Favorite way down...

[Head]

My favorite way down a peak is on my sled (Suprise, suprise!) The first 2 (ski and board) are pretty insane ways down a hill, but kudos to those who can! I find sledding to be much more efficient than glissading or on foot and a helluvalotta fun! Long live MAD RIVER ROCKET!!!!

[Kevin]

So you're the strange marks I see on the trail from time to time during the winter.

Jeff called me last year while at EMS, trying to convince me to buy a sled for such purposes. I explained that his level of sanity was perhaps lessened by something in the hand rolled cigarette he smoked. Kevin don't smoke that!

Any video footage???

[lumberzac]

I've saw people come down off of a mountain on a shovel. It looked like a lot of fun.

[Mavs00]

Not that I've tried all on the list, but I'd give the glissade way up. On my last like (Algonquin/Wright), I butt slid from pretty much from the summit to the junction (1200 vertical feet) and it was awsome. The kids got a hoot out of it too.

I definitely remember thinking "I gotta remember a sled next time".

Head over heels is a close second

[Rivet]

I didn't know glissading and butt sliding were the same thing. Glissading sounds more graceful.

[Martin]

Coming down on a Crazy Carpet could be pretty exciting. A helmet wouldn't be a bad idea to go with the Carpet.

[redhawk]

Taxi!

[Skyclimber]

I didn't know glissading and butt sliding were the same thing. Glissading sounds more graceful.

Actually glissading is where you gracefully slide down the slope on your snowshoes, holding rhymth.

Anyway I always preferred glissading and butt sliding, on the best hills there are. Love the butt slide off Blake, Dix Slide, Macomb Slide. Some of the best in the ADK's.

[fvrwld]

I've read somewhere that just bringing a heavy garbage bag to sit on while you slide down can be useful. Saves the seat of your pants too.

My question is if you get going too fast how do you stop without risking injury?(without an ice axe)

[Mavs00]

My question is if you get going too fast how do you stop without risking injury?(without an ice axe)

Valerie, You don't............. That's why its so frigging fun.

You seem totally out of control (but really aren't). You stops sorta the same as I stop while you skiing....... I fall over, or if you have crampons/showshoes on, "dig em in".and that should you it.

[Neil]

I always thought glissading reffered to sliding/skiing down snow slopes in bare boots.
In another life, when I worked in the Canadian Rockies, we glissaded at breakneck speed down long snow slopes as late as July. Some of them involved 1000 feet of vertical in one fell swoop. You had to be careful cuz the last 20 feet or so before the rocks were usually hard ice. If you didn't get control and stop you would hit the ice then be converted to ground beef on the rocks.

[Head]

Actually glissading is where you gracefully slide down the slope on your snowshoes, holding rhymth.

Ahh....guess I was under the assumption that it was one in the same. Thanks for the info.

[Head]

So you're the strange marks I see on the trail from time to time during the winter. Jeff called me last year while at EMS, trying to convince me to buy a sled for such purposes. Any video footage???

You should try it sometime! Its a real time saver We've got some video but were hoarding it at this point in time (actually, what we have kinda sucks, but by the end of the winter, we'll have some sick free-sledding stuff to put up. (Working on a 360 off from a kicker right now and some BIG cliff drops)

[Kevin]

Cool, looking forward to it. I didn't say I'd NEVER try it, but I won't buy a sled just for this either. I like leaning back on the snow shoes and coasting down the steeper parts as much as the next guy!

[starbaby]

Taxi!