Where do I go to "step it up"

[hev]

particle-

i can see your point but my comment is about the experience as a whole, and of course everyone's is different. i have also skied steeper terrain, and deeper snow but overall the guided experience brought me into backcountry terrain i prbly wouldn't go into otherwise. in fact I am surprised that many people post about guides holding them back, I actually felt for the most part the opposite was true.

skiing with our group of six with aaron as a guide was amazing. we only got 3 runs in on sunday, but it was all i could ask for. aaron was happy and willing to go as fast as our group could travel and brought us into terrain I probably not get into without a guide. I only have a couple other experiences skiing with a guide and they don't really even compare. I guess my main point, is despite somebody guiding me to the goods, i really felt like i had a backcounty expereince, which humbled my overall hiking, skiing, traveling and listening skills.


...reading more posts now....

i would actually agree that burly inbbounds terrain would actually be a way better place to "step it up" in a lot of ways. silverton is not the best place to push your own skills.

oh and we went to the upper upper mountain at silverton. pretty sick up there. I honestly don't see how they could run that mountain unguided.

[phUnk]

Originally posted by Buzzworthy
Back to my hole!!

Count me out.

[grrrr]

Step it up? How do you feel about a little hiking?



http://tinyurl.com/26g4g

[bad_roo]

I was looking. But I found...

http://www.brownmonkey.com/snow/imag...4/IMG_2555.jpg

[Hayduke]

The point's been made. It's probably not where you ski but who you ski with. There's always someone better than you, find them and ski with them. Otherwise, come to yurp and ski alone - (see SuPu's cham thread).

[edit.Fuck you you JONG fucking fucker fuck). 1st time - Now I feel good .

Almost 100 posts - can I have my life back please?

[Blurred Elevens]

Originally posted by Sluff
I need to find a place where I can step up my skiing. I have been heli skiing in Jackson and cat skiing in B.C., all of which have been major disappointments. We end up getting stuck with 40 and 50 year olds who want to make perfect turns down 30 degree hills. I want to find a place where they will take you to some 45 to 50 degree runs all the way down with features to work on your way down. I'm convniced heli and snowcat operations in lower 48 and Canada will never take me to places that get my adrenaline flowing. I'm sure Alaska is the answer, but I fear getting stuck with the same crowd and won't get what I want. Where do I go to step it up?

You guys really disappoint me here. I haven't posted much lately, and you guys let the place go to hell.....

I've got one word for "Sluff".

JONG


I hear the skiing is good there.

[Hayduke]

Fair point. (see above)...................................Maybe we're getting old?

[Buzzworthy]

Originally posted by phUnk
Count me out.

I never counted you in. I'm married, stop stalking me. I warned you before about this type of behavior.

[BakerBoy]

Originally posted by grrrr
Step it up? How do you feel about a little hiking?

Woah, that's a different angle of Table. Obviously shot from Hermans, but it almost looks as though there's a continuous ridge out there. Crazy. Where'd you find that?

[altachic]

Originally posted by Big E
Skiing w/ maggots is usually one sure fire way to accomplish this.

Agreed. And by this, you will be humbled, amazed and totally wanting more even though it was hard or scary or something you have never done before.

Ski with some maggots in LCC, BCC or anywhere else. You will have to step up your skiing just by doing this, in a place that blows your mind.

[fez]

Originally posted by grrrr
Step it up? How do you feel about a little hiking?

http://www.uwrf.edu/leadership/recre...idgerbowl3.jpg

Not the best pic, but if you cant get interested up there, you need to be checked for a pulse.

[Squirrel99]

South. If you enjoy having guides show you the goods, go to-
http://www.laslenasski.com and check in with Mark. He puts together custom tours of Las Lenas and Portillo with some of the top pros today.

Or if you have backcountry knowledge and equipment, just go there prepared. If you can't find something steep enough to put the fear of God in you, then you aren't looking hard enough. Oh yeah- for extra thrills, the best hospital nearby is in Miami.

[Squirrel99]

Example:

[Buster Highmen]

Originally posted by Particle
I've certainly seen plenty of terrain that'd be absolutely sick to ski at Silverton, but the guides won't go near it for obvious reasons. Also, the upper upper alpine stuff that's a 1-2 hour hike off the lift looks pretty freakin ridiculous. Not saying the mountain isn't sick, but the terrain you currently are able to ski doesn't exactly give me that 'pucker factor'.

The Billboard is an hour hike, even for old wheezers. There's a bunch of interesting lines off of it.
The choke points of Riff or Raff are pretty steep, as are the draws and gullies in Manditory and Nightmare. A lot of sloughs got knocked off there last week by a bunch of rubber nosed goons.

A lot of what one gets in guided situations depends on the guide and the group and the day and the conditions. Last week, I skied a bunch of stuff I'd never skied before. Some of it was pretty steep.

Anyway, the best way to go to Silverton is to have the goal of having fun in a unique place. If you have the skills and attitude, you may get to ski some crazy stuff.

As far as steeps, the coastal snowpack will generally allow one to ski steeper stuff than the rocky mountain snowpack. The Tahoes Squaw, Kirkwood, Alpine and Sugarbowl will have what you're looking for as well as Mammoth, Alpental and select spots at Whistler and Blackcomb like Spanky's Ladder and West Bowl. Honorable mention for Bridger's Ridge, Big Sky's steeps and some of the chutes arounf Telluride.

[Pinner]

My original thought was also "Silverton" but then I thought about it and realized that I don't particularly want to stretch my abilities to their limit at Silverton, thus it's not really the place I want to "step it up." There's so much that could go horribly wrong there, that I dig the feeling of just enjoying the hell out of myself within my comfort zone. I've never really been puckered at Silverton, though I think I sorta wanted to be a few times. Without a guide, it's a fairly good bet that I'd cliff myself and cry like a baby there! I enjoyed our running joke of calling the place "Jibcountry USA" though.

The terrain in places like Jackson, Tahoe, LCC, Chamonix and Crested Butte can and does throw a fairly good scare at the unprepared. These are the places where top-shelf extremists go to be humbled, quietly advancing up the ranks until they become Flingle's and Idris's for example. Those dudes step up.

[BradyCU]

Since you're from Minasota...ever herd of a terrian park? All you need is a 20ft jump and you can "step it up" all you want until you take your next trip.

[Dr. Crash]

JONG, there are plenty of places around you (hmm, that is, once you reach your destination out of Minnesota) with 45 to 50 degrees slopes (and more!) waiting to be taken. Use your brain. Buy a topo map (hint: closer lines indicate steeper terrain ). Use that too. Find locals. And approach them w/o attitude. It's amazing ow meeting the people who know the place, and being enthusiastic about what you want to do, opens up your world. I've got more offers to go do some ski mountaineering that I can take now, and am meeting great people.

drC

[iskibc]

You could always come to coloraddy:


http://www.whitrichardson.com/images...r-peak-big.jpg



http://www.whitrichardson.com/images...joquin-big.jpg


http://www.whitrichardson.com/images...oname,vert.jpg

[powderhound]

Originally posted by iskibc
You could always come to coloraddy:


http://www.whitrichardson.com/images...r-peak-big.jpg

Sweet!

[dipstik]

get one of these

http://www.reliableracing.com/Winter...s/lg/23997.jpg


then, go out and straightline everything you can, and pretty soon you'll look like this:

http://zoom-net.rossignolracing.com/...4-samd-04-0062

http://zoom-net.rossignolracing.com/...4-samd-04-0063

[Theodore]

Where is that?

*edit* I was referring to iskibc's post.

[iskibc]

Originally posted by Theodore
Where is that?

*edit* I was referring to iskibc's post.

San Juans

[Tippster]

Borrowed from another thread (forgive me.)

The section of road shown in this picture is 35 minutes from one of the busiest airports (and major airline hubs) in the country... Enough said. Of course getting up there is a different matter.

http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/...or_skitips.jpg [URL

[iskibc]

You can go off the edge of the world in Selkirks:

http://www.whitrichardson.com/images...eadows-big.jpg

[splat]

Step it up?

Go hang with Endless at a country/western karaoke bar.