Targhee Skiers, I Have a Question

If you don’t know that terrain super well huck and pray is the name of the game at foghee but the landings are pretty good on all those hits so just give er the meat and try to stomp it

So if you're just skiing Das off of the top of Sac, not hiking up to Toilet Bowl/Wildcat/whatever then yeah, you got the general idea. That cliff band is pretty sustained with several weak points that you can duck through with a little billy goating if you're not looking for a mandatory air. And honestly, most of the "mere mortal" sized hits in there are kind of weird and awkward for the first few laps. The Freeride kids get clean hits in there by basically taking off 10 feet above where I would, and landing 10 feet further down. They gap from above the main traverse because they are animals, with rubber bones. Otherwise, you're figuring out the traverse to whatever your favorite line in there is. I have a go-to hit that I know goes for me in any conditions, but it takes a few laps to figure that out. And a lot of the hits are sort of blind from the top until you're fully committed, so it's useful to scope them before you get down onto the takeoff.

That's all assuming it's reasonably tracked/traversed. If you get lucky and get it when it's deep and fresh, basically anything goes, even for average skiers like myself. I personally prefer upper Das (far skier's right, next to the rope line) on days like that, the hits are a little bigger, with cleaner landings IMO.

But yeah, for me, Das usually looks like this: Ski into the second gate (the first one that you don't have to sidestep up to), carry speed off that mini cornice, slide through three or four steep and deep turns, hit the traverse, traverse about 50 yards, and duck into a little chute to a mando that's maybe five or six feet tall.

The instructor/patrol chutes area has a little cleaner/more straightforward hits IME, but since they're south facing the snow is less consistent, and there's sometimes more sharks in the landings.

cydwhitSo if you're just skiing Das off of the top of Sac, not hiking up to Toilet Bowl/Wildcat/whatever then yeah, you got the general idea. That cliff band is pretty sustained with several weak points that you can duck through with a little billy goating if you're not looking for a mandatory air. And honestly, most of the "mere mortal" sized hits in there are kind of weird and awkward for the first few laps. The Freeride kids get clean hits in there by basically taking off 10 feet above where I would, and landing 10 feet further down. They gap from above the main traverse because they are animals, with rubber bones. Otherwise, you're figuring out the traverse to whatever your favorite line in there is. I have a go-to hit that I know goes for me in any conditions, but it takes a few laps to figure that out. And a lot of the hits are sort of blind from the top until you're fully committed, so it's useful to scope them before you get down onto the takeoff.

That's all assuming it's reasonably tracked/traversed. If you get lucky and get it when it's deep and fresh, basically anything goes, even for average skiers like myself. I personally prefer upper Das (far skier's right, next to the rope line) on days like that, the hits are a little bigger, with cleaner landings IMO.

But yeah, for me, Das usually looks like this: Ski into the second gate (the first one that you don't have to sidestep up to), carry speed off that mini cornice, slide through three or four steep and deep turns, hit the traverse, traverse about 50 yards, and duck into a little chute to a mando that's maybe five or six feet tall.

The instructor/patrol chutes area has a little cleaner/more straightforward hits IME, but since they're south facing the snow is less consistent, and there's sometimes more sharks in the landings.

OK that makes sense. Is the hike to section more obvious when going down?

HypeBeastOK that makes sense. Is the hike to section more obvious when going down?

The hikeable stuff is all skier’s right, up Peaked mountain from the top of Sac, or from the Mary’s saddle on the other end. It’s not always open, so it’s a good call to check in with patrol to get the deets.

This is where me and my friends go, we enter the 2nd gate and go to the left a little. We go off the rock on the left of the picture cause it's easier but the one to the right looks like 8 or 9ft. Also, I have only been to the Das Boat area, I know nothing about the upper areas.

Honestly bro I only know how to ski park so idk

Bro just go fuck around n find out 🥱