The FIFTY - Line 6/50. - Aemmer Couloir - Skiing the Frozen Canadian Rockies
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- A last minute decision to go to a place not known for mid-winter steep skiing descents takes the crew to the Rocky Mountains of Canada. Yet just getting there is half the battle with sketchy highways, early cold mornings and a 13km walk just to get to the base of the infamously beautiful Aemmer Couloir in Banff National Park. Starring Chris Rubens, Kevin Hjertaas, Bjarne Salen and Cody Townsend
This is line 6 completed of The FIFTY, a project following Cody Townsend as he attempts to climb and ski all fifty of the lines and mountains chronicled in the book, "The 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America." The series documents Townsend's journey's, travels, challenges and each line and mountain listed in the book. It's a journey through the most majestic mountains and ski lines in North America along with a unique insight into how skiers make decisions in the backcountry, how they plan, navigate and safely move through the mountains and the people that dedicate their lives to the mountains.
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Great edit boys! Thanks for letting me be a part of it.
Hello to Kevin from Kevin ;)
Ahh yes, another awesome Couloir. The fifties is quickly becoming one of my fav series on YT, it shows the climbing, the skiing and also the emotion behind it! Really super cool!
Why thank you!
Super sweet line. Your point about truckers driving too fast for the conditions is the part of my trips that sketch me out, not the climb and ski.
I really love the “tour” component… keeping it real but also showing us what’s possible! Great ski fellas!
6:42 makes me feel better. shows that even the pros look like punters every now and again haha! awesome episode - love it!
Best part of my Wednesday mornings. This series is going to keep me going during the off season.
Why thank you. Happy to help you keep going.
Honestly I would love if you guys made these videos longer cuz I wanna see more of the trip! Really love this series. The fact you are videotaping up the mountain is so cool
Best part is going back and watching all these episodes! The best!
What a way to started this new video!!! Thanks for showing real life situation and remind ALL THOSE IDIOTS driving full gas on snowed roads putting others, entire families at risk!!! Great job. Thank you guys!!!!!!! Cheers from Maui!
Truckers are out of control in Rogers... seems way worse than 10-15 years ago.
Awesome man! We were a couple kilometers up the road on the Grand Daddy Couloir that day and had near perfect conditions. We were talking about the Aemmer while driving back and staring at it, and then I open up instagram to see you your post from up there. Looks like you guys had an amazing day too!
I started watching this series a year ago, now I’m going back and watching them in order from the beginning! So amazing Cody.
I just have to say that this series is fantastic Cody. Big fan and currently healing a torn ligament in the knee. This keeps me dreaming.
Aemmer in winter with knee/waist deep pow is Ullr's positive payback for the standard Rogers Pass gongshow of unchained flatland truckers passing each in whiteouts like at 1:06. Nicely done - but now that is expected.
The cinematography, the music (more so the ominous driving music ) is rad af. Solid solid stuff.
Man what a beautiful place. I'm loving watching these adventures!
cody, i hope you keep at it for years to come. you have an energy that you give off that gets me fired up to be in the mountains. keep the stoke alive!
“Living in the moment” that’s what it’s about fellas! This series is awesome and looks so hard to pull off! I’ve never seen video that shows realistically how steep things are for you guys. It shows!!
This is sick! Temple is super popular in the summer, but I had never heard of the Aemmer Couloir
Unfortunately a Saskatchewan man just passed after being hit by a sluff while cramponing his way up
So awesome guys ! Keep crankin!!
I'm scoping that couloir every time I ski Lake, such a glory run!
So cool.....just keeps getting better!
Can you guys go into more detail about your decision process in avalanche terrain? Not that I'm criticizing your decision, but I would have said that that layer you set off in that mini-pit you dug had "energy." When digging a pit, what are your personal go/no go signs?
yeah would be very interesting!
While I would love to go into detail on every decision, the why behind it and everything, it would start to border on instructional and that's something I'm not qualified or comfortable doing. What may be a good decision for myself and our crew, might not be the right decision for someone else. Documenting the reality of what we do is the goal essentially. For us, we felt like that wind skin didn't have energy even if the shot jumped out to you as having energy, plus we felt it was mitigable unless it got worse, but it got better. Personal go/no go signs are hard to translate because they're often so personal and have so many complex features to them. It's why they don't teach you often in Avalanche Education course what to do when you get X result from a pit...unless they're extreme on either side.
@@CodyTownsend Thanks for the reply, and fair enough. I certainly understand why you wouldn't want to start your own guide school in a youtube comment section...
I am obviously missing a lot of context, but from that three second shot of the pit you dug, it looked like there was a storm/wind slab that would have propagated and slid if you were in high angle terrain and hit it on skis. Again, I don't want to armchair avalanche expert this (not that I'm an expert on avalanches or anything else for that matter...) but it seems like we saw the same pit and drew different conclusions. I'm just trying to understand what you saw.
I feel like a good bit of the conversation around snow safety nowadays comes down to something along the lines of "well, different people are just comfortable with different amounts of risk" when in my experience, different people seem to have vastly different conceptions of what could happen given their observations of the snowpack rather than vastly different risk tolerances. One person's "pretty bomber snowpack" might be another person's "super sketch conditions," which would lead them to different decisions even if they both really valued coming home at the end of the day (rather than nailing a big line or getting the shot, say).
Sorry to go off on all of this, it's just something that I and probably a lot of other skiers are fairly invested in understanding. Stoked on the project and all the videos! Thanks for sharing, and good luck on the rest of the lines.
@@RKRomani This is a valid comment BUT you are arguing observations from a short video clip without any context of what they were seeing out there all day especially changes as they ascend.
They use Airbag in this Couloir? I dont see any ABS or similar and will be great to know why; i understand is more weight in this long day but..
Staying home ill today had its benefits... like this video.
Fist Pump Couloir on Fist Pump Peak
Awesome climb
Gotta Have More Fist Pumps!!!!
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Great Cody! So good to follow you guys. Tough stuff you'r pulling. Stay alive.
Another awesome episode!! So badass!!!! You guys are going to have great spring conditions on all of the Colorado lines as well as Mt. Tuk in the La Sals, there is so much snow around here.
That looked like a perfect run, snow looked beautiful. Thanks for sharing your adventure. Take care be safe
probably my favorite episode yet! the line and snow looked awesome.
Really get a sense of the steepness on this one.
These early ones are so good
The shot panning up at 4:15. 🤯
Thanks Cody. Making the descent look easy as usual. No way to make that climb look easy though.
Love these videos
This might be my favorite episode
Killer line, looks so fun
thats a super run, nice snow
What dreams are made of!!
You are shredding the shit out of these lines! Loving the short vids
Love the format of these videos.
I stared at that line for two years as a louise employee. Pretty envious of that achievement.
i love Theo, hes very cute
love the series as well.
I love Banff 💗
You guys are awesome
This is rad! Can't wait to ski lines like this with my kiddos.
Favorite episode yet! You should see that place in the summer. One of my favourite hikes in Banff National Park ( Paradise Valley😉).
You should see that place on LSD haha
looks a bit like Liatach in Scotland Beautiful a real wilderness
Cool.. I didn't know you were a racer. Me too.
Yesss! did you feel the magic?
Of course!
Mount temple is my favorite mountain :) I don’t ski though. I just get to the summit during the summer months
another great adventure....watching some 2,3 x....and yes the truck drivers do drive like maniac's...
Fierce puppy!
Great edit boys!
Theo!
Cody I drive Highway 97 in northern BC to go skiing that highway is dangerous
Sweet
living in the moment >
"Living in the moment" You Bet!
wow. that looked steep.
That dog tho 😏
Theo's the Man!
4:20 is like a scene from GoT. The Rockies scare the shit out of me
You have only 2 more of the 50 left? Will you be able to get the entire thing done this season? Best of luck - they are fun to watch!
Oh hell no, we got 44 after this one to go
Can you please describe the technique you are using to sample and take a small cross section of snow? What are you looking for? Indicate avalanche risk? Thank you!
Theo
👏👍
Do you have a go fast camper?
Yup. Love it.
getting there is half the battle
5:52 +200 points
that windslab looks a bit hairy....
is the dog left in the SUV alone or is there a base camp safety guy/gal?
I think he stays at the hotel....he would be dead in the truck. I travel with mine, stays at the hotel if for a few hours, local kennel if longer.
I’m in self-isolation since I just came back from St Anton. Watching ski videos to make up for it.
The truckers are absolute savages on that highway. But I love skiing too much to not drive it.
0:45
Somebody had to have died in that car. Crushed like a beetle by a careless shithead trucker, who I hope is now languishing in prison for vehicular homicide.