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- From: twm3@world.std.com (Thomas W Moore)
- Subject: Re: White Face
- Message-ID: <C01Ls4.FpH@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:43:16 GMT
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- In article <1hqermINN7fc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> sls16@po.CWRU.Edu (Samuel L. Shank) writes:
- >
- >Has anyone been to White Face (the place that they had the olympics back in
- >'84 or '80 in NY, Lake Placid NY)?
-
- I have some wonderful memories of Whiteface. I went to school 1 1/2 hours
- north of it from 80 through 85. While they have added some runs (they
- needed to get the NY state constitution changed to do so), the mountain
- has remained the same. Whiteface is essentially a box canyon steep walls
- and a shallow bottom. While they have added some intermediate terrain
- since my last visit, they are still lacking in the blue area. Some
- incredible steeps. Off chair 6 (the top of the mountain) where they
- ran the downhill course, there are some great head walls and the bumps
- that go with them. While they may not be as scary as Starr and Goat at
- Stowe because Whiteface's runs are wider, the wideness gives you a choice
- of a couple of different fall lines (including the double fall lines).
- There is also some interesting terrain off the number two chair (the chair
- where the slalom course was run but unfortunately they lacked snowmaking
- when I was skiing there - we didn't see them open to much. In fact, one
- year they never opened the number 6 chair because the lack of snow. They
- have added a fair amount of snow making so that shouldn't be a problem.
-
- BTW, two runs that you should look at: 1) Excelisior(sp?) from the top
- of Little Whiteface (i.e. the top of the slalom chair which as I said before
- I think is #2). A blue run that is a great cruiser and wonderful turns.
- 2) Up for a thigh burn? Go to the top of #6 and ski a slightly modified
- downhill course. Start from the chair and take what ever trail down to the
- bottom of #6 (~1400 vertical) and then take the furtherest left trail (as
- you look down the mountain) and continue down to the base. Oh BTW, did
- I forget to mention that you are not supposed to stop, keep your speed up,
- and continue making many turns.
-
- A few days at Whiteface I came away knowing I had beaten the mountain
- but mostly it was a draw.
-
- A couple of side notes: Dress warmly. It is a cold mountain. Get your
- edges sharpen - it is also known as Iceface. The Olympics were held there
- in '80 not '84. The Olympics in '32 (or was it '36?) did not have alpine
- events so they were not held there. And if there had been alpine events
- that year, they would have had them at the old Whiteface (two or so miles
- east of the current Whiteface) but on the same mountain. Though Whiteface
- has the most vertical of any place in the east, you have to access the
- last 450' by a poma which I have never seen open. Still a mountain
- with a lot of vertical.
-
- Enjoy it,
-
- ~Tom
-
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