11 of the world’s scariest ski runs

[Edd]

Link from an article I just read. No opinion from me as I’ve skied zero of these runs and it seems unlikely that I will.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/galleries/The-worlds-scariest-ski-runs/

 

[kingslug]

Have to sign up to view...bleh
and it probably doesn't include the scariest run in the world...Belt Parkway Hunter on a holiday Saturday...oh...snap...

 

[speden]

I was talking to a patroller on the lift at Bretton Woods a couple weeks back about Jackson Hole. He said he'd done Corbet's Couloir and that it wasn't too bad. Apparently it's all about sticking the landing at the entry and then it's smooth sailing.

 

[andrec10]

Elevator Shaft at Snowbird....

 

[Edd]

Is everyone having trouble with the link? Works for me.


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[kingslug]

Says you have to sign up

 

[Glenn]

No issues on my end...even with an ad blocker.

To build on kingslugs point: easy terrain during a holiday period. I'll take an uncrowded steep over that any day.

 

[kingslug]

Corbets is probably very easy..once you stick the landing..once.
SS which is next to it is another matter.

 

[JDMRoma]

need to sign in for me, wont let me go past the first one

 

[cdskier]

need to sign in for me, wont let me go past the first one

Same here

 

[urungus]

Same here

Yup. Did any trails in the East make the cut?

 

[Edd]

Yup. Did any trails in the East make the cut?

No.

 

[Edd]

Full list:

The Streif, Kitzbuhel

Corbet’s, Jackson Hole

La Chavantte, Avoriaz

Delirium Dive, Sunshine Village

Grand Couloir, Courchevel

Tortin, Verbier

Harakiri, Mayrhofen

Le Tunnel, Alpe d’Huez

Face de Bellevarde, Val d’Isere

La Grave, France

Backside of the Valluga, St. Anton


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[FBGM]

Elevator Shaft at Snowbird....

What made up run is that? Never heard of it.

Pipeline is only possible “scary” run at bird.

 

[andrec10]

What made up run is that? Never heard of it.

Pipeline is only possible “scary” run at bird.

Middle of the Cirque. Ask around.

 

[kingslug]

I like that La Grave..the whole damn place. That should be numero uno..
http://www.skierslodge.com/the-skiing-2/legendary-routes/

 

[FBGM]

Middle of the Cirque. Ask around.

Meh, pipeline pucksr factor still higher for inbounds pucker.

 

[2Planker]

The Cirque @ Bachelor !!
On par w/ Tuckerman Headwall...

Same here

 

[mikec142]

I skied at JHMR two seasons ago. After watching about 1000 movies and videos of people skiing Corbets, I gave myself a 25% chance of dropping in. In certain years, the "goat path" forms and you can kind of sidestep/slide/edge your way down past most of the drop. This is where the 25% chance came from in my mind.

Anyway, we stood over the edge and my conclusion is that you'd have to be insane. After the 10-15 foot drop you have to make an immediate high speed right turn to avoid the big rock on the left. Then you have to make an immediate high speed left turn to avoid the couloir wall. If you managed that, it's smooth sailing.

As an FYI, I saw two people getting hauled out of the couloir with a rope by patrol after they edged down the goat path and then realized they couldn't make the jump turn.

If you go down the goat path, you edge in backwards and have to make a jump turn to start.

I agree with Slug that SS Couloir is harder, but the combination of the fame, the crowds standing on the lip, and the fact that the tram goes right by it make Corbets iconic.

 

[abc]

The Telegragh is a trashy paper in UK.

The fact it named the whole mountain (le grave), which actually have quite many entirely non-scary tuns for any half decent skiers, is clear it’s written by a one-week-a-year skier, for the ignorant which is their core readers.