Click here to watch video of hanging up top of Superior.
These kind of photos come by way of the pink light, the first 5 minutes when the sun comes up. This one really shows that light well. Location: Alta backcountry
Photo: Adam Barker
Yesterday morning. Hop out of bed at 3:30am, get your shit together, eat your oatmeal, start hiking at 4:30am, on top, sitting pretty, when the sun rises.
So energizing when the sun hits. We had an unexpected wind hit us on the ridgeline, so the sun was a very welcome guest!
Bathe in it.
Lighting up Superior nicely. And Red Baldy in the background.
I like it.
Back to hiking. We had a nice moon shining on us before the sun came up.
Oh yeah, up top. We had a thick posse of all-time shredders in our group.
It was Sage, Adam Clark, Dave McReynolds, Jason Prigge, and myself.
Bout to drop……
The feeling you carry with you the rest of your day after tackling a mountain like this is amazing. You get down from the mountain before 8:30 am, when everyone else is just showing up to ski Alta/Snowbird. I’ve had plenty of days skiing the resort, lap after lap, loving it, but hiking up, one step at a time in the dark, and just being up there with just you and your buddies, looking down in all directions from the top of the world….. total radness.
I had the pleasure of getting to know CR the last couple years via Discrete. I am so happy I had that opportunity. He was an amazing person, skier, and inspiration. RIP CR.
Here’s the set up, skake your face as hard as you can, and have a photographer snap away. Wallah. A timeless shot. Ha!
Photo: Barker
My first time through this line, a really fun couple turns to straightline. I hope to get this line again with good snow, take it a little faster.
PS…please don’t laugh at my “aahhhhhhhhhh” at the end of my line. Really embarrassing.
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The Gargoyle’s are located just south of the East end of Alta’s ski resort. You can take the Supreme chair and head straight south from there and you’ll run into them in the backcountry. Or you can snowmobile up from Heber.
I had a fun line, an air into a straightline. Filming for TGR.
Me happy. Gargoyle’s rule!
Todd Ligare dropping into a couple turns, then off an air, landing inbetween some rocks you can’t see - sweet line.
Then we got homobiled out of the zone by Pete O, here’s Rachael getting the treatment…
