Mad River Glen

...dude ski it if you can...

enough said its an amazing mountain, just explore it and you will find plenty of drops i got my spots and i know heads who have dif spots
 
all depends on your ability level. to the skiers right of paradise are the entrances to octo and three cliffs. don't go down there alone or with people that haven't done it before, but it's worth checking out if you have the chance. i'd call that some of the hardest stuff at MRG, but there's a lot of trails to explore.
 
im goin too and dont blame you if you dont tell me cuz i guess its a local secret but could you tell me how to get to octopus garden pm or just on this
 
i skied there from 4th grade to 8th grade and pretty much explored every inch of the mountain. you can really go anywhere and have a good time at mad river. when you are going down antelope there is a small chute off skiers right called the 2oth hole its so great. you just ski a short ski track for a while and then bam out in some great sidecountry. at onepoint you can drop into a really sick rickerbed if there is enough snow. eploring over in paradise is great but dont go to three cliffs unless you are prepared to hit a BIG cliff because there is a mandatory one if you play it wrong. I also am a fan of up over by the double if you go over skiers left at the top and hike a bit and there is some good stuff off over there. really wherever you go you can find great stuff just explore for a couple of days. i reccomend parking at the top o the practice slope and skiing down, much nicer. MRG is great because you can find untracked runs on your last run of the day!
 
ok. so at the top of paradise, you will see tracks (or not if you're really lucky) going down a trail that pretty much traverses left away from the single. follow this in. you will see many small chutes going down for the entire way. these are collectively known as octopuses garden, or octo for short. they all come out in relatively the same place. they are very steep at top, but get a little flatter and more open towards the bottom. there is usually some really nice powder farther down, but up top gets pretty scraped fast.
if you keep traversing left, you will hit a large chute, and find yourself standing atop a large cliff. there are several ways down, which you choose depends on ability and conditions. if you stay far left, there is a way around the biggest drop. keep going down. after the first cliff, there is a second one. again, there are different ways to hit it, but unlike the first one there is no alternate way around it. there is at least a mandatory 7ft drop. it widens out below the second cliff, but then quickly funnels back into a chute, that traverses left. if you go right, you can get to the largest and final cliff, but it's only good on a day w/ great conditions. the trail goes down and widens out after the left-traverse. there is always great powder in this part due to the variety of options.
as you will see, there are always chutes leading from various places. they are usually narrow and untracked. remember, everything leads to the bottom, so it's hard to get lost, just ski down. however, i would stress this above all else, NEVER go in there alone. all it takes is one protruding log or rock or one caught edge, and you can become unable to get yourself out.
i will be up next saturday, brown pants, yellow/brown striped jacked, brown helmet. looking forwards to meeting you if you are up
 
o that's actually really good. i was worried that i was telling some like 25 year old all this shit.i'm 17, but i'm fine skiing with younger kids. my brother's 14, and a bunch of kids i met at freeride team there are younger (but not all of them)
that's the other thing- i would highly recommend looking into doing freeride team- you learn so much and the coaches are great.
 
o sick and we couldnt do the freestyle team... were from ny just comin up for the weekend of the 29th and 30th cuz we heard mrg is the shit
 
twenty five year olds are the best. because there are twenty of them. but i digress. the only thing that sucks about mad river is when the double is broken the lines are ridiculously long for the single and its so frustrating
 
it used to happen with the single a lot more before they put in the new one a few years ago. then the double line would get super long. the double probably averages about one or two breakdowns per year, maybe more. it's only an issue when it happens on weekends, and when it does, you do not want to be there
 
bumping this shit back up.. i am going to mad alone tomorrow and need a couple ski hommies bad... who is gonna be there? i havent been in about a week but i heard conditions are still great. it gets pretty sketchy skiing some of this stuff alone
 
yea well be there definately saturday idk about sunday... il be in a brown jacket with black snowpants and a black helmet with a few stickers

well be with a group of like 4 kids and 1 adult (my dad)

getting some local insight and stuff would be sick hope to see you up there
 
cooljamerson and i are meeting up also, and i'll also be with whichever of my usual crew is up there also, so it should be pretty fun
 
Hope it was not an NSer that did not respect the closure of Paradise and fucked shit up...

 
it's too bad that they did this. it had better not be an NSer, i think that it was some gapers though. they couldn't even actually ski it.
 
ya that fuckin sucks man. hopefully these next couple days help cover it again. but still people just dont understand why it is closed
 
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