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World's Scariest Ski Slopes
Black Hole, Smugglers’ Notch, VT
The Ride: Recommended only for skiers with a genuine taste for tree slalom, this thickly gladed run (the only triple-black-diamond trail in the eastern U.S.) requires super-fast hucking among pine trunks, branches, and stumps—at a 53-degree pitch.
Insider Trivia: Seasoned glade skiers know that the best trick for swooping between (rather than into) heavy trees is to keep your eye trained on the white spaces between them.
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Comments (2)
Open / Closesmugs
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.
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
seeing it to believe it
Chilling -- and the video links are great! (Gotta love the euro-techno too.)
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