Wonder what it’s like to take a run through two halfpipes side-by-side? The Red Bull Double Pipe is going down at Aspen, Colorado and some of the best halfpipe riders in the world have congregated to drop into the behemouth double dude tube. Fourteen-year old Gabe Ferguson, who wowed spectators at the US Open, strapped a GoPro to his helmet and filmed a run from his point of view. Here’s what it really looks like to take a run in the Red Bull Double Pipe.
Dan Sculnick, who is the snow-school director in Revelstoke, British Columbia, turns and looks at his altimeter after our first run. “Five thousand six hundred twenty-three feet,” he says. “And it’s only nine o’clock.”
Welcome to Revelstoke, home of the most vertical ski terrain on the North American continent, where you’ll pass through four different climate zones (alpine, sub-alpine, coniferous, and deciduous) all on the same run and campaign for the footrest every lift ride. Of course, all this vert comes at a price. It’s a skier’s mountain, meaning no furs or high-end stores and that the gender ratio … More