Steep Skiing Photo Thread

**powder11** · 02-13-2008, 09:45 PM

Some of the other threads for rad hucking photos got me to thinking that we need a steep skiing thread. Steep skiing is something I really like to do and I know others out there have posted some cool photos of the steepgnar in the past, so lets see what you've got!

here are a few from a heli trip I did last month...

gettin high in the heli

a fly-by in the heli of our line before we ski

gulp

have a good one!

butt puckering entrance, here we go...

game on!

chillin at the safety stop

I don't want to get into dick waving about #'s, so don't bother propping up a slope degree; everyone will be able to see how steep it is from the photos. Post em up!

**Powdah** · 02-13-2008, 09:57 PM

Shit man....that def qualifies as steep. Nice work.

**Cheesestoff** · 02-13-2008, 09:58 PM

shit toby! heard about you dropping this, didn't realize it was that gnar though! nice line

**MOHSHSIHd** · 02-13-2008, 10:00 PM

Tyndal Glacier Cooler 8/2005

Just before the 54 degree crux

Doesn't look as steep as it was though

**Arno** · 02-13-2008, 10:05 PM

paging Flingle

**powder11** · 02-13-2008, 10:09 PM

^^bonus points for the melt/freeze chunder down to rocks that will gut and fillet you if you fall.

**powdherb** · 02-13-2008, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by MOHSHSIHd

Tyndal Glacier Cooler 8/2005

Just before the 54 degree crux

Doesn't look as steep as it was though

54 degrees as in Temperature? We need guidelines here. It must exceed patch status and run for more than 200 vertical feet. I guess that would exclude every line in colorado, so to be fair we will say 150. Sick Glacier. Ta Ta!

**dk_alaskan** · 02-13-2008, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by MOHSHSIHd

Tyndal Glacier Cooler 8/2005

Just before the 54 degree crux

Doesn't look as steep as it was though

Don't mean to hijack, but That looks JUST like a line I hit in August at Obstruction point. SHWEET!!! OH, and way to KILL it pow11!!! That is some SHTEEP SHIT!!!

**MOHSHSIHd** · 02-13-2008, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by powdherb

54 degrees as in Temperature? We need guidelines here. It must exceed patch status and run for more than 200 vertical feet. I guess that would exclude every line in colorado, so to be fair we will say 150. Sick Glacier. Ta Ta!

I never said it was the uber-gnar, but keep in mind that was in August.

**Daywalker** · 02-13-2008, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by powder11

I don't want to get into dick waving about #'s, so don't bother propping up a slope degree; everyone will be able to see how steep it is from the photos. Post em up!

Shit, dude, if you don't want to dick wave I'll do it for you. That slope is fucking steep!

**Lani** · 02-13-2008, 10:48 PM

I feel this. I'll get my ball and play.

"This space reserved."

Blue is Degenhardt Glacier. Red is Terror-Rake Col into McMillan Creek Cirque.

Couple pics from the Terror Dome.

Couple pics from the Degenhardt:
Skiing at the edge of the world

Rappel over an icefall 2500 vf later

Sicky route photo from Colin Haley whilst he was soloing the North Buttress of Terror the day after our descents - note the trax.

Degenhardt Glacier TR

Thought I'd pick one for the moment. I could go on for days, but I need to work so I can get on some real steeps in the next few days.

**powder_prophet** · 02-13-2008, 11:06 PM

Y'all know how you often see a picture that looks super steep, then you realize the horizon is tilted to make it look more gnarly then it really is? Well, how about a shot in which the horizon is tilted to make it look less steep.

On the side of Medicine Bow Peak, June 07.

**ODHGABFE** · 02-13-2008, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by Lani

Jesus FKNA Christ!! That is nuts.

**stihletto** · 02-13-2008, 11:14 PM

A short shot, but it's one of my favorite lone star wp pics.

**taz** · 02-13-2008, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by ODHGABFE

Jesus FKNA Christ!! That is nuts.

yeah but, it looks fucking fun.

**Blurred** · 02-13-2008, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by powdherb

54 degrees as in Temperature? We need guidelines here. It must exceed patch status and run for more than 200 vertical feet. I guess that would exclude every line in colorado, so to be fair we will say 150. Sick Glacier. Ta Ta!

How about you learn to set the lincoln before grabbing for the japan?
That way, you might not fall out of the sky landing on your head.
When you get that down, we'll try and take you more seriously. Until then, STFU, douchebag.

**72Twenty** · 02-13-2008, 11:17 PM

I have these crappy old scans of photos taken one summer 6 years ago here in the Snowy Range. I'm in the red and my buddy in the blue Hawaiian shirt drops in on a monoski. My wife took these shots and got my buddy a little late (after he landed) and me a little early (kinda pre-take off)

Here's me after doing 'the point' back up the chute.

**splat** · 02-13-2008, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by Lani

I feel this. I'll get my ball and play.
Thought I'd pick one for the moment. I could go on for days, but I need to work so I can get on some real steeps in the next few days.

How's them Bros working for ya, Lani?
Love to see some pics of them in steep action.

**p.blz** · 02-13-2008, 11:33 PM

OK,

A few from my last TR worthy day:

**LeeLau** · 02-13-2008, 11:33 PM

505 Couloir in the Adamants Range. Skier - Lee

NE face of Fissile - skier Andre

Fissile like a Missile Couloir - skier James

**Lani** · 02-13-2008, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by splat

How's them Bros working for ya, Lani?
Love to see some pics of them in steep action.

I fucking love 'em. We finally have our snowpack in proper working order here. Soon we'll be looking to put them places like here:

atop the Kautz Headwall

**Lani** · 02-13-2008, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by St. Deep

OK,
A few from my last TR worthy day:

Love the Canadian Rockies stoke. Can't wait for the day when I get a couple weeks of primetime near the Icefields Parkway. Yeah boyee!

**Sierra Cement** · 02-14-2008, 12:42 AM

Nice shots Lani, Leelau and St Deep. You guys probably have the most amount of insane steep terrain to play with South of Alaska. But Cali has some. This is just a warm up for what BCD has to offer, if he checks in.

get that uphill hand off the snow!

One of the longer steeper lines in the Northern High Sierra on the left.

Sometimes the booting pictures actually do the pitch justice:

BCD.

**splat** · 02-14-2008, 12:56 AM

Really nice stuff. Are the Tioga shots recent?

**neck beard** · 02-14-2008, 01:23 AM

Good thread. I cant wait for spring. Some inspirational stuff posted so far.

Barbey Couloir cornice

Entry

Checking entry (not me)

Pointing down shot half way through

The line

Another cooly

My default shot, pointing down (I was alone)

Bit of footgae of the same. Its not great, its just what I have got.

And then there's this, everyones fav

You guessed it, another pointing down shot.

Some brief footy of a pair of skiers we met on the way down. Not sure why they went wide into the schralp.

And some heli dive steep just for the fuck of it