Intermediate-friendly glades?

[Sven Leonson]

Our family is going to be heading to New England for our bi-annual Spring Break RV/Ski week from March 27 thru April 5th. Last time, the kids (now 12 and 14) had a blast at Bretton Woods' Black Forest Glades.

Where else can we go for similar blue-ish glades? (The kids can handle more challenging terrain now but probably not too much more difficult.)

We will likely be coming up from DC through the Catskills and then hitting a few Vt. resorts and then over to NH and ending up at Wildcat.

Thanks!

 

[2knees]

Mt Snow, Bromley, Killington, Pico, Okemo.... really just about every place has them. Bromley has a few super mellow ones on the front side and a slightly more challenging one on the east side. Killington has squeeze play, which is pretty long but almost flat.

Okemo has one called Supernova which goes on forever but is widely spaced and only has pitch in steps. short steep spot followed by a run out.

 

[trapedui]

Belleayre has an intermediate glade run between Belleayre Run and Wanatuska. It is not a very long run, but good fun. I think they consider the Tomahawk liftline to be glade terrain, but there are no trees. Both are fun and can be skied by intermediates.

 

[vonski]

Sugarbush!: Semi-tough woods, Graduation Woods, Ellens Woods, Moose Run woods, Way back woods, Racecourse woods, Eden woods, Sapline, Deeper Sleeper and many unmarked areas too!

 

[kcyanks1]

Jay has some. http://jaypeakresort.com/#/skiing_riding/the_mountain/trail_maps/. The bottom of the mountain has Bushwacker, Full Moon, Half Moon, and Quarter Moon. Kokomo also has a few trees thrown in, but probably might not be considered a true "glade" (I actually haven't skied the others I mentioned from what I can recall, so I can't describe how difficult they are, except that they are rated blue square.) Jay's online trail map has a glade guide describing the difficulty.

 

[neil]

Blind Ambition at Sunday River.

 

[snowmonster]

Second on Jay. The Quarter/Half/Full Moon woods actually have trails in them in case you can't thread the trees. In NH, Pats Peak, Whisper, Puff and Zephyr glades are intermediate friendly and can be accessed from green trails. Here's to hoping that we have glade skiing way into April!

 

[ta&idaho]

I'll second Bromley. Everglade has nicely spaced trees on a gentle slope, Avalanche Glade steps up the steepness a notch but keeps the trees well spaced, and there are even some good steeper, denser gladed areas if they progress beyond those options. Bromley also offers easy access and bail-out options, which is useful if you have a group of skiers with varying degrees of skill and confidence.

 

[Sven Leonson]

This is some great info guys! Belleayre first, then up to Bromely/Okemo, then to Sugarbush/Jay. I see a plan coming together! Looks like Sugarbush will be open well into April too.

Keep the tips coming!

 

[TheBEast]

Third for Jay. I would argue that even some of the black glades - Buckaroo Bonzi and a couple of others would be good for upper intermediates. Just found North Glade this weekend, what an awesome run. Super open and not a lot of traffic due to it's location. Lots of other glades not on the map are really mellow, a few over off the lower part of the Bonnie Quad side are more intermediate in nature.

 

[legalskier]

Gore has several glades that are rated single black: Dark Side, Straightbrook, Pinebrook and Kill Kare Glades, and Darby Woods, etc. Complete list can be found here:

http://www.goremountain.com/mountain/alpine-conditions.cfm

(Gore isn't in "New England," just slightly to the left.)

 

[ts01]

Hopefully conditions will allow this later in March / April -- if so, then why not Mad River, especially after a day or two warming up at Belleayre, Bromley, etc. before you get there? There are all different levels of tree skiing to be had, on and off the map. I've taken my family several times over the past few years starting at the age and perceived skill level of your kids -- and noticed that we leave it with better skills and bigger grins, every time.

Same for Magic -- if you keep your eyes open there are shallow as well as steep woods lines.

 

[57stevey]

Stupid question... do "widely-spaced" glades get bumped up as bad as the others? I don't mind the trees, it's the bumps that get to me.

 

[jm99]

Loon-Missing Link, Scaler
Sunday River-Blind Ambition
Sugarloaf-most of the glades off Whiffletree, Rampasture, something off Glancer
Waterville-valley glade, possibly Old Tecumseh