rush 2 and road side pillows, a bert lovin TR.
Well with the danger as low as I have seen it lately I decided to give rush 2 a shot for the first time. Truth be told I had just really spotted it this year and only had scoped it a little. I was a little nervous as this was the first time I had ever air'd into a chute and the entrance/air was a little blind.
the camera and vid was rolllin and I really just wanted to stomp it clean first try so I tried to give myself the best chance possible by entering from the side (air the bush instead of the cliff) which is a bit smaller and seems to put you strait in line with the chute. On top of that I was a bitch and decided to try to manual off the bush instead of just ollieing the bitch. I tried to be as fluid as possible for the vid and only had a slight second to stop and scope the line then hastily air the bush while it was all sloughing.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w.../rush2air1.jpg
the nervs got the best of me and I was a bit too much in the back seat from manualing instead of ollieing.....
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...sh2airtime.jpg
These shots look clean........
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w.../rush2end1.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...x/rush2end.jpg
And I could probly lie to you all and say I stuck it first try ever, but that's lame.
There is a rebate in order, but atleast I think I learned something. Atleast I didn't hit any rocks (it's not wide in there).
After that I decided to go up russel but it was a bit late that the clouds had rolled in. The wind was brutal and I feared getting blown off the peak numerous times. I watched 4 skiers bail on the line before I started up the final ridge, I knew the snow would be shit, I saw it. I just felt like I needed it, I had not hit anything up high for months on end. I knew I could make it down and I did(from the verry top), but I didn't rip it up super fast. The snow was super variable with bomb holes (litteratly I think) brown glazed slough debris, wind scour, ice, and even some decent wind buff pow thrown in rarely and more frequent in the bottom apron.
The pics and vid turned out like shit due to the stormy conditions and the fact that I could not really open it up. It was still fun even though the conditions were literally about the worst I have ever experienced on russel(this was probly the 5th time I think).
The next day we tried to meet up with the guys at thrillhead creations but I-25 shut them down. We went down lower towards WP to take a look and see if there was any good snow left down in the trees. I ended up ripping this nice chute a new anus. Less then 10 turns from the top of the chute to the bottom. The visability was so variable and just as I was about to drop it started dumping so no pics of me, but it got a bit nicer once I was at the bottom and I decided to try to get a shot of my buddy ripping it.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...nchimmney2.jpg
Chimmney rock? or chimmney chute? random guess I really have no idea what it's called.
After that we decided to check out a road side pillow zone near by that I had looked at for probly 2 years now and never walked to the bottom of.
This area was so crazy, the main feature is just a huge cliff atleast 40-60 feet I would guess, you could drop it smaller in spots though. The main pillow stack is quite impressive as it consisted of probly 6+ pillows roughly 5-10 feet apart scattered on the face of the cliff, I dropped a perfect mushroom pillow at the bottom of it that was about 15 feet and I was looking up at least 25+ feet to the top of the stack. I couldn't even imagine dropping the whole thing, it's so steep that I don't even know if you could do it as a pillow line.
My memory card crapped out on me last night before I got the best shots of the area (the main vein pillow line) but I got a couple from some other features to either side.
The warm up:
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...inipillows.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...nipillows2.jpg
This was starting in the middle of a pillow line that was probly 40 feet from the top. There was a large moat the the lookers left.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...illowface1.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...illowface2.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...illowface3.jpg
I gotta say steep pillows are tough. I need to improve, but I don't have a ton of experience yet.
