THE STEEP GULLIES - Double Black EX Trail at Arapahoe Basin!
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Been a while but it's finally here! The final video for my 2024 Colorado ski trip! Several double black EX trails with the infamous Steep Gullies at the end.
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Dope dude! Never got the chance to hit these before they closed for the season, well done!
Love Abasin. Steep Gullys, Land of the Giants, you did the good stuff!
Sadly the East Wall wasn’t open when I went but I think I still covered a decent amount for two days! Definitely on my list of places I NEED to go back to.
Great videos Henry! You are amazing!
New pfp wow
cover looked sketchy to me. I got the feeling there's normally fewer of those smaller rocks peeking through.
is a double black EX just a triple black essentially?
Essentially. It's more like a regulated rating. Colorado law says any trail meeting a certain steepness and difficulty requirement NEEDS to be represented with DB EX. Here's what the law says:
"A new category, "extreme terrain," will be designated with a double black diamond containing the letters "EX." Terrain that drops steeply, such as a cliff, will no longer be marked with a "danger" sign and instead will be marked with the new sign including the "EX" designation. Extreme terrain is defined in the bill as any place within a ski area boundary with a cliff that drops more than 20 feet along a 15-foot run and a slope with a minimum 50-degree average pitch."
I'm assuming it was changed in some way but that's the general difficulty of a DB EX trail.
Some Colorado resorts have both a regular double diamond and EX double diamond rating, some just have EX. Just depends if they want their standard for double diamond to be below or equal to the state's requirement. A-Basin only has the EX one.