Most challenging blues

[Greg]

Moonshine at Sugarbush.
Nor'easter at Sundown.

Next.

 

[thetrailboss]

Willoughby and Dippers at Burke
Elbow at SB
49er at Pico

 

[Dr Skimeister]

One More Time and Uncles at Mount Snow

 

[St. Jerry]

I tried to learn Walking Blues on the harmonica once. It wasn't that hard.

 

[danny p]

upper sunday punch - sunday river (maybe not crazy challenging, but I remember thinking it was pretty steep for a blue)

 

[wa-loaf]

Upper Tote Road at Sugarloaf. At least the chicken pitch section.

 

[Paul]

Rattlesnake at Cranmore
Screamin' Demon at Okemo
Lower Limelight at Okemo
Upper Snowdance at Ascutney
Moat and the upper portions of Morning Star and Wandering Skis at Attitash

Not to say these should be "black" or anything, but relative to the mountain, and the other blues there, they are a bit more challenging.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Paron's Run - Whiteface

Just to be obnoxious

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Downspout @ the Bush

 

[billski]

I tried to learn Walking Blues on the harmonica once. It wasn't that hard.

:flame:grooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooan :flame:

 

[billski]

Paron's Run - Whiteface


Just to be obnoxious

I like the WF sign. I like it a lot!
(we did the Bobsled run this summer/NOT on skis)

 

[kingslug]

Paron's Run - Whiteface

Just to be obnoxious

Yeah that one is a hoot when its a sheet!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kcyanks1]

Lower Antelope at MRG used to be a blue. No more, though. Waterfall at MRG is very short, but that might count. Quacky at MRG deserves nomination because it is often ungroomed (or am I thinking of Bunny?).

 

[RISkier]

Some blues at Stowe seem considerably steeper than the blues I've been on at most other NE mountains. Lord and North slope both have some pretty steep sections and there's one head wall on Main Street that is probably the steepest blue I've been on (A Stowe instructor told me they needed a winch cat to groom that section). I thought some of the blues at Sugarbush were relatively challenging though I don't recall the names of specific trails.

 

[ALLSKIING]

Great Bear at Killington

 

[Warp Daddy]

Another vote for paron's run at whiteface

 

[MikeTrainor]

Lower Antelope at MRG used to be a blue. No more, though. Waterfall at MRG is very short, but that might count. Quacky at MRG deserves nomination because it is often ungroomed (or am I thinking of Bunny?).

Quacky is usually ungroomed. Bunny if memory serves me right is the trail that cuts across the mtn and is usually grromed

 

[ckofer]

I looked at the title of this thread and thought something else. My answer: Stevie Ray Vaughn.

I found Ascutney challenging on the blues this year (early season) but that could have been the poorly groomed rocks.

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Semi-Tough at Mt. Ellen
Elbow at ME (when there were bumps on skiers' left, it was a little challenging)
Moonshine at Lincoln Peak


Other challenging blues? Anything written with more than one or two sharps (#'s). But that's because I'm a jazz player.

 

[KingM]

Quacky can be challenging at MRG.

I didn't think that Moonshine is all that hard, but Birdland (Sugarbush's version) can be a very dark blue. I don't remember Rim Run ever being particularly challenging either.

While we're talking about miscolored runs, Pushover would not be a green at Mount Ellen, but there just aren't many greens at LP, so it seems that they looked for a light blue and called it a green.