ga2ski
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Gotta agree with Bob.
I'll add Twister for racing at Pat's Peak. It's not difficult to ski, it just difficult for me to place well on that trail.
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Most challenging trail at your home hill?
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Gotta agree with Bob.
I'll add Twister for racing at Pat's Peak. It's not difficult to ski, it just difficult for me to place well on that trail.
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This in no way is meant to be a Sundown bump bashing question. Just a big picture theory question about if it should be the trail and the trail itself to make it challenging?? Heck, there's many a day when the most challenging trail at Mount Snow because of conditions/circumstances may very well be Deer Run from the top of Carinthia on down to the Main Base area, and that's the 100% truth!
Using Rumble as an example: Heaven forbid one day Win tells Bushmogulmaster to get in a winch cat and flatten it out
My favorite trail at Mount Snow, Jaws, when bumped, it's a challenging fun run for most mortals, but after a thaw/freeze when it gets groomed out, its not much more challenging than your typical main face intermediate cruiser, so in the big picture, I look at Jaws as more of a fun than a challenging run.
I understand the point you are trying to make. I just don't understand why...
You couldn't groom Rumble even if you wanted to so I guess any trail like that are the ones that are the most challenging.
Chris I
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Lake chutes. the shady wall especially. I still have not hit it, waiting for some more snow. It's scary
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To date the Lake Chutes are the steepest thing I've ever skied.......and that was at it's easiest drop in point. Some of the chutes up there through the rocky areas were insane. This was back in the days you had to earn those turns. Pretty cool stuff. The one good thing about the Lake Chutes? It's not really a no fall zone, at least in the middle. No cliffs to slide off of or rock outcroppings to smash yourself on. Just a long, steep slide to the bottom if you end up on your !@#$. Fortunately that didn't happen to us. Great pic. We dropped in at the big curve to the right of where the shade ends. If that shaded area isn't 90 degrees at the top, it's darn close. I'm not good enough to huck a vertical face like that and hold it together when I hit the slope. Of course I've never tried, and don't intend to.
It's really not fair for you Westerners to weigh in in this Eastern most difficult trail discussion. There just isn't the same hairy stuff over here in the East. Sure, The Slides at WF are serious stuff, and MRG locals can weigh in with stuff like Paradise, and Stowe locals can chime in with stuff off the Chin, but unless someone considers Tuckerman's their local hill we just can't compare to what you have out West.
It's really not fair for you Westerners to weigh in in this Eastern most difficult trail discussion
. There just isn't the same hairy stuff over here in the East. Sure, The Slides at WF are serious stuff, and MRG locals can weigh in with stuff like Paradise, and Stowe locals can chime in with stuff off the Chin, but unless someone considers Tuckerman's their local hill we just can't compare to what you have out West.
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Chris I
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Yeah I know Skidds, but im layed up in the house and have nothing else to do!
kingslug
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Hunter: lower K-27 and right now Annapurna. Lower K was iced up pretty good last week, so was Clairs. Saw some people just standing in the middle of lower k....for a long time.
Edd
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Shockwave is a rough trail, man. Skied it twice this week and it reminds me of how far I have to go.
mondeo
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I'm looking at the question as an "in general," though. Taking it to the extreme, Great Eastern in the summer (no snow) is more challenging than O.L. freshly groomed. But part of what defines O.L. is bumps. It's usual state (ideally) is fully bumped. So I give the bumps credit as a permanant feature, the same way as I treat the cliff band on Devil's Fiddle or the trees in a glade.
Then there are shades of gray, like Temptor at Sundown that is only consistently bumped up for part of the year.
So it's sort of, on a typical day, what's the most challenging run? So a run that's only bumped half the time gets half the challenge credit as a trail that's always bumped up.
4aprice
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You should have been on Asp today. Big moguls with fresh man made snow blown over them and nice troughs - no ice. Was getting warm when I left but the snow was holding up well. Kid has race at Jack Frost tomorrow but I'll be back on Sunday.
Alex
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poconovfr
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I was on the Asp all day on Friday. I was the guy asking people politely not to move from a standing still position. Man, I sure wish parents would learn to keep thier kids out of there!
Marc
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Ollie's.
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lower ovation when it is a sheet of death ice
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MadMadWorld
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This in no way is meant to be a Sundown bump bashing question. Just a big picture theory question about if it should be the trail and the trail itself to make it challenging?? Heck, there's many a day when the most challenging trail at Mount Snow because of conditions/circumstances may very well be Deer Run from the top of Carinthia on down to the Main Base area, and that's the 100% truth!
Using Rumble as an example: Heaven forbid one day Win tells Bushmogulmaster to get in a winch cat and flatten it out
My favorite trail at Mount Snow, Jaws, when bumped, it's a challenging fun run for most mortals, but after a thaw/freeze when it gets groomed out, its not much more challenging than your typical main face intermediate cruiser, so in the big picture, I look at Jaws as more of a fun than a challenging run.
hahaha FAIL!
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Westway(44) at Hunter.
skiNEwhere
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As far as home home, the trail under the chairlift at blue hills that takes a ridiculous amount of snow to open, and if it does, at all, is open for 3 days out of the season
ScottySkis
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Blockbuster after some natural snow has fallen in the Catskills.
MadMadWorld
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That's home home huh? I don't even know if it's open that much anymore
skiNEwhere
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Yep. I was 15 minutes from there in Milton. They've swapped ownership many times. Not surprising. WaWa will get snow while they get rain due to the coast.
I was joking last year that they were gonna do avy control since they never get snow and were like only resort that was going to get 12-18 inches due to a southerly storm, and they wouldn't know what to do with it.
Kind of feel bad for them. It's almost impossible to stay out of the red.
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