It’s not unknown to see mountain bikers playing in the snow (such as in this crash-tastic Laurent Bourrelly video on Instagram), but this is a video with a difference. Not only are Cam McCaul, Casey Brown, and pro skier Tim Durtschi off piste, they’re going down Corbet’s Couloir, which is legendary among skiers and known as America’s most terrifying ski run. It has a large drop into the steep chute, then lots of rocky technical stuff… this is mountain bike freeride on ice:
Everyone who’s been on a skiing holiday realises those button drag-lifts are unpleasant, but they’re probably still much faster than this.The lengths people will go to just to escape the Megavalanche crowds.
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David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
Bike and ski, awesome! it must have been hire ski though.