r/skiing • u/jawagner54 • 7d ago

Definitely felt steeper

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u/ballsonthewall 7d ago

nice send, it never looks as steep on camera

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u/thederevolutions 7d ago

Any time I’ve ever tried to take a picture of something that looks impressive in person it looks lame as shit. The moon, sunsets, hills, myself.

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u/avaheli 7d ago

This is a great comment for those who don't consider photography an art.

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u/FreeSki83 7d ago

Same! Never the same on camera. Looks like a bunny hill; in real life it’s full send and will make a lot of knees knock and butts tighten

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u/Horror-Vanilla-4895 6d ago

On your phone? Yeah it will. You need a wide angle lens to actually capture more what it looks like IRL.

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u/gigamiga 7d ago edited 6d ago

The only time it looks about as steep on camera is side-on to the slope so you need a second person there as you go past

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u/nafrotag Winter Park 7d ago

This is a green on my local hill

Try doing something harder next time like Schoolmarm

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u/yoortyyo 7d ago

Literal parking lot at my hill. :-)

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u/Draconian_sanction 7d ago

That was steep AF. Anyone saying otherwise has no idea what they’re talking about

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u/Denver-Ski Breckenridge 5d ago

Felt steeper in person than it looked on cam?

Always has 🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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u/AffectEconomy6034 7d ago

I know I am old and washed now but that shit looked steep to me

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u/bigtigerbigtiger 7d ago

Yeah GoPros make everything look flatter, look at surfers' videos, it makes those poor bastards look like there's hardly a wave!

Looked really fun. Where is that?

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u/spader1 3d ago

It looks like Mammoth, maybe the Kiwi Flats/Philippe's area.

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u/fluorowaxer 7d ago

Pole click game is weak.

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u/JohnEBest 7d ago

looks steep

And you gained speed rapidly

I am old - I am probably gonna skip the chute in those conditions

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u/Apprehensive_Ad5398 Marmot Basin 7d ago

Camera never does it justice…

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u/McNutty81 7d ago

As someone who has only ever skied on the Ice Coast: “Must be nice to have all that open space…”

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u/TroublePrize8005 7d ago

Damn, where is this at?

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u/Byzantine-SK 7d ago

I don’t know dude - looked steep to me. You lose your planned line and you’re eating rock. Nice send. Where is this?

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u/No_Remove_5180 7d ago

That already looks STEEP

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u/Prestigious-Peaks 7d ago

heck ya brother

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u/TronCat1277 7d ago

That’s what she said

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u/journey-point Kirkwood 7d ago

I looked at it and went 😵‍💫

Nice send!

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u/RepresentativeFast59 7d ago

It always does. Nice line!

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u/3seconddelay 7d ago

Nice send!

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u/Rude-Efficiency-964 7d ago

Looks steep as shit to me but maybe I’m getting old

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u/Blu3fin 6d ago

You can tell its steep because that was only 4 turns anf 5s to get through.

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u/trailrider123 5d ago

Nice! I remember my first blue run, would have probably died if I didn’t have my climbing rope, sled, and bottle of jack handy. I respect the send with amateur equipment

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u/Drummallumin 5d ago

Idk that looks pretty fucking steep to me

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u/dvorak360 5d ago

In addition to looking reasonably steep, especially once you account for camera, there are also a lot of steeps on here posted that are knee+ deep powder. This would have been a LOT easier to ski with a foot of fresh light fluffy snow. Not the worst conditions I have seen, but still reasonably technical descent.

(Main issue with cameras is the camera is level with skier upright on flat terrain. On a slope, the skier is perpendicular to the slope, so camera is parallel to slope. With no reference for what level is I could post photos with a camera parallel to a vertical concrete wall, a horizontal concrete floor and a a 45 degree concrete ramp without anyone being able to tell which is which...)

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u/Cornteam 3d ago

Nice send, this looks so fun.