Rumor from one of the guys I ride with is the “great western expansion” should be opening soon, like another season or two should yield a couple more runs, but he thought mostly green and probably just connecting back into lost girl somehow. IDK, I’ve see that damn sign for at least a decade so who knows when it will actually happen.
A non-fixed grip quad would be tits on the north face. That is a 12 minute lift ride, and the lines can get quite long when you have beginners dumping from lost boy, the medium park, and Herman Meir wannabes coming down North Face. Personally, the lift ride up on the tripple between gunnar and giant steps never bothered me. Yes it was long, but it was quiet, and far fewer people are ever over there.