C-Rex
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Wow, that looks fun! Where is that?
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Favorite Trail Map
- Thread starter BeefyBoy50
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Wow, that looks fun! Where is that?
For the east coast, this wins for me. Stared at this map endlessly on my wall as a kid. 3.5 mile gondola, the old Northwest passage lift all the way down to route 100, and before all the double diamond bull! Can't stand what mountains call double diamonds these days. Killington has got to be one of the only ski areas that has actually decreased itself in size and vert.
LonghornSkier
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Mount Bohemia is on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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Cannon's trail map used to be horribly inaccurate; it's somewhat better now but has a rather large bug, in that the Eagle Cliff chair is shown as to be 2/3 its actual length (the Lower Cannon trail label covers the upper part of it), making it appear that you can't get to the upper Front Five trails from it.
I've become less and less of a fan of James Niehues's maps, they seem to emphasize prettiness over utility. Sugarloaf's is a particularly egregious example; it's so overcrowded with trails and labels that it's hard to figure out where you are or how the trails relate to one another. It wasn't quite as bad before Niehues switched to a more oblique view in order to better depict the Timberline area (I assume that's why he did that).I feel it would work much better with a more schematic approach. And, the Brackett Basin part of the map is completely useless.
I've become less and less of a fan of James Niehues's maps, they seem to emphasize prettiness over utility. Sugarloaf's is a particularly egregious example; it's so overcrowded with trails and labels that it's hard to figure out where you are or how the trails relate to one another. It wasn't quite as bad before Niehues switched to a more oblique view in order to better depict the Timberline area (I assume that's why he did that).I feel it would work much better with a more schematic approach. And, the Brackett Basin part of the map is completely useless.
billski
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Spot on. Any European map for that matter. Works of art. You want to get wound up, these fit the bill.
aveski2000
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My favorite trail map is of areas I have never skied before and therefore need to use it to find my way around. Hopefully will be this trip, if enough people sign up for it.
http://www.bssc.com/index.cfm/page/...er-Resorts-in-BC,-Canada/cdid/22553/pid/10226
http://www.bssc.com/index.cfm/page/...er-Resorts-in-BC,-Canada/cdid/22553/pid/10226
billski
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If Google Glasses had trail maps, I might be interested. Then again, it takes all the fun out of exploring!
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