That’s awesome Dan and well deserved!!! That line is dreamy!! I’d kill to be able to be put on top of that in the conditions you had. So rad!
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That’s awesome Dan and well deserved!!! That line is dreamy!! I’d kill to be able to be put on top of that in the conditions you had. So rad!
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This needs printed out into a giant picture and hung in your living room.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
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DTM, thanks so much for taking us along this journey. absolutely amazing. hope to see you get back next year!!
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I would make about 400 turns getting down that thing.
Thanks, guys. If someone had shown me that photo before the trip and asked, "Do you think you'll get to ski something like this?" I would have said NFW.
It has been inspiring to watch the lifestyle creep associated with your new job happen in real time. Looking forward to the TR for next year.
No shit!Quote:
Originally Posted by N1CK.
The POV made it seem not very steep (the speed DTM was going was the only thing that gave a hint). The first pic made it seem insanely steep. The most recent pic gives the best view of it, that it is steep AF but skiable, like, I could ski it. But yeah, I would have made 400 turns.
I was just alerted to the gohoe footy. well skied, dtm, and way to represent maggotdom. looking forward to digging into this thread more, you rock.
This is awesomeQuote:
Originally Posted by altachic
And this thread feels like 20 years ago on TGR.....
Nice to see a front page trip report, I miss those days.
Nice work representing, DTM.
I felt the lava just watching. Mans been training. Fuck yeah dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
DTM is still turned up to 11 and it's been over a week since he's skied that bluebird day. I love watching him relive this through his pictures.
Please keep this thread going because when I tell you how happy this has made him, it's absolutely the truth.
There is no question he will go back and use his credit hours to fly next spring. I demand he goes!
Edit: wait until you see his entire edit of all the footage he got. It's going to be be pretty epic...for a regular guy who works all week and skis only weekends, but also makes fitness a priority ;)
Looking at the second pic a bit closer, if you look at where you can see the horizon on the left it appears that it may actually be a bit reverse Skidog-ed. Regardless, while it is definitely steep, if you can ski Upper Cirque at Snowbird comfortably, especially in sub-optimal conditions, you could definitely ski that line in those conditions. It's just about 20x longer than that first pitch in the Cirque.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
I can't say I ever felt it in my legs on that run. Certainly some of that is being in good ski shape and gallons adrenaline, but that snow feels sooo effortless to ski. AK skiing is also done at much lower elevations than UT/CO/MT/WY and the extra O2 is definitely noticeable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Self Jupiter
It's nice to see "Old DTM" still taking/and landing airs in style.
reverse Skidog-ed, lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Awesome thread - saving it for when I finally go heliskiing. Glad you got the goods, DTM!
This thread and talking to Dan warms my cockles.
I couldn't resist un-Skidogging the pic.
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Could you draw your line on the picture?
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Cool trip and thread. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.
We got dropped off on the little ledge looker's left of the pointy peak. We skied down to the little col left and below from there, which is where the POV vid starts. Skied fall line almost down to the choke, then bumped looker's right into the next slot where you can see the spines that I aired.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
Pretty crazy to compare how big that bottom spine looks in the video to how tiny it looks in that shot.
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Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hopeless Sinner
Great, I can see it nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
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Finally put the full trip edit together. It's missing some sweet drone footage from Comstock I'm waiting to get from one of the other folks on the trip, but I had some time so decided to crank this out anyway.
https://youtu.be/Is61o7gX6oU?si=YEpJ7oh1ye986_LE
rippin! glorious DTM
Right on! I'm sure you're addicted now! To quote some fellow skier in the Valdez Best Western bar after my first day in the Chugach, "Heli-skiing AK is like crack. Once you do it, you spend every waking minute thinking about when you can do it again."
FKNA! Awesome, DTM! :yourock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
That's a stoke-filled video, especially as I think about a heli ski trip for a big birthday in the next few years. On the full day you skied, how much vert did you end up skiing?
Awesome rippin Vid DTM!!
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:yourock::yourock::yourock:
Well, that was fun to watch. Nice edit, looks like a repeat is in order.
It will be even better next time when you have the dual go pros AND the contour action cam.
Til then keep one toe raised and pointed towards Alaska.
Heh, the other client in the ship with me was fond of saying that heli skiing is hard drugs.Quote:
Originally Posted by spanky
I'd guess around 15k. We did eight runs total. The first run was not really a real run, more of a "Let's see if you can get in and out of the heli without being a danger to yourself and others" test, so seven real runs. The first couple were on the shorter side since they had received 100 cms of new snow and understandably needed to work their way up to bigger terrain (others ops had some significant slides and a partial burial the same day, so the caution was warranted).Quote:
Originally Posted by fool
We also started a bit late, about 11:30, since there was still some high milk lingering around in the morning. With slightly better conditions a 20k+ day is very possible.I BELIEVEQuote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
Fight like Hell!!
Has anyone noticed issues with the YouTube video quality? I just watched it via the link for the first time and despite showing as being 1080 HD it looked like junk.
Looked good to me, the soundtrack however, meh. Pump it Up.
DTM, what skis were you on? Would you change anything with regards to that?
Sweet!!!
Rossi Sender Squad. Felt like the perfect weapon.Quote:
Originally Posted by DoubleBogey
Love the stoke, well done.
Skiing looks great, video is pixelated/compressed to shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Not here. Clear af.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
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Looks fine to me. YT auto-selected 720p, but I was able to choose 1080p and it played fine from there