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safarisamThoughts? I'm about to start it & I'm beyond hyped!!!
InspiredMediawhat did you think?
https://video.grindnetworks.com/library/videos/58100771e3d4019c772dccc1
SessionAbout halfway through. I can't stand your media player. But the skiing is sick. Music is great. Editing is good.
I'm just wondering how many kids I will see skiing with their coat open, and no goggles now. On a pow day.
grilled_cheeseI wonder if Tanner Hall's brain cell ever gets lonely. Sick movie though, haven't seen one like this in awhile
ozzywrongYou sir are a fuckwit.. Tanner is the man and he is actually quite a smart man in his own unique ways.. Go play in traffic..
Sick movie word up to John Spriggs my old team captain and all round legend he killed it so hard R.I.P Batalla
ozzywrongYou sir are a fuckwit.. Tanner is the man and he is actually quite a smart man in his own unique ways.. Go play in traffic..
Sick movie word up to John Spriggs my old team captain and all round legend he killed it so hard R.I.P Batalla
SessionWhich leads me to something I need to ask. What will it take for Spriggs to get on some ski brand other than some fuckwit 2 seasons and done brand?
RosbifLiked it! Only bit that was a bit off was when they decided it was a good idea to randomly switch it black and white and ramp the contrast.
wricksWatched the whole thing yesterday. TBH it was a little underwhelming. Spriggs was the highlight for sure and the big mountain stuff was really good. But overall, the filming/editing was pretty low quality and there were way too many shots of Tanner doing pretty basic stuff in the trees without a lot of wow factor. Got very repetitive after a while. Also, Tanner has smoked himself retarded. Jesus Christ, he looks and sounds like a homeless person at this point.
wricksWatched the whole thing yesterday. TBH it was a little underwhelming. Spriggs was the highlight for sure and the big mountain stuff was really good. But overall, the filming/editing was pretty low quality and there were way too many shots of Tanner doing pretty basic stuff in the trees without a lot of wow factor. Got very repetitive after a while. Also, Tanner has smoked himself retarded. Jesus Christ, he looks and sounds like a homeless person at this point.
PachankzKids spent .
CT_CREWHad to log in to call out wricks and pachanks for being fuckboyz. Did you miss things like tanner skiing massive alaskan faces, triggering avalanches, and then blasting through them with no fucks given?
.frenchydamn, hater much? let me know when you're doing all that at the age of 33 after breaking both your ankles and legs on separate occasions. He killed it.
CT_CREWHad to log in to call out wricks and pachanks for being fuckboyz. Did you miss things like tanner skiing massive alaskan faces, triggering avalanches, and then blasting through them with no fucks given?
PachankzI can watch countless skiers these days do the same and do it better without the jafaikan wigger acting.
californiagrownReally? Who?
PachankzI can watch countless skiers these days do the same and do it better without the jafaikan wigger acting.
CT_CREWtriggering avalanches
cydwhitYeah.... And this is a good thing?
Huge Tanner fan, and I understand why you guys loved this, but my goat was not got. Honestly it made me feel a little sad.
VinnieFand here I was thinking slides in AK weren't very common due to the snow being constantly cold.
the skiing was unbelievable. Cohen absolutely slays AK. I really liked it, definitely reminded me of older ski movies.
casualIf avalanches don't happen when it's constantly cold, why is the colorado snow pack and Continental packs in general so notoriously fragile? I would go the complete opposite way and say that generally warmer zones where the snow falls closer to 32 are less likely to slide (pnw).
I don't know that AK is less prone to avalanches or if the moisture content and nature of the precip itself makes snow cling to faces that otherwise wouldn't hold snow, again like colorado where the steepest faces don't hold snow.
Do you have any sources or good articles about AK snowpacks and overall trends? I'm curious to learn more.
Anecdotally, AK had more avalanches deaths this past year than colorado. Not that a single year proves a damn thing, but I'd have to imagine there's a hell of a lot more people skiing colorado (even out of bounds) than in AK. If i70 traffic and loveland pass and Berthoud pass on a Saturday are any indication.
To your point though, I was surprised by that segment too. Wonder if those shots were from the same day or same cycle. Seemed like the same day but could've just been how it was edited. If it was the same day...
All aside, liked the movie a lot, bigups to tanner and iberg.
californiagrownIt's higher moisture content snow that spackled to the super steep faces in AK. there are more deaths per slide in AK probably because the size and steepness are greater than anywhere. Also probly has a lot to do with the accepted level of risk for the i70 weekend warriors vs the AK slenecks and other AK folk.
casualI agree with the moisture content piece for sure, but historically or even just over a ten year average, colorado has 2 x the avy deaths annually that AK has (or just under 2x, I think 6.2 co, vs 3.6 AK per dale Atkins), but I think that has to do with raw numbers of people in colorado.
I wonder about your last point though. I would guess (a true guess) that your average person skiing out of bounds in AK is better educated, and more experienced than the same in colorado. Then again, I live on the i70 corridor so, my opinion is probably based on the least capable and knowledgeable people here, might be pretty damn different elsewhere in co. With that, I would expect the dummies would be more ignorant to risks and would take more risks as a result.
Interesting stuff.
Sorry for thread derail, ring the alarm was sick. Ligare is a beast, tanner impressed the hell out of me, and spriggs is like jason vorhees, every time it seems like he's gone, he's right back.
casualIf avalanches don't happen when it's constantly cold, why is the colorado snow pack and Continental packs in general so notoriously fragile? I would go the complete opposite way and say that generally warmer zones where the snow falls closer to 32 are less likely to slide (pnw).
I don't know that AK is less prone to avalanches or if the moisture content and nature of the precip itself makes snow cling to faces that otherwise wouldn't hold snow, again like colorado where the steepest faces don't hold snow.
Do you have any sources or good articles about AK snowpacks and overall trends? I'm curious to learn more.
Anecdotally, AK had more avalanches deaths this past year than colorado. Not that a single year proves a damn thing, but I'd have to imagine there's a hell of a lot more people skiing colorado (even out of bounds) than in AK. If i70 traffic and loveland pass and Berthoud pass on a Saturday are any indication.
To your point though, I was surprised by that segment too. Wonder if those shots were from the same day or same cycle. Seemed like the same day but could've just been how it was edited. If it was the same day...
All aside, liked the movie a lot, bigups to tanner and iberg.
PachankzYour grandmother
VinnieFThis isn't a good source at all, I'm sure there's a better one somewhere.
But the point it makes near the end is that for similar terrain AK is much safer than anywhere else. Like the guy says, the safe terrain you ski on a high risk day is way more steep then the safe terrain you'd ski elsewhere.
I have no idea why this is, but I thought it was because you don't get big temperature and humidity changes that causes hoar frost layers and such.
It is quite.interesting.
I'd love to ski AK. And it seems like the terrain I'd be comfortable skiing wouldn't be nearly.as risky as elsewhere. (I'd shit myself skiing some of those lines in the movie)
https://www.google.ca/url?q=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-gladwell/avalanches-in-paradise-an_b_7156376.html&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjG-Y2yjP7PAhWj8oMKHS9nBMUQFggTMAM&sig2=6Y6iiZ1LlZR-L4sWFpK5qA&usg=AFQjCNFGb1fcUmRYz4F2W2Ww3B-VOI8X9g
