[quote="Harvey44"]Never heard about Mt Snow. Is that the Mtn in So VT?[/quote

Well, probably Snow Mountain is the one in question. it's in the Gore area (N/NW?) and i believe i read somewhere that Snow Mountain is the tallest mountain in the southern ADK's.

Too bad, Snow Mountain would have been a mythical name for a ski area.

Wonder if it's name denotes any snow anomoly.

Sounds like we may be talking about Snowy on the western shore of Indian Lake.

Snowy would have been a very cool choice...it has a higher summit (3900?), I think it has slides, and does get more lake effect even though its not that much closer to the lake.

I think it's the highest summit in the southern adks.

The 2 choices were Gore, and Snow Mt., which is the main peak on Blue Ridge. Blue Ridge is located in the towns of Schroon , and North Hudson. You can easily see it driving along I-87 through the Schroon Lake area. At the time the decision was made, I-87 did not exist, and Rt 9 was the only "corridor" type road.

The original plan fro Gore entailed 9 peaks. When the APA was spawned in 1973, they put the kybosh on the majority of the total plan.

C

Wow. Do you know which 9? Pete Gay was probably one...

Is Snow Mtn near Hoffman?

Harvey44 wrote:

Wow. Do you know which 9? Pete Gay was probably one... Is Snow Mtn near Hoffman?

Yup. Yup. And, yup.

C

hoffman was supposed to be part of the consideration if i recall, but limited access had that one doomed early.... I can see hoffman from my house though so i always thought it would be awesome if i were looking up at the trails before i left in the morning.

Guess it all comes down to the speed at which you ski it and the potential outcome. We could pick our way down just about anything without a major cliff.....safely. Or ski a green backwards baiis out---just as, if not more dangerous.

I went with rumor---but then conditions also come into play.

Just rode out Rumor and Lower Steilhang today. Rumor was tough, but your able to pick your way through it. With Steilhang, however, your skiing along some pretty steep pitches with lotsa moguls and suddenly turn a corner and near vertical steeps, huge moguls and not much of a line to get down. Coupled with how narrow the trail is, it's my pick for the hardest.