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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Looks like he had his boots race tight 
Video looks speeded up in places though
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rob@rar, great training aid for shorts though 
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genepi, I think those might be his own bootprints from hiking up 
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wonder where that was filmed, at least he got some turns in and didn't straightline it!!
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i think it's in california somewhere. IRC he went up there with Jeremy Jones on Jones's Deeper project
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No knicker and cliff huck at the end!! Reminds me a bit of a path you walk down n Iceland between European and American tectonic plates
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You know it makes sense.
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He must've been rubbish. He kept turning, thus slowing himself down and risking colliding one wall or the other. If he knew what he was doing he'd clearly have straight linded it
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Gazzza, LOL At one point I suspect his tips got really close to the right hand wall
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Poster: A snowHead
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Gazzza, Just when he got a rhythm going he comes across someone sitting down in the middle of the run.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This scared me! Sharp intake of breath at one point. I could not do this. Ever. Would prefer to be in my sandals on the beach to be honest...
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Tue 18-02-14 16:33; edited 2 times in total
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you've gotta straighline that surely??! (i freely admit i would've resembled a pinball ball coming down there!). Not a big fan of such descents, i bet a lookers shot at it and it would looked horrible, dont see the point of that kind of chute skiing when it's all staccato jump turns or "combat" skiing - straightlining is the only way to pretty it up, afterall that's what counts
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That's a long chute to straightline. Wonder what terminal velocity would be on a slope that pitch in those snow conditions...?
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I hope I never get good enough to even think about attempting things like that.
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you people talking about straightlining it are hilarious Laughing
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Exactly, begging for a snowplough straight down
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Thanks for the link Arno, this photo gives a slightly better perspective on how steep it is:
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That is a cool chute.
Not especially steep but very narrow at times.
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You know it makes sense.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| Wonder what terminal velocity would be on a slope that pitch in those snow conditions...? |
When you say 'terminal' in this case, I think you do mean terminal!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Not especially steep
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It's hard to tell how steep it is - certainly on the photo Rob posted it looks almost vertical, but if you look at the photo of the guy walking up, his steps, the position of his poles and the fact that he is not using his hands, rope or ice axe suggest the couloir is probably below 45 degrees rather than above. Since the location is described as secret though it's hard to be sure, and impossible to check.
I certainly wouldn't ski it though, and the video was amazing
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Awesome skiing
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rob@rar, I reckon the slope is in the 30 to 40 degs range for most of the way. The cliffs are steep but the snowy bit cut into them is less so.
As Plake mentions, the walk-up photos don't look overly stressful.
It is a cool bit of riding, nonetheless. To ski something so narrow mostly without stopping shows great plank control.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| rob@rar, I reckon the slope is in the 30 to 40 degs range for most of the way. The cliffs are steep but the snowy bit cut into them is less so. |
I thought closer to 40, but consistently steep and consistently narrow for such a sustained run and taken at a high speed make it an impressive bit of skiing. "Not especially steep" seems to miss the bigger picture.
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AFAIK this is also in Andrew McLean's guide to the Utah backcountry but it's currently in a shipping container so I can't check the details.
The photo of with the colouir in the background is a classic example of foreshortening hence why it looks so crazily steep. I've got similar photos of Pinnacle Gully shot from Stag Rocks in the Cairngorms which make it looks like a sheer snowface when in actuality it was about 45 degrees average when measuring the slope angle.
Even still skiing it as quickly and smoothly as that is ace given how narrow it is.
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ah you beat me to that post.
