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Best & Worst Run Names

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andy_boy
Posts: 4434 - Karma: 107
I've never seen one of these, it could be some fun. Name your mountain, and in your opinion the best and worst ski run name on it...

Grouse Mountain, BC
Best: Purgatory >> Some double black.
Worst: Paper Trail >> Well, it used to be called Kandahar, but when the war in Afghanistan started they decided it probably wouldn't be best to have the run named after a warzone city and changed it to Paper Trail, which is still pretty bad...
Dec 28 2007 11:18PM
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jeremy.g
Posts: 4931 - Karma: 459
not at my mountain but at bridger there is a run named snow job
Dec 28 2007 11:24PM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
Best: Purgatory (Grouse Mountain) and Cockalorum (Whistler)

Worst: Dogleg (Grouse Mountain) and Racer Alley (Blackcomb)


Dec 28 2007 11:28PM
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~auddie~
Posts: 757 - Karma: 24
all i can think of right now is 'wounded knee' at Louise, its a double black
Dec 28 2007 11:29PM
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andy_boy
Posts: 4434 - Karma: 107
Thats terrible, haha...
Dec 28 2007 11:32PM
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popNfresh44
Posts: 3757 - Karma: 44
whistler, bc

best: gun barrels
worst: pony trail?
Dec 28 2007 11:43PM
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Jwalk
Posts: 4647 - Karma: 134
bigwhite
best-camelsback the run is somewhat like a camels back that goes like up and down

worst harper mountain-maxi pipe
Dec 28 2007 11:47PM
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dr.strangelove
Posts: 10 - Karma: 10
i dont know about best, but our advertising dude at steamboat is a wanna-be cowboy obsessed with  giving everything about our mountain a western theme
'headwall' has been split in two and is now  'lil rodeo'  and 'stampede'
you get the idea...
Dec 28 2007 11:57PM
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Avifarer
Posts: 5926 - Karma: 598
sunshine village

best: the big woody
worst: world cup downhill
Dec 29 2007 12:11AM
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.BaconatoR
Posts: 183 - Karma: 11
mt hood meadows

Best: Elevator, or chunky swirly

Worst: I Hear Cars
Dec 29 2007 12:15AM
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skiminnesota
Posts: 9093 - Karma: 429
powder ridge MN      best =  Zonker 
                                   worst = single ceder
Dec 29 2007 12:18AM
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Nicholas.
Posts: 10905 - Karma: 60
smugglers notch vt. theres a lot of cool smuggler names

bootlegger, powder keg, prohibition park, freefall

and then umm gay ones...robins run kinda gay, thomkes express........................

my favorite is a backbowl but everyone calls it hershey squirts.
Dec 29 2007 12:19AM
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uosdwiSrjewoH
Posts: 4220 - Karma: 122
best is for sure "the colostomizer" from the simpsons. I dont even know what it could possibly mean, but i want to ski on it.
Dec 29 2007 12:33AM
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joly.sp
Posts: 2305 - Karma: 585
Best: Agitator or Static Cling

I have no idea about the worst.
Dec 29 2007 12:36AM
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dlite!
Posts: 1194 - Karma: 87
at northstar they have a tree run that takes on to the top of the park thats named after yours truly. it is called "delite" no joke
Dec 29 2007 12:37AM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
I have no idea what it could possibly be, but the mere sound of getting some "Jersey Cream" makes me shudder.
Dec 29 2007 12:44AM
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caucasian_chad
Posts: 4078 - Karma: 3,625
Spirit Mountain, MN
Best:  Either Sky Hooker or Bull Whacker.
Worst:  Duck Leg Shorty (WTF???)
The people who made up our run names were probably on crack.  Check it out.
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Dec 29 2007 12:47AM
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stingfire
Posts: 315 - Karma: 13
Cleavage
Dec 29 2007 12:57AM
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scientist
Posts: 6920 - Karma: 348
kimberley has a bunch of pretty dope names.

dreadknot, easter, good luck, flush, flapper, fuzzy, midget, vimy ridge. we also have a run called geneva, but over the years it got morphed into "gina" said like the end of "vagina". its got a pretty dope cattrack launch on it, so it is not uncommon to hear "hey wanna go run train on the gina?"

not to many bad ones i can think of! RCR did something right!
Dec 29 2007 1:03AM
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sowstochd
Posts: 1518 - Karma: 59
big sky

best-black foot or the big culoir

worst-turkey traverse
Dec 29 2007 1:05AM
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ThaLetterM.
Posts: 8609 - Karma: 1,613
we have one at our hill called "gang bang"



no not really







Dec 29 2007 1:10AM
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lalalalaura
Posts: 6753 - Karma: 68
NOWHERE near as good as "Cougar Milk"

I mean c'mon, Cougar Milk?
Dec 29 2007 1:20AM
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skithebert
Posts: 2163 - Karma: 16
Gotta love "Drunken Frenchman" at mary jane.   I also think "Awe Chute" is clever and funny.
Dec 29 2007 1:25AM
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Sir.Pete
Posts: 1617 - Karma: 84
i dont even think my mountain has names for the runs....

Seymour.

we dont have runs, only park backcountry and then a chairlifts name.
Dec 29 2007 1:39AM
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liftedresearcher
Posts: 1140 - Karma: 1,775
sunshine

best- virgin(run between a narrow gully.
worst- home run, so over used lol
Dec 29 2007 1:45AM
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Bamski
Posts: 814 - Karma: 79
Chainsaw Ridge is pretty dope on Blackcomb, although it's not on the trail map. Pakalolo, Harmony Horseshoes are cool, Kalediscope, Monday's and Frog Hollow are all cool names too.
Worst named runs on Whistler are probably Pig Alley and Yellow brick road.
Dec 29 2007 1:46AM
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Jwalk
Posts: 4647 - Karma: 134
at my mountain home run leads to the park
Dec 29 2007 2:17AM
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Jwalk
Posts: 4647 - Karma: 134
at sun peaks id say the worst is gentle giant
or like cheifs nose or what evs its called
Dec 29 2007 2:19AM
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Jwalk
Posts: 4647 - Karma: 134
sorry for another post but i found one its at bigwhite its a double black called playground
and worst is enchanted forest
Dec 29 2007 2:28AM
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MiniMeDanny
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haha what run is called "i hear cars.."
Dec 29 2007 2:32AM
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alaskakid
Posts: 5540 - Karma: 430
bahahahahahahha
Dec 29 2007 2:48AM
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Muteman
Posts: 1508 - Karma: 12
Schweitzer:

Best: Glade-iator.
Dec 29 2007 3:19AM
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jKutcher
Posts: 3936 - Karma: 4,260
Park City - Glory Hole
Dec 29 2007 4:14AM
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toominator
Posts: 4792 - Karma: 120
Remarks: Elevator, Boulder Basin
Coronet:
Dec 29 2007 5:57AM
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toominator
Posts: 4792 - Karma: 120
Coronet: Exchange Drop, Big Easy
Dec 29 2007 5:58AM
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396222687862
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best: fatty lane
worst: vermonster.... (good park, terrible name)
Dec 29 2007 6:57AM
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martin.
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Plattekill, NY

best- Just Do It

worst- powder puff
Dec 29 2007 7:23AM
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michelle
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I personally love the whole mountain of Oz at Sunday River, it's almost all blacks/dub blacks

Ruby Palace
Tin Woodsman
Lost Princess
Eureka
Emerald City
Flying Monkey

and the only two greens are..
Kansas
Cowardly Lion hahaha


Dec 29 2007 8:45AM
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the.flying.ginge
Posts: 82 - Karma: 10

cant rember the resort but theres a red run in italy called fagina ( say it out loud)

Dec 29 2007 8:49AM
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illianceblock
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there is a Kandahar run in looooooads of resorts, if not a Kandahar hotel/chalet as well.

i think the kandahar ski club was one of the very first organised groups of ski racers in europe or something


nothing to do with the war really, only americans would change it
Dec 29 2007 8:51AM
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steezyjibber
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i think vermonster is creative
Dec 29 2007 9:43AM
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steezyjibber
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Gore Mountain, NY

best: The Rumor, Lies, Showcase

worst: Pete gay, Bear cub run, santanoni, gore-e-gully, wood in, wood out,  ruby run.
Dec 29 2007 9:47AM
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Dylan_
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haha steezy jibber... soooo true

but

west mountain- fritzles folly, mach 2, AOA,cure, holy mackerel

worst- the connection, face, frolic
Dec 29 2007 9:54AM
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J.W.
Posts: 523 - Karma: 51
Steamboat renamed one Stampede, I think they wanted to make the texans feel comfortable
Dec 29 2007 9:55AM
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Gretchen.
Posts: 1163 - Karma: 87

hahaha i was trying to figure out where you skied in WI and then i saw the JK.

Dec 29 2007 9:57AM
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fourhundred
Posts: 2760 - Karma: 21
best = karbon terrain park
Dec 29 2007 10:17AM
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steezyjibber
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Dec 29 2007 11:32AM
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joly.sp
Posts: 2305 - Karma: 585
Home run at sunpeaks is a terrible run off of homesteader that is filled with people that  have no clue where they are going. It just leads back to the run you came from.
Dec 29 2007 12:14PM
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Myke
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oh :(
Dec 29 2007 2:34PM
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jimmer
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wtf?? who named the runs at your mountain?
Dec 29 2007 4:00PM
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CLang518
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sunday river has a bunch of good ones: white heat, flying monkey, lallapalooza, rogue angel, tin woodsman, chutzpah
jiminy peak has the worst: 180, 360, west way, left bank
Dec 29 2007 4:09PM
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