[Closed] Stupid Ego Massage - I skied that 🙄

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Coo. Impressive. How did you miss the piper?

Have you skied 'Paradise' from the summit of Bidean down into the Lost Valley?

Not as intimidating as Broad gully but absolutely superb.

STW gully skiing club? (Please)

Proposed title for this club: 'When I was young and stupid...'

Have you skied ‘Paradise’ from the summit of Bidean down into the Lost Valley?

Alas not. Would like to give some of them a go. The reason I wanted to go Broad gully in particular was that I recall being shit scared climbing it years ago with ice axe and crampons. One I got half decent at skiing I thought that would be a lovely way to slay a ghost. Alas I was only partially successful as I was utterly terrified and exhausted from the warm up ( which was directly in the sun for hours before I got there. Never seen a slow moving wet slow avalanche before that day...

Would absolutely love to head up for a weekend gully bashing if only covid would go away. Judging by the snow here in Manchester there should be a fair bit in Scotland through to May or June this year.

Not that it'll be possible regardless. 😩

Anyone got any good photos of stuff they've skied?

Easy Gully to start with:

Edit.... Bollocks

In Switzerland so maybe cheating but this was fairly sketchy:

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Don't think I'd win any style points but I made it down with my skis on 🙂

I'd love to do some more ski touring/gullies in Scotland, done a bit of mountaineering there.

No photos (Pre digital camera) Trifides 1, on 197 Slalom Planks. It was rock hard windblown. So the ski choice (Or lack of) was probably in my favour, till it got narrow.

And

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Lost the downhill ski in the next turn and fell a long way. Of the top of La Balme, Serre Che.

Your mates didn't leave you much snow there Grum..

Amateur! My mate glissaded Broad Gully, but forgot to remove his crampons first, with the result that he started cartwheeling a quarter of the way down, and was in proper rag doll mode by the bottom. It was one of those busy sunny winter days and the cliffs were full of climbers all watching his progress. Amazingly he was (mostly) OK and stood up and took a little bow for the assembled masses 😀.

NB - skiing down it is very impressive actually... At a push I might be able to do a sidestep shuffle thing down it!

Can we still post pics from Flickr? If so how? 🙂

Your mates didn’t leave you much snow there Grum..

There was a bit! I've done that gully another time and there was so little we had to use a rope to get down. I put in a few turns but definitely a fair bit of side-slipping. Nice straight line towards the bottom as you needed some speed for the traverse.

Is there anyone who hasn't rag-dolled Broad Gully? Dorsal Arete was my first winter route. Followed closely by my first rag-dolling.

I once rag-dolled Flypaper from above the steep to the base of the bowl. Snow injected into every orifice.

Can we still post pics from Flickr? If so how? 🙂

Can you get the bbcode from Flickr? Then just paste it in the reply box and trim off roughly the first line and the last lines, just leaving the IMG tags and the bit between....

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Ok bollocks, that didn't work. Or at least it worked but didn't want it to.

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Ah cool. I hacked some of the brackets with hashes so the html is visible. You want the bit in bold

PS, that's the top of Broad Gully

I'm not seeing the BB code option on Flickr any more.

Go to desktop site.

Yes I know,bits daft.

Just worked that out, can see it on the laptop but not phone. A few Scottish couloir pics coming up...

No, don't give up. Want to see couloirs🤗

My tracks on Paradise

@spin screwed that up dintcha? 😝

I'm sorted now. Hang on...

Dropping in to No.5 on The Ben

Me in Easy Gully on Creag Meagaidh

Me in Tower Gully.

Getting those images up was more of a challenge than skiing the gullies.

Nice!

Lols @troutwrestler - Dorsal Arête wasn’t quite my first route but I do have a vague recollection of sitting astride it pretty well gripped 😂

Also Spin may be sh*te at uploads but those pics are awesome!

Dorsal Arête wasn’t quite my first route but I do have a vague recollection of sitting astride it pretty well gripped

Dorsal is great, it's popular for a reason.

I threw myself down this once, Coire an Lochain about 1983 - climbed up with a mate and had to ab down the first bit as it was just polished and was struggling to get any edge grip. First few turns a bit hairy as it's 2m wide and I was on 180 skis. I had my rucksack full of gear on which was causing me to over-rotate on the turns so decided to jettison it. 2 guys climbing up thought it was a falling body!

Was back their for the first time in 37 years in the summer - I don't think I'd be up for it these days.

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Having moved back north to Moray this year I hadn't really though about any winter gear needs - we've had some great conditions since Christmas with waist-deep powder snow on my local hills. I sold a lot of stuff last summer, my fat bike's in storage so just have to stay happy wading through the stuff and watching people ski down Ben Rinnes from my window.

Nice shots.

@Spin FTW 😁

THEY'RE BLOODY AMAZING.

Love that picture of Meggy (however it is spelled)

So inspiring. Wicked.

Love that picture of Meggy (however it is spelled)

That was taken by the SAIS forecaster from the other side of the corrie. His blog post laid it on really thick about how he'd seen 'two ski mountaineers fully in tune with the conditions making excellent decisions in challenging terrain.' I asked him about this and he said they didn't often get the chance to praise good decisions so thought he'd big it up. We'd gone to the top of the gully section, taken one look at the winslab on the upper face and decided to give it a miss!

Nice work Spin. Also Thumbs up to Spins photographer. No mean feat getting into position to get some of those shots. Marvellous.

Hmm. Not sure me skiing in farmer John's fields the past few weeks in the Pentlands quite lives up to the calibre being shown here!

Also Thumbs up to Spins photographer. No mean feat getting into position to get some of those shots

The Tower Gully ones were taken by friends who climbed Tower Ridge then skied Tower Gully.

Thought I'd dig out a few more. Now I've got this image posting thing sorted there's no stopping me!

Heading up Tower Gully

Lower down it, once you're past Tower Scoop and can stop worrying about falling down it.

Snow arete near the top of No.5 Gully. We skied Nos3,4 and 5 that day and it was quite simply one of the best days either of us had ever had in the mountains anywhere.

Same day heading up into No3. Another lucky day where a friend who knows how to take a good pic caught us.

Heading up again but this time into No.4

A Frenchman telemarking in Scotland. No.4 Gully

At the narrows in No.5

Looking up to another skier above the narrows in No.5 just after we skied it.

Also to add I cut my silly-skiing teeth on Flypaper at Glencoe. I remember we'd go groping around in the fog to find it. I was at uni and had borrowed skis so was less bothered about skiing rocks, ice and heather.

A few years later I was in Les Arcs and went into a hire shop to enquire about hiring something suitable for mogul bashing - I had some GS-racing skis on that trip that were a bit too hairy for chopped moguls and off piste. The ski-tech said firmly he wouldn't recommend them as it was going to be 'icy' the next day to which I responded "Je suis Eccossaise" to which he just laughed and waved his hands, "Pas de probleme".

I responded “Je suis Eccossaise”

He obviously has a high opinion of Scotswomen

Great pictures guys!