Backcountry in the northeast

roadside attractions.

route 100...western NY. coming to our vid this year. EC BC is the funnest shit ever. lots of pow treeskiing, jibs/bonks, booter sesh...to be announced
 
http://www.meatheadfilms.com/film/trailers/

pick through those, you'll see some EC BC.
 
its not backcountry if its on the mountain, especially on sunday river.

theres a good amount of it in franconia notch. plus youve got mt washington area, mt mansfeild, a ton in NY, mt greylock in MA, uhhh im forgetting alot, but theres alot in NH and VT. ive got a whole book if you want some exact trails
 
kangamangous highway in newhampshire. its steep, call it backcountry. on sundayriver, its not backcountry and you shouldn't be talking about it.
 
I know in VT you can ski some nice shit at Stowe, there are backcountry gates all over and its mad easy. When you come off of the High Speed quad just hike the trail and you'll find some nice stuff. I saw the guys from meatheads filming bacj there.
 
Every mountain has thier own hidden trails/stashes. And then there is tucks. Tucks is about as BC as you get.
 
there isnt any in the book i dont think, but i doubt that there is any. why would someone travel all the way to jay, ME to not ski jay? plus most everything that isnt accessable from jay is flat, as jay is the only large peak in the area.

i can tell u some others in other areas if ur interested
 
i was out snowmobiling around winnapasaukee and i saw some dope steep tree lines. but this was 2 years ago during that huge storm, so there probably isnt enough cover to ski them. in fact i dont even know if the sled trails are open. btu if you can just get out there and scope it out, i saw some dank shit
 
you dont need to be in BC to find step downs and gaps in natural terrain. just like timo^ said, you gotta make it happen. There is this rifle range in Guilderland New York, its for the military and they shoot into a river bank, this shit is vertical and we have 6 inches of heavy snow coming to over 2 feet, I hope i dont get shot.

Other than that, Ive been riding in albany, you can carve a quarterpipe out of any snowbank. The police just drive by as you do urban rails. and with the snow piling up, some really big urban drops are developing.

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u just gotta get creative with what ya got and look for anything possible.. i ski at a small resort in roch. ny and during a pow day my dads friend ventured off in the woods off of this closed trail and found a sick spine in the woods, it felt pretty BC haha
 
go to tgr and search Ny backcountry.... i made a thread a while ago. im too lazy to look for it but i got some dec. responces
 
www.timefortuckerman.com

tuckermans is some fierce shit

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oh shit how did i not think of that and i can even see it out my window even though its 40 miles away. I think huntingtons is more backcountry becasue its less skiable.
 
In North Western MA there is the Thunderbolt trail on Mt. Greylock. I've never done it, but it is BC in so much as you got to hike to ski it. Check out the Meathead movie Epoch it features the mountain and the history of North American skiing, most of started here so that's pretty cool.
 
tunderbolt is so much fun! besides that theres jay of course, tucks (which is pretty extreme), the chin at stowe and stuff off of there, and the slides at whiteface. Also guys if you didnt know it New England has the most defunked ski "resorts" in the country. Actually NY has the most if you can believe that. I cant tell you how many times my friends and I have skied old ski places. Its so much fun. You just need to be creative and open minded really
 
very good point ask your grandparents about ski hills that were shut down and then go hike them. I can think of like 5 off hand.
 
A lot of the good New England backcountry and out of bounds stuff is kept secret by locals so flatlanders either don't hurt themselves or over populate and ruin it. No offense, but it drives me nuts when some jackass from Jersey hikes up the Chin and you have to help him out. Thankfully, plain view stuff like the Chin keeps non-locals out of the stashes.

Become friends w/a local and eventually you'll find the good stuff.

If you want more tame, popular stuff, check out David Goodman's 2 Backcountry Skiing Adventures books. There's one for NY/VT and another for Maine/NH. A majority of the stuff in there is for touring, but it'll give you a good place to start.

You can also try Google.
 
u dont know about the bc at berkshire east. YOu have been missing out. Drop off the backside of outback. Its epic. All the snow from the mountain blows into a little pocket back there.
 
the Slides are inbounds.. not BC. just closed a lot of the time.

chk david goodman's books: http://users.adelphia.net/~davgood/

Jay's easiest BC is in the zone marked with yellow stripes on the map -- ie where they want to develop the glades far skier's left. It's alright but the flats are a pain in the ass. You can hike the ridge too but it's rarely worth it. Better off in the 'Dacks.
 
The backside of sunday river seems sick, but you would have to hike back up a steep slope or park at the road below. Otherwise on the 1-5 pow days a year you could try that and it would be awesome.
 
if you're really interested in the east backcountry, check out epoch by meathead films where they ski the five highest peaks in new england, good stuff
 
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