Ski cliffs help me

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What up people. So I’m trying to make a list of ski cliffs. I need your help. I don’t care if it is ikon or epic or neither. I’m the U.S. or outside or it. How big or small. What resort. I really don’t care. If you know a cliff list it. If you know the cliff, give what ever info you have of it, size, resort, run, run difficulty, nickname, how to access it. Like literally anything. So like as you can see this is just a little part of my list. I have the names, and the location and the run. So I want to add more. I have only mostly researched like the 4 main Colorado epic resorts and park city. So I want to get more ikon, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, etc in there. Because I love big mountain I gotta know. So I’ve said before anything you’ve got, if it’s hidden cliff very few know about just say it lol even if it’s like your spot. Cliffs that aren’t super popular and just kinda small and aren’t mentioned ya know. Just share please, let’s make a huge list together, sorry this is so long
 
The Triplets underneath the chairlift on chair 2 at Alpental. Not the biggest, but man they are so fun and people on the lift always get so hyped when anybody sends them!
 
14342771:tri_photo said:
The Triplets underneath the chairlift on chair 2 at Alpental. Not the biggest, but man they are so fun and people on the lift always get so hyped when anybody sends them!
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Rollen cliffs
 
Alpental is the mountain? Where is that like country or state wise

14342771:tri_photo said:
The Triplets underneath the chairlift on chair 2 at Alpental. Not the biggest, but man they are so fun and people on the lift always get so hyped when anybody sends them!
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Dude I found all of these on new schoolers or a little YouTube or just any website research lol, I don’t have any secret ones that I could even share lol

14342767:KCoCM said:
sshhhh, protect our cliffs
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14342912:SuspiciousFish said:
Yep, I learned to ski at Alpentol... wearing a plastic bag most of the days too lol
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It is far from a perfect mountain, but I've had some of the best pow days of my life at Alpental. No plastic bag required
 
14342955:tri_photo said:
It is far from a perfect mountain, but I've had some of the best pow days of my life at Alpental. No plastic bag required
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Hey man no hate from me on Alpental. That was my first home mountain and my earliest memories of skiing were there and how excited I was walking over the covered bridge as a little kid. The plastic bag thing has a story. Back in the 1990s kids ski gear was not exactly waterproof so when it would get slushy or wet the ski school had a policy of giving all the kids these plastic bag poncho things to wear over our coats. My Dad said that he would sit at the lodge with his buddies drinking beer and watch all of us come down in a little line with all our white plastic ponchos and would joke, "Here comes the condom train..."
 
When you hit the cliffs make sure to record it and post it on ig with the geotag of the exact location. instagram folks love that content ?
 
14342992:TRVP_ANGEL said:
When you hit the cliffs make sure to record it and post it on ig with the geotag of the exact location. instagram folks love that content ?
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Welcome to Broom Closet at Snowbird

If you don't hit this you are not local or core

 
14343041:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:
Welcome to Broom Closet at Snowbird

If you don't hit this you are not local or core

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I’m confused at what core is?like I’ve never heard this term and skiing is all I do lol
 
Man I've got mixed feelings on this. On one hand It'd be sick info to have and I don't like localism or gatekeeping.

On the other hand a lot of big cliffs are only really hit-able like 5 times max per storm, and unless they are right under the lift, the people who are hitting them put at least some work to find them. That's anything from taking a lap with some locals to trudging through hellishly tight trees for hours (looking at you, Vermont).

I'm happy to tell you there is an absurd amount of awesome cliffs at Alta, Mt Baker, Jackson Hole, Taos, Palisades Tahoe (formally Squaw), Alyeska, Kicking Horse, and Revelstoke. There's actually some surprisingly decent ones at Stowe and Sugarbush, too. Obviously there are more mountains on this list but I'm keeping it to places I've been (when the cliffs were ski-able).

Here's a quick jog of the memory of easily spotted stuff right under lift lines:

Pride Rock at Kicking Horse (big)

the cliff under Chair 1 at Mt Baker (medium)

Eagle's Nest (gnarly), the Fingers (small to big), and Palisades (medium to big) at Palisades Tahoe

Corbet's and the cliffs under Sublette and Thunder Chairs (medium) at Jackson Hole

Shamu (small to medium) and the cliff under Kachina (big) at Taos

Castlerock (medium to big) and the Church (medium) at Sugarbush

Gondola Cliff at Stowe (medium to big)

Kill the Banker Pillow lines at Revelstoke (small to medium)
 
Sugarbowl resort in California

Off of the Lincoln lift there are the palisades between Lincoln and Disney that are rarely open. Then there are the cliffs next to the sisters skiers right of liftline. Carl's nose farther down also skiers right of the lift. There are two solid cliffs on the crown peak lifeline as well. Off of Disney there's a ton of hit on the nose then a nice patch right at the top of bacon's.
 
14343171:IsaacNW82 said:
Man I've got mixed feelings on this. On one hand It'd be sick info to have and I don't like localism or gatekeeping.

On the other hand a lot of big cliffs are only really hit-able like 5 times max per storm, and unless they are right under the lift, the people who are hitting them put at least some work to find them. That's anything from taking a lap with some locals to trudging through hellishly tight trees for hours (looking at you, Vermont).

I'm happy to tell you there is an absurd amount of awesome cliffs at Alta, Mt Baker, Jackson Hole, Taos, Palisades Tahoe (formally Squaw), Alyeska, Kicking Horse, and Revelstoke. There's actually some surprisingly decent ones at Stowe and Sugarbush, too. Obviously there are more mountains on this list but I'm keeping it to places I've been (when the cliffs were ski-able).

Here's a quick jog of the memory of easily spotted stuff right under lift lines:

Pride Rock at Kicking Horse (big)

the cliff under Chair 1 at Mt Baker (medium)

Eagle's Nest (gnarly), the Fingers (small to big), and Palisades (medium to big) at Palisades Tahoe

Corbet's and the cliffs under Sublette and Thunder Chairs (medium) at Jackson Hole

Shamu (small to medium) and the cliff under Kachina (big) at Taos

Castlerock (medium to big) and the Church (medium) at Sugarbush

Gondola Cliff at Stowe (medium to big)

Kill the Banker Pillow lines at Revelstoke (small to medium)
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I totally get that and agree. My friends dad was a ski instructor for 10 years and knows everything. They’ve showed me a few lines that we were only able to hit once or twice but I don’t remember crap, so i couldn’t even tell those and I wouldn’t. But what you have is perfect just like general cliffs that aren’t to hard to find and I can know when I go there. When I say secret lines I mean like anything that is like used a lot but not a lot if that makes sense. Maybe just off a chair you can only find on accident and then you know where it is, but it’s not like you have to work hard to get to it. If that makes sense
 
14343041:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:
Welcome to Broom Closet at Snowbird

If you don't hit this you are not local or core

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Holy shit I just watched someone almost die...

My favorite cliffs at Snowbird are the Flora Cliffs on Mineral Basin. Those are classic with lots of lines to take off.

[tag=253238]@Thomasarivkin1[/tag] What is that peninsula rock cliff off the Lakeside Triple called? Its SouthBowl rock or something like that? That was one of my favorite hits back in the day. Not the biggest huck but a fun one.
 
[tag=193194]@SuspiciousFish[/tag]

are you talking the one you look at from the chairlift? Lookers right of the chairlift, that you can really boost off of?

yeah that’s an awesome hit early/mid season! I don’t know if it has a name.

[tag=218405]@Huck_Fin[/tag] [tag=255229]@sendpoint.idahoe[/tag]
 
Can someone clarify cuz I’ve heard it both ways. Skiers right is right of the chairlift looking down mountain towards the base and skiers left is left looking down the mountain from the chairlift. Or is that no correct. I’ve heard it used differently and I’ve never known which is correct
 
14343497:ColoradoSki said:
Can someone clarify cuz I’ve heard it both ways. Skiers right is right of the chairlift looking down mountain towards the base and skiers left is left looking down the mountain from the chairlift. Or is that no correct. I’ve heard it used differently and I’ve never known which is correct
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Yeah that's right. It means from the skier's perspective as they are skiing, aka they are looking down the mountain. Thus if you're riding the lift, skier's left is to your right as you go up the mountain on the lift.
 
14343346:Thomasarivkin1 said:
[tag=193194]@SuspiciousFish[/tag]

are you talking the one you look at from the chairlift? Lookers right of the chairlift, that you can really boost off of?

yeah that’s an awesome hit early/mid season! I don’t know if it has a name.

[tag=218405]@Huck_Fin[/tag] [tag=255229]@sendpoint.idahoe[/tag]
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I mistyped, its off Lakeview Triple then you head down toward South Bowl Chutes. Its basically right above the Terrain Park. I think if you follow the tree line between C Chute and K-Macs. Its basically like a 20 ft rock peninsula that you go out on and have to 100% commit once you get on to it. You can boost off that cornice so hard too from the cat track on top of the ridge.
 
14343563:SuspiciousFish said:
I mistyped, its off Lakeview Triple then you head down toward South Bowl Chutes. Its basically right above the Terrain Park. I think if you follow the tree line between C Chute and K-Macs. Its basically like a 20 ft rock peninsula that you go out on and have to 100% commit once you get on to it. You can boost off that cornice so hard too from the cat track on top of the
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Widow maker! Definitely a committing cliff, super sick when it’s filled in and not icey.
 
Ok so like peak 6 breck. Skiers right would be going towards serenity bowl and skiers left is towards beyond bow

14343548:sueddaht said:
Yeah that's right. It means from the skier's perspective as they are skiing, aka they are looking down the mountain. Thus if you're riding the lift, skier's left is to your right as you go up the mountain on the lift.
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