NOTE: If anyone wants to ski free at Grand Targhee on Friday or Saturday and is willing to help set some skin tracks for the rando race…please call Andy Williams @ 307-353-2300.
You can’t really see them, but these
are the four couloirs I played in on my days off last week.
Thanks to whoever (GC?) put in the perfect track into Garnet.
It always bites going into my days off after a couple scary days of rescues and avalanches. Kinda makes me pull back the reigns a little bit in fear of the snowpack and being slid by an avalanche. When I skied the Sliver with Reed a couple weeks ago, I noticed a line on the north side of Garnet Canyon that I hadn’t skied yet…maybe you saw it too!
Anyway, I spent a couple days last week skiing some lines on Disappointment Peak and put together this video. The first day I skied the middle two lines in the photo with Dustin Lemke. The one on the left didn’t top out…but we skied under a chockstone…if you can call it skiing. The one on the right topped out at Surprise Lake and was pretty short. The second day I got with Reed and old school team extreme member Chris Onufer to ski the Southwest Couloir (aka, Irene’s Couloir) which is the line all the way on the left. Unfortunately, the couloir wasn’t very filled in yet (not really a big surprise) and we were pressed for time enough that down climbing three rocky sections was going to make us late. The climbing was fun though and we opted to traverse north when it topped out on the big East Face of Disappointment and ski the Spoon Couloir (TR from last season)… which was completely wind blasted.
This video is a little longer (just over 5 mins), but I think it is my best so far. If anyone has some feedback (besides that they hate Pearl Jam) I’d be glad to hear it because I’m having fun making them. One thing I’ve wondered is what people like more…written/photo trip reports, video TR’s…or both? I’ve crossed a milestone too and even put some telemarking in this one. It is amazing how much this blog has changed me. This PJ song (and version) kicks butt, so please turn it up if you can…”Nothing as it Seems”, Live at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Oct. 22, 2003.
Best video yet!
I think it depends on the TR whether just words/pics or video are better…. Frankly a combo of both is nice.
Keep up the good work!
PS. I love PJ, but mixing it up wouldn’t hurt ; )
As Dave said,best video so far…(I really liked the skintransistion video to)!
Gives you the feeling of be there real.
It´s really fun to visit you website,(even if I don´t live i US,)and read stuff that´s common for mountain life,big skiing,steep skiing,deep skiing randorace,trailrunning & training.
Live to ski!
/Jonas, Åre,Sweden,Not as big as teton but still… 🙂
http://www.skistar.com/are/svenska/skidakning/webbkameror/areskutan.app
Great video, the helmet cam shots in the coolies were money. Got me wanting to get out and ski something legit, instead of meadow skipping every day ;-).
Great Video. I agree with Dave. Depends on the trip but a little of both is nice. Head cam footage makes me almost feel like I am there. Great job.
great video Steve…..keep using the Pearl Jam!
Love your website, I visit it as often as possible. Great video, possibly the only improvement might be to include more footage of your ski partners. It’s great that you show the up as well as the down, that’s why they call it ski mountaineering!
Great! Keep ’em coming!
Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences!
Who’s Pearl Jam? 😉 (from one of the over 50 crowd)
I like the combo TR’s with words/stills/video. Video is definitely the future but until the image quality is better you need stills to convey the beauty and detail of the environment. And the words convey your impressions best, outside of a video interview or journal which can be a problem with length and bandwidth. I know the helmet cam is the hot thing in ski videos right now, but to me it just dosen’t convey a sense of place and is kind of being overdone. I know if I had forked out the money for one I would probably use it a ton too, but I like to see the scale of the surroundings more and the flow of a skier moving on the mountain. That said, I like the helmet cam sections where you are following someone and also the climbing scenes. More and more I’m finding these online blog TR’s to be superior to what is being printed right now. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Tom!!!
Really cool video!!! I like the combination of cameras, they each bring somthing different to the table. Once again, great music. Haven’t heard that version…nice guitar. Keep up the good work.
To Carl: Think a grungy Springsteen singing lead for The Who, with lyrics by Neil Young and Bob Dylan. You like it?