Most challenging trail at your home hill?

[MadMadWorld]

I would love to contribute to this thread, but my home hill is Pats. I'm out...


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Oh come on. Hurricane isn't that bad. I actually think it's the hardest night skiing trail in the northeast!

 

[ss20]

At Thunder Ridge? Is there a minimum section length? :smile:

 

[snoseek]

These two are popular proving grounds, there are many others though. Kirkwood is like a natural terrain park for crazy people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXkvqE4JvIw

 

[skiNEwhere]

These two are popular proving grounds, there are many others though. Kirkwood is like a natural terrain park for crazy people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXkvqE4JvIw

Wow. So I guess the strategy for the first drop is just huck, straightline, and pray. I bet it's pretty intimidating standing up there.....

 

[snoseek]

Wow. So I guess the strategy for the first drop is just huck, straightline, and pray. I bet it's pretty intimidating standing up there.....

The first one is pretty doable assuming the snowpack is there. The second one is a big helping ol nope for this guy....there's so many more that scare the shit out of me. The good thing is there's mini tech lines a decent intermediate can do all the way up to scary stuff. It's a good place to push yourself for sure. Squaw gets all the credit for steep tech and its well deserved but there's other areas that have their proving grounds.

 

[skiNEwhere]

The first one is pretty doable assuming the snowpack is there. The second one is a big helping ol nope for this guy....there's so many more that scare the shit out of me. The good thing is there's mini tech lines a decent intermediate can do all the way up to scary stuff. It's a good place to push yourself for sure. Squaw gets all the credit for steep tech and its well deserved but there's other areas that have their proving grounds.

Yea but I imagine the tightness of the chute and the rocks on either side add to the pucker factor. The video is not great quality, but it seems like the shadows also make it hard to gauge the surface and angle of the snow.

 

[Savemeasammy]

The first one is pretty doable assuming the snowpack is there. The second one is a big helping ol nope for this guy....there's so many more that scare the shit out of me. The good thing is there's mini tech lines a decent intermediate can do all the way up to scary stuff. It's a good place to push yourself for sure. Squaw gets all the credit for steep tech and its well deserved but there's other areas that have their proving grounds.

I did one at Kirkwood in college that looked sort of like the second one - but it was much more filled in, and the straight line was shorter. Heart chute rings a bell, though. Could be the same, but in a much snowier winter...??

Either way, Kirkwood is bad-ass.


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[snoseek]

I did one at Kirkwood in college that looked sort of like the second one - but it was much more filled in, and the straight line was shorter. Heart chute rings a bell, though. Could be the same, but in a much snowier winter...??

Either way, Kirkwood is bad-ass.


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This one?

http://rlv.zcache.com/the_heart_chu...7757b4bedac44f32821525dfe_w9wmu_8byvr_512.jpg

If so then well F'n done. Haven't gotten the nerve in the past three years, then again the snowpack has been very low all three years

 

[Savemeasammy]

There was no cliff band in the middle, so it might have something different... Stuff in the Sierra can change so dramatically according to snowpack. I was there during 89/90 which was an excellent season. That said, it was a mandatory cornice-drop in, and a mandatory straight-line through a funnel and a cliff drop exit. (This pic does look like it was taken early season...)


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[canobie#1]

Tripple Take and Karen's Dream at Ragged.

 

[MadMadWorld]

There was no cliff band in the middle, so it might have something different... Stuff in the Sierra can change so dramatically according to snowpack. I was there during 89/90 which was an excellent season. That said, it was a mandatory cornice-drop in, and a mandatory straight-line through a funnel and a cliff drop exit. (This pic does look like it was taken early season...)Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My buddy took this a few seasons ago.....I think it's called Once Is Enough. I think it's close to Heart Chute.....

If you did either, you have bigger cajones than me!

 

[BeefyBoy50]

Tunkhannock at Elk... Moguls get real big and it's right under the lift so don't mess up.
The other "challenging" run I took here were the trees between Delaware and Lehigh- in the place I dropped they were so tight that it took me 15 minutes to get down 400 vertical feet or so of hill. Elk doesn't glade, so it was like skiing through a completely natural forest with all of the undergrowth in the way. Unfortunately trees are pretty much off limits there.

 

[Savemeasammy]

My buddy took this a few seasons ago.....I think it's called Once Is Enough. I think it's close to Heart Chute.....

If you did either, you have bigger cajones than me!

Like I said, IF it was heart chute, it was in much better shape than it was in this vid. A lot more people would have skied it when I did... You guys know as well as I do what a boatload of snow will do to change runs like that one!


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[spring_mountain_high]

Tunkhannock at Elk... Moguls get real big and it's right under the lift so don't mess up.
The other "challenging" run I took here were the trees between Delaware and Lehigh- in the place I dropped they were so tight that it took me 15 minutes to get down 400 vertical feet or so of hill. Elk doesn't glade, so it was like skiing through a completely natural forest with all of the undergrowth in the way. Unfortunately trees are pretty much off limits there.

Tunk's always good for some embarrassment when i wipe out on the top section

that drop off from delware to lehigh is pretty steep...nice

 

[mattbuck43]

Fools delight at thunder ridge

 

[MadMadWorld]

Fools delight at thunder ridge

That actually does look scary...