Skiing the Zombie Apocalypse (extreme

I mean you hope, but you don't know if you have everything it takes to make it down. And that's amazing. Wow! That's, that's a cool feeling. Jim reached out and was like hey there's a line in the Tetons that hasn't really been skied that much. It's hidden, hard to get to, and super dangerous. There's a moment when I get a notification that says Jim Ryan's texted me that I'm like just like oh ----. So we're meeting at 5-3 in the morning. We want to get first to the top of Apocalypse, then ski Apocalypse, and then boot up Four Horsemen before the sun hits the Four Horsemen and all the cornices, you know, collapse on us and we die. So we're in a rush and the whole approach is frozen solid. Neither of us brought ski crampons. So we start the day mostly by being frustrated and falling on our faces. It's exhausting. I'm so panicked. Eventually we get to the top of Apocalypse Coeur. We know the line, we've skied it a bunch. Here we go. So we dropped in and it was pow. It's good! It was kind of all-time conditions. Yeah buddy. Yeah Eric. Yeah Bubba. And it kind of for a second makes us forget what we were about to go do. Get to the point where we transition and we're just like oh my god. That's steeper and farther and harder than it looked from above. And we start booting so fast up this thing. I can see why this Coeur, the cabin, never gets skied. It's a lot of work. We're tired. Cresting that first part as we were approaching the top was absolutely terrifying. It's so steep and it rolls over and we don't know if it skis through. Could it be that? This point as we're standing at the top of our line is for sure the worst I felt all day. Yeah what happens after that? This was my idea and we're looking down this thing and I didn't know what was going to happen. I had a moment of hesitation. I wanted to do the Coeur but I wasn't feeling like I could tell the guys that we had to in that moment. You're constantly thinking about how committed am I right now? If I go down to here can I boot back up? God I just want to be cradled in the Coeur. And that's when Clayton, he looked down the line and he's like I think we got this. He disappeared over the edge. He committed us and I followed him and I got down there and that's the best I felt all day. It was right after the worst. Dude awesome work. Now we've all skied the first pitch the first time that we can see clearly down the Coeur and it looked kind of fun. When you're on it's a feeling that you can't really get anywhere else. I hate to say it's addicting but it is. Yes. For the next four hours we were standing on icy 55 degree terrain over a cliff. The whole time was a no fall zone. It's super freaky before you drop in and then next thing you know you do one or two turns and your bind becomes your biggest hype person. It's like oh my god you're so sick. I can't believe you're doing this. You just nailed that turn. It's amazing. It's one of the most addicting feelings in skiing and mountaineering in general. About two-thirds of the way down it just funnels into this unknown crack the width of my body that's filling with slough. The choke constricts to the point where it's basically the width of my shoulders. I enjoy this but also I was screaming out of fear so. Holy ----. That's for therapy. Oh I'm just kidding I don't go to therapy. Okay I'm down. That was one of the more things I've ever done on skis. There's Clayton transitioning because he's smart. I guess you can't be that smart if you find yourself here. Yeah so the whole team gets down through this ice crux choke thing. The next pitch it was like super steep turns to ice. We had a pitch into a crux and then right after that we had another 55 degree pitch of ice into a no-fall crux. Oh yeah. We're still in the no-fall zone and so if we get to these other repels and at some point like your brain's just like I'm so ready to not be scared anymore. So I build this anchor and then of course I don't use it because I looked down the pitch and I was like I think I can ski this. Jim can do things on skis that people can't. Maybe we should repel this one. We ended up repelling three times. To get to the apron was just like a sigh of relief just like oh like we did it. Good god. Jesus Christ. I don't know I don't know how to describe it but when you pull something off on skis that seems impossible. We made it. You just you you really appreciate everything in your life and the people you did that with more forever. I haven't felt safe for like six hours. We're stoked Clayton. You stoked? I'm psyched. And I freaking loved it.