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How would you describe a cable car ?
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Snap, horizon. (I should have said, he took both the photos.)


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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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horizon, I wasn't saying it wasn't 40 degrees, more lamenting that my photos never seem to look as good as the subject deserves lol.

Cool line though!
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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?

clarky999, no dig at you (in fact my recollection of the first pic that snowball posted is that it was below 40 degrees, but it's been a while).

In my experience photographing up or down a slope makes it look invariably less steep than in reality, and photographing it straight-on from a distance makes it look steeper (probably due to the perspective compression effect of telephoto). Hence I posted the two shots of that other couloir. It's worth mentioning that the guide didn't let us ski the last bit as it was too icy and narrow - he set up a rope and we sideslipped it while holding on to the rope.
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In my experience photographing up or down a slope makes it look invariably less steep than in reality, and photographing it straight-on from a distance makes it look steeper



Completely agree, I think the best and most realistic photos are taken when the skier is level or just past the photographer e.g.



compared to




The first is the top of Le Pyramide at Alpe D'Huez, pretty much spot on 35 degrees which I think it looks in the photo. The second is a little couloir much lower down that links that run into another, in that photo taken straight on it looks a lot steeper but in reality is probably about 30 degrees tops i.e. much shallower.

Meanwhile this is taken from just below the skier



It looks almost flat but in reality is about 30 degrees i.e. as steep as the second picture. Perspective can be a bug!
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horizon wrote:
my recollection of the first pic that snowball posted is that it was below 40 degrees, but it's been a while).

Could easily have been a bit less. I just said it could have been as much as 40º. The point was, 60º would look a lot steeper.

(Actually my memory was that the two slopes were not very different.)
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GrahamN, that sounds like sense to me...

Back to the OP...

Why does there really need to be a description?.. ah.. looking at the link there isn't one really... which is nice...
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...

That thing over there and I would point to the cable car. I would maybe go the extra mile and point to the base station and say that is where you get on. If they had been polite.
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