Scariest ski trails in the northeast

[riverc0il]

Suggesting that there is nothing 'scary' in the east is false.....don't care how good a skier you are.

I never suggested there was not. As others have pointed out, scary is relative. That said, based on what I have seen online (no, 2knees, I have never been out west but one need not actually visit a location to understand the basic facts) the west has a significant amount more pucker on map than the east. That is all I was saying... that folks were jumping on another posters comment a bit too defensively... as many easterns tend to be.

 

[riverc0il]

Never been on the tram line over at cannon but I am certain there are spots on that trail that make you stop. You have never been in the slides.

We are not close the west but to say there are no trails in the East that dont make you think twice is silly. You must not be looking hard enough.

AGAIN when did "not many" suddenly mean "none"? C'mon guys, get real. I never said "none" and I have skied pretty much every on map trail with any pucker factor in the east except the Slides at WF and the steeper offerings at Smuggs like Liftline. YES the east does have on map pucker. I NEVER SAID IT DOES NOT!

:uzi: :angry:

 

[deadheadskier]

I never suggested there was not. As others have pointed out, scary is relative. That said, based on what I have seen online (no, 2knees, I have never been out west but one need not actually visit a location to understand the basic facts) the west has a significant amount more pucker on map than the east. That is all I was saying... that folks were jumping on another posters comment a bit too defensively... as many easterns tend to be.

you weren't saying that, but the person people were jumping on was saying that there is essentially nothing more difficult than a western double blue in the east. Such a statement is false and a lightening rod for deserved criticism. I don't think people's reaction to such a statement is being overly defensive.

.....but defensive, like scary is relative

 

[2knees]

(no, 2knees, I have never been out west but one need not actually visit a location to understand the basic facts)

I couldnt agree more. I only asked because i once made a comment regarding a basic fact of mad river glen and you jumped on me for never having skied there and therefor had no basis for an opinion.

carry on though.

 

[tjf67]

I gotta disagree here and support TylerDurden's statement. Strictly talking "trails", there are not many trails in the east with much pucker factor compared to what they put on the map out west (at least in reasonable conditions). I think a lot of folks that have never skied the northeast would be more "scared" about the conditions than the trails themselves. Perhaps some of the tighter glades would cause some second thoughts from western skiers. But for on map trails, the west has a lot more pucker than the east does on map (discounting conditions and just addressing the trails themselves). Expand terrain to include off map and now we are talking.

This is where you said it. Look at what I wrote and then you disagreed. I plainly stated we are not the west.
just saying

 

[JD]

AGAIN when did "not many" suddenly mean "none"? C'mon guys, get real. I never said "none" and I have skied pretty much every on map trail with any pucker factor in the east except the Slides at WF and the steeper offerings at Smuggs like Liftline. YES the east does have on map pucker. I NEVER SAID IT DOES NOT!

:uzi: :angry:

So you're saying nothing in the east scares you?

 

[bosrocker51]

Climbing - The Headwall at Tuckerman's is really steep. It is dangerous there in the spring. Chunks of ice peel off the cliffs and can be lethal. Be careful at Tuckerman's Revine

Scary steep? Well, I don't have a lot of perspective. I don't find most trails scary steep. Although, the original Jaws of Death at Mt. Snow, the 1st year they cut it was so narrow the tails of my 205cm Fischer Alu's hit the trees on either side. Then they widened it - boring. The old Superstar trail at Killington was pretty scary because it was so narrow & would get icy.

I'd like to try White heat at SR.