Favorite cruiser?

[Brettski]

That's a hike....

Do at least one trip spend a week?

Keep the kid trained by making those long trips...

I know people who don't and their kids can't sit in a car...they're stuck to going to the pokes to ski....

 

[tekweezle]

it;s 452 miles from door to door and 7 1/2 hours. i usually do it with my skiklub every march but can;t do it this year for a weeklong trip. pity because it sounds like they are getting good snow.

Sugarloaf is great and you can ski for 5 days with lift tickets and lodging for under $300 a person

 

[haines]

Cruiser Delight would would be Lynx at Mt. Sunapee.
If you havent been this Mountain is the greatest surprise of all. The Glades are super fantastic. They give the vertical extension it is tremendous

 

[Skimaine4ever]

My fave cruisers are Penobscot at Big Squaw, because its 2 miles long and the views are incredible and there are some pretty good pitches. After that I would say Rougue Angel at SR. And Narrow Gauge T2B at Sugarloaf.

 

[loafer89]

My son is accustomed to long car trips as we have taken him to Sugarloaf three times since January 2004, and on thursday we are going to Bretton Woods for Easter weekend. We usually go to Sugarloaf for at least 3-4 days and often times more like 7-10 days.

We plan to ski the Cog Railroad on friday morning, and I fear that the Cho Cho addict (my son) may have his own favorite run by this weekend.

 

[skintowin]

Although Mt. Snow is kind of a wuss mountain, I always thought South Bowl was a great cruiser. You can lay down some seriously wide arcs on that acreage.

 

[trackbiker]

Keep the kid trained by making those long trips...

I know people who don't and their kids can't sit in a car...they're stuck to going to the pokes to ski....

When my kids were little we took a lot of long trips. One thing that I found that they loved (this was before there were DVD's in cars) was the old Bill Cosby tapes (now CD's). Two or three of them are good for a couple of hours and adults like them as well. Books on tape are good too and you can get them free at the library.

 

[Brettski]

When my kids were little we took a lot of long trips. One thing that I found that they loved (this was before there were DVD's in cars) was the old Bill Cosby tapes (now CD's). Two or three of them are good for a couple of hours and adults like them as well. Books on tape are good too and you can get them free at the library.

Yup, got 2 or 3 on cd....they crack up....

Books on tape are great too...harry potter (there's like 18 tapes), Beverly Cleary, cheaper by the dozen...great stuff, and all at the library...

I'll never get a dvd player......

 

[deadheadskier]

Lord, Nosedive or Gondalier at Stowe


World Cup and Chief at Okemo

Tote Road at Sugarloaf

 

[trackbiker]

I'll never get a dvd player......

I agree. My kids still love those tapes (Now CD's)
When I see those car commercials with the kids in the back with the headphones, I wonder, how is that a family vacation? There is no interaction.
Jeff Foxworthy is pretty clean too. After living in the South for 8yrs. though I realize that we used to laugh at the Dukes of Hazzard, never thinking that it was reality!

 

[trackbiker]

A lot of good to great runs have been listed in this thread...

My long-time favorite end-of-day cruiser is what is formerly known as the "Four-Mile Trail" originating from Killington Peak and winding down to the Route 4 Gondola Station...the trail has new names along it's contiguous journey that I haven't memorized...I just know the trail sections and keep on cruisen...

I was at Kmart the second week of March with two old friends who love the long blues and greens. While some on this thread might disagree, Great Eastern is a pretty good cruiser if you mix it up with some of the blues that parallel it on the way down. I was expecting it to be relatively flat, but if you mix in the blues you do have to put some brakes on to make the turns towards the bottom. You can also cut over to the bottom of Bear Mt. The ride back up on the Skye Peak Quad offers some good views of some great rails and jumps. Saw some awesome stuff. People were aplauding on the lift.

 

[oneotwoandcounting]

Highway 86 at Whistler’s Peak to Creak. Drop down to Dave Murry’s Downhill below the Raven’s Nest chair and ski down to the Creekside Gondola. It’s a full mile of vertical that offers 400 acres of skiing in just one run.

 

[Brettski]

Been on it....amazing bowls off it...

 

[Greg]

Gotta bump this old one. My new favorite cruiser is top-to-bottom on Jester at Sugarbush.

 

[Newpylong]

Elbow to Cruiser at SB North. One not mentioned much, but Cloud Nine/Thanks Walt at Mount Snow.

 

[wa-loaf]

New to this thread and I'm not going to read through all the posts, but I'd have to say Tote Road at Sugarloaf.

 

[WWF-VT]

Rim Run > Elbow > Which Way >Straight Shot at Mt Ellen

 

[snoseek]

polecat is scenic, long, mellow, and thoughtless. perfect cruiser. also u. cannon to links to middle ravine to gary's @ cannon.

 

[Zand]

I'll have to nominate 49er, Ka, and Sunset 71 at Pico as nice, long, winding cruisers. Cruise Control at K is nice when there's no bodies sprawled all across the trail. The blues down the left side of Mount Snow are nice and very long.

 

[JPTracker]

Highway 86 at Whistler’s Peak to Creak. Drop down to Dave Murry’s Downhill below the Raven’s Nest chair and ski down to the Creekside Gondola. It’s a full mile of vertical that offers 400 acres of skiing in just one run.

Peak to Creek is a great cruiser run. We did it last February after it was freshly groomed with 6 inches of fresh powder on it and mostly untracked. Where else can you get a 3 mile non stop run in untracked powder off a lift. This has to be my all time favorite cruiser run.