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If you think this is scary get ready, I’m putting bike ramps off it!

I have videos skiing out west too if you want to check them out!

No I have two other videos on The Church, this is a different spot somewhere on Mount Ellen (I’m deciding to keep the spot secret so it doesn’t get overrun).

Sadly the East Wall wasn’t open when I went but I think I still covered a decent amount for two days! Definitely on my list of places I NEED to go back to.

Essentially. It's more like a regulated rating. Colorado law says any trail meeting a certain steepness and difficulty requirement NEEDS to be represented with DB EX. Here's what the law says: "A new category, "extreme terrain," will be designated with a double black diamond containing the letters "EX." Terrain that drops steeply, such as a cliff, will no longer be marked with a "danger" sign and instead will be marked with the new sign including the "EX" designation. Extreme terrain is defined in the bill as any place within a ski area boundary with a cliff that drops more than 20 feet along a 15-foot run and a slope with a minimum 50-degree average pitch." I'm assuming it was changed in some way but that's the general difficulty of a DB EX trail.

Some Colorado resorts have both a regular double diamond and EX double diamond rating, some just have EX. Just depends if they want their standard for double diamond to be below or equal to the state's requirement. A-Basin only has the EX one.

I miss the ski season a sugarbush 2 rimrun

And I miss tumbler

This is easily my least favorite video on my channel, it’s my very first one that I threw up without much thought and it ended up becoming my most popular. You’re absolutely right, the GoPro doesn’t do it justice. However I also didn’t bring my best to the table here. I just did a run of this trail a couple weeks ago, planning on throwing it in an upcoming video. I like to think I shredded it up pretty well but that’s for the viewer to decide. However I remember this day, absolutely not the best condition to do this, and it is incredibly steep in person, probably around 40-50 degree pitch if not more

@@ThatPinkSuitGuy I mean it's good to be humble and put multiple attempts at the same run under various conditions so someone doesn't see you shredding it on a perfect day and think "ohh that looks so easy for a triple black" and then they end up hurt or stuck in a spot they cant get themself out of

Headed to Sugarbush for the first time since my return from the west yesterday, I gotta say I missed the East!

@@ThatPinkSuitGuy if you can ski the east you can ski anywhere. lol. Looks like we are heading back to killington this weekend again. Did an evening session last night near the nh/ma border and it was dirt dodging ice. So it’s apparent these last few weekends of decent condition you gotta be up killington or farther north. See you out there. 🤟

Completely different animal. However it was also harder for me because, just like Chris pointed out, I don’t have the right skies. My skies were not powder ready so I would have to work extra hard to ski the sun baked terrain. However the video I’m working on for next Sunday when I took a drive up to A Basin definitely has some hard shit. The Steep Gullies are gonna be featured in there, absolutely crazy

Reminds me alot of my first time back on skiis in almost 20 years to the day. Went to Kirkwood on rentals and had a great stoner guide there too .... funny coincidence I guess??? Memory is a lil fuzzy hah but one run then he sez you got it bro, let's go to the top, past the skull and crossbones at the lift line. Not really the snow that day as you got so it was more like Vermont then too, alot more snow but firmer. The steepness is just hard to show, but the gulp at the top of Kirkwood was when I saw it was no fall zone..... you go down and you start accelerating immediately. The strange thing Vermont to the western stuff is you want to straight fall line stuff and forget you can remove the steepness with diagonal lines in the big wide bowls out west. Chutes you have to straight line are a whole different level, looking forward to the next.

Went to Sugarbush yesterday and the snow may be a little sketchy and thin out in the backcountry, but still should be fun! Would love to have someone to ski backcountry with too!

I haven’t skied in the eat for a hot minute, haven’t been since I went out west. But from the looks of it, everywhere is amazing rn, and I’ll make sure to go up this weekend so let’s hope it stays 🤞

The snow was top tier powder, the next 3 days (which I'm working on currently) were completely sunny and just as powdery! Amazing time out there

Just got back from Copper and Arapahoe!

I also started by skiing on Morse; keep going and you’ll get there!

I’m planning to go to Sterling next time Thanks for the motivation!

HEAD 171cm 2022 Oblivion 84 Bought new and custom designed by me, For a lot of the stuff I do (like this video’s terrain), I prefer shorter skis for more room to move in these tight corridors.

Thank you! I take pride in my unprofessionalism

I have since found out that the upper cliff is not technically part of the trail, it’s an additional entrance. The actual entrance is a secret little passage onto the glades directly after the cliff. So if I had to guess, that’s what ski patrol actually checks. However, even with the cliff, the trail is definitely triple black worthy in my books, at least compared to the rest of Smuggs trails.

I think I got pretty lucky choosing a first line for this area, absolutely beautiful scenery and I enjoy this kind of weasel-down-the-hill action.

Interesting, I’ll have to look at that when we get more snow again!

This was my first exploration into Ellen backcountry, like I said at the beginning I was just dipping my toes in it. I was going solo and did not have any knowledge of the terrain so I wanted to be as cautious in my venturing as possible to guarantee I got back on the main trails.

@@whymoo1 if we get more snow I’m gonna go back exploring, unfortunately it seems like our season is wrapping up 😞

The big hidden opening is a mud slide you were close too. The best hideout in the valley

I prefer to keep locations of trails like this secret to prevent them from being overrun, but I’ll tell you it is a short walk from the Summit Quad

Go explore…if you’re not comfortable findings spots like this yourself, you probably shouldn’t be there anyway

I’m very aware, that’s why I put that disclaimer, but hey, the more risk the more fun haha

I mean, that was so tight that it looked basically impossible to build up any speed to crash or fall dangerously.

This is definitely not a double black (if it is groomed) ungroomed I guess, but on this day it really wasn’t double black worthy. I don’t know why it’s a double. BUT DON’T BE FOOLED!! Besides maybe steins, every other double black at Sugarbush is definitely a double black. Ripcord is the exception. Steins if it is groomed is possibly a really hard black, with moguls it’s an easy double. FIS and Exterminator at Ellen are on the easier side of double black but definitely in that range. Sugarbush’s true “experts only” trails are: Anything off Castlerock (especially Liftline + Rumble), Black Diamond Rush, Paradise, and any woods bordering a double black. Hope this helps!