TR: Whiteface Slides 4/6

[freedan]

Photoslutting some pictures of a great day lapping the slides at Whiteface yesterday.

If you have never had the opportunity, check it out! Some of the best lift assisted terrain in the east. Yesterday was a bluebird corn harvest in the High Peaks. Incredible skiing!! All of you across L. Champlain that never have made the journey over to Whiteface owe it to yourselves on a good powder or corn day. When Whiteface sucks, it is an exercise in windblown ice skating but when it is good, never go below mid mountain and lap up steep lap after lap.

Access open to slides from summit quad, skiing anyone?


Looking down


Looking up


Skiing upper part of Chute 1


Exiting ice fall on Chute 1


Between Chute 2&3


Down the lower slide


What a day for ripping turns

[Thatcher]

This is awesome to see. Thanks for posting!

[gravitylover]

I don't think I've ever seen the slides get bumped.

[lionelhutz]

so jealous.

[Tunco]

Good stuff.

[buckethead]

have wanted to hit the slides for a few years now...nice to see some pics from in there.
looks like a perfect day!
nice work!

[alto]

Cool tele-ass shot.

[cinnepa]

gotta get my arse there - NICE!

[gpcharles]

YEAH! good slide TR... thanks!!

[Sutter]

[Harv]

^^beat me to it.

nice pictures. I like to see that EC bc stoke because it is so foreign to me.

[Fritz]

Bump for stoke!!!!!

[Dside11-11]

SOOOO sick! The best ski area in the east IS in NY (when it snows).

[_Aaron_]

The Slides are soooo much fun on a good day.

[fatman]

I have only made the trek over to White Face a few times, all pow days, and have always wanted to hit those. Thanks for posting EC tele stoke.

[Trackhead]

Looks cornoriffic.

[Affix Snow]

Looks awesome!!!

Hit them this march w/ TONS of pow.

[prophetman]

Looks awesome. I'm gonna head up tomorrow, what kind of restrictions do they have on the slides right now?

[XtrPickels]

Having never skied at whiteface...
... what is the draw of the slides? They are only open certain times correct... making them "off limits" most of the time? Steepness? Uniqueness of terrain?

They do look fun, but not spectacular. I guess I don't understand why everyone thinks its the kitten's mittens.

[freedan]

Looks awesome. I'm gonna head up tomorrow, what kind of restrictions do they have on the slides right now?

Sorry, just saw this morning. It depends if the summit quad is running today and they open the slides. Here is the link to Whiteface's info:

http://www.whiteface.com/newsite/onmtn/slides.php 

XtrPickels, the appeal of the slide is 2000' of steep skiing. Slides are unique terrain in the east that usually take a long bushwack approach even before climbing up the slide to ski it. We have limited alpine and above treeline terrain. Big wide open spaces are not the norm.

[strawjack]

Hit them this march w/ TONS of pow.

was that a poach or were they open?

nice pics...they look good this yr!

[scarlet begonias]

Awesome! Spent 4 years at Whiteface and the slides were never open...

[Right Coaster]

Noice.

I was over at Whiteface for a few days during the first week of March, hoping to get laps in on the Slides. Unfortunately, the summit quad wasn't spinning when I was there, and I was stuck with ice, err corduroy. From your pics, things are looking pretty nice right now.

[snowmonster]

Thanks for the pics. The Whiteface Slides and the Sugarloaf Snowfields are two of those inbounds-backcountry experiences that we have in the East. It takes a lot of snow to get them open and when they do, you gotta go before they disappear. I should make it out to Whiteface someday. Those Slides look interesting.

[Affix Snow]

was that a poach or were they open?

Started up at 6am. Was off the resort trails before they opened. Dug a pit and all was well. Slayed.