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World's Scariest Ski Slopes

 

Paradise, Mad River Glen, VT

The Ride: An icon of New England–style extreme terrain, Paradise starts with a plunge off an eight-foot cliff—then morphs into a windy, super-steep trough that snakes between trees, around rocks, and often (since it’s never groomed) through both thick snowdrifts and sheer patches of ice. The upside: when you go cartwheeling into the woods, you won’t have to worry about hitting any snowmaking hydrants.

Insider Trivia: Mad River is the only cooperatively owned ski area in the U.S.

 

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  • smugs

    All it takes is a camera to make a green out of a black. As a 71 year old I have skied these lines and they are not as steep as a typical western drop off a ridge. The3 triple black rating of the black holel is way overdone.

    • switchbacksidecork — Posted Dec. 03, 2009

      Whatever Smugs, the upper Trifede not the trifides proper except for 3 probabbly never had a mandatory air when your old but was skiing it , used to be a straight shot with the amount of snow they used to get,

      Skied la grave for years, and that is a pretty serious line

      The only thing I will agree on is the fact that black diamonds etc is all relative, I dont know how to rate or grade a slope, so many variables in consequences , steepnes, and conditions,

      Anyway, that line ... More

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  • seeing it to believe it

    Chilling -- and the video links are great! (Gotta love the euro-techno too.)

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