pepperdawg
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Man all that fluffy goodness on those Teardrop p[ics are looking soooo tasty right about now.....
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Steepest slope in the east
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djspookman
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pepperdawg said:
yah, and it was. My lab came with us and she was buried most of the hike, and on the way down it was sweet to see her blasting thru that fluff!
can't wait till next year!
sledhaulingmedic said:
Technically yes, but it's on the trail map and it has a trail marker sign on it...to me that's inbounds. The Garden is definitely OB.
Strat said:
Yes, overall, Upper FIS is steeper than Ripcord. There is one pitch on Ripcord which is very steep...it is the pitch about 60 percent down the trail near where Paradise spills onto it.
Then again, we can play the game that LBO at Sunday River did with White Heat...it's the steepest trail in the east when one uses % over degrees to measure pitch (or was it the other way around?)
thetrailboss said:
I use a better measure...how far my heart comes up my throat just before I push off.
NHpowderhound
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LBO and his notorious marketing department tried to pull the wool(or fleece in this case)over our eyes with thier White Heat claim, "Steepest Longest Widest Lift Serviced Trail in the East". Add a comma anywhere in that claim and it's not true anymore. It's not the steepest or the longest or the widest and certainly not the only trail with a lift on it, but collectively it's true. Typical ASC. My favorite was when they broke all of K-Mart's trails into Upper, Middle and Lower and doubled thier trail count without cutting a single tree! :roll:
Vortex
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I think Shock Wave is steeper than White heat. I think Vortex is steeper than either of the those. Ga2ski thinks Black hole is steeper than all of those. I think Black hole is steeper than White heat or shock wave. So I think a better way to debate it is how does it ski. Ie JimG is your heart in your throat during the run. Great way to explain it Jim G :beer:
kickstand
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NHpowderhound said:
they did that for ski patrol, not to boost trail counts. Using Polecat at Wildcat as an example, if someone radios in "down skier on Polecat", where do you go? The trail is almost 3 miles long. "Down skier on Lower Polecat" is much more precise, and means patrol can possibly take a shorter lift, maybe even use a sled, to reach the victim faster.
salida
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sure.... I'm sure if you look at their patrol incidents before and after they doubled their trail count that they are far more efficent now, rescuing far more people in a short time span... oh wait before they had upper and lower, they could use trail intersections, what a concept....
jeez dont make excuses up for them, they are bad enough as it is, its a marketing excuse plain and simple
jeez dont make excuses up for them, they are bad enough as it is, its a marketing excuse plain and simple
awf170
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salida said:
stowe seems fine without upper middle lower and headwall(i like how killington puts that in too)
skibum1321
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I would also like to cast my vote for Freefall at Smuggs. There are parts where you are almost looking straight down at people below you. Unfortunately there usually isn't enough snow to open it. It didn't open top to bottom once this year.
I think some people in this post are confusing hardest trail for steepest. Paradise is one of the hardest trails but it's not overwhelmingly steep.
I think some people in this post are confusing hardest trail for steepest. Paradise is one of the hardest trails but it's not overwhelmingly steep.
awf170
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maybe we should gather up and make a list of the top 5 steepest then make a poll and see which one comes out on top
awf170
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alright i think this is the 5 most popular votes so far
freefall smuggs
snowfields sugarloaf east side/backside(im just going to make it general cause it is all about the same, and some of it never even opens)
Paradise MRG
face chutes jayor anywere else in that area
and the last spot im debating over blackhole sunday river or rumor at gore what do u think
freefall smuggs
snowfields sugarloaf east side/backside(im just going to make it general cause it is all about the same, and some of it never even opens)
Paradise MRG
face chutes jayor anywere else in that area
and the last spot im debating over blackhole sunday river or rumor at gore what do u think
awf170
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what about staircase at jay that looks insanely steep, really wanna ski it
What about cunclusion at k? I skied that last year and it was pretty steep..The huge bumps may have made it feel steeper then it was though.
awf170
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they also count pico in the trail count... what a joke :roll:salida said:
That is really bad!!awf170 said:
NHpowderhound
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Staircase/Everglade are a couple of my favorite trails at Jay! My favorite marked trail is Valhalla, unmarked and #1 overall is P.H. Of course first tracks in Beaver Pond aint too bad niether.
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awf170
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NHpowderhound said:
so how steep is staircase? i love valhalla
