I was fortunate to ski Main Chute one day in April many years ago when I was a student at the U of U. The hike was killer...sucking wind above 10k feet. Took me about 45 min to reach the summit. The pow was great in their that day. Jump turn after jump turn descending the chute. One of my most memorable skiing experiences in Little Cottonwood. My best was 3 days after a 55" dump the Canyon opened. Never skied such deep powder. You had to be on a steep slope just to move. Best snow in the world!

Brings back memories of nearly 40 years ago,thanks, awesome camera work.

Wow! My legs were aching for you! Alta is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I miss it so much- Australia

I mostly ski Ogden resorts, but Alta has special place in my heart too. I remember days when lift ticket was in $20 range.

Great video, just what I was looking for. Explains the line, how to get there and then we get the actual line itself

I loved that. Just came across your video and really enjoyed it. What a beautiful state. God bless you and hopefully you have a great ski season. Peace

This 90's era movie score is so like that! Mad props fam.

June 1st, 1974. The lifts were closed, so Brent Beardsley & I hiked, from the base, up the west shoulder. We met a couple of SoCal guys in town for the Steve Miller concert. Beautiful day and a great run. Got the whole thing on my 8mm film camera. This was one of my best memories from my U of U days. It hadn't been a heavy snow winter, but we skied all the way to the base.

Just amazing! Thank you!!

best footage I've seen!

Very nice. Thanks for sharing, you’re a great skier.

I can appreciate the effort put into filming the descent.. +1

Awesome shots for the video. You're a really good skier.

Great work on this shoot, and great work in the chute! Not easy to do w/ all the xtra weight on your back and shoulders!

Great video. Liked the full walk through of getting to the chute and the narration of the vistas at the top.

Significant shrinkage!

I skied this shoot in 98. Back with skinny sticks. Lots of crud although not as much as what you had. After skiing it I hiked back up and skied Baldy Shoulder. The "Shoulder" is the terrain just to the skiers left of the main Baldy shoot. It was MUCH better skiing! None of this terrain is that demanding for a good skier. Just the entry points a little tricky. That's it.

Wonderful video, can't wait for opening day 2020!

AWESOME! Glad you had your safety hat on with all those rocks around. LOL, old school. I never used to wear a helmet either.

Awesome video. Skied down there yesterday

cool video and thanks for sharing this

Awesome - I appreciate the novel camera angle and set-up. Too many POV ski vids are hemet cams pointed too much at the skiers feet and you can't get a sense of the terrain and the vistas.

That’s a fine off piste day. My great grandparent’s silver mine and grampa’s cabin were right there in Albion. The mountains are stoics.

I love the angles u can really get a view of how steep it is

I enjoyed your video, have to put Baldy on my list, I thought the rear facing gopro provided insight into the shear drop off on the decent, especially when you skied off of the cornice. The forward POV camera's just doesn't show the steepness of the fall line. One of the things I always liked about Alta is that you had to hike to get to some of the best skiing. I had to smile about the description of the climb. This has motivated me to check out getting a Gimbal.

Great video man!!!

Beautiful thanks

REALLY GREAT.....On the BEHIND scenes split screen with the forward......LOVE to always watch the decent but the reverse makes you feel like you're actually doing it. My legs were BURNING 🔥 by the end. I couldn't even watch. Had to stop n rest.

Thanks for sharing!

So freakin gnarly

Nice run, man. Must take some jumbo coconut balls to hack that kind of terrain! Well done!!!

Pretty much passout trying to climb that. I remember hiking from top of little cloud to the top of tram and was huffin' it.

Awesome!

perfect

I think I'm ready for that. I also think I could choke, imagine dying and be overcome by fear! But if my head were right I think I could ski it!

Did you have a body in that giant backpack lol? My god. And no helmet? I’ve seen people cartwheel down that and those rocks are not forgiving and you can’t stop. I’m not trying to be a dick, to each their own, but come on man? Thanks for sharing and congrats on the accomplishment. I’ve skied all over the world and this is still one of my favorites. It’s certainly not the steepest or most technical, but as a diehard Utah skier it’s definitely something to accomplish at least once. It’s even more spectacular in February after a heli drop. Now THAT was a great experience. Sure I’ve heli skied chutes five times as long and three times as steep in powder in Alaska and BC, but again.....if you are a diehard Utah native this is a must. Good work!

Hey it's Tony your drone buddy! I never skied the chute, just fell all the way down it.

Unreal

so awesome last time I skied baldy main chute I was 12 and my dad carried my skis up. hope this year it will be open

Alta is for everyone!

I was a ski bum at Alta for one season, skied six days a week all season and a week after it closed. I was an expert expert rated skier then. If you ski the chutes right after a dump, five feet in a night is not uncommon. Then it's a rush. After it's been skied down or wind worn it gets fast and you have to do jump turns or hit the rock walls. That season a girl didn't know this and jumped into the chutes. She hit the wall on her third turn, her body slide for over a quarter mile across the main slope after it exited the chute. Five people died that winter on the slopes. Three of them in avalanches. About average for a season they say.

Wow that POV camera mounting platform is awesome! You have it for sale anywhere?

I'm not sure I would do that hike for that quality of skiing but that's just me

awesome camera angle/view

When you ski that ridge below the chutes the left side is a 2000 foot vertical wall, open air. The right side is a steep slope leading to granite outcroppings and thick pines. There is a major snow drift over hanging the right side. You want to stay right in the middle of the ridge as you come down. I didn't, I favored the right skiing out onto the drift. That cliff just gave me the willys. Suddenly a crack appeared to my left and the whole drift descended toward the granite outcroppings and the pines. I fell on my side and saw I had about 30 feet before I would crash onto the granite the snow was exploding off of below me. I rolled onto my back, tucked my skis tight up to my chest. I had one shot at this. Then I rolled down hill onto my skis. I immediately shot sideways across the avalanche out onto an open are of slope but now I was going mega miles an hour toward a thick stand of pines. I cranked a hard left turn just missing the pines but was now heading back into the avalanche. As I entered the avalanche again it suddenly came to a stop. I was encased in the snow from the knees down. If I had fallen I would have never got up the snow was as hard as Styrofoam. Even six inches under that I would have never got up. Skiing Alta on LSD and pot.

Looks a lot like dropping into the NW chute off Silver King at Crystal.

Incredible video, but when skiing and specially this freeride extreme run, no matter how good one can be, you gotta wear a helmet.

Yeah man

Skied it back in the 80,s during a full moon next day ski patrol asked us if we knew anything but then high 5s and bloody Mary s for all no names but it was epic

Very cool video. Inspiring. Did you ever get your patents?? Another cool camera angle would be the backward angle, but with the camera tilted up a bit so that more of slope above was visible.

When you dropped down wearing your funny hat, I was thinking “This guy must be crazy. Who would skies a chute without a helmet?” But when I saw you were just crawling down, I’ve got relaxed. I agree with you, walking in skies is a bit ridiculous, but still quite save.

Have you tried Pipeline run? I am still to do that beast but heard it isn't open often 🙄 Even better, Mt Superior...now that would be awesome with your cams. Wish I had your cams...if only money grew on trees 🤔

Impossible without stopping for me. this is a take your time run

Ya Snow bird. We would go down there on Saturday nights when the snow was coming down heavy and you couldn't see five feet. We would go up to the windows of the 'fancy' restaurants with all the rich folk and do pressed hams on the windows. that's mooning while leaving a nice brown oval on the glass. I'm sure they loved.

Song?

Did it on a full moon back in 84 good times

Do an alt version w/o the music. Maybe just your thoughts going down. Like is the snow soft or hard, fast or slow, etc. It's funny to think what it would look like if someone was capturing it from below you. I don't get a feel about how steep it is; it seems like you took it cautiously, but I can't tell for sure. In other words, the cammera perspective only takes us so far. But I enjoyed the views and ride. Only been there once or tweice. Thanks! ,

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Unfortunately, the reverse cam was a little low. When I first started using my Go Pro helmet cam facing backwards , every one asked me if I knew if the camera was pointed backwards. Funny, it seemed like I was the first one to think of pointing the camera backwards. And of course the double cam or quad cam is coming soon. There is too many people carrying multiple cams to get the shot. When one camera could do it all.

Nice hill but fairly shaky video. My Sony FDR is silky smooth even without a gimble. Maybe your gimble was mounted too high? I also think that backpack was throwing off your balance on that steep chute. Next time, travel a little lighter. Still- nice to see a run I haven't attempted (yet). You should do some videos in JHole, WY- mabye corbets.

Yay my bday

How long is the hike?

Dust on the snow, the very last skiing of the season.

Shrinkage was definitely a factor

cool vid, cool mountain, cool lines but nrxt time wear a helmet

Nice vid! Funny to think the camera work was revolutionary at that time (5 years ago) but now you can do it with a 360 camera and a selfie stick, for much less and better results!

that's cool but can I see the run

It's very sad that they don't let us see the dislike count anymore

Ive hiked it myself and the cornis at the top drop in is sketch at first

WHAT?!? ... bumps forning in Baldy Shutes??? ... 😂 ... In 1978 (when I was 28) I was working for Alta Central (Avalanche central radio communications for Alta, Snowbird ski patrolmen, Forest Ranger for Little Cottenwood Cyn and all lodges) ... so knew best time to do the shutes and will never forget it! Mahalo nui for providing this footage as a great memory for me too ... but NO bumps in the shutes back then ... ‘78 was a time when shorter skiis were not fully welcomed by the old timer’s long skis ... and some of the first snowboard designs were being experimented with that held your boots about 6 inches high off the board 😂... funny looking thing ... but having grown up surfing, was easier to learn than alpine skis. Was back at Alta in 2008-9 working for the ski school, last time for me skiing as now at 71, cannot walk for excercise due to meniscus gone in one knee :(((

I love snowboarding stuff like this. Its a shame its all wasted on just skiiers

Death Cookie’s

Is this only accessible from Alta? I wonder if snowboarders can go there.

Hi there! I'm a fellow Alta skier and Utahn and I was wondering if I could please use that photo of Mt. Baldy in the opening sequence? I would like to use it for a Facebook page "Keep Mt. Baldy Bald" where I link to a petition asking Alta and the US Forest Service to please NOT build a tram up Mt. Baldy. I'd like to run Facebook ads to try to spread awareness and gather signatures for our petition. We need a photo of Baldy, of course, to show how majestic it is and how a tram would degrade the Alta experience and change the beautiful feeling at the summit. Please let me know if you'd be willing to let me use your photo for our petition and Facebook page! Thanks for reading. ( ps here is the petition: crm.saveourcanyons.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=21666 )

Why not do this and film it in good conditions, gnarly at best!

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you need to be careful to make sure you dont fall back while climbing up-

5:06

The conditions were lame.

Alta = Mecca

I liked the shrinkage joke

I though this was an Avatar video...

dissy

btw I did that 500 foot climb after a major dump of waste deep powder. We were all on LSD, chain smoking joints. Climbing thru the waste deep snow with our skis on at a side step run cause we were in a hurry to get up there before anybody else. We dropped acid once a week and went off for the day, they called us the L squad. I tell ya nothing bets skiing Alta on LSD and marijuana. Shame on me. lol

At my age, everybody is faster.

The over the shoulder stuff doesnt work dude. Just use a helmet cam.

I really liked video on your way up and the view from the top. However, I disagree with your camera mount and find it actually a very nauseating point of view. I don't blame you for not wearing a helmet because they are a very uncomfortable and bulky but a helmet mount camera gives you a better view for a video in my opinion. Additionally, why does everybody have the music volume so freaking loud? The music should be light in the background only and you should still be able to hear ski to snow contact as well as breathing. Good for you for skiing it though. I haven't been there since May 1994. I hope to make it up there sometime again soon.

no helmet...

Boycott Alta! Let Snowboards in!

that was kind of nauseating. think I would rather ski it on a pow day

The four frail fir adversely whirl because cry disturbingly wobble till a glamorous airship. cautious, quiet delivery

Meh , snow blows.

No helmet !!!

why the HELL do you post this....since we all KNOW that JACKSON BLOWS ALTA APART!

Jump slide sideways, jump slide sideways, but snowboarders "ruin" everything right? hahaha. This looked really boring, snowmobiling is where it's at. No lines, always get to new snow and don't deal with thousands of people stacked around you.

talked too much

And vast majoritu of skiers have no business there! See it every day!.