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Posted: Oct 25, 2004 - 11:32 PM GMT Looks like Jiminy did a little work over the summer, from their website: Four New Trails at Jiminy Peak for 2004_2005! The mountain crews at Jiminy Peak have been hard at work all summer clearing terrain and adding snowmaking for new trails, and improving existing trails for an even better skiing and riding experience for our guests. We haven’t added lights to any of the new trails for this coming winter, but hope to light at least Riptide/Willie’s Gulch and Outback for the following season. First of all, two new trails have been cut off the back that go around and meet with either Left Bank or West Way. Round-a-bout runs from the top of the Berkshire Express, to the left after you disembark from the lift, around Glider, and then dumps into Easy Does It for an all-downhill slide for skiers and riders who want to go directly to Left Bank. No more skating! The great thing about the way this trail is cut is that it should collect a ton of snow. Outback runs from the top of the Express, to your right as you disembark, out beyond West Way Chute and Azalea Path, and then comes back into West Way just about across from Lower Glade. It will be a wonderful alternate to the West Way Chute on busier days, and is also positioned to catch a lot of drifting snow. The decision was made to clear out most of the trees on Riptide and Willie’s Gulch to create two intermediate runs on the west side of the mountain. While those were excellent glades, the reality of weather in the Berkshires (i.e. not a whole lot of natural snow some years) meant that they could only be open for a very small part of the season. Now that they are cleared, and snowmaking has been installed, more people can enjoy Riptide and Willie’s. A new trail has been cut where the old Canteen used to stand. Raccoon’s Den runs from the bottom of Willie’s Gulch out to 360/180. And, the trail that runs past Mountainside homes and the Mountain Operations building will open to the public this season, under the name Grouse Run, providing an alternate route to the base from Left Bank. Experts can rejoice in this decision: a commitment has been made to have moguls side-to-side and top to bottom on Cutter! The crew has even added additional tower snowmaking guns so that the bumps can be top-dressed after a weather event, and not completely FLATTENED as has been in the past! There will also be machine-made moguls on the top left of Grand Slam for intermediates to practice their bump style. The final big change is an additional, new terrain park and half pipe on Coyote Ridge (the former Ace of Spades.) The snowmaking coverage on the trail has been widened and expanded so that elements can be built from side to side, and should be open-able fairly early in our season. The lift operations folks have also committed to opening the Grand Slam Double for most twilight periods as well as for weekends and holidays to make everything a lot easier for park and pipe dwellers. We are bringing in a designer to work with our crew on creating an excellent park and pipe for 2004/2005, and we are adding more rails to both the big and little parks on Grand Slam. All in all, Jiminy Peak just keeps getting better and better! ------------------ To view the new trails, click here http://www.jiminypeak.com/win/w_trail_map.html The newly cleared out glades look good. Too bad there wasn't enough natural snow there. Otherwise, looks like some decent improvements, might check it out again this year. Jeremy __________ Jeremy Davis |
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Posted: Oct 26, 2004 - 12:30 AM GMT Thanks for the update Jeremy! IMO, the recent upgrades at Jiminy are direct result of the effect the 6-pack has made. If you dramitically increase the uphill capacity, you also need to increase downhill capacity, and that is what Jiminy is doing, unfortunately at the expense of some of the last remaining glades. Anyone ever get a chance to experience Jericho, when it was a glade ?? __________ "Freedom often leads, but responsibility always follows close behind." |
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Posted: Oct 26, 2004 - 12:41 AM GMT good to hear about the mogals, but bad news a out the glades, curse you six pack |
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Posted: Oct 26, 2004 - 2:13 PM GMT Quote: The decision was made to clear out most of the trees on Riptide and Willie’s Gulch to create two intermediate runs on the west side of the mountain. While those were excellent glades, the reality of weather in the Berkshires (i.e. not a whole lot of natural snow some years) meant that they could only be open for a very small part of the season. Hopefully, 'most of the trees' means there is some tree skiing left on these trails. If not, I guess we'll be on our own to find the trees at Jiminy. Also, while 'the reality of the weather' exists, JP could have put more effort into clearing the underbrush if they were serious about tree skiing. That would have helped a great deal in the low snow seasons in the glades. I have to say that they do seem to understand their target market and cater to them well. Those who ski there a lot must be as bummed as I am about the demise of Ace Of Spades. (Now called Coyote Ridge) While this is great news for park rats, Ace was one of the better powder stashes at JP and it's loss is bad news for those who like some fluff under foot. Jimme __________ The Artful Dodger |
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Posted: Oct 26, 2004 - 6:05 PM GMT This reminds me why I rarely skiied at that mountain. All they have basically done is create some more rindky dink trails to increase the trail # count, plus ruin one of the best trails on the mountain, Ace of Spades. Looks like they squeezed some more trail names out of the ex-Linda's Elbow trail as well I also love how they created three different trail names for one trail in reality. Riptide, Willie's Gulch and Racoon's Den. Thats all the same trail! No big loss on that glade, it sucked anyway, the terrain was too flat and the trees too tight. |
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Posted: Oct 26, 2004 - 7:12 PM GMT Quote: Anyone ever get a chance to experience Jericho, when it was a glade ?? Yes indeed! What a run that was. That was where I got my first taste of skiing trees. Fantastic fall line glade. Pretty extreme back in those days for jiminy to cut that trail. There was a warning sign of sorts at the top of the trail, expert only or something similiar. It wasn't open much back then, I'm sure that had something to do with why they cut it down. The top was always wind scoured and it was always rocky. I always preferred the skiers left. We used to ski it all of the time when it was closed, not many patrollers out on the top of Left Bank guarding it then. One of my favorite runs back then would be Upper Exhibition, traverse into Lower Jericho, down into Linda's Leap. We used to also always have lunch out in the field past Azalea path, I guess that's now a trail according to this latest report? Those were the days at Jiminy. That's where I grew up skiing most weekends through my teens. So many good memories. So many laps on the Mueller, the old upper T. Great Mountain still to this day. |
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Posted: Oct 29, 2004 - 8:37 PM GMT I also liked the old Ace of Spades trail (and the adjacent uncrowded John Hancock trail) but am glad to see that they did create some easier way to get across the top of the mountain. While not my favorite area, Jiminy can be fun with the right conditions if the crowds aren't too bad. |
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Posted: Oct 29, 2004 - 9:04 PM GMT Blow up Jiminy, re-open Brodie. |
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Posted: Nov 01, 2004 - 12:50 AM GMT Not so fast, first move the lifts from Jiminy to Brodie, them commence bomb run, lol. |
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