New Trail Through Gore’s Tahawas Glades?

Talk in the Forum indicates that the trail shown above, connecting the top of the Burnt Ridge Quad, with the bottom of the North Chair, may go ahead this year to allow ski racing on Echo.  In the current layout, skiing on Echo would prohibit a lift-served return to the base for skiers on Burnt Ridge. The way it’s drawn below it would impact the bottom of the Tahawas trees. What do you think?

NYSB Take: If they keep it up high on the side of BR then maybe the impact on Tahawas would be minimal. Could also lead to some cool options for avoiding some of the flats on Pipeline and more tree skiing on the north side of the ridge.

Progress at the North Creek Ski Bowl

I took time today to check out progress at the Ski Bowl. After buying some hearty roast beef sandwiches at Sarah’s in town, we went over to Ski Bowl Park to eat. I gobbled mine down and left the womenfolk to relax, and use the playground. I took an hour to go explore. Not much progress on the Lodge. There were some guys working, but I would have thought they’d have gotten farther by now:

New lodge at the Ski Bowl.

I tried to take a picture that put the location of the new liftline in context. With the marginal wide angle on my point and shoot…the best I could do was include the existing lift that serves the half-pipe.

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