Gore Improvements Summer 2021
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TheGreatAbyss
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Think about the Canyon Quad / Bear Mountain Triple at Killington, Castlerock Double at Sugarbush, Mountain Run or Summit lifts at Whiteface. These are all pods that are for the most part advanced skiers only. And this is only the East Coast, I could go on forever if I started listing out West.
Mountains of Gore's size benefit in both safety and skier experience by separating areas according to ability. Beginners don't want people zooming by them, and experts don't want the entire mountain to be a slow skiing zone.
The reason cloud/Headwaters are "the greenest blue trails on the mountain" is because Gore wanted to discourage dumb parents from taking their snow plowing kid up top while people are zooming by on their way to Lies, or out of Hawkeye. With the addition of the new lift and the direction management has been taking I wouldn't be surprised if they did change these to greens.
They run the North Quad exceptionally slow because that pod caters to young children and beginner skiers (as it should). It's like a 15 minute ride that should only be 5 minutes. Should they also slow down SBQ to cater to the kids and families as well?
I have a 1 year old, when he's ready to ski he doesn't need to learn on the Summit. There are 50 other trails at Gore he can snow plow on.
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x10003q
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Comparing the High Peaks pod to any of these big vertical expert areas is just silly. The HP pod has a short 200 vertical feet of slightly black terrain where Cloud feeds into Lower Steilhang/Darkside Glades/Hullabaloo. The only real, on the map, expert stuff is a few turns on Upper Darby and a few turns on Lower Steilhang and some of the Darkside Glades. Most of the area can be skied by intermediates - Upper Steilhang, OpenPit, Lower Darby, Santanoni, Wood Lot North/South, and all the others near the chair. Cloud is a green, so the High Peaks area has zero in common with the pods you mentioned.
Very few ski areas Eastern ski areas have the separation you are speaking about. Slow skiing zones are usually green trails and near lifts or big intersections. By the way, most of the high speed skiing is on green and blue trails - where green and blue skiers ski.
Stop it. The Red Gondola went to the top and we would all ride up there with our little kids (who loved it) and take Cloud all the way down until we would have to drag our kids across the flat spot to get to the Saddle Lodge. Nobody was confusing going to Lies and Hawkeye with going to Cloud. Upgrading the HP lift didn't change the terrain.
Nope.
That is fine for you. But the High Peaks are not and have never been an expert pod. There are plenty of trails in the High Peaks for beginners and intermediates.
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snoloco
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I was at Gore on Saturday, so I got to see some of the improvements. Here is the widening of The Arena. You can clearly see where the original treeline was.
Here's the entrance to the new Lower Steilhang. From the tree markings, it looks like it's only one groomer width wide, so I don't see it affecting the character much. I do hope they keep the original entrance as a natural trail. If so, then it should be open a lot more, since the headwall was always what kept the trail from ever being open much.
As for the High Peaks lift line remediation, here's what it looks like now. I'm not sure if it really changed much from before.
Here's the entrance to the new Lower Steilhang. From the tree markings, it looks like it's only one groomer width wide, so I don't see it affecting the character much. I do hope they keep the original entrance as a natural trail. If so, then it should be open a lot more, since the headwall was always what kept the trail from ever being open much.
As for the High Peaks lift line remediation, here's what it looks like now. I'm not sure if it really changed much from before.
