Where are pretty and groomed steeps

What can I say, I like groomed runs. Don't need powder, don't like bumps.
But I'm tired of being on blue angle runs. On the East Coast I often end up
at Mount Snow which has the North Face which has a bunch of groomers but
they are not too long and all kind of look the same. I go out to Snowmass
each year which is almost all blue runs and the few single diamond runs are
rarely groomed (and the truly steep are never groomed). I know of one place
in Quebec that has pretty winding steeper through the trees (but not tightly
packed trees) where the runs are groomed every couple of days and that's
great. But I'd like to find another one. Hopefully one in the Northeast
and one out west.

Any ideas?

DZN wrote:
What can I say, I like groomed runs. Don't need powder, don't like bumps.
But I'm tired of being on blue angle runs. On the East Coast I often end up
at Mount Snow which has the North Face which has a bunch of groomers but
they are not too long and all kind of look the same. I go out to Snowmass
each year which is almost all blue runs and the few single diamond runs are
rarely groomed (and the truly steep are never groomed). I know of one place
in Quebec that has pretty winding steeper through the trees (but not tightly
packed trees) where the runs are groomed every couple of days and that's
great. But I'd like to find another one. Hopefully one in the Northeast
and one out west.

Any ideas?

Learn to deal. But seriously, you are limiting your experience.
Take a few lessons. Let some really upper level instructor
(a great teacher, not necessarily anything other than a
truly competent skier) give you the tools to enjoy bumps,
ice, trees, steeps and a combination thereof and enjoy.

"DZN" wrote in message
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What can I say, I like groomed runs. Don't need powder, don't like bumps.
But I'm tired of being on blue angle runs. On the East Coast I often end
up
at Mount Snow which has the North Face which has a bunch of groomers but
they are not too long and all kind of look the same. I go out to Snowmass
each year which is almost all blue runs and the few single diamond runs
are
rarely groomed (and the truly steep are never groomed). I know of one
place
in Quebec that has pretty winding steeper through the trees (but not
tightly
packed trees) where the runs are groomed every couple of days and that's
great. But I'd like to find another one. Hopefully one in the Northeast
and one out west.

Mammoth has some nice, long, pretty blues, usually well groomed. You can
take the tram to the top, for instance, and follow the cat track all the way
around the mountain back to the main lodge, or take some of the short-cut
possibilities along the way.

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:56:50 GMT, "DZN"
wrote:

What can I say, I like groomed runs. Don't need powder, don't like bumps.
But I'm tired of being on blue angle runs. On the East Coast I often end up
at Mount Snow which has the North Face which has a bunch of groomers but
they are not too long and all kind of look the same. I go out to Snowmass
each year which is almost all blue runs and the few single diamond runs are
rarely groomed (and the truly steep are never groomed). I know of one place
in Quebec that has pretty winding steeper through the trees (but not tightly
packed trees) where the runs are groomed every couple of days and that's
great. But I'd like to find another one. Hopefully one in the Northeast
and one out west.

Any ideas?

The Mayflower and Sultan lifts at Deer Valley come to mind. They
serve some terrain which could fairly be called "steep", and is
unquestionably "groomed".

bw

Keystone excelled in steep groomers. most were "blue", but at many hills
those gradients would be black. There was a blue/black called Go Devil which
they used for racing, which was steep enough to make my toes curl when it
was groomed (and it usually was). Only time I liked skiing it was after
fresh snowfall before they wrecked it.



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"DZN" wrote:

What can I say, I like groomed runs. ... I'd like to find another one.
Hopefully one in the Northeast and one out west.
Any ideas?

Nothing can match the (wind) groomed steeps of Breck. There is nothing like them:

http://homepage.mac.com/saemisch/Pow...1054-full.html

Mike...

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DZN wrote:
What can I say, I like groomed runs. Don't need powder, don't like
bumps.
But I'm tired of being on blue angle runs. On the East Coast I often
end up
at Mount Snow which has the North Face which has a bunch of groomers
but
they are not too long and all kind of look the same. I go out to
Snowmass
each year which is almost all blue runs and the few single diamond
runs are
rarely groomed (and the truly steep are never groomed). I know of
one place
in Quebec that has pretty winding steeper through the trees (but not
tightly
packed trees) where the runs are groomed every couple of days and
that's
great. But I'd like to find another one. Hopefully one in the
Northeast
and one out west.

Regulator Johnson at Snowbird is often groomed, and is pretty steep
(though I know Bob Thompson doesn't think so . At Telluride,
there's the Plunge, which is split-groomed, and and plenty steep.

In the east, there's always White Heat at Sunday River in Maine.

Dave

I have seen Prima and Blue Ox groomed at Vail, but this is obviously a
rare event. They seem to be keeping one side of Tourist Trap groomed,
but this is a short run.

Many of the ski areas publish daily grooming reports. For the larger
areas, you can probably find one of the bump runs groomed on any given
day.

When there's snow, Warm Springs and Graduate at Sun Valley. Beaver
Creek has some nice steep and smooth stuff also.

Gnarlito wrote:
When there's snow, Warm Springs and Graduate at Sun Valley. Beaver
Creek has some nice steep and smooth stuff also.

I too was going to mention Beaver Creek, and Deer Valley.

JP
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Sticking to the groomers lately.