@@allanbergsma3256 I love it but the topsheet has started to delaminate and ride won't replace it on warranty. This happened on my old one and they did, but they won't replace it twice. It happened after only 3 weeks of riding!
Never tried snowboarding, but watching this has made me realise the attraction of it. Must be awesome to be out in that incredible scenery having so much fun!
I never have either but I love videos like these, just watching somebody skilled gives me this crazy combination of excited anxiety while being super calming at the same time 🤯
My step mother taught me how to ski, she took me down black diamonds my second season, if I said I was too scared she'd tell my my only options were to climb back up or keep going down 😂. Best way to learn.
as an ex alpine ski racer, this hill is perfect and i am literally dying to put my skis on that run. Not too much power, not too much ice, and the steepness is perfect.
Once you are in the slope you realize its not step.. Looking down from the hill it will look step, once you go and turn a lot you realize its not step and scary... Just control the speed and do as many turns as necessary to be comfortable, if you fail its not a DROP, BOOM, its a glide... I have fallen 100s of times, it doesnt hurt, you learn how to fall right fast and you will stop yourself form gliding further easy, especially if its much snow. Just be careful at the black paths, the steepest, its often icy and nasty, you just glide with no stronghold, its not fun... The more snow, the better! the more Icy its bad.
@@TriptoCo strict fines are in place here If you get caught hiking. It's so as not to be a strain on the health services if you have an accident. You are allowed out for 1 trip a day no more than 1km from your home, and for no more than 1 hour... 😟
Thanks for a great ride, as a retired type 3 skier I miss being able to carve up the mountains more than anything else I cannot do anymore so taking a ride with you was wonderful.
@@mareksicinski3726 Let me get this straight; You pointed out that he misused the word "collective" but you didn't correct him when he said, "narrate a combat?" I just love when people try to make themselves appear more intelligent than they are by attempting to correct someone else's grammatical shortcomings and wind up screwing it up anyway and making a huge dumbass of themselves. Bravo, idiot. 😊
@@radekbaranowski8047 from my experience skiing in the Alps, they basically set off bombs and clean the pistes every morning to combat the risk. If it's not roped off, you're safe to ski w/o avalanche risk. People still ski in roped off areas, in which case yeah, they can easily trigger/get stuck under an avalanche. Only idiots though.
@@capndrake2507 Partly true. They're opposites in the way they are performed, sure, one going up the other going down. However, many still climb the mountains to be able to board it, if they can't afford or aren't able to make use of a helicopter. So I can see why the youtube algorithm would recommend it.
When I did this run last year it had been shut most the week due to heavy snow then they opened it around lunch time me and my dad went up and we were around the first 20 down and it was pure powder it was sick
As someone who ski’s , I have never known a slope to be so steep before! Looks a lot of fun though! Made me even miss being on a mountain and ploughing through. Hopefully I can do it again one day!
Thanks for the ride mate! That was Amazeballs! Haven't skied in over 20 years due to medical issues and that felt sooooo good. It was like I was skiing down that slope. Love how you don't shame the beginners. The world needs more people with patience. Keep on Rockin dude!
The Alpe d'Huez station is definitely my favorite one. I highly recommend it for anyone who love skiing/snowboading on challenging runs. There is this tunnel trail but there is also the longest black trail in the world called "La Sarenne". It is 16km, 1800m downhill and starts at 3000m! It's just awesome!
Malcolm! You OWNED a that run! As a skiing reject, let’s alone even trying to snowboard, I bow to the awesomeness of your run, and your ability. Wow. Just beautiful.
Thanks for taking the time to record that and bringing us with you. This is also arguably the hardest single mountain climb in the Tour de France. It’s amazing to see it from this perspective for the first time.
Thank you for filming this. I became SUDDENLY disabled at a young age. There's still so much in life I never got to do. Watching videos like this help me imagine a little of what it's like.
Aaaand now I miss the slopes more than ever. Damn virus stole a month and a half of working as a snowboard instructor from me. Guess we'll all enjoy our next season in the alps double as much.
iutiuber yeah. At Tahoe we just had a good dump of white and they closed everything. But I’m 72 so I suppose for me it was stupid to whine about it- but I did anyway!
I forgot to breathe a couple times just watching this. He's going so fast. Man. Last week I went skiing for the first time and everyone I met was sooo reassuring like this guy. The ski/snowboard community seems extremely nice but way overrating of my abilities. I went down the bunny slope screaming
on my first time skiing I actually ended up stuck in a tree while going down the beginner slope. the turn was too sharp for my speed, I went off tracks pretty violently lmfaooo
The first time I went skiing, my friends and I (dumbasses) went to the top of the mountain and decided to ski down but I was afraid and didn’t go the first time. Once my friends went down the mountain and came back up I decided to find the courage and go down the mountain. My boyfriend was teaching me but I was too scared so I flew down the mountain ( it was a green mountain)... I almost flew into a house. The whole time my boyfriend had to go back down the mountain backwards while holding me because I was too afraid to ski by myself. I couldn’t take lessons because it was all booked and all my friends (who never skied) were perfectly fine except for me. :(
Love those long downhill, open patches where you can really pick up speed! We don’t get as many of those in the states where I live, out mountains are pointier. We do have better woods trails then the Swiss stuff I got to experience. Just what I’ve seen, though!
I have actually no idea why i watched this video. It doesnt look special and i am used to "driving skills like that" because i am from austria. But that was a awesome video. Realy chill voice like it.
This is wonderful. When I tried snowboarding for a few years back in high school and college, I kept catching the lower edge of the board on the hill. That was about 20 years ago. Not sure if I'd ever try it again because I still remember that the pain of hitting the slope, hearing crackling in my body, and not being able to breathe for a few seconds was exquisite.
damn, i feel that. people out here starting businesses, going skiing and snowboarding, and doing more awesome things and i’m just inside my room all day only going outside of my room just to get or get water lmao.
Back In the 70's I used to ski like that. With bell bottoms on. They would flap so loud from the speed that people heard me coming and got out of the way. LMAO.
I did it multiple times and the video doesn’t really make it justice, when you go out of the tunnel and see it with your own eyes it really seems ultra steep. It evolved through time too, when I did it the first time like 13 years ago there were 2m high bumps and I got stuck backwards in one, I could lay on it facing the slope ! Nowadays I feel like it is way easier, but always a pleasure !
It's always hard to grasp the sharpness of a run when it's filmed on a gopro. I keep getting people telling me they learnt on steeper slopes than this! 🙄
Hi, never even set foot on a slope and never will. The title brought me in as I love to see young folk doing what I never got around to, what kept me in was the absolute professional quality of the video and editing, you could give lessons in that for sure, no stupid music and I could hear the swishing of the board and your intelligent and not too loud narration, well done and thank you sir.
me and my family have been going to Grand Massif every Easter, apart from last year we went to Serre Chevalier. Gutted and I need the mountains, Flaine is so relaxed and quiet for families, missing it! :(
Sick run. Problem was that too many people who just didnt have the skill were clogging up the beginning. Had to wait 15 minutes after the tunnel just to get on the piste
European: I went through a tunnel and the run afterwards was awesome. American: The Eisenhower tunnel taught me that tunnels and above treeline skiing don't mix.
Great video Malcolm, my daughter was working this season and I fully intended to ski Le Tunnel, she hooked me up with a few of her friends to show me the way down but the day we were due to go was a complete white out so I didn’t think it would be too smart to tackle it. She intends to go back next season ( with this one being cut short and all) so this will stand me in good stead for next season.
I tried snowboarding last week, park city, Utah, and now I'm addicted at 44 years old and living in Florida. I'm watching vids in hopes I don't forget what I learned lol.
Dude, Alabama has a ski resort! Cloudmont Ski Resort on Lookout Mountain in northeast Alabama, near Mentone. Obviously it isn't world class or anything, but it exists!
Haha, yeah, the Tunnel used to just dump you straight out on the steeper part, they've since put a path to the right like you see here which takes a few degrees off!
This is definitely the steepest part i’ve tried anywhere, i think it was back in 2015. You had an awesome day to run it though, the lumps were no less than 1 meter High for the first 20-30 meters down. You literally could not run over them. Definitely challenging no matter when and how the slope looks😁
Thank you for sharing your adventures with us. I can understand the addiction of this sport. I’m too old and crippled for this sport but sure enjoy watching your perspective. Thank you again.
Watching you go fast while going straight scares me because I did that once and my boards edge got stuck in the snow and all my speed forward went down and I accidentally took it with my wrists which broke them. They essentially folded backwards so the back of my hand touched my forearm. Not nice.
Yea I was doing butter spins when caught an edge, shredded 2” of my collarbone into pieces :/ since then haven’t snowboarded, have ptsd lol (6hrs to get to hospital, and a over a year of recovery wasn’t fun). Am thinking of switching to ski’s, much easier on the body and in my opinion much safer than boarding.
2:36 on the right, this is the place where you can see the names and pictures of (at least) 2 people who died there few decades ago. It used to be much more dangerous and scarier: for example at 2:46 it is a complete platform and reshape that was built there I think 20 years ago. Before that at the exit there was a deep ice cliff with only a safety net, and it began immediately on the right with a scary steep icy slope 2 meters wide with moguls the size of a man. Now it's kinda piece of cake :)
Were there last year at this time, did the Sareene run but the last 2 kms was pants for a board!! Tunnel run was closed when we were up there but had a 60 cm dump for the last 2 days so conditions were epic!!
Wow thanks for the experience never have I snowboard in my life but just watching this video n u r explaining everything about Ur techniques is amazing felt like I was there n the view was beautiful hope to c more 🤗🤗
That was quite fun to watch. Made me think back to the first time I went snowboarding and found that perfect circular slope that gave you speed but let you cruise along nicely. Haven’t snowboarded since!
*I used to snowboard, but ever since my sister's skiing injury my parents have stopped letting us there since. It's been 6 years and now when I look at snowboarding its scary.*
i broke my knee skiing, spent 2 months with my whole leg in a cast getting hella painful injections everyday, but would do it again 100%. It is scary but it's so worth it. it's never too late to start again, don't let the fear get you!
Seeing your shadow, you do a really good job of keeping your knees bent and your upper half crouched down. That is hard to do as a new boarder because it makes your quads tired. So many new snowboarders want to look cool and stand straight up while doing heel side toe side and catch a grove in the snow, sending them flying. You also do a good job of respecting other boarders and skiers around you, giving them space and not flying in between everyone. Other than that, this video reminds me of why I don't board anymore at 44 yrs old; I can't afford to fall like I used to. Ha! Cheers from Austin, Tx, USA~
Malcolm this is absolutely unreal how you have narrative commentary over your run. This is what I was saying in another of you tutorial exercises to do a talk through the technical aspects whilst you are doing them. Keep up your great channel, you will grow so fast.
That very beginning drop after you get on tunnel run looks like you could pop off it from an angle. I've never skiied anywhere except in California and I'd LOVE to ski in Europe, Canada, or even Colorado and Montana. The resorts are so much more barren and open compared to the resorts here.
French Alps are the best. I've been at the very top a peak, exposed to high winds, freezing cold, looking at a huge clump of blue ice forming in a crevice, literally like a glacier forming, feeling so blessed to be alive. You can ski from above the tree line in huge open spaces, sun shining, then down through the trees, alongside fast flowing streams, into a resort and right up to your door. Then hop on a lift and do it all again. The local people are lovely and slightly mad. I've been to Austria and Switzerland, beautiful picture box scenery but I prefer them in the summer, so pretty. Big wide flat bottomed valleys. French alps are higher and more rugged.
@Clarence W hey Clarence, I love Canada. I worked a season at Sun Peaks. I managed to ride kicking horse, revvy, whistler, marmot basin, as well as a few others!
Whenever I went snowboarding I would take so many tumbles that I was bruised up and and down for weeks. Didn't stick with it; tried skiing instead. Regardless, watching this video was nerve-racking. All I could think of was how much it would hurt to take a few falls. Great video nonetheless man
I'm the other way around, tried skiing, took a hell of a beating, tried snowboarding and it was like second nature to me. I didn't know at the time but I was taking black runs on my first day lol.
At first i was kinda dissapointed by the actual tunnel part, but then the outside snowboarding was beautiful. Very nice video! I´m glad i got this in recommended
Omg I miss this so much, normally we would ski/snowboard in the alpes every year but last year because of corona we couldn't, this makes me so excited to our winter holidays in the alpes this year! Though I can't choose if I should do snowboarding or skiing...
@@Craggius13 'KEN-SOO-KAY KEE-MACH-EE' That's one of my favourite games ever. Tricky, skillful, looked incredible for the time. Racing the gold boarder on that midnight course...
I would love a reboot. That was one of my favourite games. Had the best snow in any game - the sound and the feel of it was so convincing. Big fluffy drifts, shallow powdery coverage, even runs across sheer ice on glaciers(which I'm guessing snowboarders probably don't do in real life ;) ). And the control system was brilliant - z to crouch down and soften the impact of a jump, as well as to speed up. So simple but so elegant.
1st time I went skiing I got on the wrong lift. Went to the top of the Black. Skied some, slide on ice, scooched on my but alot, got in everyone's way, took way too long, was traumatized and cold by the time I got to the fire pit cabin. Drank, laughed, slept. Next day I skied that hill legit. Best time ever. This video was scary and awesome.
That's because mediocre skiers are afraid of speed, even if the snow and slope conditions are perfect and you have a nice flat space to break safely, they are still mostly scared of a little speed and they will do break turns (instead of carving, which actually makes you go even faster). If you are not afraid to gain a little speed (casually - without going for a speed record) you can go 60-80km/h. This run up wasn't too steep imo so my guess would be that 60 (even less) would be enough if you don't break.
Ahah, I've been in both spots quite a lot, and there's no comparaison, one of them has a tunnel with a tombstone of someone who died on the slope, that is one of the steepest, and on top of the glacier, the other one is a fun slope that is cool but can be skied by any beginner
What a great video. Haven't been skiing for over 18 years, but relived it through this video even though I didn't do black pistes, since I only skied for 3 times! Been to France though. Good times!
Great video just where I left off on my last runs!!!! trying to be more in control on what appears to me to be steep enough slopes. Your vids are constant uninterrupted runs which give me time to see exactly what you're doing in real time . I'm sure I will be doing the torsional twist shuffle on my floor boards this summer😂 Thankyou be safe 😷 👍
Haven’t scrolled too deep into the comments so I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but Alta in Salt Lake City also has a tunnel through the mountain to get to the back side. There was a long history of mining in the canyons there and they put a magic carpet in one of the tunnels to connect the entire mountain. I think they’re so cool
Hey everyone, thanks for watching, what's the hardest run you've ever done? Let me know! 🤙
Malcolm Moore how do you like the Warpig?
@@allanbergsma3256 I love it but the topsheet has started to delaminate and ride won't replace it on warranty. This happened on my old one and they did, but they won't replace it twice. It happened after only 3 weeks of riding!
@Forum Spark is that up in Jasper?
@Forum Spark ah yeah I've been there about 11 years ago, not sure if I did that run though! I was working at season at Sun Peaks near Kamloops.
Corbett’s couloir
Oh i thought it was going to be like a tunnel run that youd have to go like 80mph non stop
Afraid not!
Same
Its ashame you would have been really cool it it was that way
Zermatt had such a tunnel for the past 60y or so ...unfortunately they demolished it a few years ago. Not 80mph though ;)
@@surject I can understand why they demolished it. You know a beginner is gonna go in there and die.
Dude, you strapping your board so close to the edge gave me shivers.
Same I've been riding for 8 years and it still scares me being that close to the edge while strapping in
I'm thinking what if someone pushes you
@@shanonfrancis5071 haha yer
O I have had a beginner adult push me down a step part of the mountain strapping in he got scared and bumped 10 year old me into the rocks
gopro exaggerates depth
When I see the tunnel : "Hey, that was easy..."
When i see the drop after the tunnel : "Hey, I'm gonna go back"
Haha exactly 😂
666 likes lol
😂 Same, I was like 'oh'
Stefan Lai lol
It’s still steep, but the camera angle makes it look a lot steeper what what it really is
Never tried snowboarding, but watching this has made me realise the attraction of it. Must be awesome to be out in that incredible scenery having so much fun!
oh yeah for sure, i just got my snowboard and cannot wait to get started shredding these mountains lol
Its not gay like skiing
@@thecommonsenseconservative5576 💀💀
I never have either but I love videos like these, just watching somebody skilled gives me this crazy combination of excited anxiety while being super calming at the same time 🤯
@@WalkToPoland how sore'd your chest get from falling over?
You have been blessed with: Showing up in everyone’s recommended.
Hahaha absolutely! 👍
Gotta say, this is one of the better ones too! Gj
@@countdracowo thanks man!
Yea lol
This makes me want to snowboard
"ok, so it's just a bit steep here"
shows a 90 degree drop
😂
Maybe 45 degrees at the steepest.
@@VeronicaDevlin I was joking but ok 😂
@@Jodus_MacGotuss 45 Degrees is the steepest yea
@Jodus Macgotuss
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If you're going down a hill and your skis aren't touching the snow, that's a free-fall!
My step mother taught me how to ski, she took me down black diamonds my second season, if I said I was too scared she'd tell my my only options were to climb back up or keep going down 😂.
Best way to learn.
@@andersrobertsen7610 agree
@@andersrobertsen7610 same now its one of my favorite things to do :D
as an ex alpine ski racer, this hill is perfect and i am literally dying to put my skis on that run. Not too much power, not too much ice, and the steepness is perfect.
The moguls are naught compared to the moguls in the early 80’s
You have to take the right side from the top, left has some nasty ice muguls.
"theyre having fun thats the main thing" what a nice guy, earned a like from me
Thanks man! 🙏
What was he saying? "Oof the skier infront of me has some awful techers"? I don't know ski terminology so could you educate me?
@@simulatedstring9029 HAHA bro it's brittish, he is just saying that the person infront is not really experienced :)
@@simulatedstring9029 awful tekkers = awful technique
@@bastianhellspong7961 bri'ish
Watching this as a beginner snowboarder is absolutely terrifying
You got it bro!
Once you are in the slope you realize its not step.. Looking down from the hill it will look step, once you go and turn a lot you realize its not step and scary...
Just control the speed and do as many turns as necessary to be comfortable, if you fail its not a DROP, BOOM, its a glide...
I have fallen 100s of times, it doesnt hurt, you learn how to fall right fast and you will stop yourself form gliding further easy, especially if its much snow.
Just be careful at the black paths, the steepest, its often icy and nasty, you just glide with no stronghold, its not fun... The more snow, the better! the more Icy its bad.
If find steeper runs easier on a snow board as long as they are not too narrow. It is that flat stuff that is killer for a beginner.
I want to do it but I don’t know where to go
I live in Canada btw
And I’m not going to another province just to snow board
@@carlsvenson8126 this is true, i am a double black skier and am switching over to snowboarding next season probably
i just want to be on the mountain again but all of them are closed
Yep, it's sad. I'm not even allowed to go hiking or splitboarding here in France, there's strict fines if I do!
Sucks man. Going hiking tomorrow here in Colorado....
@@TriptoCo strict fines are in place here If you get caught hiking. It's so as not to be a strain on the health services if you have an accident. You are allowed out for 1 trip a day no more than 1km from your home, and for no more than 1 hour... 😟
Brendon Kelly don’t be a selfish tit, no one cares if you heart yourself but we do care for the time you waste for others to rescue your ass. ✌🏿
Yes same here in Colorado I had a full season pass too
Thanks for a great ride, as a retired type 3 skier I miss being able to carve up the mountains more than anything else I cannot do anymore so taking a ride with you was wonderful.
Thankyou, I appreciate the comment! Can't wait for next year to be back with more!
This guy can narrate a combat during war and still seem chill and collective.
😂
I'd like to see that. Semper Fi.
collected you mean?
@@mareksicinski3726 Let me get this straight; You pointed out that he misused the word "collective" but you didn't correct him when he said, "narrate a combat?" I just love when people try to make themselves appear more intelligent than they are by attempting to correct someone else's grammatical shortcomings and wind up screwing it up anyway and making a huge dumbass of themselves. Bravo, idiot. 😊
@@mareksicinski3726 Oh, and sentences are supposed to begin with a capital letter as well, dumbass.
When I did this run, I was super lucky. It was closed for 4 days straight because of a snow storm. So basically I had 4 days worth of fresh snow...
Epic!
Jealous. This guy did it in what I would call sub-par conditions. Hitting that as a full powder run, that's the stuff of dreams.
@@aeis3007 I know I could maybe do it and I am intermediate. Though with good snow it would be awesome
ain't that superhigh chance to start an avalanche ?
@@radekbaranowski8047 from my experience skiing in the Alps, they basically set off bombs and clean the pistes every morning to combat the risk.
If it's not roped off, you're safe to ski w/o avalanche risk. People still ski in roped off areas, in which case yeah, they can easily trigger/get stuck under an avalanche. Only idiots though.
Man that drop after the tunnel run would scare the crap out of me. I’d call mountain rescue 😆
Skied this run in1983 with 3 sons, brother in law and 4 of his. Age range 14 to 17. Fantastic skiing
I think its amazing that he is still hearting comments after 2 months
Lol, I did miss this one, but got there in the end!
I've never watched snowboarding videos before
It was in my recommended
Did I enjoy it?
Yes
I didn't.
@@davida9074 why
Same. This got recommended to me off of a climbing video. It's like the complete opposite lol.
@@capndrake2507 Partly true. They're opposites in the way they are performed, sure, one going up the other going down. However, many still climb the mountains to be able to board it, if they can't afford or aren't able to make use of a helicopter. So I can see why the youtube algorithm would recommend it.
Same
When I did this run last year it had been shut most the week due to heavy snow then they opened it around lunch time me and my dad went up and we were around the first 20 down and it was pure powder it was sick
That is the best when you get that!
Jealous!!
As someone who ski’s , I have never known a slope to be so steep before! Looks a lot of fun though! Made me even miss being on a mountain and ploughing through. Hopefully I can do it again one day!
Check out Kirkwood ski resort in California it has a run called The Wall and it’s starts out with 6ft verticle drop.
It’s really not that bad. You just have to take a drop down and a sharp speed check. After that it’s just regular back country terrain.
It’s mad how he can talk so casually going down that run
It’s a voice over?
@@eveliinaalanen6120 it's a joke? 😂
Eveliinaalanen r/whoosh
errmerrgerrrd
@@owengodsall9301 ouch. U slammed them
There’s something that’s just hypnotizing about snowboarding and how fun it is!
True!
His voice is so reassuring in beginning that it makes me feel like I can do this 😭...... I’ve never been snowboarding, I can’t even skateboard 😂
Maybe one day you'll get the chance!
@@malcolmmoore hopefully!
@@malcolmmoore what speed do you think you were going when reaching that part where some had to walk? Man it looks scary yet amazing :D.
Skateboard doesnt have anything to do with snowboard 💀😂
@@gpl3046 true but snow boarding seems wayy harder 😭
Thanks for the ride mate! That was Amazeballs! Haven't skied in over 20 years due to medical issues and that felt sooooo good. It was like I was skiing down that slope. Love how you don't shame the beginners. The world needs more people with patience. Keep on Rockin dude!
The Alpe d'Huez station is definitely my favorite one. I highly recommend it for anyone who love skiing/snowboading on challenging runs. There is this tunnel trail but there is also the longest black trail in the world called "La Sarenne". It is 16km, 1800m downhill and starts at 3000m! It's just awesome!
Nice
And the sunny weather being in Southern Alps and great snow thanks to high altitude is the best combination I know.
Malcolm! You OWNED a that run! As a skiing reject, let’s alone even trying to snowboard, I bow to the awesomeness of your run, and your ability. Wow. Just beautiful.
Thanks man!
Thanks for taking the time to record that and bringing us with you. This is also arguably the hardest single mountain climb in the Tour de France. It’s amazing to see it from this perspective for the first time.
I cycled alpe d'huez every day for a month thus summer! Was gruelling!
Thank you for filming this. I became SUDDENLY disabled at a young age. There's still so much in life I never got to do. Watching videos like this help me imagine a little of what it's like.
Wow man, this got me, I appreciate you sharing. I don't know what your situation is, but stay strong, there's always hope!
Aaaand now I miss the slopes more than ever. Damn virus stole a month and a half of working as a snowboard instructor from me. Guess we'll all enjoy our next season in the alps double as much.
same here, where abouts where you?
same
iutiuber yeah. At Tahoe we just had a good dump of white and they closed everything. But I’m 72 so I suppose for me it was stupid to whine about it- but I did anyway!
@@StevenBanks123 still riding? That's awesome!
@@StevenBanks123 You're a legend!!!! Keep it up man! All we have here is fake snow :/
I forgot to breathe a couple times just watching this. He's going so fast. Man. Last week I went skiing for the first time and everyone I met was sooo reassuring like this guy. The ski/snowboard community seems extremely nice but way overrating of my abilities. I went down the bunny slope screaming
Lmao
on my first time skiing I actually ended up stuck in a tree while going down the beginner slope. the turn was too sharp for my speed, I went off tracks pretty violently lmfaooo
bro hes going 3 mph
The first time I went skiing, my friends and I (dumbasses) went to the top of the mountain and decided to ski down but I was afraid and didn’t go the first time. Once my friends went down the mountain and came back up I decided to find the courage and go down the mountain. My boyfriend was teaching me but I was too scared so I flew down the mountain ( it was a green mountain)... I almost flew into a house. The whole time my boyfriend had to go back down the mountain backwards while holding me because I was too afraid to ski by myself. I couldn’t take lessons because it was all booked and all my friends (who never skied) were perfectly fine except for me. :(
@@oyasumilunlun hahaha I can relate to that😂🏂
I love how calm and chill the cementation is. I've never even snowboarded but I just had to watch the whole video.
Him - riding regular
Me (I ride goofy) - TURN THE *beep* AROUND
😂
Practice your switch. 😊
I know, it just feels so wrong!
I feel you, no one in my class rode goofy, only me
Love those long downhill, open patches where you can really pick up speed! We don’t get as many of those in the states where I live, out mountains are pointier. We do have better woods trails then the Swiss stuff I got to experience.
Just what I’ve seen, though!
Yeah most of the riding here is all above the tree line, I miss riding trees!
yeah, I think the best line ive done is blue mountain in Canada. Mammoth is second, maybe cuz blue mountain had fresh snow when I went.
@@zeffery101 never heard of blue mountain, is it east coast?
@@malcolmmoore YES. its in Ontario about 2 hours north of Toronto
@@zeffery101 I see, I've never ridden over that way!
I have actually no idea why i watched this video. It doesnt look special and i am used to "driving skills like that" because i am from austria. But that was a awesome video. Realy chill voice like it.
Haha cheers man!
Zeawus💪😂
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@@sluggino6049 Vorarlberg und du?
Koa Tiroler do😂
This is wonderful. When I tried snowboarding for a few years back in high school and college, I kept catching the lower edge of the board on the hill. That was about 20 years ago. Not sure if I'd ever try it again because I still remember that the pain of hitting the slope, hearing crackling in my body, and not being able to breathe for a few seconds was exquisite.
THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING SUCH COOL THINGS IN THEIR LIVES AND IAM HERE IN MY HOME STUDYING
It really does be like that
damn, i feel that. people out here starting businesses, going skiing and snowboarding, and doing more awesome things and i’m just inside my room all day only going outside of my room just to get or get water lmao.
U don’t seem like ur studying
lol!
I'm here going over comments I never replied to waiting for the resort to be allowed to open again!
3:39 if I was there skiing I would probably go right down on a straight line until I fall, bc going fast is fun until you fall down
Indeed it is! 🤙
It’s All fun and games u penguin it cause u went 2 fast and snapped ye boards
True. I would just go down and have a jolly old time. Hopefully the board or the skis wouldn't break cause it would be a bad sign.
Back In the 70's I used to ski like that. With bell bottoms on. They would flap so loud from the speed that people heard me coming and got out of the way. LMAO.
I did it multiple times and the video doesn’t really make it justice, when you go out of the tunnel and see it with your own eyes it really seems ultra steep.
It evolved through time too, when I did it the first time like 13 years ago there were 2m high bumps and I got stuck backwards in one, I could lay on it facing the slope !
Nowadays I feel like it is way easier, but always a pleasure !
It's always hard to grasp the sharpness of a run when it's filmed on a gopro. I keep getting people telling me they learnt on steeper slopes than this! 🙄
Ikr it looking actually steep on the go-pro means it’s very steep
42 years of down skiing that was a fun run i really enjoyed that thanks.
Him: goes down a huge mountain!
Me: goes down the small hill in my backyard!
Its all the same! keep shredding!
Wow, good skills mate! I also appreciate how you described everything, thanks!
Thanks for watching! 🙏
Those straights looked hella fun cuz you can just kinda chill and not worry about losing control.
Hi, never even set foot on a slope and never will. The title brought me in as I love to see young folk doing what I never got around to, what kept me in was the absolute professional quality of the video and editing, you could give lessons in that for sure, no stupid music and I could hear the swishing of the board and your intelligent and not too loud narration, well done and thank you sir.
Thanks Kevin ✌
Me, sitting comfy in my bed eating chips: yup.. *munch much* .. I should do that
I was supposed to be in Val Thorens in April, but there's no chance now, so I gotta live vicariously through videos. Killer run mate. Maybe one day.
There's loads of snow at the minute still too, looking like it would have been a good spring all across the French Alps, gutting!
I went to Val Thorens three days before the quarantine
me and my family have been going to Grand Massif every Easter, apart from last year we went to Serre Chevalier. Gutted and I need the mountains, Flaine is so relaxed and quiet for families, missing it! :(
Next year 🤞
Trois vallées and Val Thorens is amazing. I miss it already. Definitely going next season again
Sick run. Problem was that too many people who just didnt have the skill were clogging up the beginning. Had to wait 15 minutes after the tunnel just to get on the piste
Yeah that happens sometimes, luckily I got it on a quiet day!
European: I went through a tunnel and the run afterwards was awesome.
American: The Eisenhower tunnel taught me that tunnels and above treeline skiing don't mix.
ooooooooh this takes me back, 1st person perspective is sooooooo good
Great video Malcolm, my daughter was working this season and I fully intended to ski Le Tunnel, she hooked me up with a few of her friends to show me the way down but the day we were due to go was a complete white out so I didn’t think it would be too smart to tackle it. She intends to go back next season ( with this one being cut short and all) so this will stand me in good stead for next season.
I'm already looking forward to next season, I'm just glad I managed to cram as much riding in as possible too this year!
Me: Man, snowboarding looks kind of fun, I ought to try it out sometime.
Also me: Lives in Alabama
Damn, one day though 🤞
Sweet place
I tried snowboarding last week, park city, Utah, and now I'm addicted at 44 years old and living in Florida. I'm watching vids in hopes I don't forget what I learned lol.
Dude, Alabama has a ski resort! Cloudmont Ski Resort on Lookout Mountain in northeast Alabama, near Mentone. Obviously it isn't world class or anything, but it exists!
Pshh we don't need to snowboard. We can just walk outside with a kite and fly with all these tornadoes we've been having.
Great ride, thank you for taking us with you!
A bit of quarantined virtual snowboarding is always good!
thanks for a great video, brings back memories of doing this about 25 years back as a fairly new intermediate skier and it seemed a lot scarier then
Haha, yeah, the Tunnel used to just dump you straight out on the steeper part, they've since put a path to the right like you see here which takes a few degrees off!
Jesus that snow is like concrete.
digwillhachi you haven’t been to Michigan.
@@Henry-ro2bo Im spoilt on Japanese powder hehe.
@@Henry-ro2bo the snow may be bad in Michigan, but at least you're by cedar point!
Yeah, I loved the bit about "softish" show as he scraped his way down the ice😹. Does look like fun though.
I grew up on the east coast (ice coast). That snow would be heaven to me.
This is definitely the steepest part i’ve tried anywhere, i think it was back in 2015.
You had an awesome day to run it though, the lumps were no less than 1 meter High for the first 20-30 meters down. You literally could not run over them. Definitely challenging no matter when and how the slope looks😁
Amazed no-one has put in a cafe stop half way through the tunnel!
That sounds so cool
Yea, like where’s the sinep and bread and if you are lucky a sauasage smh
Thank you for sharing your adventures with us. I can understand the addiction of this sport. I’m too old and crippled for this sport but sure enjoy watching your perspective. Thank you again.
My pleasure 😊
I have been skiing my whole life.
And that looks scary
Question: How does snow get in the tunnel so that it covers the ground all the way through?
Wind?
@@aaronwalker5253 Yeah maybe for the first 20 feet....
Now we know where the Seven Dwarves ended up after getting fired by Disney.
you’re awesome dude, you definitely made it look easy!
Thanks Mariela 🙌
Have never been skiing or snowboarding in my life but this was still a really enjoyable watch thanks
Quarantined at home... was good to "be on the slopes again". Thanks!
Thanks, stay safe 🤙
Watching you go fast while going straight scares me because I did that once and my boards edge got stuck in the snow and all my speed forward went down and I accidentally took it with my wrists which broke them. They essentially folded backwards so the back of my hand touched my forearm. Not nice.
Ouch!
Always have to be on your uphill edge.
Yea I was doing butter spins when caught an edge, shredded 2” of my collarbone into pieces :/ since then haven’t snowboarded, have ptsd lol (6hrs to get to hospital, and a over a year of recovery wasn’t fun). Am thinking of switching to ski’s, much easier on the body and in my opinion much safer than boarding.
Man what a great tunnel ride! Loved the steep drop after it, must be so cool! As a french guy I've never tried it
Excellently chilled commentary! An exemplar in how to make challenging seem like a doddle.
Haha 😆
2:36 on the right, this is the place where you can see the names and pictures of (at least) 2 people who died there few decades ago. It used to be much more dangerous and scarier: for example at 2:46 it is a complete platform and reshape that was built there I think 20 years ago. Before that at the exit there was a deep ice cliff with only a safety net, and it began immediately on the right with a scary steep icy slope 2 meters wide with moguls the size of a man. Now it's kinda piece of cake :)
Yeah I've been here for 9 years and its far more accessible now, can't imagine 20!
Were there last year at this time, did the Sareene run but the last 2 kms was pants for a board!! Tunnel run was closed when we were up there but had a 60 cm dump for the last 2 days so conditions were epic!!
Nice, yeah it's not often the tunnel is open. The bottom part of the sarenne can be a pain to get down for sure!
Wow thanks for the experience never have I snowboard in my life but just watching this video n u r explaining everything about Ur techniques is amazing felt like I was there n the view was beautiful hope to c more
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Awesome, yeah I'll be back next winter with more!
That was quite fun to watch. Made me think back to the first time I went snowboarding and found that perfect circular slope that gave you speed but let you cruise along nicely. Haven’t snowboarded since!
so dope,i cant wait for the new season to come
Me too!
This just looks like a really fun and genuinely challenging run
*I used to snowboard, but ever since my sister's skiing injury my parents have stopped letting us there since. It's been 6 years and now when I look at snowboarding its scary.*
i broke my knee skiing, spent 2 months with my whole leg in a cast getting hella painful injections everyday, but would do it again 100%. It is scary but it's so worth it. it's never too late to start again, don't let the fear get you!
Seeing your shadow, you do a really good job of keeping your knees bent and your upper half crouched down. That is hard to do as a new boarder because it makes your quads tired. So many new snowboarders want to look cool and stand straight up while doing heel side toe side and catch a grove in the snow, sending them flying. You also do a good job of respecting other boarders and skiers around you, giving them space and not flying in between everyone. Other than that, this video reminds me of why I don't board anymore at 44 yrs old; I can't afford to fall like I used to. Ha! Cheers from Austin, Tx, USA~
Malcolm this is absolutely unreal how you have narrative commentary over your run.
This is what I was saying in another of you tutorial exercises to do a talk through the technical aspects whilst you are doing them.
Keep up your great channel, you will grow so fast.
Cheers Craig!
You’re the SUPER GT of snowboarding. This was extremely entertaining to watch and even relaxed me. You have a great voice man, keep it up!
Thankyou very much! 👍
Thank you for taking me someplace I may never have been regardless of the moguls and such love the views stay blessed
Cheers man! 🤙
Thanks for letting an old guy vicariously join you down the slop. Awesome!
Anytime Desmond ✌
*The RUclips algorithm brought us here together*
Thankyou algorithm! Paying my bills right now!
Yoo ph
Cubing Adventures how did we meet here? Hahaha
Funny enough, I think the Y and T perms are my favorite algorithms. 🤔😁
That very beginning drop after you get on tunnel run looks like you could pop off it from an angle. I've never skiied anywhere except in California and I'd LOVE to ski in Europe, Canada, or even Colorado and Montana. The resorts are so much more barren and open compared to the resorts here.
Yeah they have a completely different feel over here for sure!
French Alps are the best. I've been at the very top a peak, exposed to high winds, freezing cold, looking at a huge clump of blue ice forming in a crevice, literally like a glacier forming, feeling so blessed to be alive. You can ski from above the tree line in huge open spaces, sun shining, then down through the trees, alongside fast flowing streams, into a resort and right up to your door. Then hop on a lift and do it all again. The local people are lovely and slightly mad. I've been to Austria and Switzerland, beautiful picture box scenery but I prefer them in the summer, so pretty. Big wide flat bottomed valleys. French alps are higher and more rugged.
@Clarence W hey Clarence, I love Canada. I worked a season at Sun Peaks. I managed to ride kicking horse, revvy, whistler, marmot basin, as well as a few others!
Whenever I went snowboarding I would take so many tumbles that I was bruised up and and down for weeks. Didn't stick with it; tried skiing instead. Regardless, watching this video was nerve-racking. All I could think of was how much it would hurt to take a few falls. Great video nonetheless man
Thanks 🙌
I def wished I learned to board first, skiing is much less difficult skill wise, and easier on the legs. Learning later on was a hassle.
I'm the other way around, tried skiing, took a hell of a beating, tried snowboarding and it was like second nature to me.
I didn't know at the time but I was taking black runs on my first day lol.
At first i was kinda dissapointed by the actual tunnel part, but then the outside snowboarding was beautiful. Very nice video! I´m glad i got this in recommended
Omg I miss this so much, normally we would ski/snowboard in the alpes every year but last year because of corona we couldn't, this makes me so excited to our winter holidays in the alpes this year! Though I can't choose if I should do snowboarding or skiing...
Go snowboarding
This looks like a level on the old snowboarding video game “1080”.
Rob Haywood vs. Deon Blaster
Ready?
GO
Or SSX 3, my daughter always bested my score...
@@Craggius13 'KEN-SOO-KAY KEE-MACH-EE'
That's one of my favourite games ever. Tricky, skillful, looked incredible for the time. Racing the gold boarder on that midnight course...
I would love a reboot. That was one of my favourite games. Had the best snow in any game - the sound and the feel of it was so convincing. Big fluffy drifts, shallow powdery coverage, even runs across sheer ice on glaciers(which I'm guessing snowboarders probably don't do in real life ;) ). And the control system was brilliant - z to crouch down and soften the impact of a jump, as well as to speed up. So simple but so elegant.
looks like an absolutely gorgeous run. would love to give it a crack with a fresh coat of snow
That's when it's best!
1st time I went skiing I got on the wrong lift. Went to the top of the Black. Skied some, slide on ice, scooched on my but alot, got in everyone's way, took way too long, was traumatized and cold by the time I got to the fire pit cabin.
Drank, laughed, slept.
Next day I skied that hill legit. Best time ever.
This video was scary and awesome.
This man "snowed" up in my recommend
Lmao I'm sorry
oh dear...
Don't mind me sliding my comment in here
You don't sound sorry.
i do wonder what speed you got in the run up to the flat! (not many skiers make it so....)
I did try to turn on the gopro GPS but going through the tunnel messed it up!
That's because mediocre skiers are afraid of speed, even if the snow and slope conditions are perfect and you have a nice flat space to break safely, they are still mostly scared of a little speed and they will do break turns (instead of carving, which actually makes you go even faster).
If you are not afraid to gain a little speed (casually - without going for a speed record) you can go 60-80km/h. This run up wasn't too steep imo so my guess would be that 60 (even less) would be enough if you don't break.
The tunnel of doom...!
_Happy Iskall noises_
yeah this run goes STRAIGHT to my bucket list
The french alps are amazing 🇫🇷👌
Agreed! 🤙
Literally the same thing in La Plagne, - they even have colourful lights to make it less boring.
Yep, La Plagne Disco Tunnel is the best. One of my best piste in Alpe d'Huez - Tunnel Piste.
Ahah, I've been in both spots quite a lot, and there's no comparaison, one of them has a tunnel with a tombstone of someone who died on the slope, that is one of the steepest, and on top of the glacier, the other one is a fun slope that is cool but can be skied by any beginner
That was breathtaking, mate! You're just like a Bob Ross with the snowboard :D
Keep up the good work
Haha cheers, I like that analogy!
What a great video. Haven't been skiing for over 18 years, but relived it through this video even though I didn't do black pistes, since I only skied for 3 times! Been to France though. Good times!
Great video just where I left off on my last runs!!!! trying to be more in control on what appears to me to be steep enough slopes. Your vids are constant uninterrupted runs which give me time to see exactly what you're doing in real time . I'm sure I will be doing the torsional twist shuffle on my floor boards this summer😂 Thankyou be safe 😷 👍
Cheers Tonchen!
that was the best asmr i have ever seen.
5:50 they lagged out in real life?
Wtfff
Wth
I love the voiceover, makes it sound way more doable.
As someone who snowboards with my right foot as front foot, watching this feels physically wrong.
Watch it next to a mirror 😂
This video has snowed up in my recommended section!
Thanks RUclips!
I had no idea that this was there! I'll have to check it out next time I go.
Jezz Rose same
Haven’t scrolled too deep into the comments so I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but Alta in Salt Lake City also has a tunnel through the mountain to get to the back side. There was a long history of mining in the canyons there and they put a magic carpet in one of the tunnels to connect the entire mountain. I think they’re so cool