I hope everyone realizes how dangerous these runs are and what a legend lucas is. I skied with lucas at solitude and saw it first hand. Most people wouldn’t even think of trying to do Alf’s high rustler at any time if placed at the top… let alone with low base depth! Not only does he do these crazy runs, he cruises. You’re my favorite buddy…. Everyone else please think before you try any of these runs, Lucas makes them look simple, I assure you they are not!
Very good point mark!! Not sure if I need a disclaimer or anything but these are definitely not runs to try if you are not experienced with this type of terrain. Skiing is very dangerous and these runs especially you can get seriously hurt if you aren’t careful!!
@@LucasCatania17 Great points for sure! High Rustler can be hard to navigate on those traverses! Going around the bend brings you in a little lower but less rocky...and I've never been up there with thin cover (usually there later in season...making the entry a lot nicer!). Great stuff...looks amazing for so early in the season!!
My very first time at Alta, a "friend" took me to Alf's as my first run...of the season. (I'm a lifelong East Coast guy that had mostly skied in Pennsylvania at that point.) Survived it but it definitely is not easy.
alta is just one of those places that truly humbles you as a skier and tests both your physical and mental capabilities. stoked we were able to get as much skiing in as we did!
Alta is the "Holy Land" for skiers. Went out 5 years ago to spend the winter and I could never spend my winters any where else. That is a true statement you made. Humbling! Top to bottom non stop on Main Chute is Savage! yeeew
One ski quiver 😮 WOW - Close one Lucas! AMAZING✔️💪🫡 Fantastic episode from beginning to end (as ALWAYS). You make us HIGH on ⛷️STOKE⛷️ 🤪🤯🤤 For the record, I will authorize an East Coast ski… ONLY when you hit 100k subscribers (or if you want 😉). Take care of yourself brother, the rest is gravy (Italian style, aka: Sauce) Let’s Goooo and Dive in ⛷️✌️🤘
Spamming you here too just in case you see it: I feel like I saw you on the lift on Supreme on Sunday (12.4.22). Were you the one who hit the right side of Supreme's Divingboard? Whoever got that for the first time of the season (to my knowledge) hit it so perfectly. Like in the only spot you could actually land it with the way the snow was. Money! Edit: I just would love to see the footage, it's so big right now... and it was stomped. Love your videos man. Just don't make Alta ones lol ( but 60% dead serious haha) Totally understand that's a selfish comment on the last line, but the vibe there mustn't change for real. It's so good. I feel like the bird feels so much more competitive, and it didn't feel that way 10 years ago before they got more commercialized.
Lucas, skied Alta about 20 years ago when I was 58 two weeks before Christmas, it was about 30% open when we arrived. On the 2nd day we experienced a Rocky Mt snowstorm and they received 40 inches, us easterners skied during the storm, it was epic, the locals waited til the next day, watching the powder horns race for 1st tracks the next morning was very entertaining, luv your videos, still skiing at 78!
Back in 04 my daughter, 11 at the time, and I were going up the tram at Jackson Hole. I showed her Corbet’s Couloir and asked if she wanted to ski it, she balked and made a comment assessing my mental health. I never took it off the bucket list and after seeing the 63 year old at the bottom of the chute in Alta it revived the stoke! Thanks!!
LUCAS, just to help you out, that first run is Gunsight, Eddies is the first notch form the High Traverse you will see, a more direct bootback to the top, while Gunsight is that path of snow you followed!! I've been skiing at Alta for YEARS now, and I truly think its one of the best resorts in the world. I hope you go multiple times this year because there's so many cool little areas and chutes and of course traverses! Thanks Dude!
gotcha! thanks so much will. it makes sense now when i look at the trail map. in retrospect, i shoulda just stayed on the high T to get over to high boy!
Great run on Main Chute. Inspirational for this 70-year old. I'm a Bronx boy 9 months of the year but Alta's my home the other 3. Never ski'd off the top. Maybe this is my year. See you on the slopes! 🎿
LOVE Alta. Ski Only, and IF you want you have Snowbird next door. Started skiing the Wasatch in 1967, Solitude and Brighton. Great snow, Great people and NO SNOWBOARDERS. Best of Utah is 6 in a day, Park City, Deer Valley, Brighton, Solitude, Alta and Snowbird.
Dude Alta always looks amazing, I've never been because I'm one of those dirt bag snowboarders 😂 Not taking yourself too serious is part of what makes these the best ski videos on RU-vid, great work!
I don't think I have ever had a bad day at Alta, and I feel so privileged to have grown up learning how to ski there. I've been to all the other resorts in Utah but none of them compare. Alta is just different. Better. Gotta get these finals done and head up the mountain. Thanks for the stoke Lucas.
Regal Chute is the spot. came through there one time, there was five or six French cats stopped above the grouping of trees in the middle of the chute where the line splits two ways, I was rolling I think I scared them for a moment the snow was superb that day, like a hot knife through butter... When you have skied Sierra Cement your entire life that Utah Pow is like the kind.....
Back to your no warmup shenanigans lol. Looking super strong out there. You are ripping man!!! "It's easy if you just stop thinking about it, and just do it" Well said my friend Lets GOOOOO
Had my first pass at Alta in 1972 and graduated from the UofU in 1973. Skied High Rustler and chutes many times. Believe me when I say that the conditions pictured are NOT right for a fun run. Hard snow, scraping rocks, ugh...wait until December and then get after it. Nice video though.
Good job. After a run like that my legs would be noodles at the start of the ski season. I have been taking up roller blading again. I find that helps my skiing. I am in my 60’s now and I sick to the upper intermediate runs. The steeps are a thing of my past now. I have never skied Alta. For the steeps I have skied Mammoth, Squaw Valley and Jackson Hole. Mammoth is still my favorite place to ski.
Ahhh..you included a nice glimpse of filthy inversion air in the Salt Lake Valley! Kudos to you for dropping into the chutes on what we would consider thin cover (15 yr Alta passholder). Also for barely breathing hard. I'd certainly be panting like a dog, particularly after the long booting! A heads up to those pondering Alta for the first time. What you're looking at him skiing is labelled as a single black diamond at Alta. Alta doesn't rate double blacks or anything resembling that. Their greens are blues if you're used to skiing the big, wide groomers at places like Vail, Aspen, Tahoe, Deer Valley, Park City, etc. Some of the blues will be a black to you, and the blacks could encompass just about anything else. Giant moguls (with no snowboard lines ;) ), cliff drops, tight tree runs with long traverses and maybe booting...just a black. I released out of one of my skis in the chutes last year with no one up behind me. It took a half an hour crawling up on my belly, kicking one boot in at a time and using my poles with my hands right above the baskets to stab in to inch back up and get my ski that wedged into a small tree/bush after it ran away. You need to know that when comparing to places you may have already been. It's a rough place for less than intermediate skiers, particularly right now with Sunnyside out for an undetermined time. Parking reservations begin Dec 16th. Carpool or ride the bus. p.s. the tow line destroys gloves.
I skied main chute in 2010. Looking over the cornice telling myself don’t fall. One day cameras will actually show how steep the shit you ski actually is. Hoping to make it back this year or next. I had to double check this was a new video because that snowpack is unbelievable!
I skied ALTA only one time and it was in my opinion the best area that I have ever skied ! I am from Colorado and have been to many ski resorts in the state but nothing is better than my experience at ALTA !!
That first one is eddies high nowhere, Gunsight starts on a ridgeline, and has three distinct trees that if looked at correctly, look like iron sights. Great runs, super entertaining commentary!
Alta has always been my favorite mountain to ski. So many challenging runs. Headwall tree skiing was my favorite run. This was back when skis were long and narrow.
LOL. "It's always easier if you don't think too much about it," My motto exactly... If that fails someone yelling "send it," is a great motivation as well. Also, much appreciated that you have balls/are a good skier. I've see waaaaay to much footage of blues on youtube.
My best day of skiing last year was at Alta! Beautiful day perfect snow! The vids are keeping me pumped til I can get out there on my new Ripsticks! Thanks Lucas Ha.
Damn dude my legs are burning just watching you make those jump turns on Alf's... I FEEL like I could do this slowly and carefully but I def don't have the balls for it lol... keep up the good work man
Cameras never give justice to how steep the terrain you ski actually is…. I skied the baldy chute in 2010. It was gnarly, dropping in the cornice was the most intense part. The fact that you ripped it before thanksgiving is awesome. I had to check to see if your video was a new one or one from last year. Your videos bring some great ski trip memories back to me!!!!
Main chute and Baldy's are what I remember from Alta as the highlights been its been over a decade since I skied there. Going up to Wymoning and Montana this season but I think Utah will happen next year. Also, November Main chute is hella early, I don't remember ever hitting it that soon, I do remember skiing there on Christmas Eve then going to either Brighton or Cherry Peak for night skiing- we usually did Brighton by clipping passes back in those days but I think that day was Cherry Peak, hit a buried log and flew headfirst over a cat-track, definitely top 5 scariest fall.
The Stoke Elks have been christened 🦌 great video, brother! That Main Chute drop was so freaking sick love the energy from this video and that's what sharing the stoke is all about 🤙🏻
You skied more in November than I did all last year! Alta was so nice, I love wind pack powder! Keep it coming Lucas, just shows how many followers you have. STOKE!!!
Super stoked bro! My favorite place in the whole world is Alta. Learned how to ski there at 5 years old. 30 years later it's still the best snow on earth. Keep up the bitchin videos brother!
Love the vids. I’ve been skiing Alta since ‘77. We used to park and sleep in the parking lot. Been telling my son I’ve seen 3’ of snow down in Sandy at thanksgiving! Again, thanks for the amazing video. See ya at Alfs
I just moved to SLC to get a full season in at little/big cottonwood. First time coming across Luca's channel. Main chute at Alta is no joke and you make it look super easy! Hope to bump into you out here some time. Have a good season!
Nice, Lucas. Pretty good season that you are having. This video takes me back about ten years. First time at Alta, first run of the year, my buddy takes me on Alf's. Didn't mention it was so challenging. I remember two things- endless traversing to get there and then wanting to pummel him for making that the first run. At least we went right to the Peruvian and had the first brew of the trip. Cheers.
Alf's high rustler looks so much like avalanche chutes 2 at mammoth, especially from the side, i had a deja vu moment lol even though i don't ski at alta, nice vid
Skied High Rustler when I was there last spring, and you made that entrance look pretty easy! It was pretty tricky even late season. I had a local show me Cathrine's Area too... got a few really fun runs over there. And your run down Main Chute was beautiful. One of the things I'd never experienced was the amount of hiking/traversing Alta asks of you to get to the really fun stuff. I came to enjoy the pace and sense of adventure of a little extra work. That said, that hike up to Main Chute is a little above my pay grade for now. HA!
Alta: a long traverse ahead haha But yea definitely takes a lot of cat tracks and mini hiking to get into the good stuff! Definitely recommend main chute though at some point :)
⛷🤙 Another banger in the books dude. Alta looks insane 🤯 but you made it look easy. Crazy that a few weeks ago you were skiing one groomer at A basin and now dropping some crazy chutes. Thanks for the content Lucas love your work! ⛷🤙
New sub, I guess you could say new to the love of skiing. I did ski in 2009 when I was in the 4th grade and picked it up super fast but I'm 24 now and I guess life just went off into offshore work. Looking to get back into skiing.
Great start to the season Lucas and good to see that you are now getting a much higher number of views that the quality fo your videOs merit! Looking forward to more great videos
I rode this for the first time a couple weeks ago. I got 95% of the way down and was feeling good, only to eat it on basically the last turn before exiting the chute. The snow was giving on every turn right until the last one.
I love your vids, and please keep your content coming! I just wish you’d sort out your lazy uphill (ski coming out of parallel) when you are skiing some of the firmer stuff, I had the same issue for years, but I’ve sorted it out with lessons and it’s transformed my skiing, maybe do a video on a private lesson?? Could be good content?
It's been a while since I had a pass there but it's a lot faster to stay low on the High T and go through "Piss Pass," It's the choke above West Rustler an the way to High Boy. You enter a bit lower from the west side and avoid all the chocolate chips, but save probably 15-20 minutes.
Lmao I think that was the most chaotic approach to high boy ive seen. Dont need to drop over that high hahah. Cheers to an awesome start to the season up here in lcc. Also James is the homie. He’s always touring up at alta pre and post season. Hes the man
