The single best on piste run in the Northeast

[Brettski]

How is a glad considered on piste?

My how times have changed.....

 

[kcyanks1]

And smuggs gets only one? Good Lord....

The poll choices, I think, were based on trails named in the thread before the thread was turned into the poll. It seems like the people who participated in the thread at that stage mostly named VT trails.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Well, the terrain there doesn't have a double fall line, but with the way the snowmaking is set up the snow piles up on one side of the trail and it does create a double fall line halfway down the run.

So we're both right, you're quite the diplomat JimmyG. :-D

 

[eatskisleep]

Valhalla at Jay.

 

[kingslug]

So we're both right, you're quite the diplomat JimmyG. :-D

Thats what I figured. When the bumps are huge on the right, I head over to the left which is lower and has smaller moguls.
Hunter...where not only is our snow manmade, but our fall lines as well.

 

[Treeskier]

Went and skied Vallahala at Jay

Went and skied Valhalla last Saturday. While it is step it is not as challenging, fun or long as Paradise at Mad River. Skied Paradise at Sugarbush Sunday, it was also fun but still my vote is Paradise at MR. Was one of the last to ski P. at the bush. It skied very nicely. Sad to see it not lift accessed any more.

 

[Greg]

Interesting to look at this thread again especially since I added a few runs this past season that I had not skied at the time of this thread, including Fall Line and Paradise at MRG and Rumble at Sugarbush. All three are far more technical than Middle Earth. Rumble is awesome as far as challenge goes and Fall Line and Paradise are excellent in terms of both challenge as well as diversity and multiple routes. That's what I love about trails at MRG, each run, even on the same named trail, is different. I guess it's become more difficult for me to select just one as "best".

 

[MikeTrainor]

I voted for Lower Antelope at MRG I love that trail, also I have to go for Castlerock Run at Sugarbush and Lynx at Wildcat as my 3 favorite trails in NE (all for different reasons).

 

[mattchuck2]

....after much chewing it all over in my brain.

I think it ended up being the fact when I approach MRG's Paradise I get a heightened sense of adventure...an involuntary surge of adrenaline....and I seem to see, hear, smell, touch and taste things more keenly. It demands my very best...which I humbly try to deliver with appreciation and respect.

Also, there's just so many darn ways you can ski it....it's really like about 20 trails in one.

Yep . . . This is why I voted for Paradise too

 

[Marc]

Wachusett's Vickery Bowl.




/thread

 

[riverc0il]

Originally I voted for Paradise @ MRG but having finally skied Rumble I would change my vote. I haven't skied Bubblecuffer or anything at Smuggs but I have skied everything else on that list. Never skied anything on piste quite like Rumble which skis like an old CCC trail tilted up an additional 15 degrees. They certainly don't build them like that any more. Though even the best on piste run in the East is really only scratching the surface of the quality skiing beyond the map.

 

[kingslug]

After skiing Chin Clip in 3 feet of pow...it was one of the best runs ever for me in the east. Smuggs was in bad shape when I went but the runs look truly sick...if they have some coverage. Plan on hitting the N. East a lot more in the coming season.

 

[Zand]

That's how I would order the ones on that list I've skied now. Next year I shall hit the remainder of the Sugarbush and MRG trails that I haven't hit.
Fall Line
Goat
Starr
Lower Antelope
Hardscrabble
Sugarbush Paradise
Chin Clip
The Mall
National
Stowe Liftline

 

[deadheadskier]

I voted Paradise at MRG at some point and it still ranks up there for me...

others include:

Jay: Staircase, Face Chutes
Smuggs: Liftline
Stowe: Lookout and Goat
Sugarbush: Black Diamond, Rumble
Sugarloaf: Bubblecuffer, Winter's Way, Misery Whip
Sunday River: Shockwave

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Maybe not the best..but I like Lookout at Stowe..right under the Lookout double..the top is usually roped off(reserved) and is narrow and then it opens up and there's a cool double fall line and some ledges on the right side to drop off of. I definitely skied alot of powder on that run during the early April dumps when I spent a week up there. Back in my college days..I probably skied Lookout 200 times..

 

[2knees]

your avatar is giving me an ulcer.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

your avatar is giving me an ulcer.

haha..I'll change it to something different..I usually change my Avatar a few times a day..lol

 

[JimG.]

Maybe not the best..but I like Lookout at Stowe..right under the Lookout double..the top is usually roped off(reserved) and is narrow and then it opens up and there's a cool double fall line and some ledges on the right side to drop off of. I definitely skied alot of powder on that run during the early April dumps when I spent a week up there. Back in my college days..I probably skied Lookout 200 times..

Shhhhhhh!

I always forget to consider Lookout in these tyes of threads. Agreed, great run.

 

[JD]

I like chin clip with a blanet of fresh. It's got a great natural rythem. Fun steeps to bomb, big sweepers. When conditions are right and you can just let it roll, like early season when it's not bumped, or the once or twice a year that they groom it, it's a minute of really fun skiing. More character then Nosedive, more turns then starr, lookout. I like goat too, but I've never skiied it blown in completely flat. Ussually hidden bumps. I think it's the best bump run at the hill, if you're into that kind of thing.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I like chin clip with a blanet of fresh. It's got a great natural rythem. Fun steeps to bomb, big sweepers. When conditions are right and you can just let it roll, like early season when it's not bumped, or the once or twice a year that they groom it, it's a minute of really fun skiing. More character then Nosedive, more turns then starr, lookout. I like goat too, but I've never skiied it blown in completely flat. Ussually hidden bumps. I think it's the best bump run at the hill, if you're into that kind of thing.

Goat is the best when it's reserved..aka..when ski patrol puts a rope across it..I find Chin Clip to get a ton of traffic but I live Riverbed to the skiers right of Chin-Clip leading to Tits lower down..and also the Bench area to the left of Chinclip..Fun Stuff..Don't be a gaper and stop on that traverse or you'll have a pileup of pissed off skiers and riders..