Sending My 60 Year Old Dad Up Steep Chute

Pack out today 25 pounds of gear. That's excessive. What are you doing here? Riding snowmobiles. Gonna be a terrible day. So we weighed that tunnel bag this morning at 25 pounds then we got the jerry can underneath there and I guarantee that's at least 25 pounds too so. I didn't really realize how much weight we carry on the tunnel. Probably close to 60 pounds right on the back there. But uh yeah it doesn't matter what we're carrying today because we got blue sky up top and we are gonna have a good day. So trying to take a shortcut turned into a long cut. I haven't seen the sun in uh over a week. Yeah we've got quite the traffic jam here. We got Jake looking at the creek here. It looks like quite the pull. He's on a 165. Carbon sled skid. Oh that is deep. Because there's a major 30 sled traffic jam over here. Everybody's going up one by one here but we got sleds hitting trees. Sleds stuck in the middle. Things aren't going great. So you guys are just getting turned around and turned around. I bet Brent's just like you just go. All right see you guys. Jesus What is gonna be so deep up here guys? There's sleds left right and center just upside down everywhere. Come on move it move it move it. Oh dad. Thanks. It's gonna be a struggle to get anywhere. So What you doing? Jerry's definitely in his head today, riding with, you know, a bunch of more experienced riders. He's getting hucka-buck. Oh, God. Wow. Nice. That is probably the best move I've ever seen you do. That was pure fucking luck. I was really scared for a second, you could hear me on the GoPro, and I'm like, oh. Did you get it on video? Yeah, it was on the GoPro. There you go. Oh, that was so, so good. So good. Woo-hoo-hoo. Hugo, we got Dallas. First tracks, baby. Ish. We got Craig. I hear Jerry. Oh, nope. Jerry's turning out. We got Jake. He's coming straight up. Not too shabby, eh? There you go. That is beautiful. This is a new one. All right, well, I thought we could stay kind of beside each other. How big's this drop? Pretty big, and it's pretty sharp at the bottom. Okay, maybe not. Oh, yeah. Woo-hoo-hoo. You guys see Dallas? Jerry, there's Hugo. Dallas, you got a copy? I copy. You guys coming up? Where'd you go? Oh, we're all done at the lake. Look at it out here. Woo-hoo-hoo. Just terrible, eh? Just terrible. Absolutely terrible. It's hot. All right, well, I'll follow you. Hugo, drop. Doesn't even need to say anything. Okay. Oh, yeah. Jesus Christ. It's broken. Bad day to be out. Oh, it's awesome. Bad day to be some snowflakes. Should have brought some sunscreen. Some sunscreen, some fuel. Well, we got guys pulling some gnarly lines here already to start the day. Don't know who that is, but you wouldn't catch me on that slope. If anything out here is to slide, this always slides with a massive amount of snow volume in the bottom. We don't have much on the agenda today besides burn gas and enjoy the epic day it is out here. We already put our entire jerry can in. That doesn't even fill us up. Let's go burn what we got left and catch up to the guys. We'll see how Jerry likes that one. Up we go. I should put the drone up. What do you got there? We got chow mein, baby. Threw it up in the panini press for five minutes. I know, you don't even have to ride. Don't even have to ride. Hugo, it looks like you're wearing Dallas's raincoat there from the other day. Sponsored by Dallas. What's that? Where's your nice bright green coat that you were always wearing? Kind of forget it this morning. Yeah, we're like five minutes from the parking lot. Hugo pulls over. I forgot my jacket. He was like, oh, I just won't ride today. I'm just going to go back. I'm like, what, are you kidding me, dude? Can't miss this. It's funny. I asked for the sun, and then I get the sun, and I almost complained that the sun's too hot. As you can see, the snow's getting a little packy on top. It's nice today. I said to Jake and Craig, I'm like, yeah, you guys take me on your tour. I just take my usual route through here. These guys go a different route. Those slopes are sticky. He stopped. Don't stop. You got to keep up your momentum, dude. No. I don't think his skill is the problem. He just gets scared. Do you want me to do one more loop? Yeah, please. Here, Dallas. Oh, come on. Oh, yeah. He's doing good. I got a stick of GoPro on him. Get some jerky cam footage. Snow is so much deeper on the north face, isn't it? Oh, don't do that to me. That was a two for a 165 with a carbon fiber skid. I guess we should see if I can climb up it. He's got no tunnel bag or anything. I need another run. I got way too squirrelly there. Yeah, that was a pull. Dallas made it on that A. You know what it is. An A, baby. I didn't think you made it. Just. Just chewed over the top. I don't even think I've been in this bowl. I don't think. That's what I was wondering, man. It looked like another bowl, but it's not that same. That one that you go up top and then come. Oh, you found some rocks, eh? Boat, ski, bumper. Really? Yeah. Were you by yourself? No, no. Jake and. Everybody went behind. Oh. Went straight into the wall. Wow. This has been a. Typical Hugo. Yeah. This reminds me of our March 6 last year. We had a day just like this up here. Hardly anybody up here. Fresh tracks all to ourselves. Except there kind of is a lot of people up here. But compared to Boulder, there's hardly anybody up here. I mean, this is Boulder, but just different entrance. We allowed to have this much fun? I don't know. Your average person doesn't get to have this much fun. No. Hit it. You young fucking bucks do it. Yeah. No, that's not for me. Dallas would do it. Wow, that's lined up pretty good. It's pretty good. Oh, yeah. The branches have been cut here before for them to. Definitely quite a bit more snow, though. Ready for an adventure? So we are taking the adventure route out of here. Somewhere I've never been. Actually, I haven't been through most of any of this before. Usually when I come up to this area, I just come up for the sun. And play an outline. Big holes there. Wow. I could have gone down that. Well, you're definitely not climbing back out of this one. It's not too often I'm dropping down stuff I can't climb out. That's pretty neat. Pretty neat shoot right there. That's cool. That's cool, too. I wonder if that's where we're climbing out. Is that where you want to climb out? Go out that way. That looks like a fun time. It's a pretty good time. And it pops you right back up to where we came from. Yeah. Or the full loop is that way. Right. Yeah. And it's fun, but man, it's pretty open. Yeah. You stay in the creek or you go up in the trees? You stay in the trees and go down, but there's another creek that comes through. Right. The one that we crossed earlier up top. Right. And it's really steep to pull in. Pulled that one day. You pulled what? Between the rocks. The cliff? Yeah. You go there, between the rocks, and turn and pull that thing. No, you didn't. Come on. I did it. 175 is scary. That looks terrifying. God, I don't want to do that. He's out. The 154 NA isn't quite a 165 turbo. Can he lock that thing out? I think he shortened up his limiter strap. Are you trying to limit your strap too short or long? I gotta leave it on long for the first go, since that's how I always ride it. Almost. Not enough traction in the top. It's not bad. It's just the top was too deep. I don't think we should have brought my dad into this one. Oh well. It's the worst that happens. Here we go. I wonder if we're gonna get your dad out of there. I told him to leave his tunnel bag down there and I'd go back for it. Oh yeah, we got Dallas coming. He's flying. Come on Dallas! No, I didn't know you guys went that way. This is where the track is. Dad, give her a go. I'm leaving. Do you want me to come down and watch you take a run at it? No, I don't want to get hurt. Okay, you want me to come get the sled? Yeah, you can slide down, I have to walk up. I know, I just want to make sure this is your final call, because once I start walking down, then there's two of us down there. I can try one more run and get a little higher. Where are you, just at the trees, down lower? Yeah, upside down. I just said sorry. For what? I know you don't want to be in here. It's wet snow, it's completely different. Going down is actually worse than going up. As usual, but you just go off the side and it stops you pretty quick. What did you do, get bucked off? I can't not keep the front end down. I think I'm too heavy. Well, let's go down, put the bag on my sled. There goes Jerry, second attempt. He's getting it in his head today. We took his tunnel bag off, I got it. We'll see how he does. I'm going to put the phone away, just so I have my helmet on ready to go. He's probably going to just trench it in somewhere up there, and then walk from there, but we'll see what happens. Oh, he's doing good! Oh, he's up! Yeah, dude! Nice! Good work, Dad! It wasn't really my intention to get us in there and have us in a situation where we had to pull that. I apologize. But it worked out good! What a difference the bag makes. Oh, I know. You're right, Precision Mode does really trench in the... I find it does. Can we go up from here? You've got to make it up this from right there. Oh, you're mean, man. No, you're not, dude. I'm not going back down to take a run at it. Just one more run, Jerry. Yeah, just one more hill. That's probably the steepest chute you've ever pulled. I'll have to come back and watch the chute pull. Turns, and then it fucking disappears again. Oh, I got two bars. There's a chute, eh? Yeah. Can you get between those rocks? That's good. It looks really tight. There's no consequences there. I'm not looking at the right, I'm looking on the left. The left where you go through the little hole? Yeah. That would be really cool. We better go look at it. Yeah, I don't think we can fit through that one. That would be funny, he just goes for it. Just sandwiches the sled. Gets stuck in the crevasse. I think you got it. Too bad, there's a lug in the middle. Yeah, that is cool. That looks crazy. That is beautiful, man. Right? Alright, that means that we are working our way out now. Just from my dad pulling that line over there, I can already tell he's riding way better through all of this. Sometimes you just need a little stoke. Yeah, what are you smiling for? Is this the way out? Come on! Well, I made it far enough. You did good! In neutral position too. I mean, that's kind of what works for you. What do you mean by neutral? You're not wrong foot forward. Oh. Yeah, I figured I'd have more control that way, right? Point your skis downhill, wrong foot forward and push. Just to get down a bit. Down! I wasn't sure if you were going to get off in time. I wasn't sure either. Good, Mark! You just gave me the start. Sick day, though. Sick day. That was fun. Good fun. That is what I need. Oh, God. Want to try and get to the top of that? Yeah, I could probably just go to the top and then left, but I don't know if you want to loop back first. Oh! What are you doing? You don't need a hole wide open. Hey. Hey, did you see his bumper, Dallas? Whose? His. What'd he do? He hit a tree. Oh. I was literally like fucking straight and through people. He got a little bumper action there. Oh, yeah. Hey, Vag and Rog, it launched out of the big three-foot right. Oh, and it. Whiskey. I don't know if it was a whiskey throw. It was like this. And the fucking thing just shot. And I was like, whoa. I really didn't think I hit it that hard. You weren't even on the snowmobile. No, but it just. It went through and then it just. It got traction. It got traction and you had, when you were going off, you must have just rolled the thumb throttle on it and you just get one last old college try into the tree. Get a little tired. I don't know. Final hill of the day. Just one more hill. I've had some fun with that joke, but. Yeah, this one was a real shit show at the start of the day. It looks like clear sailing for the way down. And that is all I got for you guys today. Thanks for watching, sticking through to the end of the video. Today was a really fun day, but I definitely did push the old man a little too hard. I don't know if that's all on me. Jake has a very similar style of guiding to my guiding, if you want to call it guiding. But I was going to get the old man on for the outro here, but he's feeling under the weather today. So I figured we'd leave him alone. You know, what I saw today, I haven't actually seen him do before saying, that's it. I'm walking. You can ride my sled out. I don't think I've ever had to ride a sled out of anything. He always gets through it. I think part of it was mental though, because he knew he had to ride a snowmobile out of this to get back down to the truck. Whereas usually, we're climbing in the gnarly hills to get into the good zones to get the powder. So a bit of a different vibe for him maybe. But all in all, it worked out in the end. I was stoked when he made it to the top. I'm sure he was pretty stoked too. And it's good for him that he needs that extra little push once in a while, I think. Yeah, that's all I got for you guys. Thanks for watching. We'll catch you on the next one.