What's the biggest rush you've ever had on skis?

[JMO]

Narcotic-induced rushes aside, what was it and where?

[BradyCU]

1: The 85ft kicker at the bottom of Brek last year

2: The 100ft out /30ft down to flat landing kicker we built 2 years ago(ouch)

3:Going fast enough to stop accelerating on well pitched runs

[13]

Chinese DH from the top of the Gold Hill chair all the way to town @ Telluride.

My whole body was shaking at the bottom.

[Lumpy]

Do shrooms count loosely as narcotics?

[bossass]

When I was at the gate when they opened the BC for the first time all season ( the longer traverse around the King) at Crystal a few years ago. I took a mildly pitched run of thigh deep pow. It was the first run I ever had that lived up to some sort of expectation of how good I imagined skiing in powder could be.

[shera]

One really big adrenaline surge from last year comes to mind.

I put on a pair of duph's explosives and put my brain on hold. Followed him off a cornice without checking speed. I don't know what was better, the freaking biggest air I had yet gotten or landing it and skiing out at mach speed. I want some more of that...

Really, I can hardly wait to get that suprising feeling of bottomless float again. Ski along with a few inches of fresh and suddenly realize that it's deep enough to get that loving feeling. Not adrenaline, but mmmmmm, good.

[phUnk]

Guinnea pigging Flagstaff gap (cleared it, phew.)

Guinnea pigging Grizzly gap (got crushed, ouch.)

[homerjay]

The split second I thought I was about to land a front flip off of a cornice.

Then the pain started.

[Owens Never Sleeps]

I took a 1800 foot tumble down a chute a couple of years ago. Narrowly missed rock induced death. The adrenaline had me pinging so hard I pretty much vibrated my way home.

[Plakespear]

When I landed my first helicopter.

[shera]

Originally posted by Owens Never Sleeps
I took a 1800 foot tumble down a chute a couple of years ago. Narrowly missed rock induced death. The adrenaline had me pinging so hard I pretty much vibrated my way home.

[hop]

It was probably getting off the chairlift for the first time...

[Pinner]

It's a toss up:

Pulling that 100+ foot air out of that 70+ degree chute in Summit County, or winning the Hahnenkamm.

[Beaver]

Probably when I got pinned to tree in the start zone of an avalanche that would have swept me into the trees 100 feet below me.

[CantDog]

Had a close call in the Sugarloaf snowfields two years ago, caught a ski on a twig in the ground during a jump turn, and started to fall. Tumbled, lost my skis, i could see blue sky, then snow, then blue sky, then some trees, then blue sky, trees getting closer...trying to clutch at little shrubs to slow... didnt work. Eventually I came to a stop right before the tree line. My friend who was with me thought I was going to go down in a tobaggon or body bag, but escaped unharmed. Close call though.
-Zack

[tuffy109]

"Golf is only cool if you are Bill Murray"

why? golf fucking rules.

[Plakespear]

Originally posted by Pinner
It's a toss up:

Pulling that 100+ foot air out of that 70+ degree chute in Summit County, or winning the Hahnenkamm.

What about that hummer you got in the Squaw Valley gondola in '82?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Hanging out at the top of the run for qualifying at the Kirkwood big mtn. comp. and thinking that there are still 3 competitors to go before my turn, so I stroll away a little to take a leak. Right in the middle of this, I hear my number getting called:

"No. 91! No. 91! You're up! Competitor ready! Where's 91?!!"

Shit. Fuck. Nearly pissed myself running back over there, brushing the snow off my boots and clicking in as they're counting down, "3!, 2!...". Wait! Wait! I'm not ready! "..1! GO!! Compititor on course!!" I clicked in and just pushed off without even knowing if I was dropping in where I planned or not. Pure shaking adrenaline.

[Juan Valdez]

Quite Honestly.....

It's this



I mean look at the play list!

1. The Big Money
2. Red Barchetta
3. Subvisions
4. Time Stand Still
5. Mystic Rhythms
6. The Analog Kid
7. Distant Early Warning
8. Marathon
9. The Body Electric
10. Mission
11. Limelight
12. Red Sector A
13. New World Man
14. Tom Sawyer
15. Force Ten


although this was a close second



although it could have been that 360ft air off the top of my colonial mansion into the waiting arms of Eric (my migrant worker)who-doesn't-pick-coffee-beans-necessarily.

[shera]

Originally posted by Tyrone Shoelaces
Hanging out at the top of the run for qualifying at the Kirkwood big mtn. comp. and thinking that there are still 3 competitors to go before my turn, so I stroll away a little to take a leak. Right in the middle of this, I hear my number getting called:

"No. 91! No. 91! You're up! Competitor ready! Where's 91?!!"

Shit. Fuck. Nearly pissed myself running back over there, brushing the snow off my boots and clicking in as they're counting down, "3!, 2!...". Wait! Wait! I'm not ready! "..1! GO!! Compititor on course!!" I clicked in and just pushed off without even knowing if I was dropping in where I planned or not. Pure shaking adrenaline.

Where's Paul Harvery when you need him?

[dude_le_skibum]

i had different rushes latelly.

the biggest unjustified one was when i was in this couloir, it wasn't the longest one and had a big run out to death trap, it was like 20 cm of fresh on a solid layer, it was sorta of a s-couloir to the left side with a narrow point in the middle of the s. it wasn't very long (wel rev, skiers left of the one you made slid in the cloud) i am not too good with sizes, anyway gettin in the first part of it i saw all the snow all rippled under me and in front f me...ah ah what a rush. i had no idea where it cracked, but i knew i had to make it in the turn before it else i would be screwed in the rocks or the death trap river at the bottom, and after that it was easy for me to grab enough speed to outrun it and to step out of its path. the rush was siiick. i was surprised how i stayed focused and i charged and got out. it turned out to be a medium-small avy running pretty slow. but the moment when i saw everything in front of me ripple, dang that was a rush.

i got rush from skiing lines i knew no one had even touched in 3 years. when you are standing at the top droppin in this steep and wide open first part (moonface, nevado)
i got a sick rush from just seeing a face that you had no idea existed.
rush from hittin a cliff , a cliff that you scoped on the way up and doesn't look the same when you are getting into hitting it without dropping your speed and noticing, in the air, that you are a bit off balance. but you finally stick it. that is a good rush.
rush from traversing in a sketchy windblown section above sketchy rocks.
the rush of pow hitting you in your face.
the rush of diving into pow

ah the list goes on, this is what skiing is all about, these rushes !

[acostiga]

'twas with a spancered skier guy named dave keam the day he was doing promotional stuff for k2 near the zugspitze. he and some other folks let me and my buddy tag along with them past the resort boundary. i've only ever seen that guy's pic in a mag once or twice, but man he was a smooth skier... and man was it fun trying to keep up with him and his posse in that mountain paradise.

[Particle]

Any of several skiercrosses I've done...at Crested Butte, Copper, Breck, WP. That rush blew away the adrenaline from freeskiing comps I've done. Crazy shit!

[iskibc]

Age 4, Lost Valley, Maine. Getting off the lift for the first time and my mom skiing ahead of me telling me to follow her. Holy Shit was I crapping my pants. I must have fallen 357 times down that run, crying, screaming "I hate this sport, I'm never doing this again!".

[the Jay]

straightlining bat cave on a hard packed day in a pair of old markers. I got to the runout, thought I had it nailed then hit a roll, came flying out of my bindings and ate shit hard. Thank god I was wearing my helmet