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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. The word stirs panic in the hearts of all riders and yet these trails are such a huge part of the overall riding experience its counterproductive to hate them. I teach at Snowbird, Utah, where catwalks are used to funnel people across the steeps to more accessible runs, so I work on them every day. We teach our first-time students an a fairly steep beginner hill that lends itself well to sideslipping, traversing, and eventually turning. When we leave that hill far the next hill, the students have their first encounter with flat terrain, and it's never their favorite part of the lesson.