MadMadWorld
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Yea it is ridiculously long. It's the only beginner trail from the top of the mountain though.
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Gnarliest Green
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Yea it is ridiculously long. It's the only beginner trail from the top of the mountain though.
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MadMadWorld
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I think you are probably thinking of Bunny which is an intermediate trail. It's probably the hardest intermediate trail that I can think of in the east. The top part is very steep for intermediate and there are always huge moguls on it. It branches off of Vixen at the top of the double.
Poaching a pic from Riverc0il....
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ss20
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This. Any of the SoVt greens are ice after 1pm. Long John is done after 10am.
skiNEwhere
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I think you are probably thinking of Bunny which is an intermediate trail. It's probably the hardest intermediate trail that I can think of in the east. The top part is very steep for intermediate and there are always huge moguls on it. It branches off of Vixen at the top of the double.
Poaching a pic from Riverc0il....
That's a blue?? That would be like a Triple BD at ski sundown. :smash:
Savemeasammy
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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.[/QUOTE]
I may have my trail names confused. IIRC - which I may not! - the trail I assumed was green came from further over on Snowden, and this run - maybe it was mouse run? - spilled into it. Either way, when it gets busy at the beast, moguls sprout up all over the place!
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Hawkshot99
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Great Northern at K. It is pretty much always scraped ice, or massive moguls depending on the time of year. Throw in that it is the transport trail, and it is super crowded.
benski
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There was one day last year were walts had an experts only warning because of the conditions.
WWF-VT
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Walt’s Trail at Mt Ellen is definitely not a standard green cruiser. Most people assume that a green marked trail has lots of snowmaking and is regularly groomed. Walt’s is a natural snow trail that can get bumped up and has multiple water bars that are a challenge for a lot of beginners. It sometimes has an Experts Only sign posted at the top due to icing, freeze/thaw cycles and areas of thin cover. It takes a lot of snow to fill in the water bars and allow it to get groomed. Late in the season, after the base has been built it’s a fun run on a powder day.
skiNEwhere
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned big Emma at snowbird. I think management made it green so they could say there was beginner terrain off of the top of the mid gad lift
BeefyBoy50
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Skier's left of that run frequently moguls up. Its funny because Big Emma is part of a bowl that includes some of the steepest, most dangerous skiing at the entire resort- the cliffy runs beneath Gadzoom off of carbonate (I think these are called the doors).
skiNEwhere
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I assume this is the area you're talking about?
This guy can shred.....actually a pretty good POV
Savemeasammy
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BeefyBoy50
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Yeah... that video reminded me how much I miss skiing... I guess that's why we're all posting on a ski forum in August.
Big Emma is the large white patch on the left of this picture, just underneath the Gad runs of the Cirque. Just to the right (skiiers left) of the Big Emma run are some trees and then the Mid-Gad liftline, and continuing in the same direction is a cliff band that continues off the right edge of the picture.
Not really sure who decided that this could be a green, and I heard some ski instructor at Snowbird once call it "the most difficult green in North America" isn't that a bit like saying "the tallest midget"?
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I was going to say Big Emma as well. If it's not the steepest green trail in America, it has to be in the running.
BeefyBoy50
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To bring this back to the east though, I agree that what makes a green circle run difficult isn't necessarily the steepness (because almost all of them apart from a few examples are relatively flat compared to any black diamond), its the crowds. Especially on crowded trails they scrape all the snow into ice and then you can barely stop yourself from crashing into everyone else (or getting hit). For example, burma road at Blue mountain.
Think we hit it that day.. After couple days after 1st good storm of feb... Bumps, rocks,
Shrubs, water bars... Huge fun.. But not novice terrain that day
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Boreen at Whiteface has a "headwall" that is relatively steep for beginners.
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MadMadWorld
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That took longer than I thought
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