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Thread: Esoteric Global Descents?
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04-16-2022, 05:48 PM #26
Seems like there is a 'resort' on Teide. Has anyone ever heard of someone skiing Cuba? I'm loving this thread. More photos and TRs.
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04-16-2022, 06:23 PM #27Registered User
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Northern tip of Manhattan. Skiable when there's 2'+ of snow (but lots of underbrush to avoid!).
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04-16-2022, 08:01 PM #28Registered User
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04-16-2022, 09:57 PM #29
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04-17-2022, 04:48 PM #30
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04-19-2022, 08:17 PM #31
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04-19-2022, 08:42 PM #32
How about some South American skidreams.
Alpamayo, the "most beautiful mountain in the world" (and where Arne Backstrom died iirc? edit, same range, dif mtn)
Aconcagua, highest point in the Americas, dry af:
Chimborazo, the furthest point from Earth's center:
Closely followed by Huascaran at 22kft. I've been in the valley below this one and it's a monster, like 12000 feet above the town of Huaraz:
And for fun... I occasionally dream of returning to the Huayhuash to ski one of these big dogs. Took these a dozen years ago while hiking around the range.
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04-21-2022, 10:13 AM #33Registered User
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Not exotic in the sense that it normally would have snow, but that peak the peak is so crazy. Reminds me of alpamayo? (Not sure if that's the right mountain)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AkigzUFr3ys
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04-21-2022, 10:35 AM #34Rod9301
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04-21-2022, 10:58 AM #35
Yeah, that was a good one. Strong crew!
How about a remote Korean island?
https://www.theskijournal.com/issue_...e/south-korea/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMQ...EAMAXADVENTURE
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04-21-2022, 11:39 AM #36
I always thought that the trick for many of these trips was surviving GI issues enough to accomplish objectives or having a stomach of steel.
Goldenboy, hope the trip goes well! A close friend has a ski trip booked to Ladakh this later this spring, I think, maybe, with the same guide as you.
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04-21-2022, 12:18 PM #37
Jack mountain, North Cascades
https://pbase.com/nolock/image/141348590
Lots of other remote Cascadian summits that would require some esoteric efforts to get to
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05-25-2022, 03:48 AM #38Registered User
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Maybe more in line with the original esoteric decent criteria
https://youtu.be/BxYx7J3L2EY
Some day I'd love go hike in the rwenzori range, looks absolutely crazy.
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05-26-2022, 08:07 AM #39
For being in the States, this is pretty f'ing out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBRwe7VcpY((. The joy I get from skiing...
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05-26-2022, 09:24 AM #40
Yeah that was a mission! [though the line had been skied before]
I was just reading this week about Lowell Skoog's original trip into the Pickets in Written in the Snows. Wild place - http://alpenglow.org/skiing/pickets-1985/index.html
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05-29-2022, 11:38 PM #41Registered User
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06-09-2022, 02:14 PM #42Registered User
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Think The Swallows Nest, a mountaineering gear shop that was in Seattle had some pic's of their Pickets adventure on the catalog, one being the cover? That was off the hook for most of us week-end warriors trundling around less remote and more civilized places. Hardly anyone going randonee back then, fewer doing epics.
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06-09-2022, 05:24 PM #43
There was some great picketing in the 00’s, too. Mags were involved. Stories were shared n Hummel’s, Sky’s, and Ben’s blogs.
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06-10-2022, 09:21 AM #44
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06-27-2022, 10:34 AM #45
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06-27-2022, 10:44 AM #46
If we could get an 8 foot deep snow pack in Sedona there'd be some serious bangers dropping off the Rim through the sedimentary rock layers and spires.
A more possible or obtainable objective could be skiing some of those big multiple drop lines off Mount Charleston in Vegas. It does line up from time to time.dirtbag, not a dentist
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06-30-2022, 09:40 AM #47
Well, there's always this 10 year old who just skied every continent. Lucky girl, parents obviously have some time and money. https://snowbrains.com/10-year-old-g...-7-continents/
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07-01-2022, 04:36 AM #48Registered User
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07-01-2022, 04:46 AM #49Mike Pow
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Looks amazing
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07-01-2022, 05:29 AM #50
I once talked to a farmer and asked if I could park my rally car and ski some shit in his backyard. He said yes, so I skied it.
Then I once spent 5 years trying to ski a line with an old friend:
Then we did it.
Then I got pissed off and worked on another line for another 5 years:
Then skied it solo.
Then I stopped taking photographs of lines.Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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