Snowballs said:
That was awesome. You Rock Rider.
Did the Pipeline trail link with that stretch of Hedges you showed?
They got a good bit of work accomplished.
Was it just me, or didn't it that seem like that was a LOT of trails?
The pitch from ski bowl to the new bridge seemed very adequate, but to me the trail had a 'this is just a connector' kind of feel to it. Maybe that will change when I'm on it with snow. You can get a nice run over the new bridge and hopefully (on a snowboard) make it past the power lines where the trail has another drop down to the BRQ.
When I cut from top of Ski Bowl thru the ridge bewteen there and Burnt Ridge, I ran into the existing brdge. Does anyone know if that work road is the actual ski trail from North Chair to BRQ? Also, the road goes downhill on both sides of the bridge, I assume the ski bowl side of the trail goes to the new bridge, and the BR side of the trail links to the bottom part going back to BRQ, not hitting the new bridge. From the existing bridge I walked up to the pump house and then followed the power line south to a T intersection with another power line running parallel to Sagamore on the north side of BR. A guy working at the pump house said it was a mile to the North Chair via the work road, seemed kind of far, but since i cut up the power line i'm not sure. Anyway that road was flat, I hope thats not the ski trail.
The northwest side of the Burnt Ridge had a nice stand of birches running from top to bottom that would be killer if thinned out. Might also be able to reach the lower half of that powerline to the pump station also. What's the policy on 'pruning' next summer?

I hit the top of Hedges, I would guess it hit Pipeline at the bottom, but I don't know.
When I cut off Sagamore half way down I went down the back northeast side of BR and found some real nice very large sections of trees. I came out below the new bridge south of the powerline and a nice easy ride back to chair. It DID seem like a lot of trails in the video! I stopped at natural changes in terrain and tried to take a set of 360 pics and then film it 360 degrees, and tried to get the last section on the edge of the pics of the new section to get the whole area, if that makes any sense.
Anyway, can't wait to get out on Saturday!