Gnarliest Green

[skiNEwhere]

Well it IS summer here, and the topics are limited, so why not.

I know everyone here normally slays triple black's, but what about the greens? What greens have you been on that were much more difficult than their rating implies?

Sundance at A-Basin. Gets steepish at :40 and 1:20

 

[Nick]

Well it IS summer here, and the topics are limited, so why not.

I know everyone here normally slays triple black's, but what about the greens? What greens have you been on that were much more difficult than their rating implies?

Sundance at A-Basin. Gets steepish at :40 and 1:20

This thread is going to be excellent. I can already tell.

I think I'm at a point where my skiing is too good to really be able to compare greens to each other. I think a beginner's perspective on this would be much more appropriate.

For example, my wife though the first section on Pushover off the Gatehouse Chair at Sugarbush was steep. :grin:

 

[skiNEwhere]

Well that first video doesn't allow embedding. It def doesn't look as steep in this video but it's the same trail. Pretty sure there are a few blacks at Breck that are less steep than this. Centennial is the first one that comes to mind

 

[Highway Star]

Great Northern at Killington.

 

[jaytrem]

All the trails at the Seattle Ridge section of Sun Valley. Seems like their green trails are only a little less steep than their black trails. Very consistent steepness at that place.

 

[MadMadWorld]

If I was a beginner this one would have scared the crap out of me. Not because of the steepness but because falling off the side of the trail could result in very serious injury.

 

[dlague]

If I was a beginner this one would have scared the crap out of me. Not because of the steepness but because falling off the side of the trail could result in very serious injury.

Legs would be toast staying on flats that long.

 

[deadheadskier]

Snowshed at Killington during a holiday

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[dlague]

Great Northern at Killington.

Or Great Eastern or Juggernaut can be good leg burners. For some reason long trails that do not require or mandate no turns seem to light up the quads!

 

[Nick]

So this brings up another question. My wife always says to me, "I can't go to that mountain, it's too difficult!" when I talk about leaving Wachusett behind and going up to Killington or somewhere else.

I have invariably always said, they have green and easy trails at all these mountains. But that's not really true, right? Some beginner areas are in fact easier / flatter than others.

 

[Savemeasammy]

I think a beginner's perspective on this would be much more appropriate.

My youngest found Magic to be "scary" - and he was just on the beginner stuff off the top. I didn't realize how steep the greens were until I skied there with him.

Better yet, whatever that run is at Killington that brings you from Bunny Buster back to K1. That gets bumped up at the end of the day in the early season!


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[skiNEwhere]

Or Great Eastern or Juggernaut can be good leg burners. For some reason long trails that do not require or mandate no turns seem to light up the quads!

Some of those long greens have a slight double fall line that can tire your legs from being up on the same edge for a while

 

[dlague]

My youngest found Magic to be "scary" - and he was just on the beginner stuff off the top. I didn't realize how steep the greens were until I skied there with him.

Better yet, whatever that run is at Killington that brings you from Bunny Buster back to K1. That gets bumped up at the end of the day in the early season!


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And ALL the traffic is funneled though there so you get some bumps forming mixed with scraped of spots and good skiers/boarders flying through there mixed with beginners that are scared as shit and people standing around all over the place! Seems ripe for collisions! That freaks my wife out and she can ski - she got taken out by a beginner in a collision and broke her shoulder. Imagine how the beginners and low intermediates feel!

 

[MadMadWorld]

My youngest found Magic to be "scary" - and he was just on the beginner stuff off the top. I didn't realize how steep the greens were until I skied there with him.

Better yet, whatever that run is at Killington that brings you from Bunny Buster back to K1. That gets bumped up at the end of the day in the early season!


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Indeed. The greens up top of Magic look to be intimidating. You could tell just by watching him. He'll be good to go this year though!

 

[jimk]

Not the gnarliest, but probably the best green circle in the East is Polecat at Wildcat!

But more on topic: About three years ago, it's in the afternoon at MRG. My old guy legs are fried. Had done my best to slay some stuff off the single chair. At 3pm I'm skiing off the double chair looking for MELLOW and I start down a very low angle green run somewhere to skier's right. Darn if run doesn't quickly turn into a low angle, but very well defined mogul field about 100 yards in length. This on a green circle marked run. Had to laugh, only at MRG
This is not the run, but not far from it:

 

[Madroch]

Long john at snow during Xmas week with limited terrain open- ungroomed walts trail at the bush after 12 inches...

 

[SIKSKIER]

That run at KH has got to be the longest trail I've seen where you dont ever really need to make a turn.

 

[MadMadWorld]

Not the gnarliest, but probably the best green circle in the East is Polecat at Wildcat!

But more on topic: About three years ago, it's in the afternoon at MRG. My old guy legs are fried. Had done my best to slay some stuff off the single chair. At 3pm I'm skiing off the double chair looking for MELLOW and I start down a very low angle green run somewhere to skier's right. Darn if run doesn't quickly turn into a low angle, but very well defined mogul field about 100 yards in length. This on a green circle marked run. Had to laugh, only at MRG
This is not the run, but not far from it:
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Hmm they almost always groom out beginner trails. Hard to tell what that is but it looks like the top of Slalom....

 

[Highway Star]

Better yet, whatever that run is at Killington that brings you from Bunny Buster back to K1. That gets bumped up at the end of the day in the early season!

That's actually lower Bunny Buster, which is rated as a Blue. Great Northern continues on the other side of Chute and then crosses back over lower.

Great Northern is very challenging to novices. It winds around, has large variations in pitch from low advanced to nearly flat, is somewhat narrow, will typically have skied off high traffic areas, and cuts across multiple advanced level trails. With it being a major connector trail, you occasionally have expert skiers and snowboarders on it at 40+ mph. There have been multiple fatalities on this trail over the years, most recently last year.

 

[jimk]

Hmm they almost always groom out beginner trails. Hard to tell what that is but it looks like the top of Slalom....

Correct, the trail in my photo is upper part of Slalom. The green I was talking about might have been Vixen?? I don't know MRG that well, but love the place.