New Web Series Follows Utah Skier Mali Noyes’ 47-Day, 93-Chute Ski Feat

Last season, skier and nurse Mail Noyes completed an incredibly ambitious goal—over the course of 47 days, she skied 93 chutes covered in Andrew McLean’s The Chuting Gallery, a steep skiing guidebook featuring routes in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains.

Efforts to ski every line in McLean’s guide had been done before, but not at Noyes’ pace. Ski mountaineer Caroline Gleich took four years and became the first woman to complete every line in The Chuting Gallery. The previous record holder, Mark Hammond, did it in five months. 

Fittingly, Noyes titled her record Project Rapid Fire. And now, she’s releasing a ten-part web series that recounts the victories and challenges associated with her journey. 

The first episode serves as an introduction, explaining the details of Project Rapid Fire. In it, Noyes also ticks off three lines: East Twin, Stairs Gulch, and the Great White Icicle.

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Noyes’ record attempt was serious, risky, and involved making plenty of difficult choices.

“I had to start realizing that I was living high risk, on the sharp end every single day,” she told POWDER after finishing Project Rapid Fire. “All my decisions mattered that much more, and I needed to be more conservative and making those calls more often than someone who’s only skiing once a week.”

But as the first episode of Noyes’ series illustrates, the journey wasn’t devoid of humor and lighter moments.

Members of the cast surrounding her effort are introduced with winking placards. Noyes is a “Nurse With A Skiing Problem.” McLean is a “Sadistic Author.” Cody Townsend, who Noyes consulted before attempting Project Rapid Fire, is an “Aspiring List Skier.” 

To ski the third line in the episode, the Great White Icicle, Noyes leaned into that levity, using snowblades. “A lot of steep skiing is just tongue-in-cheek, there’s really no reason to do it,” said McLean in an interview for Noyes’ series. “You have to have, I think, a sense of humor about it. It’s kind of gallows humor.”

The rest of Noyes’ will be uploaded every week. You can stay tuned by visiting her YouTube channel. 

Related: Mali Noyes Gained Confidence While Shattering Utah’s Chuting Gallery Record