Most reliably icy trail in the east

[NHpowderhound]

I'm gonna have to go with Upper&Lower Goat Run at Jay. The combination of wind scouring, funneling of traffic,trail design and sideslipping of novices makes it a human bowling alley after 12:00pm except on the deepest of powder days.
It's almost kind of fun to stand at the top of Upper Goat and see the fear.
I wish Spike TV would have a MXC(Most Extreme Elimination Challenge) show where contestants had to make thier way down UGR with old dull rusty skis.
((*
*))NHPH

 

[Rushski]

Wow, that's a tough one. Cannon has notorious ice in spots, as does Wildcat.

Specifically, that's a tough call.

 

[AdironRider]

They dont call Whiteface "Iceface" for nothing.

 

[frozencorn]

Tightrope at Attitash

 

[riverc0il]

profile and bypass at cannon have a particularly nasty exposure to wind which renders them hard pack scrapped quite often.

 

[djspookman]

Upper Rumrunner by the fence at Smuggs comes to mind. No matter the snow conditions, it somehow gets icy all the time! It's pretty much the "main road" for most off the top of Sterling.

dave

 

[kcyanks1]

Some of the trails off Little Whiteface at Whiteface are often icy. I guess if I have to pick one, Approach or Mountain Run. At Sugarbush Downspout often seems to be icy. I can't comment on the other suggested in the thread so far since I haven't skied Canon or Smuggs, and have only spent a couple days at Jay where it was very icy everywhere (but the glades) at first, and then snowed some and was nicer. I can imagine something off the top of the tram or Flyer being consistently icy though with the way the winds were.

 

[skibum1321]

Upper Rumrunner by the fence at Smuggs comes to mind. No matter the snow conditions, it somehow gets icy all the time! It's pretty much the "main road" for most off the top of Sterling.

dave

I'll second that. Even on a powder day it's icy unless you hug the fence.

 

[AdironRider]

Ive found that most of the intermediate stuff at Whiteface turns to ice more often than the expert stuff solely because it gets alot more traffic. Especially Upper Valley. That has all the intermediate traffic from the Gondola and the Quad funneling right into it. Always a sheet of ice.

 

[mattchuck2]

The side of any trail that they decide to leave one half bumped, the other groomed.

 

[thetrailboss]

Great thread. I'm gonna second Goat Run at Jay, or Northway for that matter, as well as Downspout at Lincoln Peak. Man, that trail is a pain on a busy day :roll:

 

[Geoff]

Lower Bear Claw, Killington. It's low elevation. It sits in the sun. It has huge amounts of traffic. It's guaranteed to be death skid to a wall bump by noon on Saturday.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

jaws at mt snow has always been a hockey rink....

 

[BeanoNYC]

Tightrope at Attitash

I had to stop skiing over Thanksgiving because that got so icy. It was the only trail open from the top.

 

[kcyanks1]

Fairview at Gore

Very true. That is always icy.

 

[Zand]

I have a decent list of icy trails I've experienced:

Bypass @ Cannon
Profile @ Cannon
Any North Face trail @ Mount Snow
Downspout @ Sugarbush
Upper Smith @ Wachusett
Upper Competition @ Berkshire East
Upper Whirlaway @ Jiminy

 

[rjc1976]

Belt Parkway @ Hunter is another icy one to add to the list...never gets any sun and has the most traffic from the summit.

 

[Birdman829]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned White Nitro at Sugarloaf yet. That gets my vote.

 

[snowmaker4191]

any trail at magic.....unless it's a powder day

 

[bill9009]

i'll have to agree with fairview at gore, i dont know why anyone even goes that way, i guess if you want to take the gondola up, but i will stick to the adirondack express if i need to get over there