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Fischer Cat Glade is up there!!!!
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what didn't you like about birds of prey? not a fan of the downhill run but peregrine is a great bump run when there's enough snow.
I haven tbeen out west in years but this was one of my favorites:
http://cdn.epicski.com/f/f9/f9fe3c42_SaudanCouloir.jpeg
Forgot to mention, Alta Zero (since it's not part of the normally open Alta Chutes) is steeper than Tower 3, other Alta Chutes, Experts.. Also a ridge off to skier's left of East Ridge Traverse is pretty steep and steeper than most other stuff inbounds probably, but not Alta Zero, I don't think.
I'll start with Out west:
Snowbird- tons of steep runs. Upper Cirque is pretty damn steep, so is the cliff band near the base of the run called Fields of Glory if you hike mount baldy. The thing that really scared the SH*T out of me though was the doors near the Gadzoom High speed quad- they are 3 short but incredibly steep chutes down a virtual cliff band.One of them is so steep that skiiers/riders need to hold onto a rope and slide down just to get into the run. That was two years ago and probably the most recent run I've skiied that I thought I was gonna die. Of course some insane boarder dude was there and hucked a 40-60 foot cliff during all this.
Alta- Never skiied anything at Alta as steep as what's at the Bird, I haven't spent as much time there.
Heavenly- For the most part this mountain is flat compared to Snowbird but Killebrew/Mott Canyons have some pretty steep runs.
Crested Butte- The headwall is a steep, sustained pitch. IDK what in degrees but i'd like to guess over 45˚ (doubt its true though). Banana Peel is also steep. Rambo I have not skiied (never enough snow) but that run looks like DEATH.
Big Sky- The Big Couloir ( i don't have avy equipment so I couldn't ski it) is one of the steepest in bounds runs I've ever seen. The Gullies on Lone Peak are the steepest runs I skied there.
In the east-
From just a guess, the steepest thing I've seen has to be the face chutes at Jay. I've never skiied there but I wish I could.
Outer Limits, the bottom section of Superstar, and the bottom section of Julio at Killington are all very steep in places.
The Slides at Whiteface look steep but they weren't open when I was there.
Yup..I've been told that the Comma chute is super rare as its pretty much cliff skiing to get there...I'm glad I had a very good guide when I went, the chute wasn't too bad...Little Chute off Blady was a whole other ballgame...very narrow and 50 degrees at the top..I will not do that again...Tux was pretty steep...The Dictator chutes at Big Sky where up there, The Big couloir was socked in but looked pretty nuts...All of the following you must hike to ski. Tuckerman Ravine left gully, right gully, Hillmans Highway and sluice. Haven't done the headwall yet. In Utah, the Baldy Chutes at Alta; these are not always open due to the avalanche danger.
I thought your parents never took you with them?
I just looked at my old "Hello Everybody" post and realized the wording is not very clear. My parents both love skiing and we all go out west as a family once a year in March, and I love them for that. They never take me up East to ski, though, because my mom doesn't like driving for 6-7 hours.
We have buses that go to south Vermont every weekend from NYC and usually they will go to north Vermont for a whole weekend, do you have buses from Philly check the local ski shops, you could take the bus to NYC and do it from here but that would be a lot of hours on a bus.