First Chair on KT-22 After a 7-Foot Storm 

no way i would wait there, better go for a beer

I'd go straight to my car and go for a tour after that

😮

@@ericlovely2547 exactly

@@ericlovely2547or just retire from skiing. Not getting a better line than that ever.

Right?? First chair just to straightline the whole run

It’s deep and even though he is going straight, you have to be “on” to hit those cliffs even if you’re familiar with them. Full send!

at palisades tahoe it’s a tradition on a powder day for the people on the first chairlift to race down the iconic fingers on the face of kt-22

Yo right 😮dude that place is wild

Yeah I thought saw that too but didn’t rewind. Good catch.

I've never skied the west, but I was thinking something similar. then he got into the grooming lane and it was like one line surrounded by 3' banks! 😅 i get so nervous watching these first person views of anyone in deep stuff atop cliffs. so completely foreign to "skiing" to me. and I was skiing since 4yo. 😆

@@daneg that's one thing many young or new skiers don't seem to quite get. It sounds good in a video title and probably gets views, but it's not acually that deep because it's so dense. It doesn't matter if it's 7 feet deep if it's the consistency of cake frosting, it might as well be 6 inches. It's still really fun, but not legendary. You'd be fine to ski it, you might not even need wider skis. There is legendary powder that is kneck deep while you are skiing through it, almost like flying through a cloud. It is very very fun, quite rare, also very dangerous. It requires big skis, lots of experience and some serious endurance, also an equally capable partner. Good goal to work towards but baby steps. Lots of people show up on a day like that and can barely get down the mountain, they have an absolutely terrible day. Don't be that guy, work up to it, but also don't be afraid of that super thick stuff, it doesn't require the same high level of skill or demand the same level of fear and respect. It's a good way to work up to stuff that's actually deep.

Snow on KT hasn’t been great all season. Was there that morning. So heavy. Trees off Red Dog were better. The winds were so insane (190mph gusts) they turned the snow into powdered sugar. Very hard and tiring to ski.

That wasn't Sierra cement, it was all wind packed.

California concrete

The fact you're on your skis at 70 is awesome! That's my goal, surfing and skiing at 70...

Nice! I'm 61 with both hips replaced 8 years ago. This is the first year I feel like I'm slowing down a little skiing. I have to get into better shape for a few I've hockey tournaments this summer.

likely a gopro lol maybe with something like a max lens mod? I have a max lens mod on my gopro and my footage is about as stable as this. He also is in powder and the run its self is very smooth.

@@noah.m Thank you!

It’s his son

i figured lol:) makes me happy to see. @@ChristopherWaltersgoogle

Squallywood!

It was powdered sugar from the 190mph winds.

There was actually an avalanche in this very bowl in early January that killed someone too! Wild

At least one who saw it! Use your brain and stay save.

The avalance in January was in GS bowl. This vid is not GS bowl.

Did u see the snow on the lift tower

@@user-xq8ye6qq1c Yes I did.I also saw the 7" under his feet. I lived out West. I know you have about half a day of epic snow- then it gets mostly blown off. By that same evening you can have ice. They probably did get 7 feet but over the week- that that day. That was my only point.

@@UTAH100 or blown on. I remember one windy snowy day at Mammoth with about 8" of creamy fresh snow, and about 8 of my buddies just ripping down the same run over of creamy 8" or fresh snow and over and every single run was pure fresh untracked. our tracks from the previous run were instantly erased and completely re-freshed. Such a phenomenal ski day, even though the lift rides were frozen hell

blizzard spurs

These are the 2018 Blizzard Spurs

@@noahgaffney damn they look sicker than the newer Spurs.

ones that only go straight

We snowboard and nobody likes them except skiers

@@micahreese982 So nobody likes them except for 80% of the people using them, got it.

@@micahreese982 who are a majority, aren’t they? I snowboard too occasionally , and haven’t noticed any problem… maybe because I am used to.

PFFT. Back to the bar with you

@@micahreese982 I'm a skier with long legs and I hate them too, cause my knee can't fit under the bar if I lift my skis up onto the footrest

I will take it.

I grew up in the Colorado rockies (where new skis quickly become rock skis) and trust me, the Sierras have more/better snow and skiing. Gnarly terrain that would only be open 15-25% of the season in CO is open 85% of the season in CA

@@proverbalizer i dont agree with that, ive skied tahoe a lot and ive ski colorado a lot. colorado groomers and powder are much better. tahoe snow is heavy wet, then icy. the weather is too warm. i can think of numerous colorado ski resorts that ski better than those in california. take breck, keystone, araphao basin, steam boat. you look like an older skier, maybe you remember colorado skiing as it was 40 years ago? all that i see in this video is snow clods from the turns, no smoke, no knee deep. skiing is more than hopping around in the crude on fat skis

@@showze21 I have an A basin pass this year. In 6 ski days there I've hit more rocks and done more damage to my edges than in skiing over 100 days at Mammoth. East Wall (37-40 degree pitch) didn't open at all until March. at Mammoth, Paranoid Flats, (about 40 degrees) Hangman's Hollow (40+) and Phillipes (50 degrees) will be open for about 7 months each year. An insane ass line like Kiwi Flats at Mammoth would probably never hold snow anywhere in CO...if such a run was open at all you would have to rapel down into it, the top section would never be ski-able

also in 2 full seasons living and skiing at Mammoth I really never encountered "icy" snow. although one time I did slip on bulletproof ice crust and slide over the edge of a cliff band at Kirkwood the day after it rained...

It looked wind packed, which is a lot of fun.

Agree….7 foot storm should be chest deep….maybe heavily wind packed.

Sierra cement, plus he's absolutely ripping which gets some extra float.

​@@justsomedude8118that was all wind packed, sierra cement you'd be knee deep

u r joking, right?

@@zayon0170 no...thats why this company made a secret agreement family not to publish anything otherwise they would go bankrupt, the sum of money GoPro gave them is astronomical and confidential. GoPros money keep Schumacher still alive...

@@NikosPer yeah because he was poor before that

@@ni4ak after all these years to keep you alive with machines yes. If GoPro failed at that time, Chinese would gain the lead of that camera sector and noone in the west wanted that. Chinese took the lead eventually ten years later...

@@NikosPer not only are you delusional about him not having enough money, you are also delusional about your insane chinese theory. and above all, you think gopro is relevant for the "camera sector". gopro is a small company, compared to Sony, nikon, red and the rest of the industry Giants. it's irrelevant and just a hobby camera nobody cares about

shhhhhh

There’s only one way to get to the Fingers first, and it’s not by making turns down the Nose

get over it. why are you loyal to the branding of some company run by rich assholes

I definitely made turns, at 1:50 those are some of my favorites from the whole season. I would have never had those untracked turns if I didn’t straightline the Nose. It’s called the Fingers Race for a reason

Not everyone is 70 years old and likes to keep it under 10 mph.

"there" is not the correct word for they're in case you forgot

@@Troutologist hit a hidden rock or tree at 40 miles an hour? …. Look up snow snake from an old timer who knows you don’t find them on the runs…go off piste? 6 years of mountain training, and you “may” learn, the “what if’s”