Are you saying she was floundering up there?That was a fluke.
Are you saying she was floundering up there?That was a fluke.
Whale’s Tail has that view, but I don’t know Breck very well. I almost got blown off Whale’s Tail once……
She’s no shrimp.Are you saying she was floundering up there?
No, I am the shrimp.She’s no shrimp.
She’s not the walrus.No, I am the shrimp.
Goo goo g'joobShe’s not the walrus.
Here's an example:I find that the only way to really capture steepness/vastness of terrain is to use an ultra wide angle lens, i.e. <15mm focal length (full frame equivalent). Recent iPhones have one built in. Composition might suffer, but it really conveys the sense of vertigo.
I don't have an example handy, but what comes to mind is those viral videos of someone walking along the spine of a summit, captured by a fish-eye helmet cam.
This one is from W/B at the bottom of West Bowl where it flattened out a bit.
The slope against the sky look very clean.
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Panning downward definitely lose the real sense of how steep a slope actually is.
This is about half way down Diamond bowl at W/B. Looks like a walk in the park. It is actually much steeper than Mineral Basin in the pics above.
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It’s the equivalent of “getting out of the boat”-I think we've all agreed on multiple occasions that the answer to the question, "Should I take my skis off?" is almost always "No."
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Is that near this in the youtube clip? I think she tries to jump in without skis on. It goes badly after 2:15, but is pretty lucky.
Showing steepness by other means.
I know, crazy. I’ve never seen anyone rocket downhill that fast in a fall from essentially a standstill. I guess the snow was just hard enough packed powder. It looked like that guy was going to try to stop her, which probably would get both hurt.The Whistler video is just insane. That could have gone so wrong so easily. She was so over-terrained in that situation, what the heck were they thinking?
So this guy takes this woman up to this couloir. She tries to go, clings to the hill, and decides to back up out of the drop. She can't manage, so he grabs her jacket and pulls her up out of it. She stands up on the ridge and for some reason takes her skis off.Showing steepness by other means.
There can be a lot of gray area in "together." The younger you get, the grayer. We weren't there, so we really don't know how it all went down. She may have been adamant about her independence. Who knows?So this guy takes this woman up to this couloir. She tries to go, clings to the hill, and decides to back up out of the drop. She can't manage, so he grabs her jacket and pulls her up out of it. She stands up on the ridge and for some reason takes her skis off.
And then he skis down it, leaving her to figure out what to do on her own? What was he thinking she would do? She was obviously unable to ski it on her own.
Were they really together, or was she by herself up there and he just got there as she was starting down?
Although it was hard to hear, she seemed to say/indicate she was going to walk down, and he seemed to be OK with that. IMO, that was both of their mistake. I think she should have realized, or he should have indicated, that if there was no other way out, side slipping and side-stepping her way down on skis was a better answer.And then he skis down it, leaving her to figure out what to do on her own? What was he thinking she would do? She was obviously unable to ski it on her own.
They weren’t together at all as I understand it. He happens upon her, and at the end skis off to meet the person he was skiing with. I thought initially the cornice was going to break. Sitting on it was a bad move.So this guy takes this woman up to this couloir. She tries to go, clings to the hill, and decides to back up out of the drop. She can't manage, so he grabs her jacket and pulls her up out of it. She stands up on the ridge and for some reason takes her skis off.
And then he skis down it, leaving her to figure out what to do on her own? What was he thinking she would do? She was obviously unable to ski it on her own.
Were they really together, or was she by herself up there and he just got there as she was starting down?
The comments are disturbing.
Even the steep photo @SBrown took of the snowboarder is actually skewed a bit flatter than it really is based on the trees in the background. Wow that's a steep run.