What goes up must come down. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
Jim Ryan isn’t a skier who likes a mellow, groomed run. He’s a skier who likes steep, technical lines. He’s a skier who likes to send said lines as hard as he can. And in Skiing the Zombie Apocalypse, a new film from Scott, he definitely does what he likes to do.
The couloir he attacks in the video you see here has quite a few names. Located in Wyoming’s Tetons, a center for ski mountaineering, one of its names is the Cabin Couloir. Another is Ichiban. Another is The Zombie Apocalypse. It’s rarely skied for obvious reasons, so when you decide to attempt it, you’re pretty much going in blind.
“Very little information exists, and the few who have attempted it have had to figure it out as they go,” the Scott team wrote. “There’s a reason lines like this are shrouded in mystery.”
Last spring, Ryan, Clayton Herman, and Erich Roepke skied it top to bottom. “You hope — but you don’t know — that you have everything it takes to make it down,” Ryan said. “And that’s amazing. That’s a cool feeling.”
