I don’t think aspen would be one of the best ski resorts in the world if that was one of the harder double blacks, there are also some very steep double blacks like the Hanging Valley head wall, it is also a very long run
Mainly for its length, but it's definitely overrated for challenge. Snowmass has some really gnarly stuff in its Cirque Headwall and Hanging Valley zones that are more fitting of the rating.
@@arjunski is correct about the length, but compounding that, there are no opportunities to exit or cut onto groomed runs or switchback roads for exhausted skiers, as opposed to every other run coming off of Sam's Knob, some of them even steeper than the Powderhorn, but safer because of the options that skiers have if it gets too much for them. It was originally rated either a blue or black, but got upgraded roughly 30 years ago to a double-black, likely from exhausted skiers getting hurt.
The bottom 2/3 of that tends to be something of a mogul hell. It looks like you did not get enough speed up for that final schuss.
More turns more control
Sorry, but if that's a double-black than every run off the KT-22 chair at Palisades Tahoe is triple-black.
It’s the easiest double black on snowmass, thank you
I don’t think aspen would be one of the best ski resorts in the world if that was one of the harder double blacks, there are also some very steep double blacks like the Hanging Valley head wall, it is also a very long run
Years ago it was only rated single black. Then they up-rated it for some incomprehensible reason.
how tf is that a double black? this would be ranked a blue in BC canada lmfao
Mainly for its length, but it's definitely overrated for challenge. Snowmass has some really gnarly stuff in its Cirque Headwall and Hanging Valley zones that are more fitting of the rating.
@@arjunski is correct about the length, but compounding that, there are no opportunities to exit or cut onto groomed runs or switchback roads for exhausted skiers, as opposed to every other run coming off of Sam's Knob, some of them even steeper than the Powderhorn, but safer because of the options that skiers have if it gets too much for them. It was originally rated either a blue or black, but got upgraded roughly 30 years ago to a double-black, likely from exhausted skiers getting hurt.