Gnarliest inbounds

ive never skied upper terrain in utah,

is any resort gnarlier than solitude? fantasy ridge zone?

can you ski into brighton from solitude?

the elevator zone at brighton looks inviting, anybody have video of these zones?
 
Easily the family zones…..jokes aside, the lake chutes and six senses at breck are intense. Like half the mountain at crested butte can be nutty…also gold hill, hike to off prospect, and palmyra in telluride.

something at one of the aspen resorts has to be nutty.
 
magic mountain, vt, and black mountain, nh are both very fun and challenging for their sizes. wildcat has hella rocks too.

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Center chute at Snowbird. Permanently closed so I don't know if it counts but twin forks and pipeline are inbounds and someday someone will ski it again

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_uE7Z0tKTGg[/video]
 
Right under the lift chair 1 at alpental can get hairy if you want it to

sabre slice at bridger

gunsight at baker

brain damage/pinball at crystal although not technically in bounds

some icy east coast park would scare me the most out of all of these
 
Kicking Horse, BC has the most wild inbounds terrain I've personally seen and Patrol is pretty cool about letting people ski all of it except O-Zone where they have the FWT stop
 
Cave of Death - Mount Snow

In the trees to skiers left of the farm there's a cave, water on the cave floor that freezes. You can stand up throughout the entire thing, its like a couple hundred feet long. Never skied it but walked through it once, totally doable with a headlamp.

Heres us exiting it:

[video]https://youtu.be/rUdHowqx2cw?t=153[/video]

Here's some random vid I found from inside with a light:

[video]https://youtu.be/LyIe32wyIwE?t=627[/video]

It is 100% doable, the gnarliest thing I've seen personally, and I would love it if someone found a way to safely execute it.
 
Willows at mt baker. Never been more puckered than following my buddy making jump turns in a steep gully above an 80fter. 75% of the run is billygoating through a no-fall zone but once you get through it it’s lit, you can either air it out big or gun it through a chute with a frozen waterfall right next to ya
 
This thread has got me excited for my trip to Bozeman in February, planning on hitting Bridger a few days as well as big sky
 
14576759:Dlonetti said:
This thread has got me excited for my trip to Bozeman in February, planning on hitting Bridger a few days as well as big sky
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Enjoy! This may sound odd, but if you can link up with a local to give you a bit of tour guiding around the Ridge I can assure you it will be more fun than accidentally poking around into the wrong line. Although lucking into the right line can also be quite the thrill
 
14576769:Mr.Mitten said:
Enjoy! This may sound odd, but if you can link up with a local to give you a bit of tour guiding around the Ridge I can assure you it will be more fun than accidentally poking around into the wrong line. Although lucking into the right line can also be quite the thrill
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Meeting my friend out there who works at bridger and has lived there since covid. He also tours via split board so planning an uphill day as well. Riding big sky with a park skiing homie tho so we’ll see how much of the mountain I actually ride lol
 
Another option is to use fatmap and set the filter to “freeride”- you can use gps and a guidebook to get to some lines.

also this goes for anyone visiting Bozeman but if you need to bum a beacon to hike the ridge you can borrow mine if im not touring that day

14576776:Dlonetti said:
Meeting my friend out there who works at bridger and has lived there since covid. He also tours via split board so planning an uphill day as well. Riding big sky with a park skiing homie tho so we’ll see how much of the mountain I actually ride lol
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14576781:hamsauce said:
Another option is to use fatmap and set the filter to “freeride”- you can use gps and a guidebook to get to some lines.

also this goes for anyone visiting Bozeman but if you need to bum a beacon to hike the ridge you can borrow mine if im not touring that day
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Yeah my friend said ill need a beacon may hit you up for that
 
My top list would be:

Kicking Horse - Holds the title for most WTF moment I had at a resort for where the people were taking us.

Crested Butte - Steep, sustained, real tech billy goat type terrain.

Revelstoke - Just the sheer amount of terrain and vertical relief, you can get very, very lost.

Silverton - Again, just steep and consistent, and in anything less than perfect powder, it could get you real puckered.

Bridger & Big Sky - Both of those places have some wild ass terrain, both Bridger Ridge and the Headwaters at Big Sky can get real, real quick.

Finally, I'm feeling like I'm letting the home team down, but Snowbird definitely has gnarlier in bounds than Alta, I just prefer to ski at Alta for overall good times though.

Those are all from my experience at least, I have heard that Taos can also get real rowdy. A lot of other honorable mentions for just size and dope terrain would be:

Mammoth - Real underrated for all of their terrain

Crystal - I forgot the big face zone that you can walk to along the ridge, but there are some wild stuff over there.

Telluride - In general, south west CO resorts are just real deal shit. Very steep, very easy to get in over your head if you don't know where you are going.

Baker - If you include the Arm and all the surrounding BC, its crazy.
 
14576946:bob_dole said:
Finally, I'm feeling like I'm letting the home team down, but Snowbird definitely has gnarlier in bounds than Alta, I just prefer to ski at Alta for overall good times though.
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Valid take. Snowbird is the harder resort I think, but most days I’d rather be at Alta.
 
I've been pretty fortunate to ski most major resorts and big zones in North America except California and have not skied Snowbird, only Alta, in LCWC. I haven't skied Steamboat.

Kicking Horse has the gnarliest in bounds terrain. There's so much steep, rowdy shit everywhere. There are a few zones at other places that are wild but I don't think any resort comes close to kicking horse in terms of sheer amount of gnarly shit.
 
tbh on the rare occasion they’re open the slides at whiteface can be gnarly esp if there isn’t a ton of snow. There’s some mandatory iceflows/drops on slides 1,2,3
 
14576975:WoFlowz said:
tbh on the rare occasion they’re open the slides at whiteface can be gnarly esp if there isn’t a ton of snow. There’s some mandatory iceflows/drops on slides 1,2,3
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not the gnarliest on the east per say but def in consideration. Jay‘s Chutes, MRG lift line and Castle Rock could be in consideration but those r the only ones i’ve skied. There’s definitely other gnarly terrain, but i can only speak on those
 
14576946:bob_dole said:
My top list would be:

Kicking Horse - Holds the title for most WTF moment I had at a resort for where the people were taking us.

Crested Butte - Steep, sustained, real tech billy goat type terrain.

Revelstoke - Just the sheer amount of terrain and vertical relief, you can get very, very lost.

Silverton - Again, just steep and consistent, and in anything less than perfect powder, it could get you real puckered.

Bridger & Big Sky - Both of those places have some wild ass terrain, both Bridger Ridge and the Headwaters at Big Sky can get real, real quick.

Finally, I'm feeling like I'm letting the home team down, but Snowbird definitely has gnarlier in bounds than Alta, I just prefer to ski at Alta for overall good times though.

Those are all from my experience at least, I have heard that Taos can also get real rowdy. A lot of other honorable mentions for just size and dope terrain would be:

Mammoth - Real underrated for all of their terrain

Crystal - I forgot the big face zone that you can walk to along the ridge, but there are some wild stuff over there.

Telluride - In general, south west CO resorts are just real deal shit. Very steep, very easy to get in over your head if you don't know where you are going.

Baker - If you include the Arm and all the surrounding BC, its crazy.
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Silverton and Taos.

Its nearly impossible to get to either when it snows, aligning travel to these remote places is difficult alone. and you would need to stay for a week. possibly renting an rv and going for it this spring!
 
14576513:CoolChillGuy420 said:
Kicking Horse, BC has the most wild inbounds terrain I've personally seen and Patrol is pretty cool about letting people ski all of it except O-Zone where they have the FWT stop
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Ozone is inbounds. 99% of what is in the FWT (and every comp run they've done) is inbounds. I would also wager that much of Ozone isn't even in the top 20 gnarliest runs at Kicking Horse. It is pretty messed up here. lol
 
Big and little couloir at big sky are pretty sick, A basin has some gnarly gullies off the ridge, obviously corbets is cool as well as a lot of other runs at jackson, snowbird is a local favorite for a reason and kicking horse is pretty wild.
 
14576946:bob_dole said:
Crystal - I forgot the big face zone that you can walk to along the ridge, but there are some wild stuff over there.
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The King. Some great lines along the ridge and off the top of the king.

Also def some good spots out northway too.
 
Las Lenas Argentina. there's a run called Sin Salida (Without Exit) , It's accessible right off the Marte lift. 300 ft drop on the lower section. No fall zone for real.
 
14577155:ReturnToMonkey said:
The big couloir at big sky is not comparable to a lot of other stuff mentioned in this thread
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2easy. It's fun, but I honestly think Hidden gully at bbowl offers more technical challenges and more variations than the big. That said, when you look at the face of lone peak, the big is an eye catcher and an iconic line.

Big Sky gnar pretty much all resides in the headwaters with other mini zones scattered throughout the resort. At bridger, if you deviate (pun intended) from the main route, you're instantly into the gnar. And there's no stupid "closed" runs.
 
topic:Forrest.Gump said:
corbets coulior - jackson hole

whackies - breckenridge

steep gullies - arapahoe basin

palisades - "squaw valley"
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Alta negative, right under sublette

S&S

Casper Bowl box car (and others)

are each gnarlier than corbets, in-bounds at JHMR...
 
I’m in St Anton rn the terrain here is way better than anything in North America.

Not as sketchy with cliffs and rocks as other alps places I’ve been Chamomix/Verbier/Engelberg.
 
14578105:PeppermillReno said:
I’m in St Anton rn the terrain here is way better than anything in North America.

Not as sketchy with cliffs and rocks as other alps places I’ve been Chamomix/Verbier/Engelberg.
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awesome area and dank schnitzel.

a lot of the off piste and backside all trickle back down to the same valley road so there’s often taxis and buses stopped to pickup skiers
 
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