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14 years 8 months ago #200471
by davidG
Well, all mtn, don't know that i'd call it a great post, but it was a cool find.. Makes me think that, for someone with the patience for it (or stumblers luck, like me), it could be fun to find and frame more 'ephemeral' tracks taken from space. I should think that the volcanoes would be good candidates for this. dg
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-thats pretty sweet. as David Waag says in his OR descents guidebk, the tracks we leave are some of the most ephemeral things. I would like to mention the slope kinda resembles a convex slide path. great post
Well, all mtn, don't know that i'd call it a great post, but it was a cool find.. Makes me think that, for someone with the patience for it (or stumblers luck, like me), it could be fun to find and frame more 'ephemeral' tracks taken from space. I should think that the volcanoes would be good candidates for this. dg
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14 years 8 months ago #200481
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David I think you are confusing gunsight with the nipple as it is sometimes referred to. Gunsight is at the very bottom right of the foto by the Google icon and you can only see a very small part of the south east tip.
Starting from the pin point of hogback bowl proper as you follow the ridge left from the bowl you come to what is sometimes referred to as the north bowl and then as the ridge meanders south you have the east face and then where you have the first red line, which I think you think is gunsight it is often called the nipple or the tit, because of how it looks from the skiers perspective. Following the cordillera's ridge you come to the next bowl which is often used as an ascent and then come to the south ridge with another red line which faces a fair degree north and it is often called the north face of the south ridge.
I haven't heard too many names proper for all the lines except of course gunsight which gets its name from viewing it from behind at the top of hogback peak as it is visually a perfect rear gunsight. Over the past 15 years I have skied every line on that cordillera and if you ever wanted to know which ones I keep coming back to shoot me a pm although I think you may have been skiing back there way longer than me.
Starting from the pin point of hogback bowl proper as you follow the ridge left from the bowl you come to what is sometimes referred to as the north bowl and then as the ridge meanders south you have the east face and then where you have the first red line, which I think you think is gunsight it is often called the nipple or the tit, because of how it looks from the skiers perspective. Following the cordillera's ridge you come to the next bowl which is often used as an ascent and then come to the south ridge with another red line which faces a fair degree north and it is often called the north face of the south ridge.
I haven't heard too many names proper for all the lines except of course gunsight which gets its name from viewing it from behind at the top of hogback peak as it is visually a perfect rear gunsight. Over the past 15 years I have skied every line on that cordillera and if you ever wanted to know which ones I keep coming back to shoot me a pm although I think you may have been skiing back there way longer than me.
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14 years 8 months ago #200483
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Hey, thanks Phil! Very educational. I did indeed have Gunsight confused with the nipple (as must others since that is what I was told years ago - and others have called it, here). I do believe, though, that you are the owner of that place - from your TRs to our PMs some months back, I fully expect, perhaps a north facing line, to be called Filbos Heaven..
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14 years 8 months ago #200500
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Yep, that's right above Miriam Lake. Forgot to mention that a few years back I was talking with Spike Maher and asked him if he'd ever heard of another name for Gunsight and he told me he wasn't positive, but thought it might have been called Black Butte or Blackie's Butte.
Also a very popular and common name for a run which is below Hogback if you are hiking up to it from the ridgeline before the new chairs is First Bowl which is a really fun ski down to Miriam Lake and is now accessable with just a ride up chair 6 and a off piste traverse after unloading skiers left.
We also call the bergshrund on Gunsight The Horn.
If ever there was a naming of any run back there for posterity I would call it Spike's after one of the greatest guys you could ever hope to have had the fortune to meet. He is sorely missed at white pass.
Also a very popular and common name for a run which is below Hogback if you are hiking up to it from the ridgeline before the new chairs is First Bowl which is a really fun ski down to Miriam Lake and is now accessable with just a ride up chair 6 and a off piste traverse after unloading skiers left.
We also call the bergshrund on Gunsight The Horn.
If ever there was a naming of any run back there for posterity I would call it Spike's after one of the greatest guys you could ever hope to have had the fortune to meet. He is sorely missed at white pass.
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