Harvey
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Powder days are overrated.
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raisingarizona
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That’s barely even uphill! ?
Campgottagopee
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It is
Even when 2 isn't spinning you can hit the middle and lower parts of Ronnie's Run. The top part is worth the walk if there's POW, if not, meh, I'll ski the middle and bottom
Brownski
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It’s not the 80 feet. That’s fine. It’s traversing back and forth to ride a lift. It’s a long, flat slide from the main quad to reach the spot where you climb. I guess it’s better from lift 4. I’m not familiar enough with the place. Also, I’m bringing my kids when I go. I might get them to climb once; after that the bitching will increase exponentially. But we can all have fun on that terrain, lapping that lift.
Campgottagopee
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U can get to 2 from chair 1 or 1A without a traverse. I'll tell you how before you come again
sig
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AZ this is crazy talk. We have so many mountains and back country choices here in NY i have never had a bad powder day. even when i skied over the ropes on the west side of hunter. got to the bottom and had to walk back to the mountain. that did not suck. or the day at gore when it was 20-30 below and the wind was whipping, the glades off sagamore where sweat. I got frost bite on my thumb because i would not take a break. it may get a little crowded but a mid week powder day at plattekill, gore or magic cannot be beat. hell at plattekill you can poke around days later and find some stashes.
How about the Camp'snowmobile shuttle-guide service?
Bet ya could get some tips.
Donate proceeds to yer favorite local charity.
Everybody wins.
Face4Me
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As I mentioned in the other thread, I skied Snowbird & Alta last week, and was lucky enough to be skiing lots of untracked fresh powder runs. The skiers/riders we encountered out there are VERY aggressive.
On Saturday, we were at Snowbird and had been skiing the Gad 2 lift for a while. We decided to head over to the Little Cloud chair to ski Regulator Johnson. As we unloaded the chair, we saw a huge crowd gathered at the top, waiting for ski patrol to open the Road to Provo (it hadn't been open at all so far this season). It became apparent that it was going to open any minute, and sure enough, it did.
I've never seen anything like it ... I likened it to a school of piranha!!! We got in the line and started across the Road to Provo traverse. People were elbowing each other, pushing each other, skiing into each other ... it was absolutely crazy. A lot of it was caused by boarders who had been waiting for it to open and were sitting in the snow. Then, they had to get into their boards, but they had no starting speed to get across the traverse. It was causing a major traffic jam, and the skiers were anything but patient about it!!! A couple of people got "knocked off" the edge of the traverse and went sliding down. People on the traverse were laughing and you heard comments like "Bad day for him".
We got a little way into the traverse and the people I was with decided to drop into the first open gate that ski patrol had set up. Most of the people were continuing further out on the traverse. The top was a little sketchy ... it reminded me of skiing the Whiteface slides ... there were some trees and rocks that we had to negotiate around and the snow was a little crunchy, but after about 100 feet or so, we were in knee deep untouched powder ... it was absolutely amazing. We went back up for a second run, and by that time, the crowd was thinned out, but there was still a fair amount of aggressive behavior on the traverse.
That first run was a little unnerving, with all the craziness, but once we got into that untouched powder, everything else was forgotten.
