What expansion would you most like to see happen and where?

[steamboat1]

I bought several single ride tickets last year at Smuggs. I love that they still offer the option.

Didn't know that. Still for me that wouldn't work being I come up 100 from the south. The whole idea was to save the drive between Stowe & Smuggs.

 

[Smellytele]

Didn't know that. Still for me that wouldn't work being I come up 100 from the south. The whole idea was to save the drive between Stowe & Smuggs.

Smuggs probably does it because they make the money off the people staying there.

 

[from_the_NEK]

That would be frickin crazy.

Not as crazy as you may think. Statistically, it would actually be less impressive than the Peak2Peak at
Whistler/Blackcomb. Makes you realize how big those mtns are out there.

Peak2Peak (http://ww1.whistlerblackcomb.com/p2pg/details/) :
Total length = 2.73 miles/14,400ft
Widest span = 1.88 miles/9,280ft
Height above valley = Estimate 2400ft with no line sag, 1427ft with sag

Cannon to Lafayette:
Total length = 2.56 miles/13,500ft
Widest span = 1.45 miles/7,675ft
Height above I-93 = 2100ft with no line sag. Probably around 1500ft with sag (less sag due to shorter span)

 

[Puck it]

Not as crazy as you may think. Statistically, it would actually be less impressive than the Peak2Peak at
Whistler/Blackcomb. Makes you realize how big those mtns are out there.

Peak2Peak (http://ww1.whistlerblackcomb.com/p2pg/details/) :
Total length = 2.73 miles/14,400ft
Widest span = 1.88 miles/7,675ft
Height above valley = Estimate 2400ft with no line sag, 1427ft with sag

Cannon to Lafayette:
Total length = 2.56 miles/13,500ft
Widest span = 1.45 miles/7,675ft
Height above I-93 = 2100ft with no line sag. Probably around 1500ft with sag (less sag due to shorter span)

Did you save that? Show the terrain from the north side and east side if you did.

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

Tried to blow it up. It did not take

I see it now. I was looking at that entire area a few years ago on google Earth but have never made it to the mountain. Interesting how much your photo reveals compared to current satellite/aerial imagery with the leaves on the trees. Looks like a playground to me.

 

[jarrodski]

This would be a sin.

+1

 

[St. Bear]

This would be a sin.

I'm going to need some matches.

+1

You people lack vision.

 

[Puck it]

I see it now. I was looking at that entire area a few years ago on google Earth but have never made it to the mountain. Interesting how much your photo reveals compared to current satellite/aerial imagery with the leaves on the trees. Looks like a playground to me.

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Leaves hide a lot. You can see a lot of the stuff of the saddle too. Also all of the various lines below Gunsight.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Ask and ye shall receive!

 

[Puck it]

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Never mind. Work firewall problem.

Thanks.

 

[from_the_NEK]

The 2009 imagery that is n Google Earth doesn't have that shadow. Click the picture for the full size image.

 

[Puck it]

The 2009 imagery that is n Google Earth doesn't have that shadow.

Still not as clear as B&W with snow.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Yep, that is my pet peeve with aerial imagery recently. It is all leaf on. The B&W stuff in Google Earth is all from the early-mid 90's. I would love to have some leaf off for all of New England. There was a color leaf off strip through the NEK done back in late April 2006 which still had some snow at higher elevations. But it was poorly georeferenced.

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

Didn't know that. Still for me that wouldn't work being I come up 100 from the south. The whole idea was to save the drive between Stowe & Smuggs.

Yeah I understand. I actually park at Smuggs/108 lot on a lazy day, non-powder day and get a single ride ticket. Head up top, eat lunch at the pond and hike/skin around some side country stuff back there then at the end of the day drop down BB's and back to the car which I have waiting for me on 108.

Makes for an inexpensive and fulfilling day of skiing.

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

You people lack vision.

The Quad and Gondi are protected from the strong gusting on top of the ridge by being a couple hundred feet lower. Put a lift to the top and it would be on wind holds 1/2 the time.

Nevermind the fact that it would flood the Chin with people who can't ski it.

 

[deadheadskier]

I think people are missing st beats sarcasm

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[Huck_It_Baby]

I think people are missing st beats sarcasm

Sent from my XT907 using AlpineZone mobile app

Oh yeah. It's way over my head.

 

[from_the_NEK]

I figured out how to suspend the line above the valley. So here are a few more angles:

From Mittersil traverse -


From Artist’s Bluff -


From Haystack -


From the Basin -


From the Old Man Viewing area next to Profile Lake -

 

[Smellytele]

Dangerous for the military jets that fly through there

 

[C-Rex]

Would be pretty cool to see a formation fly under the gondola from inside it though!