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Topic: New Bullion Basin lift, upgrade to High Campbell.. (Read 7861 times)
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Joedabaker
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Really I think that we are getting worked up for something that more than likely will not ever happen. But, as I mentioned since the proper channels were addressed at the time of request for input, Crystal Could, but probably won't use the card that East Peak expansion is necessary due to increased load of skiers.
The Bullion Basin chair will be handy enough at this time to tour higher to East Peak and Bullion. There will be a remarkable increase of traffic up East Peak just from that alone. I can see the skin track from 100 skiers now. If I was Crystal, I would forget East Peak Chair and focus the tour program that they are touting on their website to accommodate their tour groups. They can start from the top of the Bullion Basin Chair. Plenty of terrain to tour to from there. No offense purists, it's just going to happen.
Maybe develop a SnoPark area lower on the boulevard by the summer access road to Goldhills. That is where all the tour skiers can start from to access the terrain.
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If it's called common sense, why isn't it more common?
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prestonf
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We've met several times.
Well, hopefully I'll see you on the slopes or in the elk soon, whoever you are, and maybe I'll read George Price over the weekend so we can talk about it in person lol  .
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Mattski
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You guys need to get out more and lay off the internet, this kind of heat does little to improve skiing etiquette.
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joecat2
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To avoid problems with backcountry users skinning up on runs I propose a uphill only trail be cut thru the woods, perhaps in the general area I've marked in red on Lowell's image. It wouldn't need any surface work, only clearing of trees and brush, and only a few feet wide would be enough as it would be up only. Ideally the Forest Service would mark and build it, but a more realistic and timely method would be for TAYers to do the cutting.
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Amar Andalkar
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To avoid problems with backcountry users skinning up on runs I propose a uphill only trail be cut thru the woods, perhaps in the general area I've marked in red on Lowell's image. It wouldn't need any surface work, only clearing of trees and brush, and only a few feet wide would be enough as it would be up only. Ideally the Forest Service would mark and build it, but a more realistic and timely method would be for TAYers to do the cutting.
Seems like there is an obvious major problem with this idea: some lift skiers seeking powder in the trees are almost certain to ski down any such trail, even just portions of it connecting larger clearings. The narrow width (if cut through tight trees or brush) will likely lead to sudden unavoidable accidents.
Personally, at an operating ski area, I'd much rather skin up the edge of a wide open trail, and would avoid going anywhere near a narrow trail up through the woods.
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Randy
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Since there is already a designated hiking/pack trail that is maintained by the forest service right through that area it seems unlikely that the FS would approve an additional trail. The grade of hiking/pack trail is set for horse packing somewhat less steep than ideal for skinning.
Agree with Amar that skinning up the edge of regular ski run is safer.
One example of that is the "Serpentine" run at the Summit Nordic center -- it was cut as a narrow winding XC trail a few years ago with the idea of providing a more gentle descent route for XC skiers from the "upper trails" back to the base -- unfortunately snowboarders discovered that it made fun "toboggan run" / "banked slalom" -- freaking out the novice XC skiers for which the trail was intended. Now XC skiiers are channelled onto the nearby "Creek Run" than has been widened a bit.
The steath option is to skin directly up through the forest -- when the snowpack is above 50 inches or so the brush and creeks are covered enough that this is pretty easy -- but the trees are tight enough to discourage descending powder seekers that didn't learn to ski in Vermont.
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