What's the locals name of runs not on the map where you ski?

**Jason4** · 02-10-2023, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by PNW Lifer

I think it used to be, I noticed the official trail map became a lot simpler than in years past.

Chicken Ridge and Deathstar are a few other classics

Somewhere I have a copy of the ski patrollers map which is fun to see. A lot of the more travelled areas have had stable names but some of the more obscure stuff seems to change with every new generation on the mountain.

**Tele 'til You're Smelly** · 02-10-2023, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by Danno

No, actually (though it would fit if it was). I started working there in the 92-93 winter and it was already No Mercy, I was so confused by my coworkers saying "let's go hit Sixes." I think it was a pretty new change then, but don't know if that was the first year or not.

Are you sure that's right Danno? That's the winter I started skiing Purg as well and I thought it was officially 666 then and for a while after, with the change to No Mercy coming during the DMR period (and then the current owner changed it back to 666 a few years ago). But my memory's fuzzy on a lot of things. (just found this article about it- it says changed to No Mercy in the late 90s https://www.durangotelegraph.com/new...ith-the-devil/). The tree run to the west of 6s with little cliffs now has an official name, "777."

My friends and I have coined a few but I don't think they've caught on- "Smokey Hollow," "Dreamsicle," and our usual return route back from lift 8, "Happy Ending"!

**Jax** · 02-10-2023, 05:21 PM

Rancid Tuna

**old goat** · 02-10-2023, 05:52 PM

There's a line at OV called Hall of the Gods (not to be confused with HOTG near SLT and another one near Kirkwood.) I learned the name because that's what patrol told me when I asked where I ended up. I could't find again because I only saw it lying on my back staring at the sky and trying not to move.

**goldenboy** · 02-10-2023, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by skaredshtles

Dunno - it has been a LOOOONG time since I've been in there. Were his skis at the two-story shack?

I should take my kid in there.

That's all I ever skied when I was skiing wpk/mj, ha. His skis were on the tree where he died in a treewell, up fairly high. Lower skier's left of Topher's Trees.

**Foggy_Goggles** · 02-10-2023, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by goldenboy

That's all I ever skied when I was skiing wpk/mj, ha. His skis were on the tree where he died in a treewell, up fairly high. Lower skier's left of Topher's Trees.

Skis are still there. RIP you crazy fucker.

**Danno** · 02-10-2023, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by Tele 'til You're Smelly

Are you sure that's right Danno? That's the winter I started skiing Purg as well and I thought it was officially 666 then and for a while after, with the change to No Mercy coming during the DMR period (and then the current owner changed it back to 666 a few years ago). But my memory's fuzzy on a lot of things. (just found this article about it- it says changed to No Mercy in the late 90s https://www.durangotelegraph.com/new...ith-the-devil/). The tree run to the west of 6s with little cliffs now has an official name, "777."

My friends and I have coined a few but I don't think they've caught on- "Smokey Hollow," "Dreamsicle," and our usual return route back from lift 8, "Happy Ending"!

I'm not sure, it's a long time ago and we're both old. My recollection is that it was never 666 while I was working there, but even if that's wrong, there's no way it was late 90s, I left in 1998, and stopped working at Purg in 1995, and it absolutely was "no mercy" while I was working there.

Edit: and if you read further in the article, it says it was because of Vince Duncan, which was not late 90s (the article even says he was late 80s-early 90s), which would fit with my memory. It was definitely not a Vern Greco thing.

**UCMERIP** · 02-10-2023, 06:32 PM

Dirty Blonde

**whyturn** · 02-10-2023, 06:41 PM

4 ‘o’clock run. It’s still got pow at 4

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**wickstad** · 02-10-2023, 06:55 PM

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I call this the Dog Leg Chute. It was definitely not in when I tried to ski it the other day.

**Buster Highmen** · 02-10-2023, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by VTskibum

Been about 20 years now since I skied Crystal w/ you and a bunch of other mag's, but Rusty told me the I5 traverse out of Northback was called the Ho Chin Min trail. Still remember that being a brutal leg burner full of whoops.

Forgot that one as well as Dead Cat Gulch

**goldenboy** · 02-10-2023, 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

Skis are still there. RIP you crazy fucker.

Good to hear. I was skiing that area during the storm cycle. Some of the best days I ever had there, it was so weird skiing that zone with all the patrollers and SAR looking for him.

**muted reborn** · 02-10-2023, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by zion zig zag

Roy’s Rectum, more of an area that surrounds a large, deep hole.

Sounds hairy.

**Spats** · 02-10-2023, 07:48 PM

Once Is Enough
Thin Line
Over the Falls
Heart Chute
Hospital Air

**Hood26** · 02-10-2023, 08:24 PM

Don’t Follow Steve
Fuck Yeah

**Ottime** · 02-10-2023, 09:36 PM

To add to Spats

Oops and Poops
Ying Yang Gully
Hero Gully
Dog Leg
Big Trees
Temple of Doom
The Arcade
Cave Drop
Tweeners
Kodak Cliff
Last Ditch
Nostril (left and right)
99 Steps
Hell's Gate
Corner Chute
The Funnel
Grand Central Station (more of a location, than a run)

**djhutch** · 02-10-2023, 10:00 PM

Hookers and Blow
(somewhere in the Purcells)

**wickstad** · 02-10-2023, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by wickstad

I call this the Dog Leg Chute. It was definitely not in when I tried to ski it the other day.

I call it the Dog Leg Chute. Nobody that I know skis it but me. Last time I side slipped it in it’s entirety. So hello. Is it called the Dog leg Chute?

**wickstad** · 02-10-2023, 10:19 PM

There were some racers from like Tahoe that straightlined it

**mogul5480** · 02-11-2023, 12:38 AM

Originally Posted by Ottime

To add to Spats

Oops and Poops
Ying Yang Gully
Hero Gully
Dog Leg
Big Trees
Temple of Doom
The Arcade
Cave Drop
Tweeners
Kodak Cliff
Last Ditch
Nostril (left and right)
99 Steps
Hell's Gate
Corner Chute
The Funnel
Grand Central Station (more of a location, than a run)

Apropos of this, we were having a great debate the other day about whether we skied pipeline or stovepipe. It turned out, it was pipeline, per internet information posted by skier666 10 years ago.

**gaijin** · 02-11-2023, 04:22 AM

Pipeline is fucking dope. All of that is dope from west shore onward all the way over to round top.

So accessible and so rad in Spring.

Ottime posted some rad memories. That used to be my home. Thanks for that.

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**gaijin** · 02-11-2023, 04:27 AM

Originally Posted by wickstad

I call it the Dog Leg Chute. Nobody that I know skis it but me. Last time I side slipped it in it’s entirety. So hello. Is it called the Dog leg Chute?

Dog leg… as in Round Top?

Round top’s dogleg used to also be called the sickle chute.

**Spats** · 02-12-2023, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by Ottime

To add to Spats

Oops and Poops
Ying Yang Gully
Hero Gully
Dog Leg
Big Trees
Temple of Doom
The Arcade
Cave Drop
Tweeners
Kodak Cliff
Last Ditch
Nostril (left and right)
99 Steps
Hell's Gate
Corner Chute
The Funnel
Grand Central Station (more of a location, than a run)

Thank you! Been too long since I skied Kirkwood with the crew.
Don't forget Maggot Chute -- the debatably OB entrance into the lower Cirque from 4.