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Looks like some people skied the couloir above the village yesterday. It's super steep and narrow, a guide I skied with a few weeks ago was suggesting doing it sometime but it looks pretty nails from this angle.  3 weeks to go to the PdG, I've been getting a decent amount of vertical in and feeling pretty good. 1100m Saturday, 2000m yesterday. I'm hoping my team-mates back in London are hitting the stair machine a whole lot. 
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Bet it's neither as steep or as narrow as it looks from that angle! Pretty sure you should go check it out on a training ski with your guide buddy.
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Apr 5, 2022 04:59
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spwrozek posted:I feel like you crushed it. Great job. Thanks! Feels great to be done, and I haven’t been too tired to do a bit of shredding at the resorts here for the last two days. Aspen/Ajax was really fun Monday, Highlands was great yesterday (and Deep Temerity is possibly my favorite lift name ever), and today we hit Snowmass before peacing put back to Tahoe tonight. I definitely want to come back. (For the skiing, not the big dumb race)
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Apr 6, 2022 15:55
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It's great spring touring, too. I'm out this weekend, but we're gearing up to go big the following two weekends if the weather and snowpack allow it.
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Apr 6, 2022 17:32
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Steve French posted:Thanks! Feels great to be done, and I haven’t been too tired to do a bit of shredding at the resorts here for the last two days. Aspen/Ajax was really fun Monday, Highlands was great yesterday (and Deep Temerity is possibly my favorite lift name ever), and today we hit Snowmass before peacing put back to Tahoe tonight. I definitely want to come back. (For the skiing, not the big dumb race) Good news you are coming back for two more big dumb races? Ha.
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Apr 6, 2022 17:46
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Question: Do they drink Montucky in Big Sky or Montana in general?
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Apr 8, 2022 10:47
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They definitely served it at https://www.bigskytowncenter.com/directory/tips-up/ but I was too busy enjoying MAP swiftys and Mexican Party beers
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Apr 8, 2022 12:57
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Moot .1415926535 posted:Question: Do they drink Montucky in Big Sky or Montana in general? No.
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Apr 8, 2022 21:36
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In bounds slide in Heather Canyon at Meadows took a 30 year old experienced rider last week. He went missing on Tuesday and wasn’t found until yesterday. Temps were super warm Wednesday and Thursday and the alpine above that area was in extreme slide risk so they couldn’t search.
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Apr 10, 2022 15:56
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There was an article in the local paper this week about a spring storm in 72 where four skiers died in an in-bounds avalanche. They quote a guy in it about how he can't remember anyone else dying in an in-bounds avalanche since. And then someone died in one earlier this week.
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Apr 10, 2022 17:12
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One of the things I've finally doing is that I'm working on becoming a member of my regional SAR team and hope to become part of the mountain rescue unit. Once I finally start to taper off my involvement with racing, I want to stay involved in winter sports by becoming a volunteer patroller and also SAR volunteer. I thing I didn't fully appreciate is how much SAR work is recovery vs rescue.
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Apr 10, 2022 17:48
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HookShot posted:There was an article in the local paper this week about a spring storm in 72 where four skiers died in an in-bounds avalanche. My brother watched this one happen as he got off the lift at Taos and was part of the group that pulled the skier's body out: https://backcountrymagazine.com/stories/skier-dies-after-inbounds-avalanche-in-taos-new-mexico-while-another-remains-in-critical-condition/ It was a horrifying experience that completely changed his attitude towards mountain safety.
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I’ve been involved in SAR around here a bit. One thing I learned from doing a training day with a local ski patrol is that using a RECCO detector is much much much harder than an avalanche beacon, and it’s also much much more likely that the first patroller on the scene of an in bounds slide will have an avalanche beacon (since they all have one, and they don’t all have a RECCO detector). If you’ve got a beacon, wear it inbounds. If you don’t, and ski in avalanche terrain, consider getting one. And also that in the winter in a resort area, a large number of calls are due to people wandering out of bounds and getting lost and are fairly straightforward rescues, partially because they tend to get lost in the same predictable places
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Apr 10, 2022 22:26
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I wear my beacon any time I'm skiing in avalanche terrain, regardless of rated avy danger that day or whether or not I'm inbounds at a resort. People sometimes scoff that it's useless without a partner and probe/shovel (I carry those when I am in the BC or gnarly inbounds hikes), and I explain to them I'm not necessarily wearing it so that I can be saved - I am wearing it inbounds so that patrol can find my body and give my family closure. That said, as mentioned above, every patroller is wearing a beacon, so it certainly does increase my chances a bit. Plus if I see an avalanche occur I can try to zero in on any hits while placing an emergency call to patrol. I learned this from some norwegian dudes I met in BC, they said if you have the beacon it would be stupid not to wear it. You just have to make sure you switch to search mode asap if there's a slide nearby so that your transmit signal won't complicate the search.
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Apr 10, 2022 23:58
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Today and yesterday at Snowmass have been as good as the deepest midwinter days. Also my legs are ready to fall off now.
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Apr 13, 2022 21:24
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Been watching all day and forgot to share, Natural Selection finals from AK. Travis is out here to prove why he's the goat. https://stream.naturalselectiontour.com/ edit: gently caress I should be riding not watching. "Mt. Hood Weather Forecast The blower pow buffet continues this morning. 14” in 24 hours, 7” overnight, 1” water equivalent. Zero wind. That’s as perfect as snow gets in the Cascades, and you should make it yours of you can. If not, you’ll have tomorrow, when a similar amount of similar powder will be available for you. Cool temps keep the packed powder around through Sunday. We then head into another round of accumulation on Monday. Temps with that one are uncertain; the precip could be either snow or rain at this point. As always, we vote for the cooler outcome."
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Apr 13, 2022 21:37
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Eejit posted:Today and yesterday at Snowmass have been as good as the deepest midwinter days. Also my legs are ready to fall off now. 2% bottomless blower in April at the country club, you love to see it. I think there were like 50 people total on Ajax today.
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Apr 14, 2022 02:16
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Eejit posted:Today and yesterday at Snowmass have been as good as the deepest midwinter days. Also my legs are ready to fall off now. I was jealous over here in Denver. My 15 degree bike ride with wind in my face was a real kick in the pants when I saw how much drat snow you got.
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Apr 14, 2022 03:29
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ironlung posted:2% bottomless blower in April at the country club, you love to see it. I think there were like 50 people total on Ajax today. There was nobody on Snowmass either, and that's by Aspen standards too. Whatever we looked at, so long as it wasn't a blue under a chair, was ours for first tracks. Like, it was stupid deep. And stupid light. And stupid not crowded. Just some of the best riding of my life. Glad you got out there, I might ride Ajax tomorrow before work.
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Apr 14, 2022 03:35
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Eejit posted:Today and yesterday at Snowmass have been as good as the deepest midwinter days. Also my legs are ready to fall off now.  I think we're definitely doing Ikon again next year. I'm tempted to just head out there this weekend.
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Apr 14, 2022 16:47
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Black Diamond was filming a “thriller” all day in our parking lot. Odd time of year to make a ski movie.
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So I'm kind of learning snowboarding in an indoor place, for eventual snowboarding in the alps. I'm kind of annoyed by the rental boots. They seem to be some old rear end version of the Burton Imprint boots, and I'm not too impressed by their fit. Is it worthwhile to get my own boots quite ahead of time (i.e. the vacation)? It feels like the better the fit, the easier to control the board.
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Apr 16, 2022 01:29
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Boots are kinda the most important thing of your setup, and yeah, having a consistent comfortable boot would be extremely helpful.
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Apr 16, 2022 01:32
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Spring skiing man. So good. Wind buff up top and slush down low. The churro place by the Breck gondola is very good too.
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Apr 16, 2022 20:59
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Anyone done any touring between Ouray and Silverton? Up there for work in two weeks and want to tour one day. Could also head towards Telluride, but I figure being on 550 makes it easy to go south.
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Easiest thing to do would be to skin up to where the red mountain alpine hut is and go from there, just from a parking standpoint. It’s getting thin here, but if you wanna ski the resort or some nearby stuff I can give you the beta. A trophy line that’s probably still good to go out of telluride is the lightning bolt: https://www.powderproject.com/trail/7000660/lightning-bolt-couloir The birthday chutes in Alta Lakes are a pretty mellow but decently long skin up and those are probably still good to go. It’s possible that Wilson Peak (the Coors can mountain) is skiable but you’d want a guide. e: lightning bolt bang bang 
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Went to Denver on Friday to see mogwai and enjoyed spring t shirt riding on sat at winter park and six to eight inches of pow on sunday. Was feeling pretty good about the weekend until I got a text from my buddy who said it was all time at the bird and bottomless in mineral basin, which makes sense because it always snows the most when I go somewhere else. Then this morning a coworker goes "did you make it to the bird on Sunday?? It was all time!!" I didn't even know the guy skied. 
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Went to Denver on Friday to see mogwai and enjoyed spring t shirt riding on sat at winter park and six to eight inches of pow on sunday. Eejit and I toured in insane gale force winds on sunday. Good times. Enjoyable skiing but man wind in the face. My dog was just cruising along...what's the problem guys? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzYZHWHDBlc
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We're getting tons of spring snow in the cascades right as a lot of the more local resorts are closing, but I went to Hoodoo for their last day yesterday and had a great time. Freshest and most powdery snow I've skied in (still a newbie). I even pushed my limits into some steeper and ungroomed blue stuff. It felt great but man is it physically harder to turn in. Also my 3 year old skied for the second time and loved it, she was going down the bunny hill without assistance by the end! Anyway great end (?) to my first real living-near-good-skiing/owning-my-skis season for me. I'm too scared of avalanches to try my first backcountry trip in the spring, so unless I make the trip to Bachelor or Hood I'm done for the season.
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alnilam posted:We're getting tons of spring snow in the cascades right as a lot of the more local resorts are closing, but I went to Hoodoo for their last day yesterday and had a great time. Freshest and most powdery snow I've skied in (still a newbie). I even pushed my limits into some steeper and ungroomed blue stuff. It felt great but man is it physically harder to turn in. FWIW the spring is generally the most stable and predictable time to be in the back country. (in a very broad sense at least, obviously a lot of factors still to consider).
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But also there's no rush. Getting more confidence in bounds won't hurt
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So I finally got to get back out to enjoy the unusually prolific mid-April snow at Hood yesterday. And I think I solved both my muscle fatigue and my toe pain problems! I finally committed myself to a longer and steeper run, which gave me the opportunity to go faster than I've gone before and spend more time working through my turns. Basically I found that it's not so much I preferentially heel turn, it's that I preferentially do whatever kind of turn I instigate - if I heel turn and then need to cut back in the opposite direction, I'm more comfortable continuing the heel turn in switch, but the same is true for toe turns. So this means basically the whole way down I'm just using the same muscle set (and putting pressure on the same parts of my feet). And also the feeling of needing to brake during these turns causes me to exhaust myself - when I let myself pick up speed, it was way less intensive, even when I later braked\turned out of it, just everything was easier. So I think I'm going to be more successful at linking turns properly at speed, and that'll be my focus next time. The route I took unfortunately had several sections of inclines, which I kept failing to enter with enough speed, so constantly having to unbuckle and slide up, then rebuckle, only to then slide into the deep powder just to the side and have to dig myself out because I wasn't positioned right was...less than fun. But the overall run was great and the views were incredible. I think I made way more progress this season than last season, and I'm excited to hopefully get a couple more spring days in, then just go all out next year (a really late start to the season and some unexpected life events prevented me from using my pass to its fullest this year, so hoping to rectify next year).
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spwrozek posted:Eejit and I toured in insane gale force winds on sunday. Good times. Enjoyable skiing but man wind in the face. My dog was just cruising along...what's the problem guys? Yeah that looks like a basin on Sunday, too. Was pretty fun and drat good riding but felt and looked like Antarctica at the top of pali!
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Moment blemished skis on sale. Go get ‘em.
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My yearly reminder that Ikon doesn't care about all hEaLtHcArE hErOeS, only Nurses.
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Went to the shop today for some proper boots. Jesus Christ, what a difference in fit vs. those rentals.
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What style of knee protector works the best for whenever my front facing edge of the snowboard grips accidentally when facing the downwards slope and throws me over forward? I'd prefer not loving up my knees on hard ground (indoor).
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Combat Pretzel posted:What style of knee protector works the best for whenever my front facing edge of the snowboard grips accidentally when facing the downwards slope and throws me over forward? I'd prefer not loving up my knees on hard ground (indoor). My brother wears the volleyball style kneepads just so he can kneel down comfortably but he swears by them. If you're eating poo poo over your toe edge then you may want elbow protectors as well lol
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Combat Pretzel posted:What style of knee protector works the best for whenever my front facing edge of the snowboard grips accidentally when facing the downwards slope and throws me over forward? I'd prefer not loving up my knees on hard ground (indoor). i use g-form pads (both knee and elbow) when boarding. they also come in clutch for mountain biking
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BD telekneesis are the gold standard for tele knee pads. they move with you really well and can go on over base layers, which you may have trouble with if you use tight-fitting sleeve-style pads
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