Cirque (kirkwood)

why not just mark it as out of bounds and let people with proper equipment and training take their own risks?

Come on now, it has to just eat at you on an epic powder looking at some of those lines knowing you cant hit em am I right?
 
yep welcome to corporate america with the huge land of liabilities and people suing eachother, if they had it as OB and take it at your own risk, un doubtly stupid ass gaypers from san fran would hit it up and give the ski patrol more then they could handle. The wood's got ALOT of in-bounds gnar to keep it real tho.
 
the cirque is officially the gnarliest thing i have ever seen its just a big ass rock that has death written all over it. speaking of k wood, how gnarly is the white pole on the wall chair lift?
 
I think it's mostly California...I'm not 100% sure but I think in Colorado and Utah they're a little more liberal with how they mark their terrain.
 
in colorado you go at your own risk, and if avy rescue has to send the chopper to rescue you......then you get the bill.

How it should be ya know? You break it, you buy it...with your checkbook or worse.
 
i hear that...

i think in 'the hit list' they were talking about how liberal the resorts are in europe...must be nice.
 
ya zack that white pole on the top of the wall is the gnarliest thing known to man, remember when the lift stopped at it in the wind...sketch...even better zack remember the trip when we went to kirkwood and that chik almost fell off the lift as it was leaving and she was hanging off and it lifted up her shirt and we could see her tits? we were like 15 then it was rad everyone in line started to cheer. good memories for sure haha
 
I know that I'll get torched for this, but you should get a bc pass from either Dodge Ridge or Bear Valley. The resorts suck on the whole, but there is some stuff out of bounds that is intense and pretty easily accessible. Bear Valley is on the backside of Kirkwood pretty much (you can see one peak from the other). When I used to board, we hiked some stuff that was pretty shreddy.
 
circue is to gnar for most people on this site let alone the gaper crowds from the bay - i hiked the cirque after they closed last year - so steep and lots of rocks. i wish it was open but then it wouldnt be what it is today
 
Bear Valley is on the backside of Kirkwood pretty much (you can see one peak from the other).

To bad it is not even near kirkwood other wise it would be one of the Tahoe resorts, it is a yupie resort for the bay area.

If you want skiing like the cirque go out to the left of chair 4 and start hiking toward emigrant lake. There are some great chutes and then if you go further there is some of the best skiing in the Sierras
 
dude...go look at a map (they're like less than 10 miles from each other). And yuppy, no. Tahoe takes the cake for that. I'm just saying that the BC stuff around there is incredible. Plus there is some snowmo' access about 10 miles past Dodge that has good terrain for booters. Get your facts !!!
 
Yuppie? are you serious? they are barely even corperately owned. no highspeed quads whatsoever, and most of the people there are from stockton or arnold or something. Thats like saying Homewood up at tahoe is yuppie...

as for being close to each other, sure.. they are close physically, but if you tried to walk between them thru the moklumne wilderness, its more like 40 miles thru all that terrain and stuff. not to mention the rocks and gnarly stuff in the valley.

I wouldnt trust going out into the wilderness to do backcountry, beacons dont work as well back in there and its way harder to find you because its so desolate. Try places like the Tahoe backcountry in and around donner pass. some of that shit is the gnarliest crap you will ever see. C.R. Johnson will back me up on that one...
 
backcountry in donner pass is really fun, all that shit drains down into where the cabins are by donner lake, but I would only go down there if there was absolutly prestine conditions, it can get pretty sketchy at times.
 
yuppie.

yeah right.

its almost as trashy as dodge.

squaw is pretty yuppie from what i hear...
 
Genuinely curious about this place. Has it always been off limits or only after lots of avalanches and deaths from falls? Not saying I could ski it but I'm sure plenty of you on here could.
 
14351625:HypeBeast said:
Genuinely curious about this place. Has it always been off limits or only after lots of avalanches and deaths from falls? Not saying I could ski it but I'm sure plenty of you on here could.
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I mean I wouldn't doubt that wayyy back in the day it may have been open. But I've never heard of it. Pretty much only open during season when they used to do the FWT 5* stop there. And after the resort closes it "opens".

Shits buck
 
14351625:HypeBeast said:
Genuinely curious about this place. Has it always been off limits or only after lots of avalanches and deaths from falls? Not saying I could ski it but I'm sure plenty of you on here could.
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Oldest article I could find about it. It's been permanently closed since at least 2001. I'm sure it's for safety more than anything. Unless you 100% know the route down, it's pretty easy to fall off a cliff, let alone all the newbies who go up Wagon Wheel and end up shitting their pants at the top of the Wall. The resort doesn't want that liability.
https://www.skimag.com/uncategorized/the-cirque-kirkwood/

Some good photos from when it was a stop on the 2013 Freeride World Tour. The lower half of the cirque can be accessed via Hell's Delight, Thunder Saddle, or Eagle Bowl. There are some really fun spine lines between the chutes on the left side of the first photo. Youtube also has vids from the FWT and 4* qualifiers. It's a cool spot. I'm jelly Prof got a chance to ski it
http://www.xgames.com/xgames/gallery/8996873/image/1/the-cirque
 
14352479:BrandoComando said:
Oldest article I could find about it. It's been permanently closed since at least 2001. I'm sure it's for safety more than anything. Unless you 100% know the route down, it's pretty easy to fall off a cliff, let alone all the newbies who go up Wagon Wheel and end up shitting their pants at the top of the Wall. The resort doesn't want that liability.
https://www.skimag.com/uncategorized/the-cirque-kirkwood/

Some good photos from when it was a stop on the 2013 Freeride World Tour. The lower half of the cirque can be accessed via Hell's Delight, Thunder Saddle, or Eagle Bowl. There are some really fun spine lines between the chutes on the left side of the first photo. Youtube also has vids from the FWT and 4* qualifiers. It's a cool spot. I'm jelly Prof got a chance to ski it
http://www.xgames.com/xgames/gallery/8996873/image/1/the-cirque
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The whole right half (skiers left) doesn't look awful. Left half looks gnarly. Pictures make stuff look easy tho but looks like plenty of lines and traversable options to me
 
I'm in agreement you can't just have the cirque as part of open terrain where any Jerry can just try and send it down it. It's a big fucking death rock that is only skiable with high snow pack.

Idk, if you can't find something challenging enough for you at Kirkwood, you're doing something wrong. Maybe if you can do heart chute without breaking a sweat then you can go hike up the cirque in may or something or honestly just start backcountry skiing cus you're above resort terrain at that point.
 
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