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Most under rated lift in Utah

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vailsux.com
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With a monumental season almost behind us what would you say is the most underrated lift in Utah.

I am talking about those lifts that have a surprising amount of natural features despite not having a reputation as such.

I say Little Cloud and Sundown.
Jun 11 2011 12:04AM
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ectreeskier11
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little cloud's overrated if anything, gad ii.
Jun 11 2011 3:37AM
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Alkyy
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Jun 11 2011 12:02PM
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Scott0_robot0
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snake creek at brighton it may be shorter but damn there is some fun stuff up in those trees.
Jun 11 2011 1:55PM
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vailsux.com
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Gad 2 is under rated, but little could is the shit. There are step ups, hips, ledges, cliffs, chutes, bowls, rollers, a natural table, and great access. Everything you need except great tree skiing.
Jun 11 2011 1:58PM
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intifada
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Under rated- Paradise lift at Powder Mountain.
Over rated- Snowbird Tram
Jun 11 2011 2:40PM
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awelton
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i'd say i spent 75% of my time this in the gad II gates. little cloud is good though
Jun 11 2011 3:24PM
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factory81
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little cloud and wildcat

Jun 13 2011 12:19AM
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juanborlando
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i wouldnt consider any lift at snowbird or alta underrated
Jun 13 2011 1:48AM
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eheath
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at alta: overrated: collins underrated:supreme

its so common for there to be a sick pow day and collins/wildcat will be packed as fuck and ill ski onto the lift every run at supreme, its sick making 6-8 laps every hr instead of waiting in line and doing 3-5.
Jun 13 2011 2:57AM
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vailsux.com
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Paradise is drop city, simply too much fun.
Jun 13 2011 7:46AM
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factory81
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all this talk of paradise lift makes one want to visit bountiful
Jun 13 2011 11:58AM
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shocker611
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this is exactly what I was thinking right when I read it. Everyone runs to milly or western and you can find fresh for days after a storm off of snake. Plus people dont know about the cliffs and drops in some of the trees on snake
Jun 13 2011 2:21PM
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vailsux.com
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I would go as far as to say the snake creek area has some of the best tree skiing in the state.
Jun 13 2011 4:26PM
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WesleySnipes
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Paradise at Powder is pretty sick, Sunrise the pommel tow up there might be moreso though.

Jun 13 2011 8:53PM
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Skithedeep
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double agreed. I dont know if its cuz tourists dont know supreme is there or what it is, but i rarely strayed away from it on a pow day. short(er) lines and top notch terrain.
Jun 15 2011 12:27AM
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factory81
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I think everyone just rides sugarloaf and collins at alta.
Jun 15 2011 12:50AM
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eheath
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Dude, i skied alta for a full year and i think i went to only a couple times at the end of the year, i had no idea it was there haha. ever since my jam is wildcat til 1030-11 then supreme the rest of the day. Ill hit collins if i can get first 100 chairs or so, but otherwise its pointless.
Jun 15 2011 2:58AM
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creighton
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underrated: chickadee overrated: alta rope tow
Jun 15 2011 12:04PM
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intifada
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I don't know what you guys are talking about collins has some of the best terrain on the mountain. Sections in the nest stay fresh a lot longer than wildcat which turns into a huge mogul field in no time. Plus Collins is one of the most diverse lifts at Alta terrain wise.
Jun 15 2011 7:53PM
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eheath
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Yeah, have fun skiing collins with 2000 other old dudes all day, sure there is sick terrain, but it gets tracked out first, no contest. Plus, traversing for 5 minutes on the worst traverse on mnt every run sucks too. Ill stick to wild cat and supreme.
Jun 15 2011 7:55PM
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intifada
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your loss
Jun 15 2011 11:39PM
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eheath
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Maybe from 915-1000am. How can you say wild cat gets tracked instantly? Collins is gone by 10 and driving from the valley you're lucky to be on the lifts by 10 due to traffic. Maybe one tree line in eagles nest has some fresh pockets, but thats wild cat til noon. Plus, imo, supreme > collins when it comes to terrain. Sure collins has some nice long chute/gullies but everything else is just wide open or tree, just like supreme. You can traverse into catherines all day and keep hitting fresh tracks til 330, id like to hear where on collins has fresh tracks after 11am.
Jun 15 2011 11:43PM
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hawaiiansteeze
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the only spots i found fresh off collins after 11 was the trees right under the lift then id dip off left to get to the trees off wildcat.

i didnt know where supreme for the first month of the season haha. and i usually stick to supreme once it opens. its my personal favorite lift there and the only lift ive skied that i enjoy more is KT at squaw.
Jun 16 2011 10:02AM
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mistaT
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Oh man, I never skied anything but Supreme when I lived in Utah.

Loved repping Supreme as it felt like your own little mountain with no tourists/yocals....just you, a few other people, and one nice lift.

I'm also a sucker for mini hikes so everything off toward Catherine's was just lovely.
Jun 16 2011 4:03PM
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intifada
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First of all Wildcat and Collins probably get tracked out at roughly the same time. Saying Collins gets tracked out by 10 is false, Collins may get more traffic than wildcat but it's area is also a lot bigger. That being said Collins has in my opinion better terrain and more options (eagles nest terrain is pretty similar to wildcat except better) so i don't usually bother with wildcat. The only redeeming factor wildcat has which you didn't even mention are the gates to snowbird. And personally i hate catherines, besides a couple drops i find it pretty worthless because it's so mellow but i seem to be alone in this thinking.
Jun 16 2011 5:09PM
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eheath
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Its cool, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. All of alta is an amazing mounting, some choose other parts than others, thats completely fine. We just wont ever get in each others way :)
Jun 16 2011 5:53PM
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vailsux.com
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Has anyone skied the backside of sundown at powder mountain? There is some fun ass terrain on the backside of deadhorse. Near the end of the season someone built a fun ass kicker near the road by the base of sundown and I am pretty sure it is still up. Did anyone else hit it? I think the blindside guys built it because I saw it in one of their edits. Check this link out and you will see the kicker at 1:35 and again at 1:47 on the blindside edit. Plus it is a east v west contest so you should vote blindside up.

http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1000152443/featuresobf/neff-east-vs-west-round-7/
Jun 18 2011 4:15PM
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Mt_P0wDerJuNkIe
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Summit at solitude
supreme at alta

Jun 18 2011 11:04PM
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heFF
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gad2 is a dope chair awesome stuff off of that but my favorite lift is probably milly express drops you off to so many fun little minigolf lines and cliffs at brighton and then gives you all the access to the backside of milly i.e mary's lake chutes and then you got wolvy, twin lakes, tuscarora etc etc etc
Jul 3 2011 11:56AM
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shocker611
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i really dont think its underated though, everyone pretty much sees milly as THE chair at brighton
Jul 3 2011 1:18PM
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Calrin
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this
Jul 4 2011 2:21AM
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factory81
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milly is a sweet ass chair, but you aren't fond of the trees below great western that hold the pow pow pow pow powwww?

or hidden canyon and shit?


what do you think
Jul 5 2011 12:11AM
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shocker611
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i almost always have my first 10 runs on western, but thats not the same as most people. Just compare the lines between milly and western early on a pow day, youre waiting in line at milly and at western noone is there for the first hour. with that being said the deepest snow I have had was off of milly, but i usually ride it later on in the day
Jul 5 2011 1:20AM
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factory81
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yah!

i've had some crappy luck with great western being closed twice this past year on my vacations out west. but that mountain looks like it gets too much wind exposure
Jul 5 2011 7:55AM
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shocker611
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it definitely does, but if you get it at the right times it is awesome
Jul 5 2011 1:57PM
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TWoods
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Tombstone at the Canyons, lol.
Jul 6 2011 1:14AM
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yellav
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gad 2 is so fun
Jul 6 2011 1:27AM
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titsLOL
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gad 2 is tight, but not underrated because it is very much "rated"
Jul 8 2011 9:18PM
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factory81
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ive had surprisingly good luck with fresh snow @ baldy express @ snowbird at times. Just go off to that area where the green runs are (approaching the end of snowbirds property).

While Mineral Basin is all tore up, over in that area I found fresh fields of pow after times after big storms AFTER 2pm even
Jul 9 2011 9:59AM
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