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Top five most challenging runs in SNE?
- Thread starter Greg
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Confucius say : a trail that doesn't open until late January is usually very difficult to ski...
Gunny was open in mid december last season...
thanks for everyone's help breaking up the icyness after freezing. chipping ice is pretty beat by yourself, even if it is to resurect the lines.
Gunny was open in mid december last season...
thanks for everyone's help breaking up the icyness after freezing. chipping ice is pretty beat by yourself, even if it is to resurect the lines.
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Huh? I'm confuseded....
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Damn, Greg is really pumped about the Gunny bumps! Let's hope he's right!
Damn straight!
I almost mentioned that too.
skiing is life
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1: Beast
2: Macomber's at eaglebrook school (when i was a student there. Its only rated as a black coz of insurance reasons 40-45 degree steep's)
3: Avalanche at berkshire east (heres a good story on it ull love it im sure:smile
Avalanche is a hidden trail to the right of the summit lift when you get to the top. at the bottom there is a 10 foot cliff. So anyway i was skiing there with my ski team. The day before my good friend dana hit the cliff and my ski coach told us never to do it again.
So today was a thursday where we could just ski what we wanted. so of course me and dana ignored our ski coach. Dana convinced me on the way up to attempt the cliff and i said hell yeah. so right before on the run up to fly off this 10 foot cliff my coach goes right by on the ski lift which you can clearly see through the trees. She was so mad! she told us to wait and we both where sent back to the school van were we awaited our fate:smile: Our punishment? an hour sitting in the lodge at bromley the next day on the schools ski day. :dunce:
4: Tomahawk
5: UMASS is really hard when its icy and bumpy(it usually is)
2: Macomber's at eaglebrook school (when i was a student there. Its only rated as a black coz of insurance reasons 40-45 degree steep's)
3: Avalanche at berkshire east (heres a good story on it ull love it im sure:smile
Avalanche is a hidden trail to the right of the summit lift when you get to the top. at the bottom there is a 10 foot cliff. So anyway i was skiing there with my ski team. The day before my good friend dana hit the cliff and my ski coach told us never to do it again.
So today was a thursday where we could just ski what we wanted. so of course me and dana ignored our ski coach. Dana convinced me on the way up to attempt the cliff and i said hell yeah. so right before on the run up to fly off this 10 foot cliff my coach goes right by on the ski lift which you can clearly see through the trees. She was so mad! she told us to wait and we both where sent back to the school van were we awaited our fate:smile: Our punishment? an hour sitting in the lodge at bromley the next day on the schools ski day. :dunce:
4: Tomahawk
5: UMASS is really hard when its icy and bumpy(it usually is)
bigbog
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...always under the lift...
..it's a beautiful pic Greg!
...So many beautiful, ungroomed trails....lying underneath the conveyor-belts.....more than often roped-off... :angry:
..it's a beautiful pic Greg!
Zand
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It takes many nails to build a crib but one screw to fill it.
Anyway, for what I've skied:
1. Tomahawk
2. Upper East Glades (unmarked)
3. Upper Competition
4. Flying Cloud
5. Don't laugh, but Whitetail (never skied it with good conditions so I'm always skidding on the frozen base).
I actually find Beast Liftline to be easier than these 5 because less people ski it so the snow is a bit better.
Greg, Wachusett has too many groomahs to make the list. Not to mention Smith is the steepest trail and only gets as steep as, say, Upper Fox. 10th mountain is the toughest trail (ok...maybe not quite) on the east coast if you ski the bumps while trying not to blow out a knee hitting the solid back-ends, but the groomed part is lower-intermediate.
Confucius also say, "He who go to bed with itchy bum wake up with smelly finger".
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Damn, Greg is really pumped about the Gunny bumps! Let's hope he's right!
Was I?
Phildozer
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Conifer Connection at Wachusett.
On opening day.
Pandemonium!
On opening day.
Pandemonium!
hammer
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I remember going down that trail as a novice during vacation week...lots of carnage, and the steep(er) section after the point where Balance Rock/Ropers Road joins was all bumped up and quite tough for me at the time.
Now the only thing that challenges me at Wachusett are the bumps on 10th (which I still can't do) and the steep on Smith if it gets icy...interesting how your perspective changes...
YES! Gunny is truly rad! :beer:
Ballistic
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I beg your pardon sir! We are a suburb, but of NYC, No Thanks!
St. Bear
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I think the line should be drawn somewhere in the middle of the state. Like anything south of 84 should be grouped in with NYC, and the rest is part of New England.
Or we could just group them by baseball alliances. All Yankee fans live in a NYC suburb and all Sox fans live in New England.
skizilla
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Liftline open
I have skied jiminy for years and have never seen liftline below the triple open. I do not even see it poached all that often. Does it lack snow making? FOr a place with jiminy''s money and rep you would think they would put snowmaking in or groom it or hey you know open it......hell even cut the brush on it that is apparent in your photo and about 4 foot high any time i go by it, I think it might be one of the toughest because of its narrowness. It could also be good because it is fairly shaded and has tree portection and could hold snow well. Unless it is at the worng angle to the sun.
I have skied jiminy for years and have never seen liftline below the triple open. I do not even see it poached all that often. Does it lack snow making? FOr a place with jiminy''s money and rep you would think they would put snowmaking in or groom it or hey you know open it......hell even cut the brush on it that is apparent in your photo and about 4 foot high any time i go by it, I think it might be one of the toughest because of its narrowness. It could also be good because it is fairly shaded and has tree portection and could hold snow well. Unless it is at the worng angle to the sun.
gmcunni
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Living in Fairfield County i can tell you i feel more connected to NYC than CT. 84 is a good line of demarcation. when i get on 84 headed north i feel like i've left home.
Ballistic
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The CT divide is this: area code 203 is NY suburb, area code 860 is New England. Always has been always will be.
St. Bear
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That's a pretty good divide. The top edge looks like it runs right along with 84.
