@davidski 296645 wrote:Such a great report, congrats on a great trip "aboot"
The above picture really struck me because they look like the steep winding narrow trails at Stowe or wherever, were stuck into all that northern grandeur--
Anyway thanks a lot for killing me as another month starts slipping by
Yea the mountain aspects are very unique there. Since you are at such a high latitude, the sun doesn't really hit "high noon". So they've built their runs basically on all the valleys they run east to west. This allows a midday "all sun" time. With shadows on either side in the morning or afternoon. If you were to take Breckenridge's 4(5?) peaks, and line them up side by side across a valley, that would resemble the layout of the different peaks in Banff.
I can't speak to Stowe as I've never been, but I imagine them having to cut long winding trails out of these steeper aspects is what you are referring to. Most of the below tree line trails were this way.
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