Toughest runs of the Northwest

Right down the king.

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actually.....it is super skinny at the top. you can't see it from this angle, but it is super skinny and then opens up.

There is a ton of snow in that picture too so it is pretty filled in.
 
ive heard it called gunshot, but i know the line your talking about. the entrance is pretty much a mandatory air/75-degree chute that is what, like 3 feet wide?

the pillow lines that are skier's left of Gabl's have to be the most insane shit inside Baker. they feed right into trees and are steep and long as hell.

and dolphies isnt that bad, ive done it plenty of times on my 1080's with no trouble. but you need to be really careful about going one at a time on it. really easy to trigger a shitload of slough in there.
 
yeah...there isnt really an air there most of the year. we went to drop into it in March and there were three tracks of snowboarders who had slid sidewyas half way down and made it all icy death and shit. if there isnt too much snowpack though its probably about 3 feet wide, and theres a rock halfway down that gets filled in about February on a regular year. it widens out later in the year though.

i dont think those pillow lines are inbounds, because the rope right there is only maintaned by patrol every once in a while. but yeah, i never really head over there because of its steepness to flatness to treeness to o shit im in a creek ness.

anybody else on here ever skied hairy's chute? i think that one is pretty insane to though. i dropped into the top half not really carving but jump turning, and tried to go sideways to slow down once i hit some ice, and it wasnt wide enough for my skis...i kinda died until there was this little landing spot where the chute turned, and widened out. it got really scary though because after i stopped, i sat there for a couple seconds so because i was still scared that i didnt slide down the whole thing, and then some sluff came from the cliff above me and flew over top of my head. i pretty much straightlined the lower half just trying to get out of there.
 
it's the chute to skiers left of brain damage. looks about as wide as i've ever seen it in iggyskier's photo. Was that photo from this season?
 
yeah, it was from March. It is super filled in.

But that picture is decieving....

I am standing about 10 feet left of where you really drop in. The angle makes it looking like it is completely open from the top. But there are actually rocks making the entrance pretty tight still.

So, while it may look really open it really isn't.

Patrollers who were up there with us said it was the most they have ever seen it filled in besides the 99-00 season...
 
I love to hit those chutes above Big Chief at Stevens. Basically get off the Southern Cross chair and then hike along the ridge, then drop in from there. I am gonna hike up Cowboy Mtn next year, I never got a chance this season because...well basically my friends aren't as diehard as I am. Bastards...
 
Same, we should meet up and destroy those chutes. One of em has a somewhat mandatory drop in the runout though, I think its the one of three in the direct middle. Its usually covered in snow, but when I hit it two years ago with another friend, it was really really sketchy. Its so narrow you have to bomb from like 50 feet up, and its suddenly just 'there'. At least, it was for me, I hit it first and ate huge shit trying to land it.
 
Upper Rooster Comb at Stevens, about a four hour hike so u gots to be dedicated. You can see it perfect from the top of Cowboy mountain on seventh, looking southwest towards the backside over "hollywood bowl;" which is the backside of seventh. You can get a good distance view up on top of Ty or SoCro. Its the ridge that starts over by the power lines entering the bottom of hollywood bowl on the backside. But what you see at the begining of the ridge is just a trikkle of whats to come, if you want to make it to the true wind blown "Rooster Comb" go prepared, and with a group of brave ones.
 
jesus, thats an insanse hike. prolly be better to skin it. sounds like it would be insanely epic though...mite have to hit it
 
Yeah man im def down to meet up and destroy those chutes. I really wanna hit some of the more unknown areas at Stevens, but the guys I usually go with are kinda inexperienced and not always dedicated to hiking.
 
that's why they invented the saying "there are no friends on a powder day." Just change the saying a little bit to better match your purposes and you get "there are no friends on a day when you want to go hike some sketchy chutes and your friends don't want to."

But if you ski solo and die, please don't blame me.
 
Haha its so true. I am going to central wash U this fall so I hope I can find some good people there to go with. Guys who are willing to hike.
 
last spring, me grant evan and hoose were going to mt. rainier to hike and film and whatnot. it was all nice and sunny and we were all stoked. We are in the car in traffic in Tacoma when Grant's poor little car goes splat. we spend all day in tacoma messing around with the car, finally get the alternator replaced, and come home. It was very, very rad. i dont think i'll ever forget that, gahhh
 
i hate that too, or when you spend a couple hours building a jump, and your filmer forgot to pack a lunch, and needs to silence his inner beast.
 
That is a pain in the ass. Or when you tell your friends to be at your house at 7am so you can get there right at opening and then your friend calls you at fuckin 8am and says "i am running late, ill be there in 15 mins". I had that like 5 times this season, if it was just me and the late person I would have to wait. If I had others who I was going with, id say say "fuck it" and leave when the other guys showed up on time.
 
oh that day was just so damn rad. nothing like having an alternator die on the damn freeway in tacoma early in the morning. and then hoping that it could make it to a damn place. and then sitting in the car place forever, etc. etc. etc. etc. cte.
 
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