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SteezyYeeter

SteezyYeeter

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What's the hardest thing you've ever skied?

The technically hardest thing I've ever skied is probably some tight off map shit at Sugarbush. Can't really think of one thing. If I had to say marked trails I guess it would either be Rumble at Bush or Headwall at Crested Butte.

That doesn't mean I had a hard time getting down it though. When I was younger I remember trying to ski the face at suicide six and I was alone and it was icy as hell, and I was so scared and crying lol, that was probably the hardest thing I had to do, in the moment.
 
I went to vail for the first time and skied the top lift and it was so radical!!!!!!! i didn't expect black diamonds to be so darn difficult...... my soul 7s took a beating and got me to the bottom safe. me and my wife went back to the chalet to eat some chili and slimjims while the grandkids did aerial helicopters in the radical trick zone yo!!!! were going to brekenrige next week!@111 so exited...... ill have my family phots on Facebook later this week. .
 
14475013:Jems said:
I went to vail for the first time and skied the top lift and it was so radical!!!!!!! i didn't expect black diamonds to be so darn difficult...... my soul 7s took a beating and got me to the bottom safe. me and my wife went back to the chalet to eat some chili and slimjims while the grandkids did aerial helicopters in the radical trick zone yo!!!! were going to brekenrige next week!@111 so exited...... ill have my family phots on Facebook later this week. .
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the radical trick zone sounds like a fantastic time
 
14475011:SteezyYeeter said:
I thought I heard you don't ski? Well if that's false then was it at Smuggs?
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I was the best skier on the mtn so I learned to snowboard and now I'm shitty at everything.

I actually haven't done a " triple black" but i have skied plenty of dub blacks. As far as techy lines more on the snowboard. I haven't skied outside of the northeast other then the occasional borrowing some skis and trying to hit some rails without dying.

I was actually going to buy a new setup for this season but I'm poor and focused on buying food. Maybe mid season or next year.

Skiing is fun, just hard to keep up with gear for both. I'm a blue trail cruiser/ small park feature enthusiast these days on skis.
 
Crested butte has some sick spots. Im a big fan of aspen highlands. Kirkwood has some rowdy stuff. I live at Crystal now and there's def some butt puckering terrain here.

Def nice when the local places "casual" lines are something way crazier than anything I rode in the northeast. Northeast skiers fuck though. Nothing but live for that region. Riding sketch shit on ice produces some damn decent skiers.
 
I remember being nervous at a trail called cookies at snowmass back in the day. Turns out, I was just really tired and my heavy skis were wearing my legs out and making me sloppy. Which made me nervous.

Usually nowadays when I get nervous, I get this laser focus and I don’t feel emotion. Just pure raw adrenaline. And that’s one of my favorite things about skiing. 110% in the moment and overcoming the fear.
 
14475030:BradFiAusNzCoCa said:
Usually nowadays when I get nervous, I get this laser focus and I don’t feel emotion. Just pure raw adrenaline. And that’s one of my favorite things about skiing. 110% in the moment and overcoming the fear.
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Yeah that's something I want to work on this season. I'm probably more aggressive than 95% of the skiers on the mountain but I still want to push myself, specifically cliffs and going even faster in the woods. I have so much confidence in my daydreams and fantasies lol but it's not like that irl. Gotta grind.
 
14475019:theabortionator said:
Crested butte has some sick spots. Im a big fan of aspen highlands. Kirkwood has some rowdy stuff. I live at Crystal now and there's def some butt puckering terrain here.

Def nice when the local places "casual" lines are something way crazier than anything I rode in the northeast. Northeast skiers fuck though. Nothing but live for that region. Riding sketch shit on ice produces some damn decent skiers.
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Crystal terrain is ass puckering for sure. What a great mountain
 
Milk Run at Solitude when it’s straight up ice is fucking tough. Also a bunch of gnarly runs all over Alta, like a lot of the backside of the high t and chutes under supreme
 
14475030:BradFiAusNzCoCa said:
I remember being nervous at a trail called cookies at snowmass back in the day. Turns out, I was just really tired and my heavy skis were wearing my legs out and making me sloppy. Which made me nervous.

Usually nowadays when I get nervous, I get this laser focus and I don’t feel emotion. Just pure raw adrenaline. And that’s one of my favorite things about skiing. 110% in the moment and overcoming the fear.
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Cookies is the literal pussiest way down hanging valley wall
 
I skied a lot of the side/backcountry on the Grand Mesa when I lived in CO, there's some tricky pillow fields and tight trees up there, but honestly Mount Bohemia had me puckered harder than any of that, tight ass trees with some pretty techy lil cliffs and pillows
 
14475161:CrunnchyPissFart said:
I skied a lot of the side/backcountry on the Grand Mesa when I lived in CO, there's some tricky pillow fields and tight trees up there, but honestly Mount Bohemia had me puckered harder than any of that, tight ass trees with some pretty techy lil cliffs and pillows
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Yup Mt. Bohemia is on my list!
 
14475167:PsychicMigration said:
Paradise at Mad River Glen or close second is probably Face Chutes at Jay.
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I missed it by a day last year but it'll be my home this so I'll get to it. Also want to ski Octupus Garden and 3 Cliffs, if I can.
 
14475170:SteezyYeeter said:
I missed it by a day last year but it'll be my home this so I'll get to it. Also want to ski Octupus Garden and 3 Cliffs, if I can.
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I would keep quiet about many of those and other places around. But yes I got probably 7-8 days on paradise all were stellar. fall line filled in better a couple of days so mostly was on that and cat bowl.
 
14475013:Jems said:
I went to vail for the first time and skied the top lift and it was so radical!!!!!!! i didn't expect black diamonds to be so darn difficult...... my soul 7s took a beating and got me to the bottom safe. me and my wife went back to the chalet to eat some chili and slimjims while the grandkids did aerial helicopters in the radical trick zone yo!!!! were going to brekenrige next week!@111 so exited...... ill have my family phots on Facebook later this week. .
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Dad stop embarrassing me on the internet. You know how I feel about the word radical.
 
14475171:PsychicMigration said:
I would keep quiet about many of those and other places around. But yes I got probably 7-8 days on paradise all were stellar. fall line filled in better a couple of days so mostly was on that and cat bowl.
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True. There isn't much online though about it so I'm not that worried. By the way, how are the woods in between chute and freefall? there's a clear entrance up top that looks pretty cool but i haven't been down it..

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14475204:theabortionator said:
Anybody ever skied the legendary back bowls at vail?
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Only seen vids, doesn't look too difficult but fun of course. Don't think you could pay me to ski at Vail itself though.
 
14475204:theabortionator said:
Anybody ever skied the legendary back bowls at vail?
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the back bowls are really fun as are some other parts of vail. parts are pretty flat and definitely not the steepest stuff around but the one time i had fresh snow there, i had a ball
 
14475221:SteezyYeeter said:
True. There isn't much online though about it so I'm not that worried. By the way, how are the woods in between chute and freefall? there's a clear entrance up top that looks pretty cool but i haven't been down it..

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I’ve skied it many times very fun
 
14475161:CrunnchyPissFart said:
I skied a lot of the side/backcountry on the Grand Mesa when I lived in CO, there's some tricky pillow fields and tight trees up there, but honestly Mount Bohemia had me puckered harder than any of that, tight ass trees with some pretty techy lil cliffs and pillows
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worth going up to bohemia? might make a roadtrip out of it this season.
 
The first time I skied some off the map trees on Magic I only got down because I told myself that no fall would hurt as much as my dad reading that I died on an in bounds run and thinking “What a pussy”
 
Extreme chute on the backside of Sugarloaf. Cant find any pics, haven’t seen it open since spring 2017 when I skied it. Basically a 6ft wide chute surrounded by ledge and shrubs at a pretty intense pitch with a 90 degree turn onto the runout on the bottom. Only time I’ve ever skied anything on the east that was literally mandatory hop turns or you die. It’s a rock chute opposed to trees too so no bushwhacking out
 
Most technical for me was probably Rock Creek off the headwaters at Big Sky, mostly due to the hike out there since if you fall you have a decent chance of getting fucked up. The skiing was pretty technical but nothing too crazy.
 
14475248:Goretex_Vidal said:
The first time I skied some off the map trees on Magic I only got down because I told myself that no fall would hurt as much as my dad reading that I died on an in bounds run and thinking “What a pussy”
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LOL! yeah the trees get pretty tight and steep, especially next to red & green lines. A lot of it's been put on the map though...

14475305:a_burger said:
Extreme chute on the backside of Sugarloaf. Cant find any pics, haven’t seen it open since spring 2017 when I skied it. Basically a 6ft wide chute surrounded by ledge and shrubs at a pretty intense pitch with a 90 degree turn onto the runout on the bottom. Only time I’ve ever skied anything on the east that was literally mandatory hop turns or you die. It’s a rock chute opposed to trees too so no bushwhacking out
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Wow that's sick. I really want to ski those chutes. How do you get back up? Bootpack trail?
 
14475221:SteezyYeeter said:
True. There isn't much online though about it so I'm not that worried. By the way, how are the woods in between chute and freefall? there's a clear entrance up top that looks pretty cool but i haven't been down it..

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to me thats one of the best parts of skiing, go exploring, don't tell the internet of your finds
 
14475373:BingPow said:
to me thats one of the best parts of skiing, go exploring, don't tell the internet of your finds
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yeah i'm not one to give out locations or anything, but in this case i thought i'd ask cause why not. super obvious entrance, could mistake it for a cut trail. gonna try and get in there as soon as i can.
 
14475373:BingPow said:
to me thats one of the best parts of skiing, go exploring, don't tell the internet of your finds
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14475388:SteezyYeeter said:
yeah i'm not one to give out locations or anything, but in this case i thought i'd ask cause why not. super obvious entrance, could mistake it for a cut trail. gonna try and get in there as soon as i can.
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You can’t go around name dropping local trails that aren’t labeled, that’s a fact. Word of mouth and exploratory only. Pms are different if you want to talk in depth. If you skied it you would see it’s clearly not a cut trail at all. No hate just understand internet educatd. Mrg in particular is one of those havens where there’s always more to find so don’t throw it around when you do.
 
14475396:PsychicMigration said:
You can’t go around name dropping local trails that aren’t labeled, that’s a fact. Word of mouth and exploratory only. Pms are different if you want to talk in depth. If you skied it you would see it’s clearly not a cut trail at all. No hate just understand internet educatd. Mrg in particular is one of those havens where there’s always more to find so don’t throw it around when you do.
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i was talking about the area between freefall and chute that looks like a cut trail (glade more specifically). i don't think it's a big deal if i say that an area of woods in between two trails looks interesting, although i get you're probably not talking about that. mb and ill make sure to be more careful this time.

You say you're from Ri but do you have a house or something up here in Vermont?

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14475305:a_burger said:
Extreme chute on the backside of Sugarloaf. Cant find any pics, haven’t seen it open since spring 2017 when I skied it. Basically a 6ft wide chute surrounded by ledge and shrubs at a pretty intense pitch with a 90 degree turn onto the runout on the bottom. Only time I’ve ever skied anything on the east that was literally mandatory hop turns or you die. It’s a rock chute opposed to trees too so no bushwhacking out
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This must have been what you skied? Very epic! nothing else on YT except for the left side by the same guy.
 
14475421:SteezyYeeter said:
i was talking about the area between freefall and chute that looks like a cut trail (glade more specifically). i don't think it's a big deal if i say that an area of woods in between two trails looks interesting, although i get you're probably not talking about that. mb and ill make sure to be more careful this time.

You say you're from Ri but do you have a house or something up here in Vermont?

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Sleep in my car with all the other homies on the weekends. Usually will spend a week and rent a place in the valley second week of March too. Probably try out the hostel in warren this weekend. Friend that’s going to be in barre this winter too so that’s an option.
 
For me hands down was heli skiing in the andes this summer, I got away from the group and guide, got cliffed out, all rock landing, climbed down and had to ski the heaviest sluff I’ve ever been swallowed by only to be chewed out for “deviating” from the safety of the group, told to stay in view of guide for rest of runs or I’d be left at base ? like fuck speed up then doods
 
14475482:Koshermilk said:
For the east coast at Cannon mt DJ’s tramline or kingsman glade easily the most fucked trails I’ve skied
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Never got the chance to ski DJs although I skied Kinsman's and I loved it. It was steep in this one section but not that hard all around. I'm sure DJs is tough though.
 
14475489:SteezyYeeter said:
Never got the chance to ski DJs although I skied Kinsman's and I loved it. It was steep in this one section but not that hard all around. I'm sure DJs is tough though.
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Kingsman for me was just fucked cause there was barely enough cover and like 2 fallen trees lying across the trail lol
 
14475238:Timby said:
worth going up to bohemia? might make a roadtrip out of it this season.
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If it’s a good snow year def worth the trip. It’s amazing

rumor has it that it’s gonna be good up there this year
 
14475490:Koshermilk said:
Kingsman for me was just fucked cause there was barely enough cover and like 2 fallen trees lying across the trail lol
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There’s also a narrower hiking trail that runs alongside it with even less cover which you can end up on if you’re not paying attention.

Fuck, I can’t wait for it to open this year
 
Maybe not the most technically difficult, but my first time ever skiing, I made the absolute massive brain decision to skip the beginner zone and go straight up a mountain that only had blue runs open.

I immediately started picking up speed, and couldn't control or steer myself, fortunately my ice skating muscle memory kicked in and I hockey stopped hard enough to double eject from my shitty rentals.

I had to walk down half the mountain because the steepness (not that steep looking back) was terrifying, and it took over an hour top to bottom. The rest of the day, I jimmied about in the beginner area and had a much better time.
 
14475553:Goretex_Vidal said:
There’s also a narrower hiking trail that runs alongside it with even less cover which you can end up on if you’re not paying attention.

Fuck, I can’t wait for it to open this year
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always check the report. ski patrol doesn't always keep up and they won't drop ropes. it's possible they do this to just keep jerrys off. i was to ski the hiking trail next time i go there, and also there's some drainage between that and DJs that the alt. route may go into but you need a lot of snow fot it.
 
14475490:Koshermilk said:
Kingsman for me was just fucked cause there was barely enough cover and like 2 fallen trees lying across the trail lol
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14475553:Goretex_Vidal said:
There’s also a narrower hiking trail that runs alongside it with even less cover which you can end up on if you’re not paying attention.

Fuck, I can’t wait for it to open this year
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One day I’ll hit those
 
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