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what is the biggest cliff you have dropped

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123ski
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what is the biggest cliff that you have dropped, mine is 50 feet!!!



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Dec 9 2001 5:22PM
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Evilchris
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holy shit that looks terrifying
Oct 31 2011 7:29PM
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A_Thomas
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mine was like 10 or 20 feet


Oct 31 2011 7:38PM
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afterbang_me
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A_Thomas you got the hollywood rock at Alpine off Scott's too didnt you?
Oct 31 2011 8:07PM
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Skiingsnow
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i dont get your logic, heres an extreme example, Seth Morrison comes to a cliff, roughly 20 feet, its on a 50 degree slope, he sends it and lands 90 feet down. would u say he dropped a 20fter or a 90fter?
Oct 31 2011 8:09PM
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PANDA_SWAGGA
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like 35-40 feet out in steamboat. was insanely sick.
Oct 31 2011 8:23PM
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smeeze
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8 footer at Chesnut Mountain. (Illinois) Thats about the max, anything bigger you have to try to hide from the ski patrol or they rope it off.
Oct 31 2011 8:42PM
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prophet
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thats the scariest part, getting around that corner, and its a scary looking corner. the drops like a 15 into a 30 maybe... not that bad.
Oct 31 2011 10:02PM
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andstuff
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Why? Because I'm making a nuanced point?

I'd say he dropped a 20 ft. cliff and took it 90 ft.

The size of the CLIFF refers to the size of the CLIFF. The size of the DROP refers to the size of the DROP. This is not a difficult concept.

You don't come speeding into a 5 ft cliff and send it 50ft downhill while hovering a max height of 5 ft off the ground the whole time, then go around claiming you dropped a "50 ft cliff." That's ridiculous and annoyingly, a lot of people do this.
Nov 1 2011 12:47AM
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snomaster
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I've seen a handful or more of non-pros go 60+. Welcome to Jackson Hole.
proof: action jackson, poor man's riches, wyoming triumph...
Nov 1 2011 7:57AM
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EC-Skier
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i woulda said that was bigger, that was sick
Nov 1 2011 8:37AM
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Skiingsnow
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yeah ok i see what you mean in your above post but you were not clear before, see when i read your previous post (quoted) its kinda contridictory so it made little sense. but yea i pretty much agree with you, i would say that kid sent a 20 ft cliff like 40ft
Nov 1 2011 9:02AM
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Skiingsnow
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also if you would like to see more pros drop 60ft plus cliffs watch just about any ski movie
Nov 1 2011 9:05AM
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Iskieast
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Nice! I never thought of doing this... thanks for putting this together. And not to mention the only reason the rock is 15ft is because its buried in a 15 foot base last year
Nov 1 2011 10:14AM
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EC-Skier
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do you have a video of this? i really want to see this being dropped! this looks insane!
Nov 1 2011 10:43AM
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J.D.
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Just get to peak chair early on a pow day and you'll see it get hit plenty. Like Josh says a double stager of about 15 to 35 depending on the snow. The biggest downfall people have on that thing is trying to get a turn in before the 2nd stage of it.
Nov 1 2011 10:49AM
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EC-Skier
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im in maine haha. and where is this?
Nov 1 2011 11:35AM
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ankhou
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This video has a bunch of big hits and bails.
Nov 1 2011 12:21PM
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COboarder13
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Last year I got to about 6 feet but this year I'm doing a lot higher
Nov 1 2011 2:02PM
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EC-Skier
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some of those were pretty big, that picture made it look a lot more intense for some reason. I actually want to go there and see it, and see if i would drop it, cause it doesn't look that big, and the landing looks nice. But it's a video, i want to see if i would actually hit it. It's so much ballsier to hit that on a snowboard! thats insane
Nov 2 2011 10:38AM
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andstuff
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Haha well no shit. Jackson locals kill it harder than pros; that's a given.
Nov 2 2011 1:05PM
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andstuff
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So now we're measuring cliffs based on how big they are when you aren't hitting them?
Nov 2 2011 1:06PM
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prophet
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That's the thing about Jordan, it's a Shoshone hit and the approach is scary. You just have to be ready to stomp the piss out of it... And then rip right into third step and boost that... Perfect trick platform. Kinda makes me miss Whistler just thinking about it. Ha
Nov 2 2011 1:27PM
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ankhou
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The picture is taken with a much wider-angle lens which stretches out the perspective significantly, making it look bigger. Plus it's a given that cliffs are always a lot more intimidating when you're standing at the top of them.
Nov 2 2011 1:29PM
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prophet
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That was an odd iPod autospell... Shshone = showtime.
Nov 2 2011 1:30PM
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Dr_Feelgood
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i did a 35 footer on dragons teeth in vail 2 winters ago. before that was 20 or so, tough to find large cliffs on the east coast. or, tough to have enough snow to survive them.
Nov 2 2011 3:55PM
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