New Gore Trail

[Green light]

The new trail Backwoods is advertised as 60’ wide. It goes right through Barkeater Glade. The narrow trails referred to (Pipeline, Paradox and Eagles Nest) are all at the outlets of the glades coming off Burnt Ridge. After skiing Backwoods and loving it, I agree that the narrow trails should be widened.

 

[AndrewM]

narrow trails tend to hold onto the snow. the trees help shield the snow from the wind. i applaud gore for not cutting a four lane highway down the middle of those glades. enjoy the trail and slow down where appropriate.

Oh yeah, totally agreed on value of the narrowness (both aesthetically and functionally), just thought the serpentine section (including a hard left cut toward Barkeater) unnecessarily takes out some of the pitch and feels a bit artificial, was wondering if there's a reason why they had to cut a serpentine section rather than keeping the same straight shot until the Pipeline merge.

 

[Milo Maltbie]

There you go again.

If one of the two lifts run, it's going to be the gondola every time, due to it being a more comfortable ride and having better summit access.

It's never one lift anymore. The AE2 almost always runs, probably because it allows better access to all the lower mountain trials, including Burnt Ridge. When AE2 doesn't run, you need to skate from Striaghtbrook to get to HPQ, which is way harder than Wood In > HPQ. There's no perfect solution to access at Gore when they limit lifts, but 2 lifts at the bottom is nuts on quiet days, and of the two, the quad is better for a lot of skiers and not really bad for anyone,

mm

 

[snoloco]

Not really bad for anyone? Tell that to someone who had to ride it on a 10 degree day with 30 mph winds, like what we'll be getting later this week. Or having to ride 3 lifts instead of one to get to the Topridge trails. No one who has a gondola chooses not to run it on weekdays.

 

[Campgottagopee]

Not really bad for anyone? Tell that to someone who had to ride it on a 10 degree day with 30 mph winds, like what we'll be getting later this week. Or having to ride 3 lifts instead of one to get to the Topridge trails. No one who has a gondola chooses not to run it on weekdays.

Good gawd
It's skiing
It's cold

 

[Harvey]

What increased capacity?

More trail acreage/length.

 

[x10003q]

More trail acreage/length.

That acreage was already available and on the map as a glade.

 

[Milo Maltbie]

Not really bad for anyone? Tell that to someone who had to ride it on a 10 degree day with 30 mph winds, like what we'll be getting later this week. Or having to ride 3 lifts instead of one to get to the Topridge trails. No one who has a gondola chooses not to run it on weekdays.

For the 3 days every 5 years that happens, they can change the plan.
But what are you gonna do on that 10F day? Laps on Ruby and Foxlair? Ride Topridge? Have you ever done that on a windy day? Or are you gonna head to High Peaks or Burnt Ridge and ski glades? Oh wait, you can't because they closed them to run 2 lifts at the base.
There's no question that if the gondola were a chairlift that it would be the first to close if its capacity weren't needed, which it rarely is on weekdays, but they always run it because gondola. That rarely makes the experience better, and often makes it worse.

mm

 

[Harvey]

That acreage was already available and on the map as a glade.

I agree. Replant the trees.

 

[raisingarizona]

Not really bad for anyone? Tell that to someone who had to ride it on a 10 degree day with 30 mph winds, like what we'll be getting later this week. Or having to ride 3 lifts instead of one to get to the Topridge trails. No one who has a gondola chooses not to run it on weekdays.

But I thought you hated taking your skis off?