Words CAN NOT describe this..

[Roar127]

Damn, I wanna die riding that mountain.

[Swifty]

YouTube - Swiss Freeride Fun

Very nice! I wonder what speeds he was hitting even though he didn't start at the top. Looks like so much fun minus the oncoming traffic.

[Ian]

Damn, I wanna die riding that mountain.

[Lukasz]

YouTube - Swiss Freeride Fun

holy crap i cringed at those hairpin turns......
utterly amazing though

[assumeivan]

YouTube - Swiss Freeride Fun

Video makes it look slow and not fun.

[Griff223]

how fast do you think the run in the vid is? would it be kinda slow because of all the switchbacks, or just super gnar anyway?

[snozzboarder55]

how fast do you think the run in the vid is? would it be kinda slow because of all the switchbacks, or just super gnar anyway?

slow if compared to Maryhill or Paskapoo sure, but i bet they were moving at least around 25-30mph. and thats pretty gnar, considering you are going hairpin to hairpin to hairpin etc.

o and you are on a failry narrow road, with some traffic, and guardrails that you can fit through.

[Griff223]

slow if compared to Maryhill or Paskapoo sure, but i bet they were moving at least around 25-30mph. and thats pretty gnar, considering you are going hairpin to hairpin to hairpin etc.

o and you are on a failry narrow road, with some traffic, and guardrails that you can fit through.

sounds like it is fun, rather than scary fast. if a car came up on me i would get really scared tho.

[Werd]

I don't know, it just seems like I would want to go into that faster than 25-30, obviously you don't want to go into a turn that defines hair pin and 50-60, but I would want to hit it faster than that. Sick hill though. nothing short of epic.

[ride love]

not sure if this is the same one, but if Brian hasnt, im sure someone's skated it

nice suit!

[snozzboarder55]

I don't know, it just seems like I would want to go into that faster than 25-30, obviously you don't want to go into a turn that defines hair pin and 50-60, but I would want to hit it faster than that. Sick hill though. nothing short of epic.

given the choice between the two id be more than satisfied with either a high speed run like Maryhill or a low speed hairpin frenzy.

i enjoy going fast but going too fast on something like this and id fly through a guard rail.

[robomango]

Just had a boardgasm... drowning in steez jeez

[xtreme23]

shoot a hairpin too far and you can bye bye

[snozzboarder55]

shoot a hairpin too far and you can bye bye

just thought of this: wear a parachute and over drift to base jump?

[Reece Man]

Road looks like it would get boring VERY fast. Look how straight it is between the turns and how slow it is. I like a little variety in my skateboarding and hairpin-straight-hairpin-straight etc... Does not fulfill that.

[Brian Holden]

Whoa I just found this thread! Glad you guys are stoked!

I made the video on a different hill from the picture. It was like 30-35 between corners, but there were soo many corners back to back, it was hard to pick up speed. After the last corner, I was hitting up to 55 mph on the flat, it was really surprising how fast it picked up!







We got lost on the way to the pass, and ran out of sunlight! Italy does not really put up any road signs and it was hard to get around. We spend 3 hours looking for the hill in pure darkness, then finally drove up it blindly. We thought we reached the top, and set up camp. Then slept for 3 hours till the sun woke us up. We drove allllll the way to the ski resort at the top and bombed down.




Here is the rest of the hill from where the other was taken. We were about halfway down the hill, it is a 32 minute mammoth bomb of the most intense riding I have ever skated. Speeds vary for 55+ mph in the straights to 35-50 mph in the corners, the tunnel section is 1 1/2 car lanes wide and pitch black... you are constantly on your toes as to what is happening next. At one point in the tunnel section, it went pitch dark, then to water fall, then back to pitch dark....craziest moment on a skateboard!

The hill was forcing me to go fast through the tunnel, and I battled it footbraking whenever I could see for a second, I was going at about 25-30 mph at this time, then I saw a flash of light and a giant ski bus shot up the tunnel! I managed to squeeze by it and then the tunnel section finally ended. There was a rad, fast predrift section that I burned through, then the hill was over.

The surface is smooth in sections, but the corners have what it seems to be tank tracks in them, so if you predrift late you will get eaten up!

Unfortunately, my gopro died halfway down the hill, so I really didnt get any of the good footage.

It was crazy to be in Switzerland, coming from Colorado I thought I was at the highest level of hills, but coming here was like moving from a green run to a double black diamond on the slopes, it is easy to see why the best skaters come from Switzerland....they have the gnarliest hills!

[snozzboarder55]

Road looks like it would get boring VERY fast. Look how straight it is between the turns and how slow it is. I like a little variety in my skateboarding and hairpin-straight-hairpin-straight etc... Does not fulfill that.

cant tell me that given the chance you wouldn't skate it at least once and finish the run with a smile

[Blaximus]

Blaximus's bucket list:


5. Skate this hill
6. Your mom

[jsethed]

Blaximus's bucket list:


5. Skate this hill
6. Your mom

You can have her Blaximus.

[Reece Man]

cant tell me that given the chance you wouldn't skate it at least once and finish the run with a smile

If someone paid for my ticket out there and then drove me to it sure I'd skate it. I just think it would get a bit repetitive and then shortly after that, boring.