Hardest trail you've been on outside the northeast?

[skiNEwhere]

My two contenders are Prima Cornice at Vail and Gauthier at A-Basin. Very steep (not sure how steep, but felt like 45 degrees), and trees to navigate. Major pucker factor, where I started thinking "What the hell am I doing?!?"

Tough call but I'd have to pick Gauthier since the trees were a little tighter than prima cornice.

 

[4aprice]

Had to pull out a modern map for this. A trail that is now called Silver Bush on Ajax off Lift 1-A. Back when I skied it it was called Elevator Shaft and it was hairy.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[JohnQ]

Chutes under Lone Peak Tram at Big Sky (this was 15 years ago). Really wish I had a helmet for that run, scared the piss out of me.

 

[from_the_NEK]

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

 

[Hawkshot99]

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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[MadMadWorld]

Whitewall area at Kicking Horse. I have a video of me tumbling down it for the longest 29 seconds of my life. Boxcar and Tunnel Vision at Kicking Horse.

The entire North Bowl at Revelstoke.

Wild West and Delirium Dive at Sunshine Village.

Traversed to some pretty wild stuff at Portillo on my honeymoon but couldn't tell you names.

I've posted some of these videos before but will do it again if anyone is interested.

 

[ScottySkis]

I don't know the name but at Snowbird all the way to right of the mountain some crazy steeps. I could only ski with 3 feet of powder but it was epic.

 

[deadheadskier]

Whitewall area at Kicking Horse. I have a video of me tumbling down it for the longest 29 seconds of my life. Boxcar and Tunnel Vision at Kicking Horse.

The entire North Bowl at Revelstoke.

Wild West and Delirium Dive at Sunshine Village.

Traversed to some pretty wild stuff at Portillo on my honeymoon but couldn't tell you names.

I've posted some of these videos before but will do it again if anyone is interested.

Post em up

 

[skiNEwhere]

Whitewall area at Kicking Horse. I have a video of me tumbling down it for the longest 29 seconds of my life. Boxcar and Tunnel Vision at Kicking Horse.

The entire North Bowl at Revelstoke.

Wild West and Delirium Dive at Sunshine Village.

Traversed to some pretty wild stuff at Portillo on my honeymoon but couldn't tell you names.

I've posted some of these videos before but will do it again if anyone is interested.

Kicking horse, Revelstoke and Sunshine Village? I'm jealous.

Would like to see that footage, especially delirium dive if you still have it.

 

[skiNEwhere]

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

That pic looks like 45 degrees, not including the 5-10 degrees that the picture usually takes away making the terrain look less steep than it actually is.
I'd imagine I'd be doubting my abilities if I was standing there.

Salomon Foils eh? Nice skis, I used to have a pair myself

 

[twinplanx]

Don't know what it's called but on my first trip out west we hiked to a bit of the right of the chair at Blue Sky Basin. Probably took us 20-30 minutes to reach the chute that we had been eyeing up from the chair. Forget what skis I had but they definitely were NOT Fatties :-( it was far from a perfect run but I survived and to me is mission accomplished ;-)

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[LonghornSkier]

I would go with Tower 3 Chute and Alta Chutes at Jackson, some stuff off of Spanky's Ladder at Jackson (although that was self-imposed as I nearly fell off a cliff because of whiteout/vertigo).. Also, I've been in the same area as that picture at Baker and it was the one time I've ever to take mandatory air (besides cornices if you're counting that as "air").

 

[skiNEwhere]

Don't know what it's called but on my first trip out west we hiked to a bit of the right of the chair at Blue Sky Basin. Probably took us 20-30 minutes to reach the chute that we had been eyeing up from the chair. Forget what skis I had but they definitely were NOT Fatties :-( it was far from a perfect run but I survived and to me is mission accomplished ;-)

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Was it out of bounds? I was in blue sky basin yesterday and the area you're describing sounds like it was past the out of bounds gate

 

[Savemeasammy]

Early in my first season in Tahoe, I went to Kirkwood with my roommate. We did one run that was a cornice drop into a bowl, and the bowl funneled into a tight chute that I think was mandatory cliff jump. It was an experience for a kid from the east coast.

The most difficult thing I did out west was a cliff jump of about 30 feet in what used to be called Deer Camp Cliffs at Alpine Meadows (it looks like it is now called the Palisades). A few of my buddies did it first, and it took a minute to summon up the courage! Ah, peer pressure...!


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[JohnQ]

Don't know what it's called but on my first trip out west we hiked to a bit of the right of the chair at Blue Sky Basin. Probably took us 20-30 minutes to reach the chute that we had been eyeing up from the chair. Forget what skis I had but they definitely were NOT Fatties :-( it was far from a perfect run but I survived and to me is mission accomplished ;-)

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Survival is success.

 

[twinplanx]

Was it out of bounds? I was in blue sky basin yesterday and the area you're describing sounds like it was past the out of bounds gate

Yeah, but there was no gate and we followed some tracks. There are other chutes further out but the one we hit was the widest. I'm sure the locals have a name for each of 'em...

PS that Lodge at BSB with the outdoor grills for the public is frigin' awesome. We did not plan well enough to use it for its full potential ;-)

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[MadMadWorld]

Post em up

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.

 

[MadMadWorld]

Kicking horse, Revelstoke and Sunshine Village? I'm jealous.

Would like to see that footage, especially delirium dive if you still have it.

Can't find the video from the Dive but I don't remember it being that good because it was really foggy. The fog was so bad we skied off the back side thinking we were on a trail and got completely lost. Thankfully we had our skins and managed to follow our tracks back the way we came. It could have ended disasterously.

I will say that besides the Dive and Wild West SV is very tame. I regret not spending a day at Lake Louise instead.

 

[crank]

Probably the steepest I skied was Tower 3 Chute at Jackson, but there was so much powder that I was not at all scared. In fact, when I felt the sensation of my slough passing me I started laughing, probably a nervous laugh but a laugh nonetheless. We had stopped by the top of Corbett's earlier in the day and unfortunately, perhaps fortunately, the patrol was working there and it was not open. This was the last day of my only trip ever to JH (I need to remedy that soon!) It hadn't snowed in a long time and conditions kind of sucked. It snowed nonstop for our last 2 days so good things do come to those who wait.

Scariest out west was the entrance to High Rustler at Alta. I don't know why, it was just a real sketchy thing you had to maneuver the way we came into it and to fall would have meant some serious consequences.

My own personal moments of sheer terror begin and end at Tuckerman's Ravine - relatively close to home.

 

[snoseek]

West Ridge at Taos, Lot's of stuff at Kirkwood and certain lines in Killebrew at The Heave come to mind but there's stuff all over the west that makes me shaky and alert.