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Hardest marked inbounds run?

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chitownskiier8
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In your opinion, what's the hardest marked inbounds run in North America. Ive always thought it to be Corbets in Jackson, but ive never been to Squaw, Whistler, Crested Butte or any of the other resorts known for their big mountain terrain.
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hjb
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Yeah, that or Silver City at the Shine. Shame it's hardly ever open...
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GayWolf420
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High rustler is kind of steep I guess at alta. Other than that, I don't know of many steep shots in utah.
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MEGAZORD
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Goat is pretty gnarly, for the east coast.  The kitchen wall at stowe is far crazier though.
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jason...
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blow hole on the backside of the blackcomb glacier is steep as fuck. thats about the only thing that springs to mind.
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KevinC
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to me this doesnt seem that steep. or am i thinking about the angle wrong or something? i guess its 36 degrees from vertical not horizontal maybe?
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jason...
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well it was to me when i pussied out of skiing it 5 or 6 years ago, havent really seen it since then.
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will_powder
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i'd say that silver city is more insane
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dbstar
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forgot about silver city, delirium can be pretty gnar but most lines aren't that crazy... Silver City is insane though but never open.
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Thatdp
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Moneys and the Knuckles @ ALYESKA ALASKA!!!!!
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cool_name
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the coffin at whistler it is inbound but not sure if it is marked(by the way i never skied i just always look at it from chair and think damn)
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KarmaInitiative
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big coulior at big sky?
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JP-ski
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I wanna go to kicking horse so bad!!!
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3mania
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Hangman Hollow at Mammoth is pretty gnar.
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tripnip
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east wall at abasin is pretty steep but crested butte wins i think for colorado love lands run isnt that steep
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DERS.
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i take laps on this shit like its my job.. hella fun but not the hardest in telluride by any means
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blatt
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anything from aleyeska?
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.JPolster
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Silver city Sunshine alberta canda
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introvert
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LOL I'm going there Dec. 16
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will_powder
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its more to the right of this picture a bit. It could use a bit more snow in that picture too. i seem to remember some promotional video from maybe salomon where they rode this line called "the pocket"? I think it is the middle of this picture.
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StupidDeep
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Yeah I would say silver city is alot harder then delireum. Delireum is just a steep chute at least the line I took when I went with my race team way back.
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db21
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this but wild west is crazier according to my cousin. ive been in the dive but not the wild west
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Shredability
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Has anyone skid tooth tusk up Apex??

I thought that was pretty nutty, but I was younger at the time
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Maximumsushi
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Silver city is fucking GNARLY. It's hardly ever open, and requires a transceiver to go through an avy gate. It is seriously pretty wild. It's definitely crazier than anything in the dive.

I skied Wild West last year, which was probably one of the gnarlier "marked inbounds" runs I've shredded.

I'd like to ski Silver City, but it is fucking crazy. I consider myself a pretty good skier, but there are some serious consequences in there.

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Shredability
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Triple post? Thats new
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Shredability
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disregard
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Maximumsushi
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For what it's worth, Delerium Dive is the steepest inbounds marked trail. Or that's what they say anyway. And Silver City is next to it, and steeper.

I don't think they want to say Silver City is because I don't think they want mooks skiing that shit and breakin themselves off just to say they've skied the "steepest" where the Dive is pretty mellow if you want it to be.
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JP-ski
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this is inbounds?! gnarly line.
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MothaHucker
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theres a chute on blackcomb peak, not out of bounds it faces towards 7th heaven. there was a black and white photo of someone skiing it in powder mag a few months back, it looked crazy. anyone kno wat im talkin bout?
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Maximumsushi
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Yep.
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Film.
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Pavalinchi A basin?
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Samckoy
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Finally PICTURES! Keep the pictures of vids up, I haven't been to many places so I'd like to see what you guys are talking about rather than hearing names.

For those that said Blowhole on Blackcomb and Coffin under the Peak Chair on Whistler. No, those are nothing. The cofin is a narrow straightliner, scary but not a big deal, the blowhole can get steep depending on weather but it doesnt compare to anything on the mountain.

In terms of steep on Blackcomb, the Chainsaw ridge has some pretty knarly cliffs and chutes with cornice drop ins. Along the right of the pic

and on whistler, the cirque has a sketchy line at 1:35 in this vid
and you can see it in this pic to the right but before the big cliff, it's lacking a little snow though


I'm not saying those are the hardest on whistler and blackcomb, but they are lift accessible and pretty high level
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DaysToCome
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too bad its a permanent closure except for the finals of the extremes
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Samckoy
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I want to add that the bowls on Blackcomb that can be accessed from Spanky's Ladder have some really intense lines around then, not within the bowl itself but in the area.
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DaysToCome
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oh shit didnt know that. thats the year before i got down
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jeR.
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of what i skied... some lines on palmyra peak at telluride are pretty gnar, peak chair on whis skier's left (i think) over the side where air jordan and waterfall are, also leads into VD chutes so its a lot of vert all inbounds.
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eheath
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The Big Couloir at big sky is a pretty hard run, not too long and only the first half is steep and skinny, but really fun!
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eheath
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And if you think high rustler is the only steep thing in utah you need to fucking actually ski a resort, alta is full of steep shit.
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FUUUCK
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depends on snow doesn't it?
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BskiP
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thank you  eheath.  utahs staying quiet, thank goodness for secret spots.
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yojimbo
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spruce cliffs sucka (as far as maine goes)


and its not technically inbounds anymore but it is thoroughly ski-able on a pow day with a solid base for the season
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SCOO-WOOP
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Beck's Rock.

Palisades

Squaw Valley, USA.




That and almost any line on the fingers.
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Dave_Marshak
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There is lots of cool shit to ski here in Whistler, but its all in how you ski it. There are spots that are easy as pie one way and crazy to even attempt in sketch conditions.

Air Jordan is one on Whistler where we see people bust themselves up on pow days. I saw someone said head wall. It is more fun than hard, but I guess in moguly tracked out conditions it could make your ball hair stand on end.

I vote for one of the lines off chainsaw ridge to take it here in Whis for sure.
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PeterWojnar
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Marhanken's chute at Alpine Meadows is pretty damn tough... and it's marked on the patrol map if that counts. It's a part of Keyhole (mentioned in that big long post from SKI magazine...lol).

It's pretty much a straight shot for 300 vertical feet with cliffs on both sides that gets down to about 5 feet for almost the entire length of it. Also, there's a mild turn in it and so you can't see the exit when you start. And a nasty traverse line forms underneath it ALWAYS, so coming out of it means a whole lot of WUBUDUDUBUDUDBDUBUB for your legs to deal with.
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special_k10101
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pinball is probably the gnarliest part of spanky's ladder that i've hit, but i'm sure there are a lot harder and i don't know the area super well. the rock in the middle gets pretty big in low snow conditions and makes it kinda sketchy, but at least in my opinion it still lies more in the domain of fun than scary.
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deleted5
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that makes 2 post ive seen but id say prob black hole at smuugs i mean it is a TRIPLE BLACK
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californiagrown
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Evan's Redemption on Estelle from Drew Fisher on Vimeo.




lots of these kinda runs round these parts
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yellav
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theyre just gonna build a quarter pipe at the top of carinthia and have a jet engine pull you in and then ripcord is the landing
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Tripplesixty
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naw I would say apple core (or little C depending on who you ask) which is just to the right of the Big C Click for larger image
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Twig
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Not the best photo but, Ski through narrow crevasse to mandatory air to narrow corridor between crevasses, to air, to always untracked pow bowl in Saas Fee. Just gotta know where to look.
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Twig
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Photo fail, try again:

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