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Secret Spots

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casey.clement
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I'm sure there is already a thread out there about this but I can't find any. Post any secret spots you know of at mountains.


Sunday River, Spruce Cliffs. It was closed down but makes a sweet line after a big storm.
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casey.clement
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Here's a picture I took from the top a few months ago -
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op14
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My friends uncle has a house up there and he's got an old map in his garage above his workshop, it's still got spruce cliffs labeled on it as a trail. Never hit it and don't know how to get too it but one day I'd like to try.
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brov1
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this thread is great in nature, but to be honest i really dont want to disclose my secret spots as they are my SECRET spots. the thing i love about them is that no one really goes there and the snow stays on point when the rest of the mountain isnt, and i dont want a ton of people heading over to them on a pow day because they get skied off faster. i like the idea but there is a reason they are called secret spots.
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Holte
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I don't have any secret spots, but what's your full name and credit card number?
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N.L.
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the first one is on the outside near the top, in the middle....
the second was is inside and up...
the sooner you know about these secret spots, the better.
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a_burger
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spruce cliffs is sketchy as fuck, only takes 1 or 2 gapers to slideslip it and make it just a pile of rocks. lots of better lines in that area
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eheath
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I heard within these 3 circles there are terrain zones, super secret, i've only been there once and no one was there

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californiagrown
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ummmmm, looks like you traverse along the ridge and then drop in.

yep...


Skiers left Pucci's chute at Schwietzer turns into a loooong pillow line on 18"+ days. That is all ive got. Pretty much everything else thhat i know about, so does everybody else.
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Miomo
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Woah, eheath straight outta left field with a zinger.
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Turkelton
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My "secret" spot in Grindelwald, you climb up a viewing tower and over and then bam you got this
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Jro.
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Some cool cliffs at the loaf my friends and I have found. Involves a hike but pretty sweet. Not giving away locations
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dragonhorse
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> has a "secret" spot
> blabs about it all over the Internet
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El_Barto.
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lol'd
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op14
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In bracket basin there's a side trail into the woods with three small cliffs that are fun but once you get to the end of the line it's a long traverse.
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caderobinson
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Mt sunapee in nh has a sick trail named Williamson thats super fun on powder days
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Peter.
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these secret spots will immediately lose their secrecy
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californiagrown
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How bout an Edit to the Thread topic? It should now be:

"Secret Spots at Ski Areas You No Longer Go To"
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last_tango
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Bike park maps are helpful to finding spots.
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Daph
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One of my all time favorite stickers is "we still hang backcountry bloggers in montana"

They're secret spots for a reason.
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.squirrely.
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ive never even been to sunday river and i know that spruce cliffs isnt a "secret spot"
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GayWolf420
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you cant even ski pow at PCMR, so please anyone dont come here it sucks, only fun parks.
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snowpocalypse
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Up Grizzly's Gulch. Drive all the way up Little Cottonwood Canyon, go past the Alta Wildcat/Collins parking area, and veer left (where people go right to park in Albion Basin parking area). Find a parking spot up there. Then Grizzly Gulch is unmistakable. It is a gully. You have to hike up from the end of the parking lot just a bit to access the gulch, but you can see it from the parking lot. Hike about a mile, and it is up in that area.





He he he he
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PeteMahn
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Mt sunapee in nh has a sick trail named Williamson thats super fun on powder days


Where??
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terraclot
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I've found that nobody in Salt Lake goes here on pow days:

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CART.__.
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spruce cliffs are so fun
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Kid.Kelley
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Going up barker lift at the very end you look to the right and there is a clearing in the woods on the peak next to you. Thats spruce cliffs. You follow a path off to the left after you get off the spruce lift
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Drail
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have you tried taking a right into the trees where risky business hooks left?
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raymondcabral
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That's an actual trail you fart. But tin can at sunapee on a pow day.....fap kinda
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op14
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Honestly have never even looked into it but next time I go I might
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bleevus
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Parklane Breck. Nobody skis there. Especially on weekends.
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Sarazen
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Spruce Cliffs is only good after a pow dump. Other than that it's a 40-60 ft rock wall to flat landing.
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gravel
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ZING!

Levi likes dude butts.
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YUNG_milksteAk
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(chads gap is in grizzly gulch shhh secret)
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207
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Spruce Cliffs is the farthest thing from a secret spot at Sunday River...it is a good run tho after a big dump or some spring mashed potatoes.

Dorothy's Crotch and Corner Store are the realest shit at Sunday River
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freestyler540
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Retallack
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t-the-east
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This. Found some great "secret" spots at my mountain with the bike map.

I skied spruce cliffs about 10 years ago. It was fun and sketchy. You gotta be the first 5 down or buy lotsa ptex
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skiRay
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as stated above, cool idea for a thread, but im not gonna be the one to open my mouth
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Iliveinutah
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and then die in a ave the gulch is death if you don't know what your doing and is no secret spot ...
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KingGeedorah
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Chad's gap before ski patrol blew it up. Used to be so easy to get to from the Alta parking lo.
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270on420out
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Solitude is a secret spot. Never waited more than 30 seconds in a lift line.
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JohnBolea
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At crystal mountain Michigan you can go to the skiers left of the jump line and get a amazing pow run and also if you go to skiers left right when you get off the clipper lift there is some pretty nice pow to be skied
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brysenm
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This
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Alvaro
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last year a friend found this gap hiking like 40 minutes from my home resort, its one of the few places where we could build a jump and nobody will ever know about it.
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camstain
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mods should delete this, they're secret for a reason. just gives mountains a reason to demolish them.
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theabortionator
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Exactly. When I used to ride gore and later work there we had trail maps with the secret glades and chutes in marker. I mean a good amount of people knew about them but it was still local only kind of thing and never got beat out. Then at the same time I generally find some of my own spots to keep secret.


Secret spots aren't that cool if everyone knows about them and they're completely beet to shit and void of any good snow
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TCuv
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I hit Spruce cliffs once a couple years back. You take a side trail off of Risky Business on skier's right. Side trail takes you to a small smoke hut, you obviously stop, then continue on into a fun opening at a reasonable pitch. This quickly begins to drop off into somewhere around a 50 foot rock wall, with trees, and a very steep pitch. This pitch is followed up by an extremely flat landing.

I hit it at the end of february and there wasnt too much snow but we had gotten a good storm right in the middle of that week, which I had skied every day. Beautiful scenery but not enough snow when I hit it. It took us some time but we were all pretty fuckin stoned.

Be very careful if you do hit Spruce Cliffs. It can be really dangerous.
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S.J.W
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I'm just going to post my secret spot here for the Australian riders. I heard if you catch eyre T-bar up and then traverse over a little and when you get to signs saying out of bounds, you drop into there and it spits you out the bottom of Guthega, never done it myself but i would love to do it one day. As well as just traversing all the way across from eyre T-bar you can pretty much go as fair left as you want as when you drop back in you get to a road covered by ice and you just skate along it. Pretty fun as not many people go over there.
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backseat.bandit
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caderobinson
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Its the farthest trail to the left on the mountain. You take the sun bowl lift and go as far left as you can
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NoSkillsCrew
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