Lines you're eyeing for the forthcoming season

[lemon boy]

that man has zinc testicles.

[Trackhead]

Stickin to the fresh stuff.

Doooood, someone straight lined that entire face!

[FrankZappa]

Which ski area is mapped in the best detail on Google Earth? All the French ones are lousily rendered. Are there any in the US that are in such detail you can get a reasonable appreciation of the topo?

Check out Aspen/ Crested butte & some stuff around Tahoe is hi res too.

[Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo]

East face of Mt. Daly. Sorry for the shitty shot, all mine are at home.

[philippeR]

Which ski area is mapped in the best detail on Google Earth? All the French ones are lousily rendered. Are there any in the US that are in such detail you can get a reasonable appreciation of the topo?

Check http://www.geoportail.fr for better arial pics of the french alps. You can use the 'relief' option too.

[TeleHoar]

[bad_roo]

Wow. Thanks for that, Phil. There goes today's workload.

[stump832]

Powho stole my line

[greg]

Check http://www.geoportail.fr for better arial pics of the french alps. You can use the 'relief' option too.

that's exactly what i've been looking for for like.. forever.

thanks for pointing me in the right direction, roo.

and burny, i'd rather like to count you in for this..

[Arno]

In my dreams:



realistically the black line (the couloir above is the dotted red line, behind the rock butress)



That's the Barre des Ecrins, by the way - the ski peak is the Dome de Neige des Ecrins

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

oh.
my.
god.

I love this thread.

[Tippster]

Does Jim S's GF count?

[hemas]

I few from Lyngen (if I can actually get there, this season ):

[homerjay]

Mt. Jackson, CO North Face (pic taken from Grouse Mt.)

[ridefree]

Ty, I've looked at your diagramed line for years! However, I lack 666's zinc testicles to pull it off.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Ty, I've looked at your diagramed line for years! However, I lack 666's zinc testicles to pull it off.

yeah same here buddy. As you know, it was probably doable only a day here or there at the most. My greatest fears on this line are: the stability of the snow at the very top, having all that slide out on you in your first few turns keeps me awake at night. And then after that, the first narrow crux above the first air....if you've watching it, you'll know that section is typically blue ice/waterfally/rocky. I was wary this year of what may have lurked below what looked like good snow. I think once you get past that...you just have the 2 airs to worry about and you're golden...er, something Someone will get it eventually.

[ridefree]

Paging Telerob!!!!

Edit: You can most likely gauge the stability with the same aspect of V tree and the 666 sliver chute. But the ice/ rock crux mid way scares me. Do you 'huck and stop' or hit the middle and last drop fliudly with speed to get the hell outta there?

[bigtrubs]

For me it's straightlining Elevator Shaft on Whistler....
some boys think I'll be doing air jordan by the end of the winter (AS IF)...
Heart Chute at Kirkwood
DOA on Blackcomb
Any face on Fissile

[Dr. Crash]

No picture, sorry (but a link to a page with description). Rainier, summit to Nisqually bridge through the Fuhrer Fingers.

drC

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Paging Telerob!!!!

Edit: You can most likely gauge the stability with the same aspect of V tree and the 666 sliver chute. But the ice/ rock crux mid way scares me. Do you 'huck and stop' or hit the middle and last drop fliudly with speed to get the hell outta there?

haha..yeah. In my mind, I always envisioned getting my ski tips facing to skiers right as you enter the ice/rock crux and then kind of side slipping as fluidly as possible flowing right out and hitting the middle and bottom with a little bit of speed and getting the fuck outta there. From the scoping I've done, that bottom has enough of a transition below to carry some speed from above off it (I think..*gulp*)

[lemon boy]

and then kind of side slipping as fluidly as possible

pussy

655321

[bad_roo]

A couple more that need doing, both on the backside of the Grandes Rousses massif


Couloir du Cerisier


Couloir des Pioches


Eyes left! Looks like it should have a Taco Bell at the bottom.

[Superstar Punani]

Mmmmmm.....LINES!!!!!

[Tippster]

There is a serious lack of hookers in that picture.

[brettf]

^^^ Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is!?!?