Trail you get most excited over when it's opened up

[MadPadraic]

Banshee glade at Cannon (because it has a good name) and Kinsmans glade.

 

[2knees]

Magic in general. Redline, Master Magician, twilight zone any of the good ones.

 

[KevinF]

Exactly what I had in mind. They need at least 3 feet of snow on it. Wonder if they're opening it this year.

Was Cannon's tramline trail ever opened during the 05/06 season? I want to try my hand at Tramline at some point, but it's almost never open. :angry:

 

[AdironRider]

Im pretty sure it didnt open last year, and unless we get a ton more this year probably wont this year either.

Kinsman for me, that trail is absolutely amazing.

 

[noski]

Call me simple (or just noski) but are all of these trails even more anticipated than that first run in Oct/Nov- regardless of the trail's name?

 

[snoseek]

Im pretty sure it didnt open last year, and unless we get a ton more this year probably wont this year either.

Kinsman for me, that trail is absolutely amazing.

i agree! really long and really steep. I bet it's at least 1600 vertical feet. Some cool stuff over at mittersill that I'm still waiting for.

 

[Skier75]

Too many to choose from....let's see Bim's Whim at Sunday River is one, Timberline and Tote Road at Sugarloaf(albeit not that challenging, but a fun run)

 

[snowmonster]

Was Cannon's tramline trail ever opened during the 05/06 season? I want to try my hand at Tramline at some point, but it's almost never open. :angry:

Adiron is right. Tramline never opened last year and unless we get the mother of all February-March dumps, it ain't going to happen this year.

 

[adamti91]

Cathedral Brook @ Belleayre

Yup . Hopefully it opens this year, but Bell hasn't gotten much in the way of snow at all... I've seen the trail from Roaring Brook and if we get another 6" or so coverage should be decent (not good enough to open it but good enough for me and whoever else wants to cut through the Roaring Brook fence to get to it).

 

[riverc0il]

if i remember correctly, kinsman glade and tramline are 2/4 for opening since they were put on the map (and not many days during those two seasons either). both are definitely pleasures to be looked forward to. cannon's terrain is way better than its natural snowfall allows for unfortunately. amazingly, tramline retains better snow than echo and sproket, perhaps due to less traffic. echo and lake view are almost never worth skiing on the rare occasion they actually are open.

 

[kingslug]

Claires @ Hunter...

Yup.

 

[mattchuck2]

This year: Slides @ Whiteface

Still kicking myself for not skipping work last year for it

 

[mattchuck2]

Also, I think Tramline is overrated . . . it wasn't that difficult or exciting . . . just one man's opinion.

 

[riverc0il]

Also, I think Tramline is overrated . . . it wasn't that difficult or exciting . . . just one man's opinion.

agreed for the most part about the overrated aspect. it is a really sweet trail when the snow is right, but it looks worse than it is. it isn't excessively difficult but it is exciting with a little bit of powder. that said, you obviously need a minimum skill set to be able to ski this trail safely. it starts off with a narrow and tight glade and has a crux near the cliff that can be hairy. top to bottom, avalanche has a more consistent and steeper pitch.

 

[mattchuck2]

Agreed . . . I like Kinsman too . . . more character

 

[Newpylong]

Devil's Fiddle!

 

[thebigo]

Devil's Fiddle!

plus one

 

[riverc0il]

Agreed . . . I like Kinsman too . . . more character

i actually like tramline better than kinsman based on the fact that kinsman has never filled in enough to have good conditions when i have skied it. kinsman gets skied off stupid quick because of how steep it is. from my experience, a lot of people side slipping and putting on the breaks whereas tramline seems to scare away skiers lacking the appropriate skill set for the trail. i have skied tramline and said "wow" but never had that feeling after kinsman... more like "wow, that was boney" (and i have generally skied them both the same day when ever they have been open).

 

[SIKSKIER]

Was Cannon's tramline trail ever opened during the 05/06 season? I want to try my hand at Tramline at some point, but it's almost never open. :angry:

I don't think it has officially opened the last two years.It doesn't look good for opening this year either.Mittersill just became skiable last weekend.

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

Being able to Ski Master Magician always made my day. (Usually those days I could also ski blackline or the closed section of Redline at sweep, but I don' really count those.)

I dump on K-Mart a lot, but I was happy to see Catwalk open the other day.