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Face de Bellevarde
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Crazy video of a 2 minute descent of the Bellevarde at Val d'Isere, you won't see anything but a blur, pass the sick bag!
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Damn, I was hoping to at least be able to see what it was that I chickened out of...
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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?

That is seriously irresponsible to ski so quickly down Bellevarde, with other people on the run also. It can be very icy, with skiers who really should'nt be on it, skiing it. Falls are common.
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daehwons,
Now I look at it again, yes, maybe some bits, but he is still straight lining an awful lot of it.
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davidof, given that Ortlieb found Olympic gold with a time of 1:50:37 on a prepared course - without a rest stop half way down (as seen on the video) - do we not think this might smell slightly hoaxy? (This video lasts 2:06:~...............)

Mix in dodgy video, speeded well up (note that many fellow riders on the slope are keeping up with our "crazy" guy or indeed riding faster than him) plu sany sort of skiing soundtrack and we have the classic goglevid/youtube hoax.

No-one could ski that run at world cup speeds and not kill a passer by.

Twisted Evil Twisted Evil


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Spyderman, I can straight line anything - slowly enough
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Doh, it's been a long day. Yep, well speeded up on the wobbly bits, but still too quick to ski with other people on the run.
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too quick with all those turns
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David Murdoch wrote:
davidof, given that Ortlieb found Olympic gold with a time of 1:50:37 on a prepared course


Ortlieb, wasn't he the guy snowplouging around 50 seconds in? Laughing
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really doesn't do it any justice to the steep bits!
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DM,
My thoughts exactly...the guys in front stay in frame too long for the skier-cam to be going that quick....

And I was there when Ortlieb won that day.... those guy's thighs are massive...
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A few years back ntfarmer took me down there, only telling me afterwards which slope it was, I thought at the time it was a bit beyond me! Confused
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.

Spyderman wrote:
Doh, it's been a long day. Yep, well speeded up on the wobbly bits, but still too quick to ski with other people on the run.


Get real. rolling eyes
Going faster than other people doesn't necessarily mean being out of control Evil or Very Mad - and it is a (not particularly tricky) black run after all.

Agree that it is not a two minute run the way that was skied, lots of turning, not really flying past the other people, etc, etc
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

Blatantly speeded up - he/she stops three times to have a look round! Pretty crap quality as well.

As for difficulty, I tried it as a 2nd weeker years ago (shouldn't really have been there) and slid down a fair way on my ass/face. I then did it this January on mini-skis and thought it was a doddle. So it all depends on your experience I guess. I think they maintain it more often nowadays, they used to groom it only every 3rd night.
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