Snowbird High Baldy Traverse Guide (Every named run)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มี.ค. 2021
- Snowbird's High Baldy Traverse offers some of Snowbird's best terrain, steep, trees, narrows, jumps. This is where you may find powder days after storm. The challenge is that the runs are not marked and can be hard to find. If you wonder off trails, it is pretty easy to get lost or get cliffed out. We made this guide to show you the ins and outs of this area, where to find each runs, what they look like and many of other recommendations.
This guide should help you enjoy snowbird even more, especially their legendary terrain.
Father and son skiing powder at Snowbird--what could be better!? Thanks for the fantastic videos, your family is awesome!
Thank you for the kind words. Definitely a lot of great memory at Snowbird this year.
Just rewatched this today cuz youtube sent it to me. Where are you guys? (1.15.2023) hope to see you soon on YT.
This is a great video. Thank you for making this and more aware of the terrain at snowbird! Keep it going!
Great to see you guys living it up again 🎿 ❄
Super helpful, especially regarding getting between Alta and Snowbird.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome work! Love this one!
Thank you! Glad you enjoy it.
Another awesome video. Thanks
Fantastic video!
This is awesome. Sick shredding
Dude you guys are rad. shredding Baldy
Thanks!
Great skiing father son, your son will be so good in 5 years. Only comment is that center of gravity is actually a chute that you can find to the right of the open field right where you dropped in. Youll know your there because there is a rope above the chute and you need to take about a 5 foot hop to get in. Best line at Snowbird, if I ever see you up there Ill take you!
Sorry for late response and you are absolutely right we missed the center of gravity chute. Will post that in the future
I live in Provo currently and Snowbird and Alta are my favorite resorts to ski! I have never really skied the High Baldy area, but I will one day. One area I did ski last time was the double blacks in the Thunder Bowl area and the Exit Gully off the Gad II lift and that was pretty intense. You should do videos of Great Scott and other runs off the Cirque, Mineral Basin, and the Tiger Tail/Thunder Bowl area that I was talking about. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! I am working on editing an video of all runs off cirque traverse that includes great Scott, should come in 2 weeks. Don’t plan to do mineral basin because it is easy to find the trails and easy to ski. We love thunderbowl area, has some steeps and very spicy traverse if you go past thunderbowl. Unfortunately don’t have enough footage to make a guide, that area does open often enough... something for future.
Love this!
Glad you like it!
Nice video! Pleased to see a father son ski day. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video , the best way to bond with your children .
bond? hmmmm
Making these vids may be a good way for them to bond. Also a great way to get yourself cliffed out, following this video. If you get off track for a single second, you could end up in a completely different spot than the ones they show in this video. Baldy is some of the most complex, technical, and blind (steep with trees low to the ground) terrain you can find at Snowbird. Posting this video for the masses is unwise, IMO.
Awesome thanks!
You are welcome!
what is the "generational stuff" going on there?
is alta and snowbird your home resort?
We actually live in Massachusetts. Used to travel to ski Alta and Snowbird. This winter we are staying at SLC so skied Alta Bird a lot. Technically they are our home resorts this winter
@@TheBlacktulips Cool!
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Thank you for your support. recently learn that the 杠精 was just a immature high schooler. won't bother responding him going forward
This is an absolutely amazing way to instill a sort of false confidence in the mind of someone who is not prepared for the terrain they'll face on Baldy. Fun video concept but I think it's dangerous to encourage people to go out and explore in such complex and cliffy zones. Also you're taking the fun out of skiing in zones accessed via gates! Can I suggest/request that maybe you just show footage of once you've dropped into a zone/named run? You can always just throw a lower-third title over some footage of a run without showing the step-by-step on how to get there. I'm sure you love fresh powder just as much as anyone else, and this step by step instruction is what leads to the destruction and "beating" of runs and full zones. Why would you so heavily publicize such a revered and beloved area? It makes me sad tbh. If you understand at all where I'm coming from when I say these things: please, show a little bit of discretion and allow people to explore on their own, instead of telling them EXACTLY where to go.
Appreciate you taking the time to leave the feedback, but I respectfully disagree. Sharing the information can only help people to decide whether they are ready for the terrain or not, and having step by step instructions can prevent people from getting lost or getting into trouble, as you said this is a complex and cliffhanger zone. This is exactly the reason having more information about this area is important.
Also, I believe the mountain belongs to everybody, not just part of the people in the know. I always appreciate locals show me the way and I always enjoy helping strangers when they get lost in the mountains. Do these lead to some ski runs tracked out faster? Probably. Is this a bad thing? No! For the skiing/boarding community as a whole, we are not worse off because equal or more people get to enjoy the runs. We can not just take the perspective from part of the community. I am sure you’ve been helped from friends, guides or strangers to find new places in the mountain. Are you saying they are all wrong in helping you because it led to these places getting tracked out faster?
@@TheBlacktulips First off, I've definitely been shown places by friends and family, as well as some pro skiers that I've shot for. The difference between a close friend or an experienced skier showing me around in-person (or telling me through private messages/DM) and you giving step-by-step instructions in a youtube video is the exact concept I brought up in my first comment: Discretion. When I'm shown a secret (or just plain epic) run in-bounds, or taken to a backcountry zone that I was not aware of before, I'll absolutely show other friends or trusted skiers. I'll probably post photos/video of it too. But I don't blast the name out to the public. I don't publicly show the step-by-step of how I got there. Neither do those people that show/tell me about these places. That trust that can be gained by spending time with someone on the hill, or just by pure acquaintance and shared interests is a very strong factor that is taken into consideration when someone shows me something new. Same with when I show someone else something new. I post to inspire and to get people hyped to go ski, but I do it in a way that emphasizes exploration, deep-research, and an always expanding knowledge of the mountain. Your method of "showing people the way" is more like a blatant disregard of the trust that those locals who showed you around in the first place put in you.
Have you ever heard of The Daily Pow? They are kind of similar to your channel, in that they put the names of runs over clips often, and allow people a bit more context as to where to find different types of skiing. The difference between you and them is the level of specificity that you dive into. You treat your channel as if you're a tour guide/influencer and (inferring this from your content) you treat the mountain as if it's this disneyland-type attraction where everyone deserves to know every corner of the ski area. That's not how it should work. Snowbird is not Disneyland. High baldy is not California Adventures. I wish I grew up 40 years earlier than I did, before everyone felt like they were entitled to every single piece of information about a resort (and even backcountry zones) without even having been at that resort before. You're contributing to the massive commercialization of the resort industry, and in the process killing the creative, exploratory, and knowledgeable drive for anyone who hasn't been on High Baldy before but sees this video. Can you imagine being on the traverse and watching someone whip out their phone to watch your youtube video to try and find where they are? It's sad to think that people don't want to explore, find their own way, and learn from those exploratory experiences. And it's sad that you're catering to that modern mindset just because you need to make content for your youtube channel. Have you ever read about the dangerous effects of geotagging on our environment and our beloved places? Because essentially what you're doing with this video is hyper-focused, insanely specific geotagging. Sad to see.
@@801actioncam again, appreciate you sharing your perspective. First, what drove me making this video was that I cliffed myself out last year when first exploring high baldy and had to down climb. I realized at that point how helpful it would be if the information is available to me. So that’s my motivation instead of needing to make content for channel that you assumed. Secondly, you can get these information from asking a ski patrol, from getting help from nice stranger you met on the chair or by hiring a private instructor at the mountain. In all of these cases, people will tell you how to get there while informing you how difficult the run is without discretion. These are not secrets, these are already public information in a public ski resort. So we should stop treating these information as private assets that we only share with others as a favor. I am not treating my channel as if I am tour guide or influencer like you assumed. Just a dude trying to help others by sharing information about a public place that everyone is entitled to access. Trying to prevent others from getting lost or getting cliffed out. Simple as that.
BTW, snowbird has a program that a ski instructor will take you to stashes and places like high baldy, cirque, etc...showing how to get there step by step, without any discretion as long as you can afford the cost. Should we advocate them to shut down the program so that the information is not available to general public?
For people who want to explore themselves, they are not forced to watch this. This is only for people who aren’t sure about whether to explore an area or ones who need help.
Agree with Camerons take, one hundred percent.
@@Shrugknight 🚨LOCAL ALERT🚨 this man knows what’s up