Lifts and Crowd Stream
In years previous, the largest distinction between the Attitash and Bear Peak sides was arguably the elevate logistics. Up till 2023, the Attitash facet had what may need been one of the crucial confoundingly designed elevate setups we’d ever seen, with a high-speed quad that solely prolonged about midway up, however the one entry to the summit coming from a gradual, fixed-grip triple that took over 10 minutes to experience. The Bear Peak facet’s far more regular setup, with a base-to-summit high-speed quad and some gradual helper lifts, made it far more fascinating and resulted in important overcrowding throughout peak occasions.
However for the 2023-24 season, Attitash lastly changed its Summit Triple elevate with the Mountaineer high-speed quad, bringing base-to-summit elevate service to the Attitash-side summit for the primary time—and within the course of, fixing this substantial elevate community flaw. This new elevate has made it far more fascinating to spend time on the Attitash facet and helped unfold crowds across the two resort sides far more evenly. Attitash nonetheless does get fairly crowded on weekends and holidays, particularly given its proximity to Boston and obtainable on-site lodging, however the traces on the Bear Peak facet are nowhere close to as dangerous as they was once.
