're the trails all the joeys, gapers, wannabees, etc brag about skiing/riding at the bar that night...usually their version of "skiing" involves more skidding, sliding, swearing, and snow in their pants than anything most of us would recognize as skiing/riding. So let's hear your nominations for the biggest lemming runs in the east...do you like them, hate them, or just ride the lift next to them for a laugh?
My vote here in Maine goes to Sunday River's White Heat...formerly know as the "steepest, longest, widest" trail in the east...home to lots of skidding and seller of many tee shirts. I like the heat when the conditions are good...the sides are usually pretty nice...but the headwall in the middle is a ginormous lemming magnet and to be avoided on all but the freshest of days.

Any trail on the West side excepting Wayout at Hunter.

I have seen some amazing things fly by me on those runs.

And K27 on an icy day is worth skiing just to stand on top of the runout and watch the carnage on the headwall.

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

"White Hype" also gets my vote. I think I'd put Outer Limits in for a close second. Super Star has to show up somewhere on the list as well.

I think the 3 key ingredients for a lemming trail are:

1. Marketing Hype. (White hype wins hands down. If nothing else, for most Superlatives in a product description. In fact, when SR unveiled that campaign, I felt so out classed, I lost the will to lie and had to make a career change out of marketing.)

2. Killer snowmaking. (Sideslipping is tough on the cover. Besides, you want the trail to be open as much as possible. If it's not, the lemmings will find another trail.)

3. Winch cat. It's got to be groomed flat. (At Least half of it.) And you need to be able to put the snow back, since iut's cheeper than making more.

 

[eastcoastpowderhound]

"White Hype" also gets my vote. I think I'd put Outer Limits in for a close second. Super Star has to show up somewhere on the list as well.

I think the 3 key ingredients for a lemming trail are:

1. Marketing Hype. (White hype wins hands down. If nothing else, for most Superlatives in a product description. In fact, when SR unveiled that campaign, I felt so out classed, I lost the will to lie and had to make a career change out of marketing.)

2. Killer snowmaking. (Sideslipping is tough on the cover. Besides, you want the trail to be open as much as possible. If it's not, the lemmings will find another trail.)

3. Winch cat. It's got to be groomed flat. (At Least half of it.) And you need to be able to put the snow back, since iut's cheeper than making more.

I think a truely great lemming trail has to have a lift running up it too.

 

[mattchuck2]

Yeah, definitely OL . . .

 

[prisnah]

White Heat takes the cake for sure. I ride that lift all the time to hit shockwave and every time I see some gaper doing a partially controlled sideslip or someone way outta control yardsaling. I don't even understand how someone couldn't get down that, it's not very steep and they groom the hell outta skier's right.

 

[snowmonster]

Someone told me that White Heat is a "no-fall zone," that is, if you fall (and presumably don't hurt yourself), patrol comes over and takes your ticket. Is this true?

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Oh boy...haha..Oh boy here we go..there are so many..east coast lemming trails..wowser..great trails for doing the human slalom and having scrapped off snow at 9:30AM...here I go..

Pennsylvania::::

Blue mountain: Lazy Mile, Burma Road, Paradise, and the Sidewinder park..

New Youk::::

Hunter: Belt parkway, Hellgate, Wayout...7th Avenue

Windham: Whirlaway, Whistler

Belleayre: Deer Run, Onienta, Dot Nebal..

Whiteface: Parons Run Excelsior..

Vermont:

KIllington..Bunny Buster, Rime, groomed part of Outer Limites, Superstar when groomed, 4 mile trail, Chute..

Sugarbush....anything with glades in the name..Sleeper glades, Murphys glades, Organgrinder, Ripcord when groomed, FIS when groomed, Birdland, The dopey run under the Gatehouse quad..waterfall which they rate a black for the gapers and whatever else the run is called..the quickest run to do when your buddy is in the lodge and you don't want to stop..and also on the way to the Slidebrook express which nubz love...but vert whores aren't into because of all the lift riding time..ahahah

Stowe...Lord, Sunrise, Ridgeview, Gondolier, Perrill Merrill, Nosedive..especially the lower half..and Cliff trail...

I have more to add but my fingers are tired...

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Any trail on the West side excepting W

And K27 on an icy day is worth skiing just to stand on top of the runout and watch the carnage on the headwall.

A big reason why I go night skiing Moday-Thursday at Blue is to watch the carnage from the lift and the trail...everyday is like Warren Miller Bloopers and Blunders times 7...so funny..

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I think a truely great lemming trail has to have a lift running up it too.

That's the best..entertainment on the ride..up...Lemmings make great Slalom gates and they rarely complain when you Olly over their skis...lol

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Someone told me that White Heat is a "no-fall zone," that is, if you fall (and presumably don't hurt yourself), patrol comes over and takes your ticket. Is this true?

That's a bunch of crap made up from some drunk at a bar. White Heat is as steep as a western Blue..maybe even a double blue..so you can still get mad steezy speed and kill yourself..

 

[prisnah]

Someone told me that White Heat is a "no-fall zone," that is, if you fall (and presumably don't hurt yourself), patrol comes over and takes your ticket. Is this true?

ummm....I've never heard that or seen it happen and I've seen a lot of falls there and taken 1 or 2 myself. So i really doubt it... I mean it's not even steep. Rumor probably started when they were really pushing the longest steepest in the east marketing campaign. Don't believe the hype. If anyone has one of their trail maps I think it may actually have the slogan on it somewhere. Notice how they don't use comma's between longest steepest and whatever the hell else. It very well may be true, but only when you combine those three aspects. Just propaganda in my book though.

 

[MrMagic]

Im kinda hesitant but I do feel that white nitro ext. on the snow fields is over rated, as it does get groomed, and I think gondi line ext, and powder keg ( I think ) are much more narrow.

Ol, is def on my list,

Haven’t skied Sunday river to comment

 

[millerm277]

My list-

Blue Mountain: Challenge/Falls, and even more so, Razor's Edge...that trail is about as steep as Belt Pkwy at Hunter in my opinion.

Hunter: The west side (not including Wayout), K-27, Racer's Edge.

Killington: OL, Superstar, Double Dipper, Cascade, Bear Claw.

 

[RISkier]

Stowe...Lord, Sunrise, Ridgeview, Gondolier, Perrill Merrill, Nosedive..especially the lower half..and Cliff trail...

I have more to add but my fingers are tired...

I'm generally surprised at your Stowe choices. I think of this as trails that folks like me shouldn't be skiing but are anyway for bragging rights. Can't imagine anyone bragging that they skied Lord, Sunrise, Ridgview, Gondolier, or Perry Merrill. Seems to me this would have to be a "front four" trail. "I had a great run down Goat today" might be something you'd say to "impress" someone at the Horn. But not even an intermeidate would be impressed with "I had a great run down Lord today." Now if you're just saying there are a lot of not so good skiers on those trails, that's a different issue.

 

[drjeff]

How about a variation on this, trails that TONS of people have claimed to ski, but really never have

After the forementioned expert trails, how about Paradise at MRG or Spruce Cliffs at Someday Bigger. Lots of talk, not alot of tracks

 

[JD]

The "riverbed" at Stowe.
"the front 4"
Nose dive glades are actually known as the tourist glades.
Tres Amigos, although there is some great terrain in there.

 

[snoseek]

angel street at loon.

 

[snowmonster]

That's a bunch of crap made up from some drunk at a bar. White Heat is as steep as a western Blue..maybe even a double blue..so you can still get mad steezy speed and kill yourself..

Just passin' on what I heard. Anyway, the person I talked to said there's a sign on top of the trail that says this. All I know is there is a sign at the top but I never stopped to read it.

 

[dmc]

Clairs - Hunter
OL - KMart