Fall Line

"We're just gonna ski fall-line here," he assures me early in the day, as I stare down at a 38-degree pitch peppered with not insubstantial boulders. ❋ Andrew McCarthy (2011)

Great tracts of wilderness separated communities beyond the fall-line of the rivers. ❋ Allen Johnson (1900)

From the tidewater, with its large plantations worked by African slaves, the cultivation of cotton passed into the region above the fall-line of the rivers, where the small farmer practiced a diversified agriculture. ❋ Allen Johnson (1900)

In colonial America this inner edge coincided with the "fall-line" of the ❋ Ellen Churchill Semple (1897)

And then, one by one, we jumped into Gladiator, roughly 1,200 vertical feet of steep, fall-line skiing reminiscent of Highland Bowl's Y Zones in epic condition. ❋ Bob Ward Aspen Times Weekly Aspen (2010)

Today, the resort boasts some of the longest fall-line cruisers in the country, backcountry skiing in Taynton Bowl and the biggest freestyle terrain park in the Rockies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rather, from the angle of the up-track, bring your skis perpendicular to the fall-line (critical if you are waxing) then kick-turn bringing the uphill ski nearly 180 degrees around, then follow through with the second ski moving from the hip. ❋ Donny Shefchik Backcountry Turns Val, CO Colorado (2010)

Gladiator, roughly 1,200 vertical feet of steep, fall-line skiing reminiscent of Highland ❋ Unknown (2010)

The country's best places to ski and snowboard-from fall-line meccas to refreshingly undeveloped resorts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Best run to finish the day: Red Mountain is legendary for its vertical and fall-line skiing-terrain that has helped hone the skills of more than one Canadian skiing legend. ❋ Unknown (2009)