Thanks to all of you who voted in our survey to find the most loved trails at Okemo. There were some clear favorites and some surprises!
Here are top five vote getters from each area of the mountain.
Main Face
1. Nor'easter
2. Mueller's Run
3. Upper Sapphire
4. Upper Chief
5. Sachem
The top four are no surprise to us. Sachem did better than we expected as a green trail. We also thought there would be more love for the Mountain Road trails and World Cup.
If you were to combine votes for the Upper and Lower trails, Nor'easter would still come out on top with Mueller's hanging in there as the only other trail without two sections.
1. Nor'easter
2. Upper Sapphire
3. Mueller's Run
4. Upper Chief
5. World Cup
Solitude
1. Heaven's Gate
2. The Plunge
3. Screamin' Demon
4. Exhibition
5. Day Break & Sidewinder (tie)
Heaven's Gate was the clear winner. The Plunge was a sleeper vote here, beating out its neighbors Screamin' Demon and Boomerang. If the vote was solely by kids, we're sure Day Break would have trounced the others.
Jackson Gore
1. Tuckered Out
2. Eclipse
3. White Lightning
4. Big Bang
5. Quantum Leap
Nearly 2/3 of people voted for Tuckered Out. That's the largest percentage of votes amongst all areas. People just love that long and winding blue trail. Big Bang beating Quantum Leap was the surprise here. I guess people prefer the bumps over that massive headwall.
South Face
1. Stump Jumper
2. Blind Faith
3. Dream Weaver
4. Suncatcher
5. Upper Wild Thing
We love that Stump Jumper won here. It's our favorite too. We might have swapped Upper Wild Thing and Blind Faith, but that's OK. We wonder if people just haven't discovered Rossi Run yet. It's much longer and more interesting than Suncatcher in our opinion.
Clocktower
1. Kettle Brook
2. Homeward Bound
3. Lift Line
4. Ledgewood
5. Open Slope
The pond and tunnel make Kettle Brook more than just way to get to the Kettle Brook condos. It's a fun trail in its own right. Why didn't Ledgewood get the same love?
Terrain Parks
1. Gordon's Garden
2. Superpipe
3. The Zone
4. Tree Tap
5. Progression Park
Given all the hubbub over the Superpipe this year, we thought it would be the runaway winner. Instead, the scaled down Gordon's Garden was the most popular. Perhaps the Superpipe is too intimidating for most folks (us included) which may also explain why Progression Park came in last.
Glades
1. Whispering Pines
2. Whistler
3. Double Diamond
4. Loose Spruce, The Shadows and The Narrows (tie)
The intermediate glade Whispering Pines is popular with our crowd and you agreed. Whistler was a solid second. The only double black diamond to make the top 5 was Double Diamond. It's had a good year with 108 inches (and counting!) of natural snow piling up on it.
Thanks again for voting. We'll be featuring your favorite trails on OkemoZone for others to discover and enjoy.
