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Exactly how many million was this again? Does anyone know?

One issue I’ve heard from instructors is that the summit learning area only really works for true carpet beginners with 2 hour lessons. The 15 minute roundtrip eats up too much time in a 1 hour lesson. Since Belle only has intermediate and expert trails off the top, downloading back to base is...

Belle had the Thunderhawk Learning Center at the summit open which I thought was pretty cool. Peanut was able to rip a couple laps there before we committed to Deer Run. The beginner carpet area at the base was still a mud pit. The Lightning Quad and Iroquois serving beginners was also open...

The first rule of the x trail is no one skis the x trail. https://nyskiblog.com/forum/threads/hunter-mountain-secret-trail.988/

Love me some gun drift. Some people call it a waste. https://nyskiblog.com/forum/threads/snow-gun-waste.1447/

Yes, wow, they dropped three of them from the map. They were keeping Niehues busy with some edits for a few years there. From what I recall the one that is remaining is very much low angle.

Didn’t realize it was actually ever labeled with an X on the map with the key description as “Future lifts and trails” 1986 map from skimap.org shows it as such.

There wasn’t enough snow when I was there, so I haven’t been in them myself, but my friend has been and he says they’re great. He said they were lapping them with no one in sight. I don’t think they’re open all that much. The advantage of the Northside is that the snow gets shaded but the...

Super fun Passhole Day today at Belle. Coverage was great and the snow was soft. Back in the saddle with Team Turtle, looking forward to another awesome ski season. Sorry we missed you SPP.

I forgot about the mis-ratings. The North Face trails debuted in 2018 and they were all labeled blue square / more difficult. Intermediates from Belt Parkway and Way Out unknowingly dropped onto steep icy expert trails that never see the sun. On the 2019 map, two of the trails, Twilight and...

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I first rode that lift. One of the trails has a steep icy headwall with a double fall line ending with woods above an opposing dogleg. I don’t know who planned that out but people died. Did they really expect a different result? God bless those souls, no one needs...

The one with the trails that killed people?

Hunter is opening tomorrow with one run. Belleayre is open today with 25% of their acreage.

The old cut ends at 3,250 and follows the ridge along their property line. It seems they could still add another lift and some trails there if they wanted too. Trent Poole has said they are looking at their entire footprint to see how they can maximize the mountain experience. Time will tell if...

Nose blunt some rails and you’ll be good to go.

Very much an exercise of force. They plowed the roads up Bearpen too and now it’s an abandoned mess. It doesn’t seem like a big deal until you visit all of the other High Peaks with their first growth boreal forest still intact and see them in comparison. If you’re going to develop something...

Those guys drove bulldozers around and blew up shit like crazy. That line is all bushed in now and Fail can barely open Westway let alone Annapurna.

“Future lift to 3500” 😏

Pine Hill, NY