skiNEwhere
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I like to handle these situations by saying "f*** that chute" and skiing away with my tail between my legs.
That is good advice, but also can be hardest to follow sometimes!
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I like to handle these situations by saying "f*** that chute" and skiing away with my tail between my legs.
I think it's more about bleeding off speed rather than controlling it in tight lines.
This is a great thread!
One thing that hasn't been addressed head on is speed control! Take a trail like "awe chute" at winter park. The chute is so narrow that you can't pivot slip perpendicular to the fall-line, unless you have like 110 cm ski's. How do you control speed there?
Does highway star show up to AZ summits? I want to see some of his alleged K steeze.
If not, he needs to and put his money where his mouth is.
I'm not familiar with that chute, but a friend of mine was skiing in the Alps once and was following his guide down some chute. The guide stopped and said "so, this chute keeps getting narrower... keep turning until you can't turn anymore. Then sideslip down until it's too narrow to sideslip. Then go straight. It opens into a big bowl".
I don't know how long the "go straight" section was, but the idea of straightlining a chute that's too narrow to even think about turning pegs my :blink: meter.
So I looked up the Awe Chute on YouTube:
It doesn't look anything close to narrow to me (at least the line that guy took sure isn't). I'm sure there are some stupid tight lines in the trees below, but I don't consider "tree skiing" to be "chutes".
So I looked up the Awe Chute on YouTube:
It doesn't look anything close to narrow to me (at least the line that guy took sure isn't). I'm sure there are some stupid tight lines in the trees below, but I don't consider "tree skiing" to be "chutes".
Agreed, that is not what I'd call a chute. Plenty of room to turn and plenty of lumps and bumps to help control speed. When you do it, make sure you hit that lil' 10 footer on the right at 1:00.
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First one through got the powder. Everyone else is hitting the brakes right before the couloir as evident by the ski tip marks on the left hand wall. Once stopped there, it's a gentle left turn through and hit the brakes on the other side.
So I looked up the Awe Chute on YouTube:
It doesn't look anything close to narrow to me (at least the line that guy took sure isn't). I'm sure there are some stupid tight lines in the trees below, but I don't consider "tree skiing" to be "chutes".
+1 very rarely do I find bump-less tight treesI've never skied, I snowboard exclusively, but I'd guess that practicing really tight lines on moguls would be a good way to practice tree and chute skiing. Try to keep your speed up and carve up every bump. I do this on my snowboard sometimes to get better at picking good lines through tight glades.