Most extreme line ever, or media hype?

Personally my vote for one of the most extreme lines ever ridden is the group that skied the variation of Thermogenesis, i think called Cyrogenesis, off of Liberty Ridge.

Yow - I'd missed that news. Intimidating place to be.

TR: county5.blogspot.com/2012/06/liberty-ridge.html
Video:
Lowell's compendium: www.alpenglow.org/ski-history/topos/mt-rainier.html

I think Cody's line is billed as "The Red Bull 2014 line of the year". As a marketing device for Red Bull it is excellent. I just hope that the numbers of young folks stoked by such visuals that get mamed as a result is few.

Certainly impressive.

One of the things that's easy to miss is the fact that he was able to scrub speed on the upper part of the descent by smearing on the skier's left side of the slot. During that time, he was going fast, but I think he was actually in pretty good ski-control.

It was only in the lower part of the slot that he was forced to run straight. Still, very impressive.

Viewed through old-school eyes, it really shows the benefit of fat, rockered skis. You can't smear like that in soft snow on narrow skis.

Certainly impressive.

One of the things that's easy to miss is the fact that he was able to scrub speed on the upper part of the descent by smearing on the skier's left side of the slot. During that time, he was going fast, but I think he was actually in pretty good ski-control.

It was only in the lower part of the slot that he was forced to run straight. Still, very impressive.

Viewed through old-school eyes, it really shows the benefit of fat, rockered skis. You can't smear like that in soft snow on narrow skis.

This is exactly what I thought, you are not pulling that shit off w/o fat rockered skis. What made it even more obvious was that I had just recently watched Steep and McConkey. No lands jumps back in the 80s and 90s due to skinny skis. They were just too twitchy.

Now surely it was a ballsy ski. Woohoo!

Kinda of funny all the hype around Cody doing it when T. Rice did it before him, check out the interview between the two;

snowboarding.transworld.net/news/travis-...ode-line-year-first/