just got back from a few days charging in the northern Chugachs with the Silverton crew and Last Frontier Air Ventures. Many of the lines had never been skied. Yeah it was good.
GoPro Hero wide. worked well. nailed the angle first try, which is apparently lucky. never used one of those before. stoked to try it paddling this spring.
GoPro Hero wide. worked well. nailed the angle first try, which is apparently lucky. never used one of those before. stoked to try it paddling this spring.
Those new GoPro's have a sick wide angle (168 degrees or something)...I hope VIO updates their gear to something like that...
The wide angle is super cool but it seems to flatten the pitch a tad. Or maybe I remember it steeper. These vids were not the steepest we skied, but they were the best shots with the sun and shadows, etc. At a particularly sketchy unload, the lens of the Go Pro took a blow from an unloading snowboard and the rest of the trip's vids have this specter hovering over my hands.
I have pics of some of the lines and they look sicksteep. Strange thing about AK: your perspective is shot. From the bird, the line looks ridiculously precipitous. Get on it and it's a putt-putt course. Although there were a couple rolling convexes that surely reached 55 degrees and they looked as steep as they were. The footy doesn't necessarily reflect that tho: All the sudden you can see my ski boots to the tips, but that's about the only sign things just teetered.
shit. I'm moving there. That looks sickter. Will it be decent in a few more weeks?
Most likely not, getting pretty warm the last couple days, things are ripping out big time. After the big cycle/early in the morning might catch good corn riding though, if its not on volcanic ash.
Well, alaska range is a whole differet ball game, I was thinking road accessible stuff, sure if you money down for a plane drop you could find goods into june easily.
I hear ya on the turns. I definitely kept things reined in tight. Learned a good bit out there. Never ridden those reverse-cambered, reverse sidecut boards and - these videos are from Day 1 - and it took me a few runs to get em dialed. In three days I don't think I came close the top end of those things.
Another important thing I learned on the final day in ANC: those burly dudes at the door of the AK Bush Club are seriously irked by cameras.
That looks sickter. Will it be decent in a few more weeks?
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