Hardest trail you've been on outside the northeast?

[Savemeasammy]

Crazy shite.

They are about as friendly looking as they get in this pick.

I haven't been to Squaw in 20+ years. I would like to get back, but I would probably seek out some other stuff that's a little less challenging than the fingers!!


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[gladerider]

Crazy shite.

oh those. don't think i saw anyone jumping those!

 

[Savemeasammy]

They sometimes look like this!
(On the right)

No thanks...


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[gladerider]

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They sometimes look like this!
(On the right)

No thanks...


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that's looks more like what i remember. no wonder i didn't see anyone huck them. was there for the 2008 christmas. thought i was gonna take my hiking gears coz they had no snow. then, a few days before my arrival, it started dumping. they got several feet out of that storm. it was fantastic. but obviously not enough to cover up those cliff bands. i do remember the chutes at mt. rose being really awesome.

 

[MadMadWorld]

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They sometimes look like this!
(On the right)

No thanks...


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Yea but it's not exactly skiable there

 

[skiNEwhere]

Was able to dig up the pics for when I was forced to huck a cliff in the Silverado Bowl at Squaw in '09. Looking at the pics in retrospect there might have been a way around the cliff, but when I was standing up there dreading my fate I didn't see one. If you look close in the second pic you can see my ski in the snow from where I landed before I did a quintuple forward shoulder roll :/ I don't even know if I want to call that skiing rather than controlled falling, but regardless it was definitely the scariest experience I've had on ski's.

 

[Savemeasammy]

Yea but it's not exactly skiable there

This is an April pic so, no, they were probably not being skied! This just shows how big they are!


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[sugarbushskier]

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.

You have to hike up from McConkeys It's a long hike but worth it! Best part of PC!

 

[gladerider]

You have to hike up from McConkeys It's a long hike but worth it! Best part of PC!

I liked that whole area. getting there takes a while. I wished there was a quicker way to get there. Also as a boarder the traversing in PC is a b!tch.

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[MadMadWorld]

Was able to dig up the pics for when I was forced to huck a cliff in the Silverado Bowl at Squaw in '09. Looking at the pics in retrospect there might have been a way around the cliff, but when I was standing up there dreading my fate I didn't see one. If you look close in the second pic you can see my ski in the snow from where I landed before I did a quintuple forward shoulder roll :/ I don't even know if I want to call that skiing rather than controlled falling, but regardless it was definitely the scariest experience I've had on ski's.
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Nice huck!

 

[skiNEwhere]

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

Where is that trail? I only see "Silver Rush" not "Silver Bush", off of Shadow Mountain

 

[deadheadskier]

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Is that you in the blue on the right side of the picture? If so, That huck appears to be in the 40 to 50 foot range. Unless you went from the very top, then it's probably in the 70 to 80 foot range.

You sir, have some serious balls.

 

[skiNEwhere]

Is that you in the blue on the right side of the picture? If so, That huck appears to be in the 40 to 50 foot range. Unless you went from the very top, then it's probably in the 70 to 80 foot range.

You sir, have some serious balls.

I am not in the picture, I think that's just the light. If that was an 80 foot drop, and couldn't climb back up, I would be calling in a helicopter rescue :lol:

 

[deadheadskier]

Hard to say what's the hardest trail I've skied out West. The hardest skiing I ever did was the Fingers at Abasin, but that's not in bounds. In bounds, maybe some of the lines I skied in the Cirque or Hanging Valley Wall at Snowmass. There's some pretty burly terrain in both areas. The vertical is short, but plenty of steep chutes with mandatory air entrances and lots of options for hucking big in the Cirque if you want.

 

[deadheadskier]

I am not in the picture, I think that's just the light. If that was an 80 foot drop, and couldn't climb back up, I would be calling in a helicopter rescue :lol:

hmmm....maybe, but there's a distinct royal blue "something" in the picture about an inch in from the right side of the pic and a third of a way up from the bottom.

 

[skiNEwhere]

The hardest skiing I ever did was the Fingers at Abasin

Is that in "The Beavers" just past the resort boundary by Pali?

 

[deadheadskier]

Is that in "The Beavers" just past the resort boundary by Pali?

yes.

 

[skiNEwhere]

A-Basin's master development plan shows that thy are planning to make the beavers in bounds and add a lift there in the next 2-4 years. Want to hit that up before that

 

[deadheadskier]

A-Basin's master development plan shows that thy are planning to make the beavers in bounds and add a lift there in the next 2-4 years. Want to hit that up before that

Maybe the beavers and the fingers are synonymous? When I skied them in the mid-90s, the locals who took me out there called them the fingers. Circled in red on this pic.

I was out there in the mid-90s and met this bartender who took me out to the red circled area and called it the Fingers because it looks like 5 fingers/chutes heading down the mountain. We had to hike out to the road and catch a ride to bring us back up to the mountain. Very steep terrain in there and lots of rocks to drop if you choose. First day out there was great. We got a foot of snow overnight and decided to go back out there the next day. Right as went over the crest to drop in the first skier set off a big fracture line. We essentially had to tip toe out of there back uphill towards Pali or end up riding a slide down those gullies. Scary.

Surprised they're trying to add that terrain into the resort. Seems like it takes too much snow to open and would require a lot of AVY control to open. Sick terrain though.

 

[skiNEwhere]

Yea that's def the area

http://www.arapahoebasin.com/ABasin/mountain/master-development/default.aspx