What is your favorite "Classic Narrow Eastern Trail&quo
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Mark Renson
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timmaah":2wt27mq1 said:
Finally got around to skiing that last February. Lousy coverage in spots, but a real hoot where there was coverage. It certainly has potential.
Mark Renson
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Patrick":38n0sr9y said:
That's just it. It's all about fun. Gimme' a fun roller coaster ride novice/intermediate trail over some ballyhooed homogenized straight featureless (it's featureless except the weird-shaped snowmaking trail moguls) sheet of frozen McCrap that Mr./Ms. Marketing Puke labelled "Expert" where you make skid turns and scrape your way down with hundreds of others who ski it just because they wanna' run home and tell their friends that they skied a diamond.
I'm a Novice/Intermediate and damn proud of it ......and I have fun. Period.
LobsterTeleGrrrl
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There's a winding narrow trail at the Loaf between Kings Landing and Tote Road that is fun to ski....No snowmaking or grooming.
Castlerock
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You have to consider the Teardrop on Mansfield.
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Anonymous
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Tuckerbrook is way up there... 13 turns (including the hairpin right), cliffs off to the left (not exactly on the trail, but a fun option).. the middle birches... no grooming, and (usually) no one else out there. Spotting a car is work, but with the crew that posts here, i'm sure that there are plenty of parties that can get together to arrange a run... or, bring a pack w/ alternate footwear...
On the other side of that ridge, the Hardscrabbles are great...
Can anyone speak to the Wildcat River trail off the back of the 'Cat ?
On the other side of that ridge, the Hardscrabbles are great...
Can anyone speak to the Wildcat River trail off the back of the 'Cat ?
NHpowderhound
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I belive you mean the Wildcat Valley Trail.And no.But it's a MUST this year.I heard last year it never really got got into epic shape.Give me a shout out if any members want to hook up for that this year.
Spend the morning ripping fresh lines in "The Brook" :-$ and then hit the W.V.T. for 11 miles and 3,245 vertical feet of backcountry! =P~
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Spend the morning ripping fresh lines in "The Brook" :-$ and then hit the W.V.T. for 11 miles and 3,245 vertical feet of backcountry! =P~
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Anonymous
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"I have yet to ski tramline or kinsman glade at cannon. Anybody have any experiences there?"
I skied Kinsman & Tuckerbrook the same day last March; the end of that last week of good snow. I used to work at Cannon and my buddy who still works there cut the trail with his brother 2 years ago. I don't think hardly anyone but us has skiied the trail. It's great because there's a lot of options on where to drop in and what path to take out, but if you don't know the mountain really well you could easily get lost. I think the reason no ones really skiied it is because most people don't even know how to get to it.
Anyway the trail is pretty tight. The terrain is really fun with lots of steep sections alternating with more gentle sections and a lot of options to cruise around in the trees (get lost). The spacing can be pretty wide open at points (for Cannon) but is mostly pretty tight, although you can find much tighter glades over on Mittersil ie the glade FSC "maintains" and also Tuckerbrook. I'd have to say _the_ classic narrow eastern trail is the original top half of Tuckerbrook although I always liked the bottom half better. In bounds Upper Ravine is where it's at; it's not really too narrow but those turns are so damn fun!
I skied Kinsman & Tuckerbrook the same day last March; the end of that last week of good snow. I used to work at Cannon and my buddy who still works there cut the trail with his brother 2 years ago. I don't think hardly anyone but us has skiied the trail. It's great because there's a lot of options on where to drop in and what path to take out, but if you don't know the mountain really well you could easily get lost. I think the reason no ones really skiied it is because most people don't even know how to get to it.
Anyway the trail is pretty tight. The terrain is really fun with lots of steep sections alternating with more gentle sections and a lot of options to cruise around in the trees (get lost). The spacing can be pretty wide open at points (for Cannon) but is mostly pretty tight, although you can find much tighter glades over on Mittersil ie the glade FSC "maintains" and also Tuckerbrook. I'd have to say _the_ classic narrow eastern trail is the original top half of Tuckerbrook although I always liked the bottom half better. In bounds Upper Ravine is where it's at; it's not really too narrow but those turns are so damn fun!
riverc0il
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might have something to do with the fact they they never opened it last year :wink: unless i missed a snow report the week you banged it out that is. i don't remember the snow report having either tramline or kinsman open last year due to the low amount of snow fall. though you bring up a good point in how well hidden the entrances to these trails are. no one could accidently wind up on either of them with premeditation.tred":3khgx66o said:
NHpowderhound
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David Goodman's book "Backcountry Sking Adventures in Maine and NH" says"This trail is not appropriate for snowboarding"(sorry Hamdog)".It includes frequent stretches of flat and uphill skiing and travels along cross country ski trails." 
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I have talked to several people with experience on the trail and they tell me that with some minor polling and herringbones the trail is quite doable on alpine or AT gear.
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:wink: I have talked to several people with experience on the trail and they tell me that with some minor polling and herringbones the trail is quite doable on alpine or AT gear.
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Anonymous
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Rumble ad been my favorie for more than 20 years.
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Anonymous
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Gotta say, with limited breadth of knowledge, Pumphouse Chute on Jay. A poetic sequence of different trail shapes, with several tree-bottlenecks, 5' drops, and the 150' of natural halfpipe being the most hoot-extracting. Plus you can get to it from dropping through the Saddle, which in most years can only take a couple of tracks before a nasty utiliy line pokes out and starts grabbing skis, don't know if it is still there.....
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Anonymous
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Yer probably right i never could keep em straight.....
Cannonball
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Tuckerbrook takes the cake for classic narrow winding New England trails. As for "in-use" trails, Ravine and Upper Cannon are some of the best anywhere.
I've only hit Magic a few times over the years, so I don't know the trail names well enough, but I remember being impressed with the way the trails were cut. They seem to have a very natural flow down and across fall-lines, which is the spirit of the classic New England Trail.
Tramline and Kinsmans don't really fit the profile but since we are talking about them....
Kinsman saw some sweet days early last year. The biggest problem in there is the downed trees. Without decent coverage, it's very easy to find your skiis and knees on opposite sides of a log. A broken binding (or leg) could make for a long cold night in the notch.
Tramline is the exact opposite of the "classic narrow New England Trail". It's a straght shot right down mountain. Again coverage is key, although I've hit it on days when air is mandatory to stay off the rocks and it was still a blast.
I've only hit Magic a few times over the years, so I don't know the trail names well enough, but I remember being impressed with the way the trails were cut. They seem to have a very natural flow down and across fall-lines, which is the spirit of the classic New England Trail.
Tramline and Kinsmans don't really fit the profile but since we are talking about them....
Kinsman saw some sweet days early last year. The biggest problem in there is the downed trees. Without decent coverage, it's very easy to find your skiis and knees on opposite sides of a log. A broken binding (or leg) could make for a long cold night in the notch.
Tramline is the exact opposite of the "classic narrow New England Trail". It's a straght shot right down mountain. Again coverage is key, although I've hit it on days when air is mandatory to stay off the rocks and it was still a blast.
Geoff
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skiadikt":1uy761yk said:
Mr Renson is an ex-Kmarter so he knows what he's talking about. The classic New England trails at Killington like Northstar, Great Bear, or Escapade/Flume are either far too short or see far too much skier traffic. My personal favorite at Killington was Downdraft before they chainsawed all the trees off it. Superstar was also pretty fun and hardly ever saw much traffic.