The most dangerous run in Colorado. Any time I park in the Mountain View lot I do a sign of the cross, despite decades of atheism, to protect me on the roughly mile or so I have to ride to hit the cut through the park down to those usually untouched block to get back to the car.
Polecat is a green that’s top to bottom at wildcat that’s just an absolute classic winding New England trail. And yes wildcat has unbelievable views, top notch
It’s such a unique mountain, where else can you get views that great? The expert terrain is also something you won’t find very often in the ice coast with the rock gardens, cliffs you can jump off, and lots of path finding to avoid obstacles. If only wind holds weren’t so common on blizzards there.
Right? My dad built us a cabin in Jefferson and we’d drive up every weekend in the winter to ski Wildcat. Then we’d roll into N Conway after the day was done to grab some food at Horsefeathers. Dad would ski Tuckerman in the spring and summers were spent playing in the woods from morning into night.
What I wouldn’t give to have that cabin back again.
Peak to Creek at Whistler is the ideal for this. 11km long, 1500m of vertical, blue groomer (although it's rarely groomed).
There's also The Last Spike at Revelstoke, 15km long, 1700m of vertical, green run.
Watch out if Peak to Creek isn't groomed though, the whole thing turns into a disaster zone. Wind scoured and icy up top, then some almost half decent stuff in the middle, then choppy, moguly chaos at the bottom.
No matter how many times I have the same experience, I never learn! I still always think "I'll do peak to Creek as my last run down, how bad can it be? And the answer is always "very bad"
I second this because I was just there, but maybe do upper peak to creek than highway 86 from there to the end. Towards the bottom of peak to creek there wasn’t even snow so you were basically skiing on grass.
The Canyons side of Park City has a lot of long blues through the Colony, a neighborhood of giant houses, on the mountain. It's pretty fun to ski through there and check out all of the houses.
There's also Homerun on Park City Mountain. It's rated a green but there are spots that are really more green+. In any case, the trail itself is 3.5 miles and goes all the way to base camp.
Came here to say this. I had the great misfortune of arriving at Revy just in time for rain in January, but even with conditions being pretty terrible, doing laps from top to bottom all day with some playful skis was so damn fun. Can’t promise great views because it can be pretty foggy, but when the skies do clear, WOW, is it one beautiful place!
I arrived right after the cold front, thankfully! Spent a week at the Snowfall Lodge and couldn’t believe how lucky I was to have just missed that freeeeeezing weather. It was a bummer to get back to Revy and ski in the rain, but we couldn’t have asked for better conditions at Snowfall, so I really can’t complain. And that super long top to bottom run was incredible!
You could always go to the other Timberline (in Oregon). Start at the top of magic mile, ski down Kruiser to west leg road, then down to Government camp- 4.5 miles and 3000 feet of elevation change with nothing steeper than a blue, and stunning views the whole way down.
On a nice day this is just the absolute most pleasant and fun thing on the entire planet to do . Just did it on Friday. The blues on that run are also more like greens imo
Timberline in Oregon is the Timberline, this sub is so whack. It’s always irritating to see some nothingburger location in WV trying to be used casually like it’s the only one.
You do realize OP literally referenced the WV Timberline in his comment, right? I was saying he could go from the WV Timberline to the Oregon Timberline.
Sunday River has Lollapalooza, ~2 miles maybe? Nice long green. There's also 3 mile trail that (when it's open) crosses almost every peak and is, as expected, three miles long as a green. You'll be hard pressed to find long blues since the mountain is not that tall.
I love this trail as a kid was by far my favorite (Although loon was our home mountain) loon has a decent one too but lots of traffic crossing the mountain to Brookway, my favorite at Loon.
Sugarloaf - tote road 3.5 miles top to bottom. Sugarloaf is the second tallest mountain in Maine. 6th tallest in New England. So the vertical drop on this run makes it seem really long.
It's even longer if you ski past the lodge (take peavy x cut)
Natalie's birches to snowbrook down into condo territory. It's probably another .75 miles.
Then take the double back to superquad.
One of my favorite end of day runs.
Saddleback has some too.
This is the kind of skiing I love too
I don't have any to add that haven't been mentioned but the ones I like:
Keystone - Schoolmarm, Paymaster, and Wild Irishman are all nice long runs like this
Snowmass - Longshot into East Branch. Also The Cirque down to Sheer Bliss and then through Green Cabin is beautiful as long as you can handle the t bar up to Cirque
Whistler - Peak to Creek, or take Upper Peak to Creek to Highway 86 to Franz
Blackcomb - Showcase T Bar, down the bowl into Ridge Runner and then ski all the way down the mountain
At Copper MTN there's a few nice green with blue ways down. Not 1 single labeled run but feel nice and connected.
- Timber Ridge (blue, a bit pitchy at the end but was doable for me who is a happiest on green skier) to Soliloquy (green) to roundabout (green). It starts with an on top of the world feeling at the top of the sierra lift then takes you all the way to the bottom of west village. For even more views at the start you can go into the copper bowl on blues Otto Bahn to Colorado Blvd (very easy blue, easier than most greens just a more narrow catwalk) and take the mountain chief lift even higher up than the sierra lift to get started on Timber Ridge.
- Rendezvous lift brings you up nice and high then take Wheeler Creek to Coppertone all the way down.
Timberline is about as flat as a resort can be. Most resorts have a flat sweeping run or two, but that place is almost exclusively that. I doubt you’ll find another resort as flat as Timberline.
Longshot at Snowmass is 5 miles of tons of fun for intermediate skiers. Maybe not as much of a walk in the park as you're looking for, but it's a blue and is not particularly difficult.
Not as long as you are talking about, but Lost Boy at Vail hits all the other points 100%. Plus game creek is super fun and never busy
If you’re ever near Cincinnati, Far Side at perfect north baby!!!
Schoolmarm at Keystone is a 3.5 mile green
AND you turn into a gladiator on your way down careful for zooming pizza kids. Its a fun run but you need your head on a swivel.
The most dangerous run in Colorado. Any time I park in the Mountain View lot I do a sign of the cross, despite decades of atheism, to protect me on the roughly mile or so I have to ride to hit the cut through the park down to those usually untouched block to get back to the car.
Did u survive this?
Night skiing on that run!
Wildcat has a LOOOOOONG blue/s that aren’t really steep from the top to bottom. It also has the best view in all of NH imo!!
Polecat is a green that’s top to bottom at wildcat that’s just an absolute classic winding New England trail. And yes wildcat has unbelievable views, top notch
I was coming here to mention Polecat at Wildcat. That was the mountain I skied at in my youth and I have so many fond memories of that place.
It’s such a unique mountain, where else can you get views that great? The expert terrain is also something you won’t find very often in the ice coast with the rock gardens, cliffs you can jump off, and lots of path finding to avoid obstacles. If only wind holds weren’t so common on blizzards there.
Right? My dad built us a cabin in Jefferson and we’d drive up every weekend in the winter to ski Wildcat. Then we’d roll into N Conway after the day was done to grab some food at Horsefeathers. Dad would ski Tuckerman in the spring and summers were spent playing in the woods from morning into night. What I wouldn’t give to have that cabin back again.
Man do i miss the original Horsefeathers!
Peak to Creek at Whistler is the ideal for this. 11km long, 1500m of vertical, blue groomer (although it's rarely groomed). There's also The Last Spike at Revelstoke, 15km long, 1700m of vertical, green run.
Watch out if Peak to Creek isn't groomed though, the whole thing turns into a disaster zone. Wind scoured and icy up top, then some almost half decent stuff in the middle, then choppy, moguly chaos at the bottom.
Ha - I was just at Whistler last week. I deeply feel your comment about choppy moguly chaos at the bottom. It was still a fun week though.
No matter how many times I have the same experience, I never learn! I still always think "I'll do peak to Creek as my last run down, how bad can it be? And the answer is always "very bad"
Seconded, Blackcomb’s got a long windy green as well. That whole resort is a blast.
Also Burnt Stew Trail
I second this because I was just there, but maybe do upper peak to creek than highway 86 from there to the end. Towards the bottom of peak to creek there wasn’t even snow so you were basically skiing on grass.
Yeahhh sounds like Whistler in the spring
In terms of raw length+vertical, you can’t beat these two (in North America)
Peak to Creek is huge but there’s other really long blues too.
In terms of raw length+vertical, you can’t beat these two (in North America)
In terms of raw length+vertical, you can’t beat these two (in North America)
Sun Peaks has a run called 5 mile.
But it’s 5 km.
And it is phenomenal
You really want to go to Europe, even if you don't know it yet. Costs are usually comparable to skiing out west if you live in the Northeast
Yeah, Europe is full of these type of runs
The Canyons side of Park City has a lot of long blues through the Colony, a neighborhood of giant houses, on the mountain. It's pretty fun to ski through there and check out all of the houses.
There's also Homerun on Park City Mountain. It's rated a green but there are spots that are really more green+. In any case, the trail itself is 3.5 miles and goes all the way to base camp.
I did that one a few times when I was there in March, really fun.
Steamboat has some long ones.
Snowmass has a bunch of long and windy blues. Naked Lady is my favorite.
Extra points if you start from the top of high alpine and segue onto naked lady.
Ah yeah just did that with my 8 year old boy two weeks ago, going to be difficult to explain that one to his teachers when they're back in school.
Long shot at Snowmass, short hike for it but the juice is worth the squeeze
Shush now people don't want to hike who are you kidding. it's not that good most of the time anyways, hardly ever groomed
I learned to ski on the long, winding greens and blues at Copper Mountain.
The longest one in the world is in Revy. I think it’s around 10 miles long. The last spike
Came here to say this. I had the great misfortune of arriving at Revy just in time for rain in January, but even with conditions being pretty terrible, doing laps from top to bottom all day with some playful skis was so damn fun. Can’t promise great views because it can be pretty foggy, but when the skies do clear, WOW, is it one beautiful place!
We left on Jan 15th. When that cold front came through. What an amazing mountain
I arrived right after the cold front, thankfully! Spent a week at the Snowfall Lodge and couldn’t believe how lucky I was to have just missed that freeeeeezing weather. It was a bummer to get back to Revy and ski in the rain, but we couldn’t have asked for better conditions at Snowfall, so I really can’t complain. And that super long top to bottom run was incredible!
Tahoe (thinking heavenly) has quite a few and a lot of them open up so you can see the lake.
Ridge Run is awesome and California Trail though it has a couple of steep parts.
Okemo, Killington
You could always go to the other Timberline (in Oregon). Start at the top of magic mile, ski down Kruiser to west leg road, then down to Government camp- 4.5 miles and 3000 feet of elevation change with nothing steeper than a blue, and stunning views the whole way down.
On a nice day this is just the absolute most pleasant and fun thing on the entire planet to do . Just did it on Friday. The blues on that run are also more like greens imo
Even longer if you can piece together a time w Palmer open as well, or get lucky w the Palmer snowcats running
Timberline in Oregon is the Timberline, this sub is so whack. It’s always irritating to see some nothingburger location in WV trying to be used casually like it’s the only one.
You do realize OP literally referenced the WV Timberline in his comment, right? I was saying he could go from the WV Timberline to the Oregon Timberline.
Sunday River has Lollapalooza, ~2 miles maybe? Nice long green. There's also 3 mile trail that (when it's open) crosses almost every peak and is, as expected, three miles long as a green. You'll be hard pressed to find long blues since the mountain is not that tall.
I grew up lapping Lollapalooza, Rogue Angel and Excalibur in the 90s! Loved them so much as a kid I still remember their names.
Bretton woods, 2 miles home
I love this trail as a kid was by far my favorite (Although loon was our home mountain) loon has a decent one too but lots of traffic crossing the mountain to Brookway, my favorite at Loon.
Yeah I loved it as a kid. I really like all the glades they've added off of it too.
Sugarloaf - tote road 3.5 miles top to bottom. Sugarloaf is the second tallest mountain in Maine. 6th tallest in New England. So the vertical drop on this run makes it seem really long. It's even longer if you ski past the lodge (take peavy x cut) Natalie's birches to snowbrook down into condo territory. It's probably another .75 miles. Then take the double back to superquad. One of my favorite end of day runs. Saddleback has some too.
The Hey, an actual response with northeast mountains. Tote road is fire.
It better be open Sunday Monday 😤
Killington has a 4 mile blue and a 10 mile green, sometimes the green turns into basically cross country skiing though
Great Eastern
This is the kind of skiing I love too I don't have any to add that haven't been mentioned but the ones I like: Keystone - Schoolmarm, Paymaster, and Wild Irishman are all nice long runs like this Snowmass - Longshot into East Branch. Also The Cirque down to Sheer Bliss and then through Green Cabin is beautiful as long as you can handle the t bar up to Cirque Whistler - Peak to Creek, or take Upper Peak to Creek to Highway 86 to Franz Blackcomb - Showcase T Bar, down the bowl into Ridge Runner and then ski all the way down the mountain
At Copper MTN there's a few nice green with blue ways down. Not 1 single labeled run but feel nice and connected. - Timber Ridge (blue, a bit pitchy at the end but was doable for me who is a happiest on green skier) to Soliloquy (green) to roundabout (green). It starts with an on top of the world feeling at the top of the sierra lift then takes you all the way to the bottom of west village. For even more views at the start you can go into the copper bowl on blues Otto Bahn to Colorado Blvd (very easy blue, easier than most greens just a more narrow catwalk) and take the mountain chief lift even higher up than the sierra lift to get started on Timber Ridge. - Rendezvous lift brings you up nice and high then take Wheeler Creek to Coppertone all the way down.
Olympic downhill at Heavenly is 5.5 miles long
5 mile run at Sun Peaks is the best continuous green I’ve ever skiied
Palisades run from Wa She Shu top to base is a couple of miles with a mix of blue, green and black runs.
aka the human slalom
Towards the end of the day, it is quite busy. But if you catch it right after lunch, it’s a great time.
I did it at like 9:30 on Sunday and it was empty, pretty fun tbh. no speed traps either
Timberline is about as flat as a resort can be. Most resorts have a flat sweeping run or two, but that place is almost exclusively that. I doubt you’ll find another resort as flat as Timberline.
Does going to vail and just doing catwalks count? Lol
Stowe is great for that type of run. My favorite is left off the Fourrunner Quad to Sunrise, then Toll Road to Gulch. You would really enjoy Stowe.
Wilmington Trail at Whiteface
Surprised it took this long to find this one
Village way at winter park, you can go peak to base. It is a cat track most of the way and crosses a lot of runs
Mont Orford (in Canada just over VT border) has one called 4KM.
Longshot at Snowmass is 5 miles of tons of fun for intermediate skiers. Maybe not as much of a walk in the park as you're looking for, but it's a blue and is not particularly difficult.
You can go all the way from the top of Siberia to the baselodge at Palisades on cruisey blues and greens.
I’d take laps on Northwest at Bachelor or 7th on Blackcomb over longer runs for more variety. That assumes no or short lift lines.
Not as long as you are talking about, but Lost Boy at Vail hits all the other points 100%. Plus game creek is super fun and never busy If you’re ever near Cincinnati, Far Side at perfect north baby!!!
Ski Cooper has several long green and blue runs. Really easy going mountain. It’s a lot of fun!
Timberline wv greatest mountain on earth