Most reliably icy trail in the east

[mattchuck2]

Cause the Adirondack Express is the world's coldest lift (which is a good idea for another thread). . . Especially when crossing over Sunway. Don't tell anyone, but all the snow blows into the woods on the left side.

 

[2knees]

Any popular trail at killington on a weekend.

 

[Bumpsis]

Any popular trail at killington on a weekend.

Along the same idea but I'd actually extend this to just about any eastern ski area that relies on mostly man-made cover. This crap that most areas blow on their trails ices up by mid day given weekend traffic.

I've been spoiled by frequent trips to the Rockies in the past, so now I really have a hard time getting motivated to drop $ 50 + for lift ticket and slide down luge runs. If there is no significant natural snow fall I stick to XC or hiking.

 

[Mark_151]

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.
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I was at Jay for the very first time Saturday for the Tele Fest, and Goat was my 3rd run

We knew we were up for some sort of epic when the quad came up over that rise and we got hit by that arctic wind tunnel. Then, starting down, the traffic just got worse and worse until we hit the top of that "funnel" Wachusett is my home mountain, so when I say that trail was crowded and scary, you can take that for what it's worth. :-?

 

[kcyanks1]

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

If you take the Topridge Triple after skiing stuff on the peak and need to get to the base, it's either Fairview or Foxlair. I people may use the Gondola and Fairview as an alternative to the Adirondack Express, but that's not the only time.

 

[LineSki15]

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

So true, that thing is always so damn icy, everytime I go to the loaf and talk to the ski patrol about nitro they always say "icy" and that the only time it's good is after a huge dump, not even a regular pow day.

 

[mergs]

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

i was thinking belt as well... amazing too bc its not steep.

claire's way is usally a mess too. good thing it bumps up, otherwise you'd need to self arrest on the way down.

 

[dmc]

claire's way is usally a mess too. good thing it bumps up, otherwise you'd need to self arrest on the way down.

Clairs is great!!!
You just gotta ski the side of the trail... Where everyone pushes the snow

I'd say the slickest trail at Hunter is Hellgate.. It gets so much intermediate traffic that it gets scraped...

 

[Newpylong]

My Votes:

Competition or Flying Cloud at Berkshire East,
Upper Whirlway (hell any of those runs) at Jiminy, Cascade and Double Dipper at Killington, Freefall at Mt. Snow, Upper FIS at Sugarbush, anything at Sugarloaf, lol.

 

[riverc0il]

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

total crap. magic has several excellent groomed runs that never get scraped down because of low skier traffic.

bypass at cannon hands down.

 

[EPB]

White Heat.... Since it gets all the undeserved hype, blue square skiers hit it up early and often and think theyre hardcore sliding down the trail sideways scraping all of the snow right off of the run.