Hardest trail you've been on outside the northeast?

[jaywbigred]

Tower 3 Chute at Jackson Hole. It hadn't snowed in 2 weeks and it was gnarly, rutted, and bumped.


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[aveski2000]

Alta Chutes at Jackson Hole. Also Tower 3 and Expert Chutes. Did the Steep and Deep Camp a couple of years ago. Had a lot of new snow. Was pretty epic. My avatar is from that trip.

 

[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

Do you happen to know what these chutes are called. This adventure was about six years ago, conditions were primo...

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[4aprice]

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

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Rush, my bad. Also looks like they widened it out since I skied it.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[MadMadWorld]

Not my picture but I did this one on my honeymoon....

 

[Puck it]

Mushroom Chutes at JHMR.

 

[Savemeasammy]

Not my picture but I did this one on my honeymoon....

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I don't know your wife, but if she went skiing with you on your honeymoon, she is ok in my book!


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[ScottySkis]

I don't know your wife, but if she went skiing with you on your honeymoon, she is ok in my book!


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+1 My dad and my mom went to Aspen for their honeymoon. They both skiied but my dad was the die hard.

 

[MadMadWorld]

I don't know your wife, but if she went skiing with you on your honeymoon, she is ok in my book!


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Yea she's a good egg. We went to Chile in late August and spent half the time at the beach on the coast and the rest of the time in the mountains. It was a great time. It has to be the only country to offer up beautiful beaches, deserts, massive mountains and glaciers.....I could be wrong though.

 

[steamboat1]

My wife & I went on a skiing honeymoon almost 28 years ago. She gave up skiing about 5 years ago but still lets me go whenever I please.

 

[Savemeasammy]

We got married during the summer, and honeymooned in France. It didn't occur to me to go south of the equator. Rookie move.


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[ceo]

Eychauda at Serre-Chevalier. A narrow ridgeline traverse with steep drops on both sides, that's the only way back to the Monetier-les-Bains side of the resort from the main mountain, so massively crowded at the end of the day, and people there ski like Parisians drive. =:-O

 

[Blanton]

East Wall at A-Basin following an aggressive morning of jello shots and beer in the parking lot.

 

[skiNEwhere]

East Wall at A-Basin following an aggressive morning of jello shots and beer in the parking lot.

Love the east wall. Was only able to hit second notch last year though, hope to hit the rest this year.

 

[SnowRock]

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.

I'd say the same for me... Has to be some of the terrain in those areas.

 

[Abominable]

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.

Very similar experience, as just out of high school kid in Tahoe for the first time. Those chutes were intimidating. Worst is that the lip is always hard packed and wind-swept, so on a snowboard you have to kind of balance to strap in, then figure out a way to get a little momentum and drop in. More than half the time it resulted in an off-balance drop in and landing, and a few wrecks, while all the skiers laughed from above... but when those chutes open up into that picturesque bowl and you're surfing a foot of new snow... sublime.

 

[jimk]

As a skier I suck, but I've been practicing sucky skiing for almost 50 years so I've seen a few steeps
In recent years I've butchered some occasionally robust western terrain with my young adult son who is pretty strong at this point (Level II PSIA instructor) and waits for me at the bottom of slopes.
Of my photos that are handy for quick attachment, here is a random sample of steeper runs we've skied. Sorry for the obnoxious photo dump. I guess I have to do this in three groups of five photos?

Arapahoe Basin, CO
Palaviccini trail pod:


Aspen Highlands, CO
Highland Bowl:


Loveland, CO
The Ridge:


Snowmass, CO
The Cirque:

 

[jimk]

more steeps

Alta, UT
Catherines Area:


High Rustler:


Squaw Valley, CA
Red Dog Ridge off KT-22 chair:


more from Squaw off Granite Chief chair:



Brighton, UT
Mt. Millicent terrain:

 

[jimk]

This will do for now :-?

Kirkwood, CA
The Wall and The Notch:


Sierra at Tahoe, CA
Huckleberry Bowl:



Taos, NM
Highline Ridge:



Solitude, UT
Parachute glade:




Last, but not least, Homewood, CA
Quail Face sidecountry:

 

[Abominable]

Those pics are pure torture right now. Violations of the Geneva Code.