Thread: La Grave, Trifide Couloir GoPro Fail

with all due respect, falling is not charging. shoulda edit'd out the flail/fail at the end. lost it in the crud? yurp skiers should be well versed in crud/variable conditions. just sayin, armchair qb and all.

nice vid till then tho. pow looked nice and foofy for much of it.

rog

i think we saw different videos because i saw a dude ripping 1500' of an awesome line who got caught up in some unexpected debris at the bottom. but hey maybe vertigo should move to hampshire so you can show him how its done:

As I understand it Bobby only has 2 gears:

Fuckin Mental &
Pissing Blood


as someone whose only entry into that couloir - by a boot scramble over rocks at low tide, was immediately followed by a slide sans skis and arrest on someone else's legs I'm in no position to criticise.

Originally Posted by grapedrink

i think we saw different videos because i saw a dude ripping 1500' of an awesome line who got caught up in some unexpected debris at the bottom. but hey maybe vertigo should move to hampshire so you can show him how its done:

most good seasoned skiers should always expect the unexpected and have the forethought and skillz to handle whatever comes next.

obviously he was skiing too fast to suit the terrain, conditions, and or his ability level of such. or he wouldn't have fallen.

proof is in da pudding, bro.

rog

I somehow think that Bobby posted this for our amusement rather than to spray about his skillz

Originally Posted by Arno

I somehow think that Bobby posted this for our amusement rather than to spray about his skillz

This. Thanks, Arno!

The point of the post wasn't to show me skiing the couloir well. There's loads of good videos on TGR of people ripping stuff (as I said in the original post). The point was the crash! I could go back up there and ski like that 20 times and not crash, but where's the fun in that?

Entertaining!

Fyi, anyone negatively armchairing POV footage provided for your entertainment is likely a huge claimer, shitty skier, and a douchebag on top of it all. You know who you are.

Rog strikes again.

Anyway, you skied that thing a hell of a lot faster than I did.

Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

Rog strikes again.

You probably just haven't yet fully understood how underrated Rog really is.

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

You probably just haven't yet fully understood how underrated Rog really is.

Well you know I have this problem with understanding.

That's the terrain I dream about! Glad you are ok. I like to see you slayin it on RC's as well, mine are yearning to shred the Alps.

Originally Posted by icelanticskier

obviously he was skiing too fast to suit the terrain, conditions, and or his ability level of such. or he wouldn't have fallen
rog

Skiing below your ability given the conditions takes the fun out of the sport

Vertigo, did your sluff throw you into that rock, or did you just run out of room? Couldn't quite tell from the video. Either way, glad you didn't get hurt.

I think the term "FUCK!!!" is universally understood...

Originally Posted by grapedrink

i think we saw different videos because i saw a dude ripping 1500' of an awesome line who got caught up in some unexpected debris at the bottom. but hey maybe vertigo should move to hampshire so you can show him how its done:

That's really the same guy talking shit?

Holy el oh fucking el.

Is Rog a troll ala alpine zone style? That's all that makes sense.

if you're not falling, you're not learning. simple as that.

Originally Posted by telebobski

Vertigo, did your sluff throw you into that rock, or did you just run out of room?

Part of the slope had avalanched, and I hit debris, and frozen bed surface. I should have just pointed from there, but tried to keep turning, and on my last turn, just before I crashed I hit something and ended up in the air, at which point I knew I was about to run out of room. I remember thinking I needed to get my body in the snow to try and lose speed.

Originally Posted by powdork

if you're not falling, you're not learning. simple as that.

I agree completely!

Anybody else watch this with headphones on? Start at about 0:50 and tell me it you can also hear the throbbing in the background - like a fast heartbeat, it's freaking me out.

Nice POV, tough. Look like a hairy couple of seconds. Glad you're OK.

Originally Posted by astralboy15

Anybody else watch this with headphones on? Start at about 0:50 and tell me it you can also hear the throbbing in the background - like a fast heartbeat, it's freaking me out.

it's a heartbeat, the cam was chest mounted

It's lucky you were wearing a GoPro - otherwise that could have really hurt. Have to admit, I don't tend to let 'em slide like that once in T1; quite ballsy at the top. Nice skiing until the obvious.

I liked the narration during the skiing: whoa........ Whoa..... Whoa!..... WHOA!

& not a word of Spanish. :fm

To be fair the Brummie accent is fairly exotic and easily confused with Iberian cadences

Originally Posted by StevieG

To be fair the Brummie accent is fairly exotic and easily confused with Iberian cadences

POTM......

Originally Posted by BGnight

Fyi, anyone negatively armchairing POV footage provided for your entertainment is likely a huge claimer, shitty skier, and a douchebag on top of it all. You know who you are.

THIS x 1000. I hate that shit and it keeps people from posting more videos on here. That was a pretty ballsy entrance at the top IMO.

That was pretty sweet there. Is it just the camera angle, or is that not that steep?
lol, that's another reason we wear helmets!

Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn

That was pretty sweet there. Is it just the camera angle, or is that not that steep?
lol, that's another reason we wear helmets!

it's steep enough