Posts Tagged ‘Cliff’

Skiing Tuckerman Ravine on Mt Washington in April 2009

Skiing Tuckerman Ravine, a steep skiing area on Mt Washington, New Hampshire, the highest mountain peak in Eastern North America, is a popular backcountry skiers location. There is a pretty long hike up, about 2km in the spring when the road opens and over 5km before. It is very popular in the Spring time, sometimes open till June, as it is less likely for avalanches to occur then and the weather is warmer. At the peak of the season, there can be 1000 backcountry skiers in skiing Tuckerman’s Ravine and jumping off the many cliffs. There is now also a t-bar which can take you about half way up. The area is also patrolled by a volunteer ski patrol during peak times.

In this backcountry skiing video, you follow a group of skiers and snowboarders as they hike up to Tuckerman Ravine. They then film some skiers going down, one of them doing a small cliff jump. They then film their decent as they ski down Tuckerman Ravine and had into the wooded area. I never knew there ware glades in that area.

This ski video provides a great overview of the skiing at Mt Washington for anyone interested in backountry skiing areas.

Extreme Skiing in Roldal Norway: Falling Off a cliff

A sweet extreme skiing video filmed in Norway near Roldal. The skier is very good and the ski video starts off with some beautifully executed turns in fresh, virgin powder. Near the end of the video however, the skier does a mistake and stops atop of an unseen cliff, some 15m high and falls off. He seems ok at the end but is still injured. Should serve as a warning to always be on the lookout for cliffs when off piste and out in the backcountry.

The video is very well filmed and shows some amazing Norwegian landscapes in the mountains. Norway isn’t the first place people think about when extreme skiing comes to mind, but the terrain in the video is awesome.

Ski Gliding the Eiger in the Swiss Alps – First Person View

For the first ever ski gliding decent of the Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps, the ski glider used a helmet cam. This first person view of ski gliding provides for some beautiful shots allows you to experience ski gliding as if you were doing it. The ski video is very still and clear too, pretty rare for a helmet cam.

Jackson Hole Backcountry Skiing with a Lateral Flip off a Cliff

A sweet ski video with some original tricks. A guy does a lateral flip off a cliff midway through the video, there are multiple front and back flips, and inversions. It is snowing almost the whole time as is coming in Jackson Hole and the power is so deep you can barely make the skiers out at times. Although this is filmed by amateurs but it is better than many professionally done videos and they ski as well as most professionals.

Jackson Hole is a dream for many extreme skiers and is one of the world’s best and most famous backcountry ski resorts in the world. The backcountry is huge, open to extreme skiers and riders, is full of an obstacles, and has many unique areas. Some of the world’s hardest and most extreme skiing terrain can be found here. It is however located in Wyoming which makes it hard to get to but in turn creates a much more wilderness skiing atmosphere when compared to the resort type ski resorts.

Freeskiing Extreme skiing Helicopter skiing Brad Holmes, Chainsaw productions

Heliskiing out in New Zealand on some untouched virgin snow. Brad Holmes and the company at chainsaw protections have some amazing camera men tape them as they ski down some crazy steeps and in between rocks. There are some cliffs, but nothing major. Lots of nice powder around too!

Back Flip Off a 100ft Cliff

Out at the top of some mountains with beautiful, clear blue skis, a skier decides to go jump off a cliff. This is no ordinary jump however as he does a back flip while jump off the 100ft high cliff. He executes it perfectly.

Nissan Xtreme Verbier 09 – Contest day

The finals of the final Freeride World Tour 2009 tour. The scenery in amazing out in Verbier with only mountains in sight. The weather is bluebird skis that was made for skiing.

Watch some of the best extreme skiing experts compete for the crown. Competition is based on style, fall line difficulty, and speed.

Team Thirteen: Deep Powder Skiing at Bridger Bowl: Part 2

Part 2 of the Team Thirteen production from Bridger Bowl Montana. More incredibly deep powder to make us jealous.

From the movie “The Junkshow Diaries”.

TeamThirteen: Deep Powder Skiing at Bridger Bowl: Part 1

Out in Montana, 16 miles north of Bozeman, there is a ski resort which gets loads of powder. In this vide, the guys skiing are so deep in powder that only their heads barely stick out. It won the 2001 Powder Video Magazine Awards.

It’s every skiers wish to catch a powder day like this one.

Ski Crash at US Freeski Nationals

A guy crashes while going off some cliffs a the US Freeski Nationals. This is a championship where expert backcountry skiers compete showing what tricks they can do off natural obstacles such as rocks and cliffs. They championship was held in Snowbird, Utah. There’s some nice terrain out there.

This guy’s fall looks painful, but some nice skiing none the less.