Big mountain ez
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OregonDead
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14548338:hi_vis360 said:
for real. ambulances are much better equipped for the street than the bc.
still probably not as convenient as having a park staffed with rescue professionals and an on site clinic
profa_212
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14548338:hi_vis360 said:
The exact reason i may or may not keep some oxy in my bc bag.....snap an arm 5-8 miles deep you're gunna want something to get back out.
Also a PSA
It also can fuck up treatment and pain meds given once in care. Know exactly how much you took and what of. Even then they probs won't give you anything due to liability. But I'd rather be in pain in a hospital bed than a couple miles deep in the snow with no other way out.
armchair_skier
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Big mountain skiing isn’t a real thing
I ski on the BIG mountain guys! shut up goofy get yo ass back to the 4 seasons pronto
I ski on the BIG mountain guys! shut up goofy get yo ass back to the 4 seasons pronto
keagan.karstens
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I cant stand kids who claim they can do all these tricks but learned them in 2 feet of pow and can’t do a single one of them on a park jump
SofaKingSick
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rails aren't scary you pussy
ajbski
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Big mountain doesn’t have to mean BC.
you have cliffs, cornices and even glaciers and raps in the alps. Heck, last year people died in a in bounds avy at whis.
I wouldn’t normally call tree runs big mountain, but usually that’s where the nice powder is. When it’s nuking you don’t have much contrast in the alpinez.
I would be ashamed to be seen in a park on a pow day.
you have cliffs, cornices and even glaciers and raps in the alps. Heck, last year people died in a in bounds avy at whis.
I wouldn’t normally call tree runs big mountain, but usually that’s where the nice powder is. When it’s nuking you don’t have much contrast in the alpinez.
I would be ashamed to be seen in a park on a pow day.
Farmville420
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Rails, even street, are wayyyyy less gnarly than BC shit tbh
BigPurpleSkiSuit
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Rails scare me, powder is soft. Rocks may be hard but you can usually avoid landing on them if you go fast. Park scares me because I never grew up skiing it, and my one day to hit big jumps at the bird was taken because we had half an inch of snow over ice meaning there was no consistent speed for jumps and it was total guesswork as to how fast you needed to go to make it over the knuckle.
switchlip2
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14548801:ThaLorax said:
They got a lot of snow to roll down
thewayshego3s
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I personally think the term, "big mountain," is pretty whack. Why not just call it skiing? When I think of big mountain, I think of Sammy C ripping actual "big mountain" lines in AK and BC. Not some college bro ripping a left three (no grab, of course) off hot dogger at Alta.
SteezyYeeter
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please explain diff between big mountain and freeride? is freeride the real 'big mountain', basically what the average skier can access. cause big mountain should be like.. really big mountains, not accessible by lift.
ajbski
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14548938:SteezyYeeter said:
The terms are pretty interchangeable. I think it depends on context really. Also I think snowboarders took freeskiing and started calling it freeride to suit themselves. But then freeskiing became freestyle and later ifsa merged with fwt. Now big mountain is freeride and not freeskiing. Idk it’s all sorta fluid.
I would say the emphasis with freeride is tricks creativity flow style drops slashes on natural terrain
the emphasis with big mountain is technical, steep, navigating through around and over hazards.
free ride is done on big mountain, but big mtn is necessarily freeride. Neither have to be back country, but usually are.
clear as mud.
SteezyYeeter
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14548957:ajbski said:
haha yeah i didn't expect there to be any clear definition but this helps thanks