Homemade Trail Map

[plethoraguy]

Very nice work, Thank you.

[Hutash]

Two possible changes...1) remove Comeback Cliffs since this is a permanently closed area, and 2) add Grizzle which is skiers right of Comeback Cliffs between the cliffs and Coyote.

[snowboard247]

2) add Grizzle which is skiers right of Comeback Cliffs between the cliffs and Coyote.

Dont you mean 'The Bear' ?

[handsomesquid]

hey there, this is pretty damn awesome ! Thanks for sharing.

Can't wait to see all the advanced intermediates hitting chicken huevos.

[SnowtigerDaniel]

You've done a wonderful job on the map, but I'd like to chirp in on the north/south issue.

When you look at a trail map, the top of the map isn't north, south, east, or west. It is the sky. The top of the map represents up. The bottom of the map represents down. Also when you go to find your way around a ski resort, you generally ski up to a lift, find it on the trail map, look up the mountain, and figure out where you want to go.

With you're map, if you started out at Main Lodge, you would either have to turn your back to the mountain to make the map match the terrain, or turn the map upside down if you want to face the mountain to see where you want to go. Also just for the fun of comparing your map to a conventional trail map, it would be easier if you put south at the top.

If you are making this map for your personal satisfaction and being so kind as to share it with us, then you've done a great job, and I have no complaints. If you would like to sell me this map, perhaps as a poster that I can hang next to my conventional trail map poster, then I would prefer to have south at the top of the map. Or you could please everyone by making two versions. One for the map geeks with north at the top, and one for skiers with "up" at the top.

As far as suggestions for corrections, the Acts are the Acts because there are three of them. I'm not sure which way they number them, but I think of Act I as where you have "The Acts", and then there is a narrow run that parallels Act I, which I would call Act II, and in the trees between Act II and Encore, you'd have Act III. I know the trails are there, but I'm not sure if they are named that way.

And I've never skied any of the runs you have north of Rodger's Ridge, but I think where you put #1 would be nothing but a cliff. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think there was anyway to ski onto Rodger's ridge except for skiing it from the top. And I would imagine that your Patton's and Drop 18 and #2 and #3 would be double black diamond runs because that is all pretty much cliffs in there. But I've never skied any of them.

[skiingobsessed]

I can't find the link to the maps that have the detailed outline of the runs and the avalanche shots and stuff... HELP!

[Sierra Lady]

This one? It's on the MMSA Patrol site.

http://patrol.mammothmountain.com/Atlas ... Index.html

[twins]

If ever there was a thread to make a sticky this is it.
Awesome work with the map.Now I just have to figure out how to print a large carry version of it.I see alot of runs that I want to try:)

[plethoraguy]

Anybody ever heard of "Berger's run"? An instructor took me through there once and I think that is what he called it but for the life of me I can't figure out where it was.

[Photoho]

The instructor was probably Gary Berger. Did it end at a burger joint for lunch down by the Village ?

[polimenakos69]

Do you know where Silver Tip trail is in the map? It is shown as one of the groomed trails today at the Mammoth Mountain web site.

[plethoraguy]

The instructor was probably Gary Berger. Did it end at a burger joint for lunch down by the Village ?

Ha... good one. No, The instructor was actually Eric "ET" Tanner. but I think it may have been "named" (if only unofficially) for Gary Berger, of "Berger's" (now "Burgers") fame.

[skiingobsessed]

This one? It's on the MMSA Patrol site.

http://patrol.mammothmountain.com/Atlas ... Index.html

Thanks SL! I wanted to look at something before I forgot.

[snowboard247]

Do you know where Silver Tip trail is in the map? It is shown as one of the groomed trails today at the Mammoth Mountain web site.

i think silver tip is the run that wraps around the backside of 1 towards fascination and far west

[SnowtigerDaniel]

And I've never skied any of the runs you have north of Rodger's Ridge, but I think where you put #1 would be nothing but a cliff.

I guess it depends on the snow conditions. That trail is there in the pictures on the patrol sight, but when I've looked at it all I've seen is rock.