Largest resort in the East?

[steamboat1]

The easiest top access is only about 20 yards from the North Link chair offload
The last couple of hundred yards is a skate out but no walking required.
Many routes can be taken though the slide brook most have continuous slope
The exit point is on German Flats Road it requires picking up the shuttle bus that runs between the Mount Ellen and Lincoln peak Bases

Lot's of people access it by jumping off the Slidebrook chair at the top of the first ridge after leaving Lincoln Peak. The chair is low to the ground at that point.

edit: not sure if you'd get your pass pulled if you get caught though. Like I said lots of people do it. You can see many tracks coming down from the top of that ridge.

 

[WWF-VT]

Lot's of people access it by jumping off the Slidebrook chair at the top of the first ridge after leaving Lincoln Peak. The chair is low to the ground at that point.

edit: not sure if you'd get your pass pulled if you get caught though. Like I said lots of people do it. You can see many tracks coming down from the top of that ridge.

In all my years of skiing at Sugarbush and taking the Slidebrook chair I have never seen anyone jump from the chair.

 

[steamboat1]

In all my years of skiing at Sugarbush and taking the Slidebrook chair I have never seen anyone jump from the chair.

I'm sure you've seen the tracks coming down from that ridge. How do you think they got there? Never did it myself but have seen people jump & I only ski there a few days a season.

 

[Smellytele]

I'm sure you've seen the tracks coming down from that ridge. How do you think they got there? Never did it myself but have seen people jump & I only ski there a few days a season.

I have skied there only a few times and taken the Slidebrook chair even less (wife thinks it is a time sucker- I agree) and I have seen the tracks from people who have jumped.

 

[WWF-VT]

I'm sure you've seen the tracks coming down from that ridge. How do you think they got there? Never did it myself but have seen people jump & I only ski there a few days a season.

You can get there from the top of North Lynx. You have to be a total dumbass to jump 10 ft into rocks just to ski under the lift line.

 

[BenedictGomez]

You can get there from the top of North Lynx. You have to be a total dumbass to jump 10 ft into rocks just to ski under the lift line.

Where's your sense of adventure?

 

[steamboat1]

You have to be a total dumbass to jump 10 ft into rocks just to ski under the lift line.

Just saying what I've seen with my own eyes.

 

[HowieT2]

The LT is not very well blazed through this section and going south from the Mt Ellen summit for a long stretch it runs about 50-100' below the ridgecrest on the west side. If you don't know what you are doing it's a good way to get lost in the deep snow in the winter. There is a fairly well known trail that drops to the west about mid way between Mt Ellen and Starks Nest at MRG....

Ha ha!!!! Been there, done that. 7 years ago, with My son warning me we were going wrong, I somehow led us down the west side. It took us 2 hours to climb back up through chest deep snow. One of those days you never forget. Sweet turns though. And the kids learned some good lessons, come prepared, shed layers and dads a fooking idiot sometimes.

 

[HowieT2]

I think I would agree with this, especially if I knew more about the potential of Slidebrook. Never been to Sugarbush with someone who knew how to tap into that area. Not asking for specifics over the internet, but are there some good long lines in Slidebrook that can currently be accessed without too much walking in and out??

the mtn offers guided tours.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Ha ha!!!! Been there, done that. 7 years ago, with My son warning me we were going wrong, I somehow led us down the west side. It took us 2 hours to climb back up through chest deep snow. One of those days you never forget. Sweet turns though. And the kids learned some good lessons, come prepared, shed layers and dads a fooking idiot sometimes.

Never happened.

According to WCAX, this only happens to people from New Jersey (and 95% of the time at Killington).

 

[HowieT2]

Lot's of people access it by jumping off the Slidebrook chair at the top of the first ridge after leaving Lincoln Peak. The chair is low to the ground at that point.

edit: not sure if you'd get your pass pulled if you get caught though. Like I said lots of people do it. You can see many tracks coming down from the top of that ridge.

missed this. r u joking?

 

[HowieT2]

In all my years of skiing at Sugarbush and taking the Slidebrook chair I have never seen anyone jump from the chair.

+1. it is not low to the ground, you would need a rope to safely lower yourself and there is no reason whatsoever (other than being high and stupid) to do this.

 

[HowieT2]

I'm sure you've seen the tracks coming down from that ridge. How do you think they got there? Never did it myself but have seen people jump & I only ski there a few days a season.

I've laid some of those tracks and believe me, I didnt jump off a freakin chairlift.

 

[HowieT2]

Never happened.

According to WCAX, this only happens to people from New Jersey (and 95% of the time at Killington).

yeah, well, I am originally from new jersey. so there you have it.

 

[Domeskier]

I've laid some of those tracks and believe me, I didnt jump off a freakin chairlift.

I wish I had jumped off that chairlift at the first summit. It gets unnervingly high at some later points!

 

[Smellytele]

Maybe jumping off early at the point when this video starts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M9Xjz5WHfs

 

[KevinF]

While it takes two lifts to get to the summit of Whiteface, describing the mountain as chopped up is not accurate. They ran the Olympic down hill there. Twice.

I realize I am replying to this a week late, but it should be noted that while Lake Placid has hosted the winter Olympics twice, the first time (in 1932) did not include alpine skiing events, only nordic.

So unless you're counting the men's and women's downhills of 1980 as "twice", an Olympic downhill has only been held there once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_Winter_Olympics

 

[jimk]

While the Olympics were held twice in Lake Placid, there was no alpine events the first time in 1932.

I realize I am replying to this a week late, but it should be noted that while Lake Placid has hosted the winter Olympics twice, the first time (in 1932) did not include alpine skiing events, only nordic.

So unless you're counting the men's and women's downhills of 1980 as "twice", an Olympic downhill has only been held there once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_Winter_Olympics

Kevin, this was pointed out about 100 posts ago, but I forgive you because you do a mean backstroke:grin:

 

[murff81]

If judgeing by vertical I like this site....
http://mountainvertical.com

Not sure if this has been posted here already....oh and it includes all US and Canada

 

[VTKilarney]

If judgeing by vertical I like this site....
http://mountainvertical.com

Not sure if this has been posted here already....oh and it includes all US and Canada

That site has proven to be very controversial around here. The debate seems to center around their formula, which has some subjective criteria built into it - but most people seem to like the underlying premise.