I don't see how you can run lower Sunrise without snowmaking. What would you get, 5 days a year? The good terrain down there (Gold Dust, The Judge, Noreaster, Thunderball) is pretty steep and requires a good amount of base.
One problem I see is that the base of the current Sunrise chair is a good 100 yards too high up the hill to allow anyone to ski down to it from the midstation area. No matter what kind of lift they build below you would need to ride the upper lift once to get out of there.
Ramshead/Sunrise???
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Anybody going to try to ski lower sunrise this weekend....?
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Skied it last weekend, plenty of snownewpylong wrote:Nowher near enough white stuff
Not a bad little area but its really grown in and IMHO not really worth the hike(right now)
However, with a little brush clearing and some work in the trees over on Cherry Knoll you could have a nice little powder paradise with about 600 feet of vert and only about 30 minutes worth of hike out. I'd recommend some kind of touring gear as postholing the sunrise condo x-c/snowshoe trails is a good way to get people pissed off. But from a Patrol/Safety perspective its actually a nice area since its really tucked away which means that the only people who would head back that way would be people who knew what they were doing, and not some morons who try to ski downhill from Coopers thinking that it'd be a faster way to get back to the ski area.
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depended on the year... I used to go over to Sunrise days after alaseranimal wrote:Skied it last weekend, plenty of snownewpylong wrote:Nowher near enough white stuff
Not a bad little area but its really grown in and IMHO not really worth the hike(right now)
However, with a little brush clearing and some work in the trees over on Cherry Knoll you could have a nice little powder paradise with about 600 feet of vert and only about 30 minutes worth of hike out. I'd recommend some kind of touring gear as postholing the sunrise condo x-c/snowshoe trails is a good way to get people pissed off. But from a Patrol/Safety perspective its actually a nice area since its really tucked away which means that the only people who would head back that way would be people who knew what they were doing, and not some morons who try to ski downhill from Coopers thinking that it'd be a faster way to get back to the ski area.
storm and there would still be thigh high on the Judge and Thunderball.
Great place to hide on a busy day too. another tragedy in a long
list already at K.
Rams head, don't get me started. Everytime I ride the Snowdon quad
I look over at top of Vagabond and remember another old time
twist through woods trail lost to overdevelopment.
Sunrise: A real tragedy -- but if I recall correctly it opened up around Pres. Week in a good snow year -- and, it was completely ignored by the vast majority of Killington skiers. By the end, the lift-line trail was always "reserved" because Ski Patrol didn't bother putting padding on the lift poles.
Rams Head: It can be very windy at the top, but I disagree with those who say cutting the lift, ruined it... To the contrary, the top of the mountain is now some of the premier hike-to terrain in N.E.
Rams Head: It can be very windy at the top, but I disagree with those who say cutting the lift, ruined it... To the contrary, the top of the mountain is now some of the premier hike-to terrain in N.E.
down thousand drops of death, bear mountain quad to watch the bumpers, but we be hittin Bear's Ass cuz we be the cliff jumpers..
don't know about that goose, don't see too many tracks coming from
up there lately, saplings are getting pretty thick. Last time I hiked/skied
upper Vagabond, I wasn't in the trees, I was on top of the them and
that was four years ago (there were shots of 3-4 feet of snow though!). See most traffic on upper Timberline, sb's usually hiking up there.
Is that you, ride or tele?
up there lately, saplings are getting pretty thick. Last time I hiked/skied
upper Vagabond, I wasn't in the trees, I was on top of the them and
that was four years ago (there were shots of 3-4 feet of snow though!). See most traffic on upper Timberline, sb's usually hiking up there.
Is that you, ride or tele?
I don't care how nice of a family mountain Ram's Head is now, it is a shame that decent skiable terrain was lost to do so. Another on a long list of things they all should be hung for...
Laser, we were on the same mountain last weekend? I poled down Sun Dog, hiked up Hawkeye to Hawk's Nest, then went down Thunderball to Noreaster and got a ride out. It was barely skiable......
Laser, we were on the same mountain last weekend? I poled down Sun Dog, hiked up Hawkeye to Hawk's Nest, then went down Thunderball to Noreaster and got a ride out. It was barely skiable......