Waterfall at Stowe

**Free Range Lobster** · 02-21-2007, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas

I think that one went "I hit a rental rear-entry, he was 14 or 15. When the itching and burning in my genitals finally cleared up, I was looking at 25 to life in MCI-Walpole."

The exclamation points really make this awesome.

**ArmadaBC** · 02-21-2007, 12:42 PM

In those videos I was just waiting for your spine to come out your neck that damn landing is uphill.

**Natedogg** · 02-21-2007, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by ArmadaBC

In those videos I was just waiting for your spine to come out your neck that damn landing is uphill.

Or your knees to rip your jaw off.

Nice cajones, though.

**gtdrew** · 02-21-2007, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by lax

bump. collectively those clips were the dumbest thing i've ever seen

agreed. That just looks painful.

**BenWA** · 02-21-2007, 04:45 PM

yeup, the Waterfall is flat as fawk....except in the rare circumstances when it's a super heavy snow year and the upslope wind piles up a little bit of a tranny against the cliff, then it's only about 5' high and hardly worth hucking anyway.

I had a buddy who broke his back on the Waterfall back in '97 or so, early season when it's biggest and flattest. What an idioth.

Props on the 3 attempt, looks like the landing hurt tho.

Best huckin is in the notch.

**Homewood Warrior** · 02-21-2007, 05:43 PM

Not to beat a dead horse or anything......but I checked out the waterfall landing in the summer once and it is actually sloped back towards the cliff. That said, late in the season when tons of snow has slid down, it might actually be angled downhill enough in your favor......
During a high school race practice one night (mid 90s) we watched a kid from another high school ruin any sort of athletic future he might have had by dropping it and pancaking on the flat hard landing. Compressed vertebrae i believe.

**gregb22** · 02-21-2007, 07:41 PM

I hit up Stowe a lot and I always hear that there are better and bigger cliffs to hit but i never see them. Can anybody tell me where they are?

Also if anybody was at Stowe this weekend and saw some maniac in a dark blue north face hitting the waterfall (5 times), that was me. sorry for all the bombholes.

**caddah** · 02-21-2007, 07:41 PM

like everyone said, the landing is FLAAAAT. the cliff can be fun though. I did it with a ton of soft snow underneath. It was almost like landing in styrofoam. you can see I landed all f'ed up and came out unscathed. so you can call me dumb, and looking back it probably wasnt the smartest huck, but i knew what I was getting into. i was obviously confindent enough in the conditions to attempt the 7 on it.

if there is hard snow, then don't even try it.

I can think of atleast 10 other drops on the mountain that have much nicer landings, some smaller, some bigger, but you do get max visibility when you drop the waterfall cliff.

Like this picture....I like how all the people in the gondi are lookin out the back window. dropping the waterfall cliff at stowe usually gets you a bit of response.

I think its sweet to have a picture like this in your collection too

and for no particular reason heres a lil more stowe stoke.
first is one of the afore mentioned other drops in the woods, the other is a little higher up on the mountain. youll know where if you know stowe at all.

http://www.uvm.edu/~jcotter/waterfal...ewoodsdrop.wmv

http://www.uvm.edu/~jcotter/waterfallcliff/rgturns.wmv

**Natedogg** · 02-21-2007, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by BenWA

then it's only about 5' high and hardly worth hucking anyway.

Hey hey, its something worth hucking for some of us pussies.

<edit> found it! Thought I had this saved somewheres... BenWA huckin his 120lb girls body off the waterfall...

**Junker** · 02-21-2007, 10:06 PM

^^^^^^^I'll have to try the camera tilt technique to make flat landings look good.

**soul_skier** · 02-21-2007, 10:45 PM

my friend says he wants to lincon loop it on friday, if so I'll get pics and video

**Phall** · 02-21-2007, 11:19 PM

soul, what are we lookin at for snow accumulation?

**BenWA** · 02-22-2007, 12:37 AM

Originally Posted by Natedogg

BenWA huckin his 120lb girls body off the waterfall...

holy crap, i completely forgot about that pic. When was that, like '99/'00??

And I'm up to 144 now, thankyouverymuch

**BenWA** · 02-22-2007, 12:38 AM

Originally Posted by caddah

http://www.uvm.edu/~jcotter/waterfallcliff/rgturns.wmv

That's a cool shot...is that off the Lower Lip? Trying to recognize...

**BenWA** · 02-22-2007, 01:05 AM

Originally Posted by t-bar

the most painful to watch was the overrated 3, but you popped right up, which was nice to see

the "overrated 3", ahaaahhaa

**Colorado** · 02-22-2007, 09:21 AM

Spent a lot of time Skiing Stowe when I was at UVM. I thought they did open the waterfall at some point? I hit it in the mid 90's and it was a good 20' to flat.

This one is in the Chin Clip woods and was a favorite of mine. I miss that mtn.

**Natedogg** · 02-22-2007, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by BenWA

holy crap, i completely forgot about that pic. When was that, like '99/'00??

And I'm up to 144 now, thankyouverymuch

Beef up, buttercup! Get off that POS road bike!

Dont have any idear when that were--your bro took the photo, no?
Ive got your JH huck pic, too.

**SummerSux** · 02-22-2007, 11:37 AM

Damn the OB at Stowe sucks, I think everyone should just stick to the marked trails

**gregb22** · 02-25-2007, 11:34 AM

heres a pic of me dropping the waterfall a couple days after that monster valentines day storm. there was actually too much snow in the landing area and i almost had to get dug out.

**samthaman** · 02-25-2007, 07:03 PM

In response to soulskiier, i was his friend that was supposed to loop it. Last sunday I hit it off the middle (biggest) with a fair ammount of speed and was able to land on a nominally downsloping patch of powder. I rolled out of my left ski and got a nasty case of shin bang, but in terms of being worth it; you may trash your body but its the ultimate glory hit at stowe. I didnt loop it as it was my first time hitting it and I was skiing solo, but if we get another big storm i would certanly consider it. If the dude in the last picture was on gotamas, I think i was the kid on big daddies who hit it right before you did. kudos for hittin it.

SkiBumOfVT · 02-25-2007, 08:55 PM

ahh the valentines storm of 07. That was a great storm, that waterfall drop looks kind of narly, I wouldnt do that, but you would get alot of glory under the gondola and all

**trainnvain** · 02-25-2007, 09:03 PM

It's made out of maple syrup, ya'know.
Go ahead. Lick it.

**lax** · 02-25-2007, 09:12 PM

no one looks like they're having any fun in the air. everyone looks like stevo mid-jackass stunt when he realizes that the crocodile could in fact bite his nutsack off an that this is neither funny nor fun anymore.

**BenWA** · 02-25-2007, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by lax

everyone looks like stevo mid-jackass stunt when he realizes that the crocodile could in fact bite his nutsack off an that this is neither funny nor fun anymore.

heh, I felt that exact feeling earlier today...I thought I was gonna wake up in a helicopter