Jumping the crux in The Fingers couloir - Topside episode 5

You hear something, Paps? Yell, avalanche! Looks like it's holding. Oh, oh, oh, ----! What about the crux? Well, there is a little one. Like jumpable or? Well, definitely like, yeah. Like viral Instagram stepping on stone? I would not say viral crux, just like a regular crux. What does it say? Well, it has been saying only snow for a while, but today it's saying sunny weather. All day? Kind of, yeah, from eight or like it's going to drop off. Now it's seven. We get in the hole. We got Krister in the building. Krister, Kupala is back. Back in the game! And we got ourselves a spot here right by some fine looking couloirs that I'm a bit scared to check out because it's been very snowy and very windy. I think we just have to go up there and have a look. Yeah. Like maybe test some smaller slopes. Yeah. First. It is a beautiful day. Should we do one warm up lap on the powder? Yeah, let's get it. Wow, wow, wow. Nice GoPro angle, Nikko. OK, we spotted the Chardonnay Bowl. It looks good. People are skiing it. So we might head up there. And it's also funny because like we're supposed to be like five kilometers over there at a different couloir today. But it could go over there later, too. Yeah. You can see the line of people up there heading up to the pass. And if we're lucky, nobody goes where we were thinking. From the photo, Krister, like we can drop over and into that. Yeah, it's more narrow. I think you can either go straight over or in from the side. Yeah, I think it might be a bit touchy in this upper part. Yeah. Like maybe just take it easy here. Do a ski cut under. And then if it goes, try to ski it, because it would be fun to get it like in one, you know, with this little field here. Yeah. Get the flow into it, you know. I need to poop. Here? No, this is the nervous poop. Is it? Do you have the nervous poop? Maybe this is the first couloir of the season. Yeah. OK, you should drop first then. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Do you want it? Yeah, I want it, but you can go. No, no, no. Of course. It's the first one. That was just something I said to get it. This is yours, Krister. It's going to be grand. Yeah. Looks like it's holding. It's going to do a cut here. Oh, oh, oh. Shit. Oh, my God. Good, good work, Krister. How does it look? It's super small. I'm just going to go straight. OK. Are we still rolling? Jonas is ready. OK, dropping. OK, following in the footsteps of the great Krister. Back in the game! Topside, boys. Holy ----. Oh, my Lord. Yeah, boys. I think it looks really cool from here. Are we planning to go lookers right first then? Yeah, but first lunch and a poop. Lunch and poop. And coffee. Coffee poop. Let's get it. In a way, I'm not that worried. I think it's just going to be like wind packed, you know? It's not been loading onto it. I'll do one ski cut on the top of this field here. See what happens. So what we're trying to do is get a feel. Is the snow safe in the big runs? So we do an easy run to check first. Oh, it's good, you guys. Oh! I guess we're hitting the full bars. Holy ----, Jonas. I feel good, too. Like if we just take our time going in there slowly. Yeah. And have a look at the camera, maybe the drone. See where it was at. Yeah. Not just rush headlong in like headless chicken. Headless chicken going straight. Yeah, we're there. We're a lot more like salad today. Vegan approach. Oh, I don't know about vegan, man. It's not good for you. I think it looks pretty fun. Like there's a snow in there for sure. Little cracks. Do you think you can charge it or is it like steep skiing? No, you can ski fast, I think. Of course, Nico can charge it. I don't know about me. I think the one thing is like further down there, you see there's a lot of wind that has made like a... A little wind lip. Yeah. Might be super loaded. Like here, if I just ski down there and then before the choke, I can pull up on the right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Up here, I don't think it's a problem up here. Are you thinking further down? Further down. Fuck yeah. Are we doing this? Yeah. Okay. Just be aware. Yeah, I'm bear aware. I'll be aware. You hear something pops, you yell avalanche. And I go... And to the right. And to the right, safe spot. I go to the safe spot. That's like, yeah, that's the... The safe spot is all the way down there. No kids, we're having proper safe spots, actually. Have fun, have fun. See you at the bottom. Oh, wow. Down there, the snow is super good. Yeah, look like it's ready. Three, two, one. Yeah, Christopher. What the hell? Woo, woo, woo, woo. What? Hey, that was sick, huh? What? Man, you're amazing, dude. How was it? Oh, so good. So good. I came through there, I was like, oh, this is delightful. And I saw your jump, I was like, commit, commit. Do it.