Snowboarding the Infamous Tunnel Run - Alpe d'Huez - 4K
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2024
- With all the resorts around the world closed down I originally thought I would be spending this period split boarding. But the government has issued strict guidelines urging people not to undertake any dangerous activities, which covers everything from surfing and cycling to skateboarding and surfing. Whilst this was a bitter pill to swallow at first,I now realize that it is so as not to put any additional strain on the health services. So here is some footage I shot a few weeks ago of the infamous Tunnel Piste here in Alpe d'Huez!
The Tunnel Run is one of the steepest pistes in Europe, so steep in fact that the top section cannot even be pisted as the piste bashers can't get up there! It gets its name from the 200m long tunnel which is actually carved through the mountain from one side to the other. This makes for a really cool and unique ski run that I haven't seen anywhere else.
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Hey everyone, thanks for watching, what's the hardest run you've ever done? Let me know! 🤙
Malcolm Moore how do you like the Warpig?
@@allanbergsma3256 I love it but the topsheet has started to delaminate and ride won't replace it on warranty. This happened on my old one and they did, but they won't replace it twice. It happened after only 3 weeks of riding!
@Forum Spark is that up in Jasper?
@Forum Spark ah yeah I've been there about 11 years ago, not sure if I did that run though! I was working at season at Sun Peaks near Kamloops.
Corbett’s couloir
Oh i thought it was going to be like a tunnel run that youd have to go like 80mph non stop
Afraid not!
Same
Its ashame you would have been really cool it it was that way
Zermatt had such a tunnel for the past 60y or so ...unfortunately they demolished it a few years ago. Not 80mph though ;)
@@surject I can understand why they demolished it. You know a beginner is gonna go in there and die.
When I see the tunnel : "Hey, that was easy..."
When i see the drop after the tunnel : "Hey, I'm gonna go back"
Haha exactly 😂
666 likes lol
😂 Same, I was like 'oh'
Stefan Lai lol
It’s still steep, but the camera angle makes it look a lot steeper what what it really is
Never tried snowboarding, but watching this has made me realise the attraction of it. Must be awesome to be out in that incredible scenery having so much fun!
oh yeah for sure, i just got my snowboard and cannot wait to get started shredding these mountains lol
Its not gay like skiing
@@thecommonsenseconservative5576 💀💀
I never have either but I love videos like these, just watching somebody skilled gives me this crazy combination of excited anxiety while being super calming at the same time 🤯
@@WalkToPoland how sore'd your chest get from falling over?
as an ex alpine ski racer, this hill is perfect and i am literally dying to put my skis on that run. Not too much power, not too much ice, and the steepness is perfect.
The moguls are naught compared to the moguls in the early 80’s
You have to take the right side from the top, left has some nasty ice muguls.
Dude, you strapping your board so close to the edge gave me shivers.
Same I've been riding for 8 years and it still scares me being that close to the edge while strapping in
I'm thinking what if someone pushes you
@@shanonfrancis5071 haha yer
O I have had a beginner adult push me down a step part of the mountain strapping in he got scared and bumped 10 year old me into the rocks
gopro exaggerates depth
"ok, so it's just a bit steep here"
shows a 90 degree drop
😂
Maybe 45 degrees at the steepest.
@@VeronicaDevlin I was joking but ok 😂
@@Jodus_MacGotuss 45 Degrees is the steepest yea
@Jodus Macgotuss
Thanks for a great ride, as a retired type 3 skier I miss being able to carve up the mountains more than anything else I cannot do anymore so taking a ride with you was wonderful.
Thankyou, I appreciate the comment! Can't wait for next year to be back with more!
As someone who ski’s , I have never known a slope to be so steep before! Looks a lot of fun though! Made me even miss being on a mountain and ploughing through. Hopefully I can do it again one day!
Check out Kirkwood ski resort in California it has a run called The Wall and it’s starts out with 6ft verticle drop.
It’s really not that bad. You just have to take a drop down and a sharp speed check. After that it’s just regular back country terrain.
You have been blessed with: Showing up in everyone’s recommended.
Hahaha absolutely! 👍
Gotta say, this is one of the better ones too! Gj
@@countdraco405 thanks man!
Yea lol
This makes me want to snowboard
him: it's not that steep
the hill: │
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😂😂😂
If you're going down a hill and your skis aren't touching the snow, that's a free-fall!
My step mother taught me how to ski, she took me down black diamonds my second season, if I said I was too scared she'd tell my my only options were to climb back up or keep going down 😂.
Best way to learn.
@@andersrobertsen7610 agree
@@andersrobertsen7610 same now its one of my favorite things to do :D
I have been skiing my whole life.
And that looks scary
ooooooooh this takes me back, 1st person perspective is sooooooo good
"theyre having fun thats the main thing" what a nice guy, earned a like from me
Thanks man! 🙏
What was he saying? "Oof the skier infront of me has some awful techers"? I don't know ski terminology so could you educate me?
@@simulatedstring9029 HAHA bro it's brittish, he is just saying that the person infront is not really experienced :)
@@simulatedstring9029 awful tekkers = awful technique
@@bastianhellspong7961 bri'ish
Watching this as a beginner snowboarder is absolutely terrifying
You got it bro!
Once you are in the slope you realize its not step.. Looking down from the hill it will look step, once you go and turn a lot you realize its not step and scary...
Just control the speed and do as many turns as necessary to be comfortable, if you fail its not a DROP, BOOM, its a glide...
I have fallen 100s of times, it doesnt hurt, you learn how to fall right fast and you will stop yourself form gliding further easy, especially if its much snow.
Just be careful at the black paths, the steepest, its often icy and nasty, you just glide with no stronghold, its not fun... The more snow, the better! the more Icy its bad.
If find steeper runs easier on a snow board as long as they are not too narrow. It is that flat stuff that is killer for a beginner.
I want to do it but I don’t know where to go
I live in Canada btw
And I’m not going to another province just to snow board
@@carlsvenson8126 this is true, i am a double black skier and am switching over to snowboarding next season probably
I love how calm and chill the cementation is. I've never even snowboarded but I just had to watch the whole video.
That was quite fun to watch. Made me think back to the first time I went snowboarding and found that perfect circular slope that gave you speed but let you cruise along nicely. Haven’t snowboarded since!
Me: seen snow 3 times in my life
CZcams: here ya go
That's what CZcams is for 😂
Especially right now when we're all in quarantine!
I’ve never seen.
Can relate
Me sees snow every day. Ahhhh. Enough already. Lol
visible spams LT I have seen it once
This guy can narrate a combat during war and still seem chill and collective.
😂
I'd like to see that. Semper Fi.
collected you mean?
@@mareksicinski3726 Let me get this straight; You pointed out that he misused the word "collective" but you didn't correct him when he said, "narrate a combat?" I just love when people try to make themselves appear more intelligent than they are by attempting to correct someone else's grammatical shortcomings and wind up screwing it up anyway and making a huge dumbass of themselves. Bravo, idiot. 😊
@@mareksicinski3726 Oh, and sentences are supposed to begin with a capital letter as well, dumbass.
Thanks for the ride mate! That was Amazeballs! Haven't skied in over 20 years due to medical issues and that felt sooooo good. It was like I was skiing down that slope. Love how you don't shame the beginners. The world needs more people with patience. Keep on Rockin dude!
This is wonderful. When I tried snowboarding for a few years back in high school and college, I kept catching the lower edge of the board on the hill. That was about 20 years ago. Not sure if I'd ever try it again because I still remember that the pain of hitting the slope, hearing crackling in my body, and not being able to breathe for a few seconds was exquisite.
Man that drop after the tunnel run would scare the crap out of me. I’d call mountain rescue 😆
His voice is so reassuring in beginning that it makes me feel like I can do this 😭...... I’ve never been snowboarding, I can’t even skateboard 😂
Maybe one day you'll get the chance!
@@malcolmmoore hopefully!
@@malcolmmoore what speed do you think you were going when reaching that part where some had to walk? Man it looks scary yet amazing :D.
Skateboard doesnt have anything to do with snowboard 💀😂
@@gpl3046 true but snow boarding seems wayy harder 😭
42 years of down skiing that was a fun run i really enjoyed that thanks.
thanks for a great video, brings back memories of doing this about 25 years back as a fairly new intermediate skier and it seemed a lot scarier then
Haha, yeah, the Tunnel used to just dump you straight out on the steeper part, they've since put a path to the right like you see here which takes a few degrees off!
i just want to be on the mountain again but all of them are closed
Yep, it's sad. I'm not even allowed to go hiking or splitboarding here in France, there's strict fines if I do!
Sucks man. Going hiking tomorrow here in Colorado....
@@TriptoCo strict fines are in place here If you get caught hiking. It's so as not to be a strain on the health services if you have an accident. You are allowed out for 1 trip a day no more than 1km from your home, and for no more than 1 hour... 😟
Brendon Kelly don’t be a selfish tit, no one cares if you heart yourself but we do care for the time you waste for others to rescue your ass. ✌🏿
Yes same here in Colorado I had a full season pass too
I've never watched snowboarding videos before
It was in my recommended
Did I enjoy it?
Yes
I didn't.
@@davida9074 why
Same. This got recommended to me off of a climbing video. It's like the complete opposite lol.
@@capndrake2507 Partly true. They're opposites in the way they are performed, sure, one going up the other going down. However, many still climb the mountains to be able to board it, if they can't afford or aren't able to make use of a helicopter. So I can see why the youtube algorithm would recommend it.
Same
This just looks like a really fun and genuinely challenging run
Thank you for sharing your adventures with us. I can understand the addiction of this sport. I’m too old and crippled for this sport but sure enjoy watching your perspective. Thank you again.
My pleasure 😊
When I did this run, I was super lucky. It was closed for 4 days straight because of a snow storm. So basically I had 4 days worth of fresh snow...
Epic!
Jealous. This guy did it in what I would call sub-par conditions. Hitting that as a full powder run, that's the stuff of dreams.
@@aeis3007 I know I could maybe do it and I am intermediate. Though with good snow it would be awesome
ain't that superhigh chance to start an avalanche ?
@@radekbaranowski8047 from my experience skiing in the Alps, they basically set off bombs and clean the pistes every morning to combat the risk.
If it's not roped off, you're safe to ski w/o avalanche risk. People still ski in roped off areas, in which case yeah, they can easily trigger/get stuck under an avalanche. Only idiots though.
There’s something that’s just hypnotizing about snowboarding and how fun it is!
True!
Earned a new subscriber dude. Flawless technique and style on the board. Thanks for posting, such a gorgeous place as well to hit the slopes.
Have never been skiing or snowboarding in my life but this was still a really enjoyable watch thanks
Aaaand now I miss the slopes more than ever. Damn virus stole a month and a half of working as a snowboard instructor from me. Guess we'll all enjoy our next season in the alps double as much.
same here, where abouts where you?
same
iutiuber yeah. At Tahoe we just had a good dump of white and they closed everything. But I’m 72 so I suppose for me it was stupid to whine about it- but I did anyway!
@@StevenBanks123 still riding? That's awesome!
@@StevenBanks123 You're a legend!!!! Keep it up man! All we have here is fake snow :/
I think its amazing that he is still hearting comments after 2 months
Lol, I did miss this one, but got there in the end!
Man what a great tunnel ride! Loved the steep drop after it, must be so cool! As a french guy I've never tried it
This is definitely the steepest part i’ve tried anywhere, i think it was back in 2015.
You had an awesome day to run it though, the lumps were no less than 1 meter High for the first 20-30 meters down. You literally could not run over them. Definitely challenging no matter when and how the slope looks😁
When I did this run last year it had been shut most the week due to heavy snow then they opened it around lunch time me and my dad went up and we were around the first 20 down and it was pure powder it was sick
That is the best when you get that!
Jealous!!
The Alpe d'Huez station is definitely my favorite one. I highly recommend it for anyone who love skiing/snowboading on challenging runs. There is this tunnel trail but there is also the longest black trail in the world called "La Sarenne". It is 16km, 1800m downhill and starts at 3000m! It's just awesome!
Nice
And the sunny weather being in Southern Alps and great snow thanks to high altitude is the best combination I know.
What a great video. Haven't been skiing for over 18 years, but relived it through this video even though I didn't do black pistes, since I only skied for 3 times! Been to France though. Good times!
Wow, what a beautiful ski slope and great technique.
It’s mad how he can talk so casually going down that run
It’s a voice over?
@@eveliinaalanen6120 it's a joke? 😂
Eveliinaalanen r/whoosh
errmerrgerrrd
@@owengodsall9301 ouch. U slammed them
Malcolm! You OWNED a that run! As a skiing reject, let’s alone even trying to snowboard, I bow to the awesomeness of your run, and your ability. Wow. Just beautiful.
Thanks man!
Excellently chilled commentary! An exemplar in how to make challenging seem like a doddle.
Haha 😆
yeah this run goes STRAIGHT to my bucket list
Him - riding regular
Me (I ride goofy) - TURN THE *beep* AROUND
😂
Practice your switch. 😊
I know, it just feels so wrong!
I feel you, no one in my class rode goofy, only me
Getting right to the point , you start riding right away, that’s GOLD !
🙌
Good for you, Malcolm. Thank you.
Thanks Brad ✌
Thanks for taking the time to record that and bringing us with you. This is also arguably the hardest single mountain climb in the Tour de France. It’s amazing to see it from this perspective for the first time.
I cycled alpe d'huez every day for a month thus summer! Was gruelling!
Love those long downhill, open patches where you can really pick up speed! We don’t get as many of those in the states where I live, out mountains are pointier. We do have better woods trails then the Swiss stuff I got to experience.
Just what I’ve seen, though!
Yeah most of the riding here is all above the tree line, I miss riding trees!
yeah, I think the best line ive done is blue mountain in Canada. Mammoth is second, maybe cuz blue mountain had fresh snow when I went.
@@zeffery101 never heard of blue mountain, is it east coast?
@@malcolmmoore YES. its in Ontario about 2 hours north of Toronto
@@zeffery101 I see, I've never ridden over that way!
Thank you for filming this. I became SUDDENLY disabled at a young age. There's still so much in life I never got to do. Watching videos like this help me imagine a little of what it's like.
Wow man, this got me, I appreciate you sharing. I don't know what your situation is, but stay strong, there's always hope!
you’re awesome dude, you definitely made it look easy!
Thanks Mariela 🙌
I forgot to breathe a couple times just watching this. He's going so fast. Man. Last week I went skiing for the first time and everyone I met was sooo reassuring like this guy. The ski/snowboard community seems extremely nice but way overrating of my abilities. I went down the bunny slope screaming
Lmao
on my first time skiing I actually ended up stuck in a tree while going down the beginner slope. the turn was too sharp for my speed, I went off tracks pretty violently lmfaooo
bro hes going 3 mph
The first time I went skiing, my friends and I (dumbasses) went to the top of the mountain and decided to ski down but I was afraid and didn’t go the first time. Once my friends went down the mountain and came back up I decided to find the courage and go down the mountain. My boyfriend was teaching me but I was too scared so I flew down the mountain ( it was a green mountain)... I almost flew into a house. The whole time my boyfriend had to go back down the mountain backwards while holding me because I was too afraid to ski by myself. I couldn’t take lessons because it was all booked and all my friends (who never skied) were perfectly fine except for me. :(
@@oyasumilunlun hahaha I can relate to that😂🏂
Him: goes down a huge mountain!
Me: goes down the small hill in my backyard!
Its all the same! keep shredding!
I finally see the appeal of snowboarding. That run was absolutely glorious.
I love the voiceover, makes it sound way more doable.
I have actually no idea why i watched this video. It doesnt look special and i am used to "driving skills like that" because i am from austria. But that was a awesome video. Realy chill voice like it.
Haha cheers man!
Zeawus💪😂
Von wo kommst du
@@sluggino6049 Vorarlberg und du?
Koa Tiroler do😂
THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING SUCH COOL THINGS IN THEIR LIVES AND IAM HERE IN MY HOME STUDYING
It really does be like that
damn, i feel that. people out here starting businesses, going skiing and snowboarding, and doing more awesome things and i’m just inside my room all day only going outside of my room just to get or get water lmao.
U don’t seem like ur studying
lol!
I'm here going over comments I never replied to waiting for the resort to be allowed to open again!
Thank you. This world is an amazing place and I love seeing videos of those places which I will never visit.
Maybe one day!
I really enjoyed watching that! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching 🙌
Wow, good skills mate! I also appreciate how you described everything, thanks!
Thanks for watching! 🙏
I use to be a ski instructor in Montana and I’ve skied the Italian Alps. As well as , the famous Matterhorn in gorgeous Zermatt, Switzerland as well as many others across Europe. I say all that to say I used to ski ALL the time but jobs have taken me away from the mountains. After watching this, I almost got emotional thinking back and how very much I miss this sport!!! Thanks for posting that was a great run and beautiful place!!
I can’t remember the exact name of the resort, but there is one in Austria where you literally ride a train up through the inside of the mountain to reach the resort! Europe is just an amazing place!!!
You'll have to make it back to the Alps one day, it's my favourite place and I'm lucky enough to live out here now!
Hi, never even set foot on a slope and never will. The title brought me in as I love to see young folk doing what I never got around to, what kept me in was the absolute professional quality of the video and editing, you could give lessons in that for sure, no stupid music and I could hear the swishing of the board and your intelligent and not too loud narration, well done and thank you sir.
Thanks Kevin ✌
Beautiful, very different terrain than where I ride. Canadian Rockies. Kicking horse, revy, marmot. Sunshine. Lots of trees 🌲
I was supposed to be in Val Thorens in April, but there's no chance now, so I gotta live vicariously through videos. Killer run mate. Maybe one day.
There's loads of snow at the minute still too, looking like it would have been a good spring all across the French Alps, gutting!
I went to Val Thorens three days before the quarantine
me and my family have been going to Grand Massif every Easter, apart from last year we went to Serre Chevalier. Gutted and I need the mountains, Flaine is so relaxed and quiet for families, missing it! :(
Next year 🤞
Trois vallées and Val Thorens is amazing. I miss it already. Definitely going next season again
Me: Man, snowboarding looks kind of fun, I ought to try it out sometime.
Also me: Lives in Alabama
Damn, one day though 🤞
Sweet place
I tried snowboarding last week, park city, Utah, and now I'm addicted at 44 years old and living in Florida. I'm watching vids in hopes I don't forget what I learned lol.
Dude, Alabama has a ski resort! Cloudmont Ski Resort on Lookout Mountain in northeast Alabama, near Mentone. Obviously it isn't world class or anything, but it exists!
Pshh we don't need to snowboard. We can just walk outside with a kite and fly with all these tornadoes we've been having.
I love how you talk about these techniques and all of the movements you do and describing the surface and all the stuff around you and how you're aware of what you doing : )
Thanks, most people tell me to shut my mouth!
Nice video!
Brings back fond memories, but also flashes of my most epic crash ever at the very beginning of the steep section 🙂
Yeah the tunnel does that
Those straights looked hella fun cuz you can just kinda chill and not worry about losing control.
Sick run. Problem was that too many people who just didnt have the skill were clogging up the beginning. Had to wait 15 minutes after the tunnel just to get on the piste
Yeah that happens sometimes, luckily I got it on a quiet day!
European: I went through a tunnel and the run afterwards was awesome.
American: The Eisenhower tunnel taught me that tunnels and above treeline skiing don't mix.
Omg I miss this so much, normally we would ski/snowboard in the alpes every year but last year because of corona we couldn't, this makes me so excited to our winter holidays in the alpes this year! Though I can't choose if I should do snowboarding or skiing...
Go snowboarding
this looks awesome , definitely want to try this run someday ! Awesome vid!
Great ride, thank you for taking us with you!
A bit of quarantined virtual snowboarding is always good!
Amazed no-one has put in a cafe stop half way through the tunnel!
That sounds so cool
Yea, like where’s the sinep and bread and if you are lucky a sauasage smh
I miss snowboarding so much… have fun and be safe!
great video. i feel like i can ride a snowboard just watching this. u make it look easy
Thanks Kyle!
Wow thanks for the experience never have I snowboard in my life but just watching this video n u r explaining everything about Ur techniques is amazing felt like I was there n the view was beautiful hope to c more
🤗🤗
Awesome, yeah I'll be back next winter with more!
3:39 if I was there skiing I would probably go right down on a straight line until I fall, bc going fast is fun until you fall down
Indeed it is! 🤙
It’s All fun and games u penguin it cause u went 2 fast and snapped ye boards
True. I would just go down and have a jolly old time. Hopefully the board or the skis wouldn't break cause it would be a bad sign.
Back In the 70's I used to ski like that. With bell bottoms on. They would flap so loud from the speed that people heard me coming and got out of the way. LMAO.
Skied this run in1983 with 3 sons, brother in law and 4 of his. Age range 14 to 17. Fantastic skiing
You make this look so easy! Last time I tried snowboarding a fell and rolled all the way down. It wasn't fun 😅
so dope,i cant wait for the new season to come
Me too!
Quarantined at home... was good to "be on the slopes again". Thanks!
Thanks, stay safe 🤙
It looks so fun ! Looking forward to trying it 😊
That was a tight turn. Wow!
You’re the SUPER GT of snowboarding. This was extremely entertaining to watch and even relaxed me. You have a great voice man, keep it up!
Thankyou very much! 👍
thanks for sharing this, really enjoyed it!
Thankyou, and great name!
He entered the tunnel so seamlessly I had to rewind...and even then I wasn't sure what I'd seen. Smooth transition
Great narrative, superb video. thanks a lot
Thankyou! Looking forward to making more next season when the resorts are hopefully back open here in france!
Hey man! I’ve been wanting to get into snowboarding as I just got a snowboard and what you’re doing is so cool. Sadly in Indiana there isn’t much snow yet so here’s hoping for a good learning experience this year. Thanks man!
Me, sitting comfy in my bed eating chips: yup.. *munch much* .. I should do that
I did it many times... Used to go there on weekends and with a Student card, the entry was cheaper. And yeah there are 2 long almost flat parts where you need to take speed and just enjoy. I freaking enjoyed it a lot. Brings a lot of good memories !
Thanks for letting an old guy vicariously join you down the slop. Awesome!
Anytime Desmond ✌
Awesome video! Cannot wait to get back on the mountain when this is all over
Me too!
Great video Malcolm, my daughter was working this season and I fully intended to ski Le Tunnel, she hooked me up with a few of her friends to show me the way down but the day we were due to go was a complete white out so I didn’t think it would be too smart to tackle it. She intends to go back next season ( with this one being cut short and all) so this will stand me in good stead for next season.
I'm already looking forward to next season, I'm just glad I managed to cram as much riding in as possible too this year!
Beautiful views, thank you. Never would of seen this if it wasn’t for you sir!
My pleasure 😃
You seem so fun and hilarious, this is a well-informed video, keep it up!
Thanks, I'll be back next winter with more!
Were there last year at this time, did the Sareene run but the last 2 kms was pants for a board!! Tunnel run was closed when we were up there but had a 60 cm dump for the last 2 days so conditions were epic!!
Nice, yeah it's not often the tunnel is open. The bottom part of the sarenne can be a pain to get down for sure!
Jesus that snow is like concrete.
digwillhachi you haven’t been to Michigan.
@@Henry-ro2bo Im spoilt on Japanese powder hehe.
@@Henry-ro2bo the snow may be bad in Michigan, but at least you're by cedar point!
Yeah, I loved the bit about "softish" show as he scraped his way down the ice😹. Does look like fun though.
I grew up on the east coast (ice coast). That snow would be heaven to me.
Nice one mate! Thanks for sharing!👍😊
This is the first ever snowboarding video i watched and is what got me into it cheers
Stoked!