Holy moly Bush...you and your posse are a crazy wild amazing bunch!
I thought I heard war drums at the beginning of the video..
Gotta hand to you guys...gutsy skiing back in there but it always amazes me how effortless and worry free you all make it look.
As always...it's always nice to see others living on the edge..you all make it look like a piece of cake!
For those of us watching and considering more backcountry...can you share :
how do you plan where your going to ski
honestly mostly we wing it and try to find area that are unskied still, we also take in to consideration how safe a slope whether that be avalanche potential and of snow so hard a fall would cause a slide for life.
how long does it take you before you get to the line you want to ski
some of these are right off the lift, but you have to beat back forest and have a nearly editic memory to get to them. Some of these are an hour from the lift. Some like we hit today are shielded from above due to unskiable cliffs above it took about an hour to skin up for about 1000 vertical feet of untracked.
how well do you know the terrain or how often you ski those lines
everything in this video I had skied before, but at some point in time you do not know the terrain and most people are pretty tight lipped around here. Ever notice how I post these videos and never name a run? IT takes alot of time and effort to find these runs I am not just going to tell people on the internet exactly where to go. I waste alot of run be screwing up trying to find things sometime being foreced to go back uphill. Untill you willing to do that you will never be able to find anything that noone else knows about the EC nor will you be able to play with a buddy show me your and ill you show mine. If you have no secert stashes yourself noone is going to show you anything to special.
what factors to you take into consderation before attempting new lines and trails
I normally take pictures and zoom them in when I can. I also have an editic memory (aspergers syndrome)and can look at a face and memorizes it really fast. Who would have thought social awkwardness would have been such a godsend for skiing BC. Lastly I will carry skins with me incase i need to go back up and have been know to carry a harness, ropes and slings incase I get in a real jam. I have even found some rappel in stuff.
how far are you looking ahead in those tight situations
while skiing? when your watching my POV your seeing what I get if I have the camera pointed up. quite frequently we are skiing on pure reaction. the clip at 2:16 of me is purely reaction. I havent skied this line over a year and it was totally changed since last time I skied it. Think like and act like Jedi and you should be fine skiing these lines, which is easier said than done.
do you have tree/rock skies for bushwacking
nope. my powder skis I expect to get a little dinged up. The rossi I am on have crazy strong bases. Plus you do not need edges in powder anyways.with that said you would be surprise how little they get dinged up.
any problem or how long getting back to civilization once you're finished in backcountry
easy to get back. these all drop you out on a snow covered and usually packed route 108. Backside of spruce is roughly 20 minute skinnning to highest point of the road. Once on top you have 15 minutes of gliding/skating back to the resort. Many run put you on the downside of the road towards stowe.
and is it hiking back, skiing back or a little of both.
once on the high point of the road its all skiing/skating. From the backside of the spruce its either hiking or skinning. Skinning is slower to set up but is much less tiring and saves the legs for more trips.
Thanks for sharring...g
I bolded answers.
I do not think we are living on the edge. We are picking fairly safe slopes to ski and as the group leader my expectation from myself is to bring back everyone in one piece hopefully smiling but I would everyone have shitty days if it means we get to do it again on a better a day.
This is not easy stuff we are putting large amounts of works in to ski runs that require solid skills as well tons of energy to ski. Most people will not have the energy for it or the tolerance for the amount of messing around there can be. sometimes skinning is easy though and you ski untracked top to bottom with out messing around you do not get those awesome runs with out many screw up though.
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