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THe slides are off the summit of Whiteface. Grant you the face is 4500 feet up and Mt Washington is 5000+ but it is the exact same skiing with out the hike. Knarly bush wacking steep sustained drops and lots of powder, well in theory.
No, the stuff on Mt. Washington has good coverage for 4 months of the year. The whiteface slides have good coverage once every 4 years.
Where does Goodman claim 50 degrees? Certainly not in Backcountry Skiing Adventures which I just double checked to make sure. While Big Jay is certainly continuously steep, it is definitely not in the range of any of the gullies in the Tuckerman Ravine area. The steepest part of the Face Chutes is also steeper than most pitches on Big Jay which felt comfortably steep but perhaps the powder was deceiving. A consistent pitch of 30 degrees with some sections in the 35 degree area sounds about right to me.I've done Big Jay a handful of times including this past weekend and it's easily some of the steepest stuff I've ever found in the east.... I'm not very good at judging pitch but Goodman claims it's 50 degrees... either way I think it's the best terrain in the east and the snow always seems to be deeper and lighter back there...
I have been to the loaf twice and both times the snow fields were open. I skied them. As soon as you are in them you have to start heading skiers left to get out of them. Went down through he woods and ended up at the bottom of Nitro?
You went the wrong way, if you went the right way you would have come out just above Ripsaw.
White Nitro is the only trail up there with snowmaking