Shirley’s – Igneous Rocks – Talk Is Cheap
Here is a pretty cool POV video of a descent of one of the more rowdy lines off of Cody Peak, called “Igneous Rocks”. It was popularized and first skied by Mike Tierney, who I think aired into the line, as opposed to Cam Ciccone’s sidestep. It sits right between two other rowdy lines, “Shirley’s” and “Talk is Cheap”, first ridden by John Griber and Stephen Koch, respectively. I’ve always though that someday I might ski “Shirley’s” or “Talk is Cheap”, but with the mandatory ginormous air at the bottom of “Igneous Rocks”, it will never be on my hit list. So Sick!
“more rowdier” is a grammatical error.
“Igneous Rocks” seems foolish since Cody Peak is made up of sedimentary, not igneous, rock – the Mississippian Madison limestone.
Maybe he uses igneous skis and named it after that – or not.
Billy
thanks teach!
and yeah…mike tierney has been on igneous skis for a while…so named after that.
Maybe it should be called “Sedimentary Rocks”, “Limestone Rocks”, “Carbonate Rocks” or “Calcium Carbonate”.
Seems like you should get first tracks with an effort like that.
Do you think there are any other lines that can be skied off Cody that have not already been done? Maybe connecting the TIC to IR? I have no idea just asking and I will not be on any of them anytime, so this POV is as close as I will get.
This goes back to the question: “Is this a snow climb or a ski descent?”
who ever invited that question should be shot in the head. who cares if it’s a snow climb, ski, snowboard, tele, at, or ski blade descent(okay i would care if it was a ski blade descent). a nice line on the mountain is a nice line on the mountain.
oh and billy bob go fuck yourself, you’re not funny.
http://tetonat.staging.wpengine.com/2011/03/03/xavier-de-la-rue-sluff-and-ice/
Dan’s lady would not ‘help him out’ this morning and as a result he is grumpy.
I can’t believe you posted that on your site steve – you must not have noticed how many tracks he crossed….:P
Lot of totally gripped dry tooling going on there. Huge air and scarred skis.
Bold stuff.
Yeah, I was shitting my pants watching that silliness. Good god, just wanted to pull his skis off and add crampons to his feet so he could get down properly without all that fooling around being gripped. Yikes! Way to send it.
Took his time in the crux huh!? Someone else flash that section? He got seconds to someone, or was it himself coming in for seconds? That bottom air was BIG! 60 feet?
We stopped and watched him ski this from the resort ropes/gate. First noticed the two tracts off the shoulder and two bomb holes then saw him dropping in. Def slow through the crux but went for it. Huge double ski ejection. Walked then skied away. Prob landed 20+’ below the cliff. Crazy effort! Filmed it on a simple Flip but too far away to see any more than the slough coming off the cliff and the bomb otherwise I’d post it. Don’t know about the first two but way to go for it. Not me..
yea I shot and watched it all go down as well.. we were thinking there were possibly two firsts that went down. The guy before Cam was our buddy Matt Paluga who we think might be the first to snowboard this line.. mad props! and as far as I know, this was the first time three people skied it together. which explains how f-ing gnarly that crux looked! Anyway super sick, and thanks for the show guys!