@@CoreyGary yeah the replies are funny for now I rewatch every time I get on I’ve gotten one in a year split and I rewatched the guy skiing and everytime I realise how much I’ve progressed at skiing doing lines similar a little steeper etc
I'd ski anything in Vermont the front four at Stowe, Devil's fiddle at Killington ect ect Mammoth is on my bucket list but at age 66 this shit is beginning to kick my ass.
This gets me so stoked to ski at Mammoth. We've been love with the Sierra since we hiked the JMT on our honeymoon in 2020. P.S. This is the best music I've heard in a ski video.
Skied this with my two sons on a big powder day. One of my sons wiped out about 3/4 of the way down and lost a ski. I don't just mean it came off (which it did) I mean we totally lost it. The three of us rooted around in the powder for 45 minutes and never found it. Eventually we gave up and he skied the rest of the way down on one ski.
I have done this run many times growing up in California in the 80s on my super long Rossi 215cm( back then Skis were slim and long ). I was young and fearless then. Now..... I will stick with the nice blues and groomed blacks thank you. LOL
Just got back from mammoth and it's seriously no joke, I'm a decent boarder but I had to heel edge down cornice, I had sweaty palms looking at paranoid flats..
I still don't understand why these runs are so scary when you're at the top (both on videos and in real life), but after a few turns in you're not scared anymore lol. Maybe cause the top part is always the steepest and has most cliffs? Or because you get a rhythm and confidence going?
The first 10 - 20 feet of these runs are steeper than what follows below. I set my line to get past the entry so I can control my speed starting the decent.
Harder. You would have to be fucking wicked to take a snowboard on those flats. Ski are much more nimble and shift your weight around as well as neck down tighter.
yes way steeper in person. on skis ur almost laying on the ground when u stop and dig ur edges in. I fell down it once and just tumbled the whole way down. it also depends on ur ability snowboarding, if ur very advanced then yes, its rideable
Didn't even stop and take a look down for Phillips lots steeper back in the day we'd keep going and be a star and ski star shoot or kiwi flat I know these videos take a lot of the steepness look out of it but the top of me looks terrible snow fences it was all cornices back in the day
@@waltysalamander yeah kiwi flats is the hardest named run. I mean people can go launch off suicidal cliffs and make lines out of nothing with huge double or triple drops but...
that drop is hella scary i would not of droped there but then again im only twelve b=maybe someday i will be as goo as you i always drop in the \middle
