French Connection

French Connection is a relatively short blue square connector trail that leads from Lower Chief to the bottom of the Sunburst Six. It starts about 2/3rds of the way down Lower Chief runs the line of the Sunburst six to the bottom. It does not have snowmaking and opens on natural snow. It is sometimes groomed and sometimes not, though it is not a high priority for grooming.

This trail has an issue at the bottom on busy weekends where the singles line for the Sunburst Six gets backed up and crosses over the exit to the trail. Therefore, ski patrol sometimes opts to close the trail on these days until the lines die down. The report may still say it's open, so be warned.

Access
French Connection is accessed off of Lower Chief, which can be accessed from the summit via the three summit lifts.

Trivia

 * French Connection is named after the 1970s film series.


 * When the Northstar Express Quad was still in place, the trail diverted to the skiers right of the bottom terminal and popped out there. When the sunburst Six was built, the barn to store the bubble chairs was built right on top of that location. Therefore, the trail had to be realigned and a new bottom section was cut, veering off to the skier's left of the new lift's terminal.