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Who Has The Best WROD?

mondeo

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So here's a question...are we comparing first weekend of SR to first weekend somewhere else, or are we comparing a date, say, Black Friday SR to Black Friday somewhere else?

If we're going with a given date, Killington and SR have to get pretty good consideration because of the head start they get.
 

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i'll give sundown the nod, seriously, for best pre december run last year.

nothing i saw beat the bumps they had setup on nor-easter and temptor. nothing.
 

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Sunday River has typically had strong early season snow and would get my vote. I would SL's recent efforts an honorable mention has they have been able to beginner (Tote), intermediate (Kings) and advance (Hayburner) runs off the Superquad open quite early.
 

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T2 at Sunday River -- good coverage from the top to midstation; can be treacherous when too many skiers head there to get early turns; trickiest part is getting down the ramp -- late in the afternoon, the snow gets skied off and you have to slide on wood!
 

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T2 at Sunday River -- good coverage from the top to midstation; can be treacherous when too many skiers head there to get early turns; trickiest part is getting down the ramp -- late in the afternoon, the snow gets skied off and you have to slide on wood!

I think it's pretty difficult loading at the midstation too... in either direction... but overall, I had a good time last year... can't wait for it again this year.
:beer::daffy::beer:

-w
 

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i'll give sundown the nod, seriously, for best pre december run last year.

nothing i saw beat the bumps they had setup on nor-easter and temptor. nothing.

Word!

Or is it Wrod!?

Not bad for November 30 in CT:

 

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Mt Snow's WROD is a pretty nice run. the thing with killington is that u normally have a couple of different trail options and lifts so u can mix it up. now as far as trail "rollout" goes.....i think the Big K wins that one.
 
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Mt Snow's WROD is a pretty nice run. the thing with killington is that u normally have a couple of different trail options and lifts so u can mix it up. now as far as trail "rollout" goes.....i think the Big K wins that one.

I agree and I like the hardcore freeforall of Killington on opening day..people skiing at top speed and carving to the max on opening day..amazing stuff and alot of top 30 skiers..
 

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Killington most extensive snowmaking system blows aways the competition...can even pop in the woods on lower bunny last year for 1 or 2 turns..
 

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A vote for Stowe. Always seems to get hit with somekind of dump...nice to start out with the powder/tree boards. But always have to watch the weather and the Loaf for the freak early December dump.
 
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A vote for Stowe. Always seems to get hit with somekind of dump...nice to start out with the powder/tree boards. But always have to watch the weather and the Loaf for the freak early December dump.

The poachfest Thanksgiving weekend was epic...and Stowe offers one heck of a WROD..Lord to NorthSlope and sometimes Centerline, Ridgeview, Sunrise and Standard as well for a leg burning 2050 verts..serviced by the Forerunner quad which boots you back to the top in 7 minutes..
 

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I've skied Loveland in October. It's a really flat and boring wrap-around trail. They have very limited snowmaking capacity so they don't expand terrain quickly. It takes them 3 weeks to blow the acres a Killington or Sunday River do in 48 hours.

I hope to check out A-Basin's October skiing this year. Hopefully, that is a little better than Loveland.


opening day for both areas last year LL had no wait at all vs. A-Basins 30 plus minute wait. Mambo mile is lame as hell but still is a longer run than A-basins offering with both being pretty mellow.

I always liked Sunday River early in the year on the midweek. Weekends early season scare the hell out of me anywhere.
 
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No such thing exists.

there are some pros to the WROD!!!!

Everybody gets to ski together on one trail...lots of energy and the ultimate human slalom....

You don't have to decide which run you want to ski..which saves braincells which can be killed during safety meeting in woods..

There are likely still leaves on the trees..

and the #1 reason the WROD is great is because it's ski season again:daffy: sure you can be an alpine purist and want the serenity and solitude of an untouched powder run but by the the first week of November..I'd ski on frozen dogshi5
 
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