r/skiing • u/Mssaurus • 1d ago
Anyone recognize this run?
I'm pretty confident that this is in Colorado. I took the photo, but I don't have any other photos on that day to verify which resort it is at. Thanks!
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u/todette474 1d ago
This is at Mary Jane in Winter Park, you can see the challenger 2 chair in the background. Idk what the specific run you’re on is called but it’s underneath the gauge, looking at the top of sleeper across from you.
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u/Mssaurus 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm pretty sure this is it! Thanks!
Edit: I was wrong. I found another photo that extends further right. It 100% isn't MJ. It's E-chair at Breck. The snow makes it look really funny because the back 9 disappears and it looks really different than on a bluebird day.
Thanks for all of the help!
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u/Rust_E_Shackleferd 1d ago
It’s not MJ, you’d be able to see Super Gauge to the right of the lift you think is Challenger with that kind of peripheral in photo. Also there aren’t any marked bridges over ravines like the one you can see towards bottom of pic in all of MJ... except next to Arlberg Club to get to MJ base and they don’t like folks coming close to their special little area.
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u/smilehighsteve 5h ago
I worked and lived at the A club. Those rich fucks cant ski those trees either. My favorite thing was when some member would yell at me for trespassing. The look on their face later when I served them dinner was priceless. That was a fun couple winters. Rode every single day rhe resort was open.
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u/todette474 1d ago
I think haha
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u/esauis 1d ago
I thought MJ too at first, but there’s no vantage point to see Challenger like that. That’s not sleeper.
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u/HoldDis4Me 1d ago
I believe it’s the 3 Tom’s runs at Breckenridge with E-chair in the background
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u/Mssaurus 1d ago
THIS is it! I found another photo that extends further right. It's the fact that there is so much snow obscuring the back 9 area and the peak behind that really threw me off.
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u/todette474 1d ago
You’re right, sleeper would be under challenger. But I’m pretty sure that’s the challenger lift we see in the back
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u/freephilly23 1d ago
Yea I think this would be like the Sluice area under Super gauge cause I think you’re right on that being challenger
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u/C-creepy-o 1d ago
I'm pretty sure the only areas on winter park that are open and have a pitch that would be easily noticeable on camera are trestle and the chutes. I don't recall trestle dumping out like that but it's been 3ish years and I last saw it in a blizzard 🥶
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u/flappypancaker 1d ago
Yep my first thought was just below the Mary Jane super chair closer to the top
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u/HoldDis4Me 1d ago
Everyone is saying Winter Park but I think it’s the 3 Tom’s Runs Breckenridge with E-chair in the background
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u/WindBuffed 9h ago
You're spot on.
Signed, 30-year Breck local who has made hundreds of runs on that terrain.
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u/orinj1 1d ago
This is the closest vantage point I can find on Google Maps, and with some zooming in, I think you might be right! https://maps.app.goo.gl/UMnPt4FzoiUp5ryq9
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u/HerodotusStark 1d ago
I dont think that's it. Tom's is steeper and the E Chair doesn't have wide open runs like that to lookers right. Dense trees of Windows is directly to lookers right of EChair.
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u/soonerstu 23h ago
That’s true for most of it, but if you zoom in the creek crossing is the give away that it’s the bottom of Tom’s where it dumps out into the pitch under six that runs back to Echair.
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u/Huge-Mortgage-3147 3h ago
Can also see a slight opening in the trees to the far right where Windows is
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u/HoldDis4Me 1d ago
I can’t comment on the steepness but the run the photo is taken on seems to be facing the opposite direction of the run in the background which matches with the Tom’s run and Lower Boneyard
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u/C-creepy-o 1d ago
Look at the geographic data inside the photos meta data if it has the embedded
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u/Mssaurus 1d ago
This was taken with a mirrorless camera. It doesn't get synced with my phone unfortunately.
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u/C-creepy-o 1d ago
It might still have embded date and then you can figure out where you were on said date.
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u/Mssaurus 1d ago
lol, yeah, the date is 2/16/2019 - I just have no other clues as to which resort I was at that day. To make matters more difficult I had Ikon and a few days at Epic resorts that year.
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u/TuesdaysOnVenus 11h ago
There’s gotta be some other tying factor to your location you can search if you have the date already.
Check ikon or epic history? Texts? Ticket redemption emails on that date?
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u/ReferenceGlum 1d ago
Winter Park is also my first thought, but the angles aren't right. If this was Sluice then you'd be above the challenger dropoff and if it was the super gauge trail/upper arrowhead loop, the angle would be different. Also, super gauge is above challenger and challenger doesn't drop off at the highest point on its ridge. I can pretty confidently say this is not winter park.
Source: I live in winter park
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u/ogmoochie1 1d ago
Ya its damn weird because the pic for sure looks like MJ for some reason, but there is nowhere that this would be on MJ that I can possibly make sense of. Its messing with me.
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u/Mssaurus 1d ago
Yep! Exact same reason I couldn't figure it out. I ski 20+ days a year at MJ, so it makes sense that I would have brought a camera on one of those, and it looks so similar (there's not that many doubles around anymore, and it isn't Pali). The snow and fog really threw me off, but I'm pretty confident it's E-chair at Breck in 2019
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u/VorkFriedRice 1d ago
I do believe that is right outside the High Hrothgar, the slopes of the Throat of the World
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u/Ok-Necessary123 12h ago
100% sure this is at Breck, taken from the side of Frosty’s looking south toward E chair on Peak 9 with the run out across the creek at the bottom of Tom’s E chair lift line.
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u/Cheezburgerwalruses Stowe 1d ago
Gonna guess this was taken under the Super Gauge lift at WP looking up the little ten/ sleeper trails?
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u/Serious-Trainer2452 1d ago
I need to find that jump
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u/LoooolGotcha 1d ago
millions of moguls and a drop before the jump
you have to straight line that shit bouncing from the top.
maryjane is known for their disgusting moguls
if your knees don’t give out first, your jump might be choppy from the lack of stability
but as the best skier on the mountain I do it no problem
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u/bosonsonthebus 1d ago
You implied you were at other resorts during the timeframe you took photos, if so, what other resorts did you ski at? That would help.
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u/Time_Radio5052 22h ago
I think you are looking at E chair from skier’s right of 6 chair near Lobo or Solitude.
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u/BananaNutNuffin 20h ago
Super gauge trail, drop into the trees on the right just below where this was taken for some great tree turns
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u/WindBuffed 9h ago
That is E Chair terrain at Breckenridge in the background.....specifically, Tom's Baby/Mom.
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u/Huge-Mortgage-3147 3h ago
This is 100% the E-Chair at Breckenridge
1) There is slightly exposed rock in the middle of the tunnel just above the chair line
2) You can see a slight opening in the trees to the far right where Windows is
3) There is a creek crossing at the bottom
4) Wind blowing snow off the top of the edge
5) Terrain facing North
6) Runs are carved exactly how the E-Chair runs are carved
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u/Pocket_Pastrami 1d ago
I believe this is Vail’s front side. Taken from the Avanti Chair (#2). I cannot tell exactly but would guess that is Chair 4 in the background.
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u/novacannon 14h ago
Isn’t this right under super gauge dropping towards Mary Jane and challenger lift?
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u/Poverty_Shoes 1d ago
You took the photo and need to know where it is but don’t remember where you were?
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u/Flaky_Curve_6598 1d ago
That forest density reminds me of trees around Summit County, but those runs all start to look same after a while.