What are the longest, steepest, and narrowest trails in the Northeast?

[andrec10]

Goat is mostly straight until the end. Starr is a slow turn to the right, but upper goat is straight and knarly. Those are 2 of the toughest trails in the east.

 

[BushMogulMaster]

How 'bout Black Hole, Upper liftline, Freefall at Smuggs? Anyone skied those? Black Hole's the East's only triple black.

Nope! Extreme at Denton Hill, PA is a triple black!

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Nope! Extreme at Denton Hill, PA is a triple black!

Yup, check out the trail map of Ski Denton. It looks like from the trail map it's thru the woods but I remember from a bruhaha with the PASR forum, mostly with Greg :wink: :wink: a few years ago that there was a section that was crazy steep.
http://www.skidenton.com/winter/mountain/trail/

 

[riverc0il]

Goat is mostly straight until the end. Starr is a slow turn to the right, but upper goat is straight and knarly. Those are 2 of the toughest trails in the east.

Wow. That is quite a claim!

 

[hardline]

are we talking on map trails or all trails at a mountain?

 

[frozencorn]

I like Starr and Goat. Liftline and National are meh except on warm spring days. I think my favorite might be #5 Lookout

Agreed.

 

[AndyEich]

Yup, check out the trail map of Ski Denton. It looks like from the trail map it's thru the woods but I remember from a bruhaha with the PASR forum, mostly with Greg :wink: :wink: a few years ago that there was a section that was crazy steep.
http://www.skidenton.com/winter/mountain/trail/

Avalanche is the "triple fall line" trail that is claimed to be the steepest in the east. The triple-black glade Extreme, right beside it, gets a lot less press. Haven't skied Extreme, but Avalanche is a really nice trail for PA.
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[ski_resort_observer]

Avalanche is the "triple fall line" trail that is claimed to be the steepest in the east. The triple-black glade Extreme, right beside it, gets a lot less press. Haven't skied Extreme, but Avalanche is a really nice trail for PA.

Thanks for the clarification, I was wondering about that as I remember the steep trail talked about was a wide open trail, not in the woods.

Regarding upper Goat at Stowe, that is one steep, tight trail. I would never ski it now but in college a bunch of us made the stupid mistake of hitting it on one of those windy cold days and it was basically all blue ice. Being almost 40 years ago I was on my 210 sticks it was not skiing but just surviving. Slid down a section at a time and basically dove into the stubby trees to stop. When we got down to the bottom, we kissed the snow and went to the bar and got stinky drunk.

 

[fixedgrip16]

are we talking on map trails or all trails at a mountain?

Well, we might as well get right down to it and just talk about what all the toughest trails are in the east since that would entail steeps, bumps, trees, ice, narrowness and length. Twists and turns in a trail certainly won't make it any less difficult than a straight trail just w/o the same sense of exposure. As to the triple blacks, IMHO such a ranking is a stupid marketing gimmick. Sugarloaf's blacks would be doubles at many other ski areas and the doubles are legit. I bet the same holds true for Stowe, Ellen, Jay. Triples are a joke. Black Hole may be steep for its length but there's no way it's steeper than anything off Spillway x-cut at Sugarloaf i.e. White Nitro (Iceflow). Sounds like Goat's the winner with close seconds to Ellens Black Diamond, Magic's Red Line (black line looks pretty steep too and narrower). FYI 2" forecasted upper slopes tomorrow night.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Isn't there a website that has 3D images of a select group of the major resorts with the steepness color coated. Seems like that would be a great factual resource in this thread. I'd look for it but I'm watching the stock market closely this morning.

 

[Greg]

Isn't there a website that has 3D images of a select group of the major resorts with the steepness color coated. Seems like that would be a great factual resource in this thread. I'd look for it but I'm watching the stock market closely this morning.

http://www.3dskimaps.com/

 

[kcyanks1]

Isn't there a website that has 3D images of a select group of the major resorts with the steepness color coated. Seems like that would be a great factual resource in this thread. I'd look for it but I'm watching the stock market closely this morning.

http://3dskimaps.com/

 

[bvibert]

Here's a recent pic (I think) of Magic from their website. Looks nice. . .

That looks like it was taken somewhere on Blackline.

 

[dmc]

Anna Purna - Hunter

 

[Greg]

Anna Purna - Hunter

Mmmm. Special trail right there.

 

[andrec10]

Anna Purna - Hunter

You know, its right under my nose and I forgot about it. When its all bumped up, its a hell of a workout. Off topic, DMC, whats up with huntermtn.net?

 

[dmc]

You know, its right under my nose and I forgot about it. When its all bumped up, its a hell of a workout. Off topic, DMC, whats up with huntermtn.net?

Broke... I blame the Russian spammers...

been in Vegas the last 2 weeks... So I'm not sure whats up...

 

[Greg]

You know, its right under my nose and I forgot about it. When its all bumped up, its a hell of a workout.

I hope they get her open this season.

 

[bvibert]

You know, its right under my nose and I forgot about it. When its all bumped up, its a hell of a workout.

I hope they get her open this season.

Same here!

 

[JD]

Goat is mostly straight until the end. Starr is a slow turn to the right, but upper goat is straight and knarly. Those are 2 of the toughest trails in the east.

Oh god, a whole other thread.
Nothing at Smuggs???