Hardest trail you've been on outside the northeast?

[MadMadWorld]

Survival is success.

Yes it certainly is!

 

[snoseek]

Oh and that hike on Fantasy Ridge at Solitude, no 420 breaks for me before that!

 

[C-Rex]

I'd have to say one of the Windows at Breck. I forget which one. It was pretty steep, very narrow, had mandatory drops and the snow was really sketchy. With better snow it wouldn't have been that hard but on packed, scraped off stuff it was pretty hairy.

Or maybe the peak 7 bowl at Breck. The day I hit it it was wind blown Styrofoam that was really chattery and hard to edge, and there was a lot of exposed rocks and an avy debris field at the bottom if you fell and couldn't stop your slide.

Both were scary but I think neither were as demanding as the face chutes at Jay. I had good snow when I hit them, but I felt each turn was critical and it made me butt pucker even with the good snow.

 

[Angus]

Haven't been out west much (and I've usually been by myself when I have been). One of the hairier "trails" I've been on was skiers right of the C-1 lift at Baker in the "DANGER! CLIFFS" area on their trail map. It was pretty steep

Impressive - I was checking that out last year with a base of 190" and couldn't see a way down without dropping off cliffs...very impressive. Only spent a day there but was treated like royalty when I told the locals I was from the East! Great terrain, great area.

 

[Angus]

Here is my big fall on Whitewall. Scariest 29 seconds of my life. If I had slid past the ski area boundary marker I would have fell right into solid avi debris that was sitting at the base of the bowl from a week or so before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4r8K6_htQc

Your video points out a problem I'm having as I get older. Steep, flat light in shadows, I can't see any contour of what I'm skiing...big problem last year.

 

[drjeff]

Daily chutes at Deere Valley. They had mandatory cornice drops into the chute, to big moguls. The chutes funneled down into thick trees if you fell.

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Daily Chutes are up there in my book too! Right up there with stuff in the Red Pine Chutes off the Northside of 9990 at The Canyons! Major pucker factor with life altering consequences if you fall factor there for sure!!

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[gladerider]

westside of the glacier wall off the cime de caron peak in val thorens

i don't know the exact area name, but it was one of the drops in the gad valley in snowbird after traversing under the american fork twin peaks. the traversing over some rock area cliff was real hairy

i don't know what the locals call it but one of the drops off the kt-22 in squaw was pretty steep but manageable. one place i wish i had gone with a local. i wanted to see how scary the five fingers were. but didn't know where it was.

 

[skiNEwhere]

The video was shot on a crappy camera and bad editing by a friend. I was the skier wearing the cam though.

Here is my big fall on Whitewall. Scariest 29 seconds of my life. If I had slid past the ski area boundary marker I would have fell right into solid avi debris that was sitting at the base of the bowl from a week or so before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4r8K6_htQc

The second is from Wild West at Sunshine Village. It had gates that wouldn't open unless you had a transceiver on you. I found out why. We got funneled into a terrain trap and our only option was to drop into a couloir that hadn't seen snow in awhile. It is a really vast area with a wide variety of terrain with some nice cliffs, pillows, and couloirs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB314JQIJ58

I'll see if I can dig up a Stoke video.

That video is crazy man, glad you were ok. What happened btw? I couldn't really tell from the video but it looked like your edge wasn't dug in enough at the end of the turn.



I find it ironic that one of those resorts is called "Sunshine Village", where by it's name you would think it would be this nice, small, easy ski resort, but it seems like half the trail map is extreme terrain, and from a few you tube video's it seems like it's one mandatory 15-20 foot cliff after another.

 

[Savemeasammy]

i don't know what the locals call it but one of the drops off the kt-22 in squaw was pretty steep but manageable. one place i wish i had gone with a local. i wanted to see how scary the five fingers were. but didn't know where it was.

The Fingers is the cliff band right underneath the KT 22 express towards the bottom.


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[sugarbushskier]

Machete chute off the top of Jupiter Peak at Park City. A 20-25 minute hike up to the top of JP, i0 minutes to compose yourself before dropping in. Great run when the snow is good.

 

[MadMadWorld]

Your video points out a problem I'm having as I get older. Steep, flat light in shadows, I can't see any contour of what I'm skiing...big problem last year.

Yea that was definitely a problem.

 

[MadMadWorld]

That video is crazy man, glad you were ok. What happened btw? I couldn't really tell from the video but it looked like your edge wasn't dug in enough at the end of the turn.



I find it ironic that one of those resorts is called "Sunshine Village", where by it's name you would think it would be this nice, small, easy ski resort, but it seems like half the trail map is extreme terrain, and from a few you tube video's it seems like it's one mandatory 15-20 foot cliff after another.

That's exactly what happened. And when it's that steep and you don't hold your edge your going down hard.

Honestly, with the exception of Wild West and Delirium Dive the mountains pretty tame. Backcountry off WaWa Ridge can get interesting though

 

[Hawkshot99]

Daily Chutes are up there in my book too! Right up there with stuff in the Red Pine Chutes off the Northside of 9990 at The Canyons! Major pucker factor with life altering consequences if you fall factor there for sure!!

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I thought the daly chutes were worse than anything at the canyons. We hiked up 9990' and went 1/4-1/2 mile out the ridge from the gate. It was wide open with no real bad areas.
Overall I would say the canyons had better terrain though.

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[gladerider]

The Fingers is the cliff band right underneath the KT 22 express towards the bottom.


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is that right? i feel stupid. i just went back and took a look at the map. i am assuming it is the one below the gs bowl? don't know when i am going back but now i want to know.
looking at the map, i think the drop in i took was around the nose. i like squaw.

 

[gladerider]

Machete chute off the top of Jupiter Peak at Park City. A 20-25 minute hike up to the top of JP, i0 minutes to compose yourself before dropping in. Great run when the snow is good.

is that the side you see from the jupiter bowl chair or is that the otherside? i did not hit the jupiter peak, but the jupiter bowl was one area in park city i liked.

 

[andrec10]

The bowls at Mt. Hood meadows.....Damn!

 

[Savemeasammy]

is that right? i feel stupid. i just went back and took a look at the map. i am assuming it is the one below the gs bowl? don't know when i am going back but now i want to know.
looking at the map, i think the drop in i took was around the nose. i like squaw.

The lift goes up along the rider's left of the fingers. If you have ridden the
KT22 express, you saw them! You can do a google images search for pics.

I did most of my skiing at Alpine, and when I went to Squaw there wasn't enough snow for me to even pretend to think I would ski them! It's been a long time, but I think these are in the 50-60+ range - not to mention the audience factor! Ballsy stuff.


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[bobbutts]

I got a bit lost at Brevant tram at Chaminoix, was icy and crappy conditions, had navigate some not fun and hairy stuff where fall would be a disaster. Wasn't exactly "hard" but scared the crap out of me. Was 17 at the time.

 

[gladerider]

The lift goes up along the rider's left of the fingers. If you have ridden the
KT22 express, you saw them! You can do a google images search for pics.

I did most of my skiing at Alpine, and when I went to Squaw there wasn't enough snow for me to even pretend to think I would ski them! It's been a long time, but I think these are in the 50-60+ range - not to mention the audience factor! Ballsy stuff.


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at my age anything higher than my height makes me think twice. 50-60+, i'll pass, haha. i heard people talk about it a lot and so i wanted to check it out, but didn't know it was like that.
i don't remember a cliff band just below the chair. my memory fails me. sounds like a good show for people on the chair. gotta check out that show next time. gotta get out there again. think it's been like 8 years already.

 

[MadMadWorld]

at my age anything higher than my height makes me think twice. 50-60+, i'll pass, haha. i heard people talk about it a lot and so i wanted to check it out, but didn't know it was like that.
i don't remember a cliff band just below the chair. my memory fails me. sounds like a good show for people on the chair. gotta check out that show next time. gotta get out there again. think it's been like 8 years already.

Crazy shite.