Anyone here ever skiied Corbet's in Jackson Hole?

not this winter but next me and a buddy are going out and doing it....there's a movie out called "someday...somebody will ski that"...its all about the history of people skiing it....i just bought it it was decent...had good shots of people doing it....better than the shit you can find on youtube
 
my friends took a pic from the top and i was like pffft thats not bad, and then i saw one of people standing on it frim below, its gnarly man.
 
its a 25 foot drop into it by the way, and steep as fuck after that. but i guess its not always 25 so who knows...not i.
 
my dad skiied it, there is a "handicapped" route which is only a mandatory 8 foot drop into it, my dad said it was easier than it looked
 
when i was like 15 i stood on top and looked over the edge and it was intimidating because not only is it like 20 feet but its steep as shit and if you start rolling you wont stop for a while. ididnt do it that year but that was 2 years ago so im hooping to go back and try it this year
 
haha not really. There's tons of people who can ski corbets compared to people who could hit chads.

But I guess the hype around corbets is similar compared to chads
 
hahahaha you guys make it out to be the most technical big mountain feature of all time. It's really not that bad. I did it when i was fifteen. It's about a 15 to 25 foot vertical drop (depending on the snow level), and then you have to make two or three quick check turns in a space of about 30 feet. That's it. Super late in the season it's probably pretty sketchy, but if the snow conditions are decent it's seriously not that bad. Go ski it sometime, it's fun.
 
my brother and i skied it a couple years ago

mandatory drop isnt bad when they first open it cause there isnt much snow on the cliff

ass long ass youre careful and dont catch and edge you are fine

just be super carefull when dropping off the top

dont try and show off and air it far

best of luck

 
I did it 2 seasons ago
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It actually is pretty wide but since its got that drop at the top it makes it techy.
 
yeah but you can "Pussyfoot" your way in you can step down kinda side slide and then its only like 10ft and i dont care what people say 25ft+ is fuckin huge
 
Yeah for sure, i cant imagine dropping into say big skys big couloir with a 25ft drop, that shit is tight and kinda sketchy. But fun.
 
I have done it a once a few years ago. Corbets can either be like a goat path when it gets skied out from pepole pussy fotting in. Or can be a 10-15 foot mandotory air. When I did it, the top headwall had a goat path and skied out. It would be sick to get it first on a pow day. The lower part of Corbets below the headwall usaly has nice snow since there are large rocks on either side that I think help trap snow.
 
doesn't look that bad, if you stick the drop you're home free. now something like coffin chute at whistler is a lot more scarey, especially if you air into it.
 
I didn't mean they take the same relative skill to do i meant that no matter how much the sport progresses both of these will still be famous. Candide first d spun chads over 7 years ago, Corbets was first skied 40? years ago. I know my dad skied it sometime after Jackson Hole opened. and Corbet's still gets alot of attention. It is sort of like the famous skate spots you always see in movies
 
yeah right man, Chads is fucking huge, I've sttod on both and I would do Corbets no problem in comparison. I wanna do a back or a 3 into Corbets this year. Claimin it now.
 
and when i droped that shit last year it was a 7 foot drop to ice sheet down to the first rock. that will scare the shit out of ya
 
Corbet's is gnar but overrated. You can roll into it too, without a drop, if your an OG pimp.

Ski it for sure though, once you drop in its a landing and a run-out, pretty chill.
 
...so many better, more gnarly, more rewarding lines to hit in and around Jackson Hole than Corbet's.
 
I wuz up there a couple of years ago after a wicked temperature inversion. It was basically impossible to ski. The patrollers came by to look and said no one had skiied it in 4 days. It looked like a 70-deg landing on boiler plate at 25ft+ below.

The thing that sucks is that there's no way to gauge the snow/ice until you hit it....at Mach 2.

I have never seen a run where I shyed away from....until that day....and never one since. If the locals aren't on it, you shouldn't be either.
 
my sister dropped it a few years ago when there was some good snow. it's a sick couloir! can't wait to get up there myself.
 
corbets is the shit, you can ski it every run every day you go there, never be scared, always the best snow on the mountain somewhere in there
 
Sent a straight air when I dropped it for the first time about 40 ft down down the chute on a pow day... cartwheeled the rest of the way. Does it get any better?
 
SICK pics... as anyone who skis jackson knows, u dont get a lot of blubird days up top.

skied it like 10 years ago, drop was under 20... but when its less filled in in the coulour i've seen it as big as 30+. only scary thing about dropping the meat of it is that it slopes up at the lip, so kinda blind.
 
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