Sleeping Jakes was the blue run above Hawleywood. Hope you guys has a good time on the Hill. This is my home mountain, I work there as a Patroller and mid summer I get 2-3 days in a week at T-Mountain. Your daughter did a great job on Hawley wood ! (Though, get her neck brace and some armor already..seriosuoly, all of our significant clean ups are on Hawleywood and Gronk!). I'm laid up for the rest of the season (recent knee surgery...not related to any injury) or I'd say if any Pugskiers hit T-Mountain, let me know, I'd love to ride with visitors and first timers. Personally, I think we have the most diverse offerings in the east (and this Fall Gravity Logic returns to expand those offerings again!). They've been working on building new, enduro trails on the far east side of the mountain for the upcoming EWS event so that's something to keep an eye out for as well.
She's pretty resistant to armor although she may have been reconsidering that when we rode those trails on far skiers right - The Schist and some other thing that was even harder.
Cool to hear that Gravity Logic is coming back, I was looking for any evidence that they had been there this summer. I emailed one of them after our visit last fall and told him how f'ed up the lift loading procedure was. Glad to see that they got that sorted! I sure wish it was closer, even though Killington is working with Gravity Logic, I like Thunder a lot more. Burke is great too, but kind of in stasis for the last few years with the whole Quiros/receivership situation.
My ranking of NE bike parks is:
1 - Highland (about 2:15 from me) small, but great density of trails and features, and great variety, most complete park
2- Burke (1:15) small, hardly and trails but they are good and above all, it is close to home
3- Thunder (3+ hrs) trails are well made and have variety, they push you to get better without being very punishing
4- Bromont (1:30) serious old school gnar, SERIOUS, border crossing is a small deterrent, really fun to go when the World Cup pros are in town
5- Killington (just under 2 hrs) jump trails are well made, but a bit one dimensional, all table tops, not much wood, upper mountain is gnarly, but you are always riding connectors to get to the good stuff
10 - Sugarbush (about 1 hr)