Front Four question...

[jaywbigred]

So I am out in Colorado at Breckenridge with a big group of friends/skiers, and we are discussing the week's skiing thus far, and we got to the inevitable trail comparisons...

We were comparing Devil's Crotch, at Breck, to the Front Four, when someone asked "What is the Front Four?" The ensuing conversation yielded some disagreement, so I now put it to fellow AZ'ers: Do you consider Lookout to be part of the Front Four?

Pros: Steepish, gnarly terrain. Stowe's website calls it the Fifth trail of the Front Four.

Cons: How can there be a "fifth" among a set of four? Also, it wasn't cut until 1979.

http://www.stowe.com/mountain/trail_map/flash/index.html

 

[deadheadskier]

It's looped in with the Front Four and sometimes referred to as fifth of the front four....just semantics.

Kind of how I refer to hockey as fourth of the three major sports :lol:

 

[kcyanks1]

National and Liftline don't deserve to be part of the Front Four. The debate we should be having is trying to find a fourth trail to go along with Goat, Starr, and Lookout

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

So I am out in Colorado at Breckenridge with a big group of friends/skiers, and we are discussing the week's skiing thus far, and we got to the inevitable trail comparisons...

We were comparing Devil's Crotch, at Breck, to the Front Four, when someone asked "What is the Front Four?" The ensuing conversation yielded some disagreement, so I now put it to fellow AZ'ers: Do you consider Lookout to be part of the Front Four?

Pros: Steepish, gnarly terrain. Stowe's website calls it the Fifth trail of the Front Four.

Cons: How can there be a "fifth" among a set of four? Also, it wasn't cut until 1979.

http://www.stowe.com/mountain/trail_map/flash/index.html

Lookout is not part of the front Four..The front four is National, Liftline, Goat, and Starr..

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

National and Liftline don't deserve to be part of the Front Four. The debate we should be having is trying to find a fourth trail to go along with Goat, Starr, and Lookout

Liftline and National are both Legit trails..National is a great bump run..and liftline is often half bumps and half groomed although sometimes all bumps in the spring..National is especially great by starting on upper upper National from below the snowfence on Lord..and the same can be said skiing upper upper liftline..

 

[riverc0il]

National and Liftline don't deserve to be part of the Front Four. The debate we should be having is trying to find a fourth trail to go along with Goat, Starr, and Lookout

They could just rename it the Front Three with those trails and call it good.

 

[kcyanks1]

Liftline and National are both Legit trails..National is a great bump run..and liftline is often half bumps and half groomed although sometimes all bumps in the spring..National is especially great by starting on upper upper National from below the snowfence on Lord..and the same can be said skiing upper upper liftline..

I agree that upper upper National and upper upper Liftline are lots of fun. At least the times I've been there, the tops of the normal parts of Liftline and National have generally been scraped off, icy messes.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I agree that upper upper National and upper upper Liftline are lots of fun. At least the times I've been there, the tops of the normal parts of Liftline and National have generally been scraped off, icy messes.

Fo Shizzle..give me some good woods anyday..although Liftline and National both rock on a 60 degree sunny April day..

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

19 more days until I'm at Stowe..my favorite eastern ski area..

 

[thetrailboss]

Most include it as one...and change the name to the "Front Five."

 

[RISkier]

After the marketing department has done their official "terrain expansion," it's now the front 11.