Steep!

[Arty50]

Holy Shit!!! The pic is even turned to make it look flatter!!!

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic23857.jpg

Location: Whistler,BC
Rider(s): Tyler Gigg
Mountain/Trail: Whistler Backcountry
Description: Photo taken by Threse Lundgren

[ak_powder_monkey]

yep I'm definately gonna die at whistler this year

[Ski Beaver]

Kicking Horse steepness;

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic20590.jpg

Blackcomb Steep;

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19441.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19440.jpg

[shamrockpow]

Originally posted by Ski Beaver

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19440.jpg [/B]

Whistler: must go there. Soon.

[summit]

Sick!

[Arty50]

Originally posted by shamrockpow
Whistler: must go there. Soon.

I've been dreaming of the fucking place all day. Mmmmmm...Harmony...

[Ski Beaver]

Whistler's mountain Atlas is up on my wall at work and I look at it all day long.

I will live there one day.......one day.

[AntiSoCalSkier]

Originally posted by Arty50
I've been dreaming of the fucking place all day. Mmmmmm...Harmony...

Harmony has to be one of the all-time greatest lifts in North America. In a single run, you can ski a wide-open bowl, steep technical exposed stuff, trees, bumps, and a groomer. Every run is a different adventure.

[tuffy109]

Originally posted by Arty50
I've been dreaming of the fucking place all day.

are you wearing your sweatshirt?

[Villiage Idiot]

*yawn*

I can ski that switch on my telemark monoboard.

[Arty50]

Originally posted by tuffy109
are you wearing your sweatshirt?

Bwahahahaha!!!

[glademaster]

Harmony Lift=downright amazing. I'm also a fan of the Peak Chair, simply because of the crazy steeps it drops you right on top of. However, at W/B, my two favorite lifts are prolly the Glacier Express and the Crystal Chair. Crystal accesses some of the msot amazing tree skiing I've ever seen, and it's high enough so that the snow is light and deep. Glacier Chair takes you to any kind of terrain you want, at any pitch. A Great 3 lift lap is up Jersey Cream, down through the chutes and trees, up Glacier to something big and steep, down to Crystal through the trees and back. Yummy

[Idris]

Jersey and Glacier I can understan, but jersey is only to get back to glacier to access the steeps (unless the weather closes in the jersey is fun)...but excelerator? to jersey is faster than crystal unless they've relaced that pos 3 place yan.......Peak to Checkamus is fun, but some folks get permenently lost trying to bet back to funktion junktion.

[stump832]

ba dup dup dup da...i'm lovin it.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic26660.jpg

[EPSkis]

Grr - on a Citrix sys, C&P not enabled, but:

That 2nd Whister pic - "Whister steep" - that's a frighteningly steep & long mogul field, no?

[glademaster]

EPskis, the pic of the steep and long mogul field looks to me like the entrance to Couloir Extreme on Blackcomb, I may be wrong though. The scariest part of that run is the drop in, beyond that, its fun steep.

[Ireallyliketoski2]

9 out of 10 maggots agree, whistler is steep!!

Warning, side effects may include dizziness, nauseau, manic depression, and maming.

I've never seen so many people being taken down a mountain in the stretcher.

[trainnvain]

Originally posted by glademaster
EPskis, the pic of the steep and long mogul field looks to me like the entrance to Couloir Extreme on Blackcomb, I may be wrong though. The scariest part of that run is the drop in, beyond that, its fun steep.

That's exactly where that is. I always lose some base traversing early right out of there.

[JMO]

Sudan circa 1991...

[JMO]

More Blackcomb, 1991 (sorry for the rerun)...

[The Reverend Floater]

Heh. I was at Blackcomb in high school the very first time I skied something so steep I was almost too scared to move. Climbed up some peak there above the glacier and decided to ski the other side. It was a classic BC foggy/snow day and the couliar was very steep and ended up dog legging 90 degrees to the left because there was a 200 foot cliff otherwise. I can remember telling myself that the skiing itself wasn't too difficult, but the thought of impending doom if I ragdolled down the coulair scared me shitless. Finally my friend and I just picked our way down slowly, carefully executing the dog leg about 100 yards before it was necessary. I still think about that run everytime I get puckered.

[CantDog]

Whistler is quite sick, even without snow. Yesterday I hiked up to the glacier on wedge mountain(highest peak in Gariabaldi park) and oh man...sickness. Lots of lines, and one really sick north facing chute that still has a lot of snow.


heres a shot during winter: http://www.sverdina.com/images/wedge1/pict0019.jpg

[skier666]

This is steep

http://www.vidbusters.com/~casey/shaft.bmp

[JMO]

Originally posted by The Reverend Floater
Heh. I was at Blackcomb in high school the very first time I skied something so steep I was almost too scared to move. Climbed up some peak there above the glacier and decided to ski the other side. It was a classic BC foggy/snow day and the couliar was very steep and ended up dog legging 90 degrees to the left because there was a 200 foot cliff otherwise. I can remember telling myself that the skiing itself wasn't too difficult, but the thought of impending doom if I ragdolled down the coulair scared me shitless. Finally my friend and I just picked our way down slowly, carefully executing the dog leg about 100 yards before it was necessary. I still think about that run everytime I get puckered.

I must have been right behind you guys. I did the exact same thing and it scared the pants off me.

[Arty50]

Originally posted by Ireallyliketoski
I've never seen so many people being taken down a mountain in the stretcher.

Oh, that's just from extreme gaper pinball. Last season, I almost crashed into 3 people in the span of 5 seconds. The first nearly cut me off, the second fell and slid in front of me, and the third cut me off to watch the second's fall.

I'd rather ski through a close out line in the trees.