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Started by Mattyc in Ski Chatter - 145 Replies

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Pablo Escobar
reply to 'Top Ten Toughest Ski Runs In The World' posted Nov-2009

Mike3000 wrote:I'm not joking. I don't expect everyone to believe me but I once saw a guy ski down the Matterhorn on the T.V.

I've looked for it on youtube but can't find it but I did see it...


Davenport (and others) did it for MSPs Claim! last year.

Pablo Escobar
reply to 'Top Ten Toughest Ski Runs In The World' posted Nov-2009

Here you go, http://www.rockandice.com/inthemag.php?id=226&type=onlinenews, just an article, couldn't find the vid and not going to mess with copyright uploading one ;)

Mattyc
reply to 'Top Ten Toughest Ski Runs In The World' posted Nov-2009

As I started the thread suppose I should throw my bit in,

Lake chutes - Breckenridge

Anything on the Pally face - A Basin

Corbet's Couloir - Jackson

Three there that get the blood pumpinmg

Admin
reply to 'Top Ten Toughest Ski Runs In The World' posted Nov-2009

Comborciere in Les Arcs - long, long and very Black... with a pitch that steepens as you descend.

Glorious in fresh snow but when the snow is tired it sucks you in; almost always good at the top (which you can clearly see from the chair up) but the last quarter can be iced up moguls the size of small cars.

And you always seem to hit them at exactly that point when your legs are crying to give up and the adrenalin of the top section can no longer mask the pain in your thighs. :cry:

Absolutely love it though. :D
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Dorset Boy
reply to 'Top Ten Toughest Ski Runs In The World' posted Nov-2009

Death Couloir, Meribel: Top of saulire, climb wobbly ladder adjacent to top of bubble lift, traverse ridge, down seriously steep 10ft wide couloir which ends halfway down and you have to enter parallel one.
Makes Grand Couloir on the Courchevel side seem like a green one (it is the easiest of the three on that side of Saulire mind). Sous Telepherique is the hardest of those three.

Rossyhead
reply to 'Top Ten Toughest Ski Runs In The World' posted Nov-2009

Mike3000 wrote:I'm not joking. I don't expect everyone to believe me but I once saw a guy ski down the Matterhorn on the T.V.

I've looked for it on youtube but can't find it but I did see it...


its in the video "steep" i think or claim
www  Baggy pants, wide stance. Mad steeze, cork 3s

Rossyhead
reply to 'Top Ten Toughest Ski Runs In The World' posted Nov-2009

mattyc wrote:As I started the thread suppose I should throw my bit in,

Lake chutes - Breckenridge

Anything on the Pally face - A Basin

Corbet's Couloir - Jackson

Three there that get the blood pumpinmg


I have seen videos of corbets-looks MENTAL!

the best black run might also be the sache in Tignes
www  Baggy pants, wide stance. Mad steeze, cork 3s

Dorset Boy
reply to 'Top Ten Toughest Ski Runs In The World' posted Nov-2009

Corbetts has two entry points i believe - the drop in route or an easier side route. Once in, the couloir isn't supposed to be that difficult. It's the drop in that makes it difficult and scary.

The Sache is a great fun run, but has in the deepest past been a red IIRC. The 'tunnel runs' off the top of the Pic Blanc in Alpe D'Huez are also great fun blacks.

Topic last updated on 30-November-2009 at 18:48