Sugarbush Glades?

[kcyanks1]

Has anyone skied Church? How nasty is it?

My avatar is way to the skier's left of Church. That is the easy part. There is no way you are getting me near the edge of skier's right. If there's enough snow, if you go even a few more feet to skier's left of where I was in my avatar, you can at least slide down on your butt -- you probably wouldn't want to do so on your skies given that it is still rock. Where I jumped it probably was 8 feet or so, which was plenty freaky for me. If you go down skier's left there is a second jump of a few feet or so, maybe close to 5? I can't recall exactly how tall that second one is. If you go off skier's right at the top, it is a *much* bigger drop and it brings you below the second drop that you'd hit if you went down the left.

After the jumps it is tight glade skiing, but not especially steep and no mandatory drops.

 

[riverc0il]

My avatar is way to the skier's left of Church. That is the easy part. There is no way you are getting me near the edge of skier's right. If there's enough snow, if you go even a few more feet to skier's left of where I was in my avatar, you can at least slide down on your butt -- you probably wouldn't want to do so on your skies given that it is still rock. Where I jumped it probably was 8 feet or so, which was plenty freaky for me. If you go down skier's left there is a second jump of a few feet or so, maybe close to 5? I can't recall exactly how tall that second one is. If you go off skier's right at the top, it is a *much* bigger drop and it brings you below the second drop that you'd hit if you went down the left.

After the jumps it is tight glade skiing, but not especially steep and no mandatory drops.

I have a feeling my overall impression of Bush would increase several notches once I have a chance to ski that type of terrain. 99% sure I know where the route in question is but I am sure that is just scratching the surface. My last few trips to the Bush have been during spring skiing when such routes really were not good options.

 

[awf170]

The Church is good, but kind of over-rated IMO. The first few turns are just plane awesome, probably some of the coolest terrain in NE. But it is just so short. After only about a 100 ft. of vert it is just a long cut across then some very good tree skiing, but nothing amazing. If that top 100 feet of vert continued for 500 ft instead I would qualify it as one of the best runs in the east. My guess is that Stowe has stuff above the Gondi that is a lot better than the Church.

 

[Tin Woodsman]

Not only is that Glades, but you can see the old Birdland cutting diagonally away skiers left of Steins. That has no long grown in, but the bottom is close to where Egan's intersects the current Lower Birdland.

As for its current treeless condition, I'd love to hear what Atkinson has to say about an Appleton-esque regeneration program. I hope it's not too late for Glades and Paradise, but there's still time for Lower Moonshine, Lower Domino, Birches, Sunrise, and Sleeper. I suppose this is mostly USFS land, so that makes it complicated, but surely all stakeholders would be pulling in the same direction on that, no?

 

[skidmarks]

Stay Left Young Man

There is no way you are getting me near the edge of skier's right. If there's enough snow, if you go even a few more feet to skier's left of where I was in my avatar, you can at least slide down on your butt -- you probably wouldn't want to do so on your skies given that it is still rock. Where I jumped it probably was 8 feet or so, which was plenty freaky for me. If you go down skier's left there is a second jump of a few feet or so, maybe close to 5? I can't recall exactly how tall that second one is. If you go off skier's right at the top, it is a *much* bigger drop and it brings you below the second drop that you'd hit if you went down the left.

Thanks for the info. I'm not into big jumps in but if the snow is right you never know if peer pressure would over take my good senses( I would then go for it WAY WAY LEFT). I would hate to kill myself over 100 vert.

I do plan on touring the Monroe Skyline trail this season which runs from Sugarbush to Madriver. Last season it crusted over the day we planed on doing it.