 Poster: A snowHead
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The problem with all these would I think be snow consistency over that vertical range.
Plus most folk can't even ride one small piste top to bottom without stopping multiple times anyway.
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Exactly. Tends to be as much for resort marketing than quality skiing.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Whitegold wrote: |
K2, Pakistan, is (by far) the world's biggest offpiste nonstop vertical.
Can be done without oxygen.
* Top = 8611m
* Bottom = 5100m
* Vertical = 3511m |
I thought Mt Blanc summit to Chamonix had been done in very good snow year, for 3800 odd descent?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| rjs wrote: |
| @blueroom, Engelberg doesn't have a continuous run on piste for that vertical. |
I think it does and I'm pretty sure I've done it? You can carry your momentum from the mid station slope and pole across the Trubsee bit? Then long run right to the valley?
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@8611, a borderline one, might need a jury. The route that you describe is pisted but it is not shown as an alpine piste on the piste map, appears to indicate that it is xc. I'd be inclined to disqualify it on the basis that heavy poling is required and once we allow heavy poling you could probably do top of the Grands Montets to Tignes Les Brevieres in a single run which clearly isn't in the spirit of the question
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| rambotion wrote: |
| @8611, and once we allow heavy poling you could probably do top of the Grands Montets to Tignes Les Brevieres in a single run which clearly isn't in the spirit of the question |
How would you get past the lake and the reservoir?
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Tue 15-10-24 23:14; edited 1 time in total
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Another notable disqualification is Cervinia to Valtourneche. Can't remember can you actually do it direct from the top of Zermatt but there is one annoying short lift along the way anyway.
Stick it on the almost list so people are aware of the potential.
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| 8611 wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
K2, Pakistan, is (by far) the world's biggest offpiste nonstop vertical.
Can be done without oxygen.
* Top = 8611m
* Bottom = 5100m
* Vertical = 3511m |
I thought Mt Blanc summit to Chamonix had been done in very good snow year, for 3800 odd descent? |
Any decent year. But the real prize is Mt Blanc to Le Fayet, and yes it has been skied.
Top 4810m
Bottom 580m
Vertical 4230m
There are theoretical verticals in Alaska, but AFAIK no complete descents.
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