Obvious Poaches

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

never new that was off limits. back im my day as soon as there was enough snow to get off the trails the patrol was happy there was no fights between skiers and boarders. it was nuts when they just had the early season route down. i don't think i have ever been stoped by a patroler on stowe. i even bumped into one when i was comming out of the woods over by poweline before they opened up the gondi side early season. i exploded out of a snowbank and stoped like two feet from him and we both just laughed and headed down to the quad.

At Stowe there was a patroller waiting at the bottom of a closed Hayride when there was 2 feet of powder..I hardly got a slap on the wrist. My favorite time at Stowe was early season when there was a big dump and only a few runs were open. Pretty much everything with a rope was reserved for me. I always liked getting pow runs under the Gondola before that side of the mountain was open. I was escorted out of Sugarbush for poaching Upper Organgrinder when only upper Jester and Downspout were open. There was downloading so I rode up the Heavens gate triple with ski patrollers..then down Upper Jester to a ride down Sugar Bravo...anyway it was like 2:30PM and I wasn't a passholder so no big loss.

 

[dmc]

do people actually huck that HUGE cliff under it? I cant even begin to imagine how scary that landing must be.

Pick your way through

 

[millerm277]

do people actually huck that HUGE cliff under it? I cant even begin to imagine how scary that landing must be.

From the tracks I've noticed, it looks like some people do, and some people pick their way through the woods around the cliffs.

 

[SirShredsaLot]

Under the Spruce Peak triple at Sunday River can be pretty fun. Best on a day with low visibility. Or Spruce Cliffs. Funny that was actually a trail for a brief period of time. Didn't circle it though. May not be considered "obvious".

I nearly killed myself a few years back on Spruce Cliffs... seriously. I'm pretty confident in my skiing, but now much more careful about ducking ropes.

 

[Highway Star]

Before ASC cut that liftline the line through the woods between Flume and Cascade used to be called Cathedral. The lower part of Cathedral is still intact and dumps you out on what used to be the bottom slice of Cascade before they put a big net across it. The K1 liftline is not dangerous at all in typical midwinter snowpack. I skied Cathedral a jillion times in the old days and I've had a ton of runs on it since it became the K1 liftline.

No you're wrong. No good skiing in there at all, ever. And the K-1 liftline is by far the most dangerous piece of terrain on the mountain.

 

[JD]

Upper upper lift line at Stowe. Waterfall at stowe.

 

[kcyanks1]

alta zero at jackson hole

Last season a guy broke his leg on Alta Zero and to add insult to injury..he is now blacklisted from JHMR..

Old thread but Alta Zero was open this week (and I think has been for a month maybe). I have a bruised face to show for it (and thankfully nothing more)

 

[BenedictGomez]

Under the lift line on Morse Mountain at Smuggs. It closes due to too much base. Back in January, for instance, there was over 2 feet of powder on it when everything else was groomed and it's something fun for you to do at Morse if you dont want to entirely ditch a beginner or early intermediate.

 

[mondeo]

SPQ liftline at K. It would be a nice powder day run if they cleaned it up some.

 

[2knees]

SPQ liftline at K. It would be a nice powder day run if they cleaned it up some.

it was open either last year or two years ago. they actually put gates, like at the bottom of ss, where the little cliff is that has the nasty shark teeth in the lz.

 

[mediamogul]

Very, very dangerous. All sorts of stumps, logs and rocks hidden under the surface of the snow, assuming it's not just a sheet of ice under a thin coat of snow. Ski patrol says people have been hurt badly on it, and advise that people stay off it. It's closed for reason.

I'll second that. Nothing but rocks and stream runs as far as the eye can see. Unless one were to do some work on it in the off season...

The Fiddle liftine is really grown in now. It would take quite a base to make it skiable.

Another well known and skied one is the powerline (not the trail but the actual powerline) that runs parallel to the North Ridge Triple.

Thats all I'm saying.

 

[jimmywilson69]

it was open either last year or two years ago. they actually put gates, like at the bottom of ss, where the little cliff is that has the nasty shark teeth in the lz.

correct me if I'm wrong, isn't there only that one rock ledge that would prevent that from being opened more often,

 

[mondeo]

correct me if I'm wrong, isn't there only that one rock ledge that would prevent that from being opened more often,

It isn't so much the ledge as it is the rocks sticking up on the landing. There's a lot of sharks teeth in through there that could easily be lurking beneath the surface of a foot of fresh.

 

[jimmywilson69]

gotcha