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Jim Herrington
Mountain climber
New York, NY
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 11, 2009 - 02:33pm PT
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It's getting to be that time...
Let's see your backcountry ski photos.
I'll start.
I took this near Alta Peak, west side of the Sierra just before the Tablelands, at the beginning of the Sierra High Route (the ski route, duh).
This was around 11pm, full moon...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Sep 11, 2009 - 03:12pm PT
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kewl photo
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curt wohlgemuth
Social climber
Bay Area, California
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Sep 11, 2009 - 03:28pm PT
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But whydja set your tent on fire?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 11, 2009 - 04:11pm PT
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Lunch break...
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Sep 11, 2009 - 06:02pm PT
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bump for the purdy pictures
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Jim Herrington
Mountain climber
New York, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 11, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
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Dave King, near Banner Peak, Sierra Nevada.
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Jim Herrington
Mountain climber
New York, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2009 - 08:53am PT
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Doug Robinson near Banner Peak, Sierra Nevada.
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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Sep 12, 2009 - 11:41am PT
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Cool pictures and awesome scenery !!!
Backcountry skiing is amazing, wish I had taken more pics, this year perhaps!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 14, 2009 - 08:23am PT
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Very Nice! Been thinking about cutting turns and voila...the shizzle! The leaves are turning in these parts...snow just around the corner.
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khanom
climber
good question
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Sep 14, 2009 - 09:01am PT
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This just looks too good to miss out on. I LOVE these pics!
Been meaning to get back on skis a couple of winters now... I really ought to go for it this time 'round.
More photos please?
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
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Sep 14, 2009 - 10:56am PT
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BCD -
Damn! Those are super good. Love the B&W of Picture Pk. You get around!
Everyone else...keep posting - cool here today. Already had a winter dream or two in the last couple of weeks.
Remember. I ski. You ski. Whiskey!
Goes for all who glide.
Tom Carter
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Pate
Trad climber
The High And Lonely
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Sep 14, 2009 - 11:27am PT
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Carter, you're the one who should be posting up! C'mon now, where's the Ruby Goods at?
I'll send you back your shovel if you'll hook us up....maybe.
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Jim Herrington
Mountain climber
New York, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2009 - 11:43am PT
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Crossing the Tablelands on the Sierra High Route.
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Walleye
climber
In the Aviary studying trees
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Sep 14, 2009 - 11:49am PT
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I'm officially declaring this thread a weener...
Carter, where is that photo of you jumping down Wahoo Gully (or was that Bardini?) I used to have a big poster of that in my room for years..
Jim H. Great black and white shot above..
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Pate
Trad climber
The High And Lonely
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Sep 14, 2009 - 11:57am PT
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Or that pic of Carter from the Ruby Heli website laying tracks down the huge couloir? Blizzy Bliss.
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hafilax
Trad climber
East Van
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Sep 14, 2009 - 12:10pm PT
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Garibaldi May 2009:
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xtrmecat
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Sep 14, 2009 - 05:08pm PT
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A friendly bump, and a pic from about three winters ago. This is my cardio hill, and the backside has some good stuff. It has been my desktop for a couple years, too.
Bob
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t*r
Trad climber
caught up in the rapture like anita baker
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Sep 14, 2009 - 10:59pm PT
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these pics are driving me f'n nuts
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Sep 15, 2009 - 12:51am PT
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North side of Pyramid Peak, South Lake Tahoe backcountry, Apr. 11, 2009
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Pate
Trad climber
The High And Lonely
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Sep 15, 2009 - 09:43am PT
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Sweet shots Tork- no route finding on that one!
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goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
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Oct 20, 2009 - 01:50pm PT
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SLEDNECKERS!...Hey man where’s the leashes to pull us uphill?
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Grahm Doe
Sport climber
Just South Of Heaven
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Oct 20, 2009 - 03:10pm PT
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slednecks indeed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Nu8kRPVb4&feature=related
Come on up! I'll be happy to be your own personal chair lift ;-)
We usually pull up to a crag and get some climbs in too.
Sorry for the high jack, now back to your regularly scheduled skiing...
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General Ripper
climber
GnarthWest
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Oct 20, 2009 - 03:17pm PT
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Descending after skiing the headwall in the background on the Northeast Face of Mt. Redoubt.
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Michael Kennedy
Social climber
Carbondale, Colorado
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Oct 20, 2009 - 04:04pm PT
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Early season turns near Marble, Colorado (no, not this year - yet).
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igikpak
Mountain climber
Ridgway,CO
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Oct 20, 2009 - 05:05pm PT
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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Oct 20, 2009 - 06:28pm PT
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Here are some from the BC Coast Mountains, Nirvana Pass area
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Buju
Trad climber
the range of light
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Oct 20, 2009 - 08:15pm PT
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awesome thread! bring on the psyche!
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Timid TopRope
Social climber
Paradise, CA
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Oct 20, 2009 - 08:33pm PT
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Pate
Trad climber
?
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Oct 30, 2009 - 12:11pm PT
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Up by the hair on my skinny-skin-skins....
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David Wilson
climber
CA
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Oct 30, 2009 - 12:25pm PT
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in the palisades...
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Pate
Trad climber
?
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Oct 30, 2009 - 12:50pm PT
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NIce David. And a Bibler tent too- spendy!
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Rokjox
Trad climber
Boys I'dunno
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Oct 30, 2009 - 02:43pm PT
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MAN, you guys got some pretty places to pack snow.
Nice stuff, nice pics. Somebody got an extra seat in the car this year?
I love doing peaks on skis.
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213
climber
The Biggest Little City
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diggin in tha crates:
three pinning and chillin somewhere high on the sierra high route
same hat different day different slide. humphreys north couloir
climbing the north face of the aiguille d'argentiere. good conditions here, but scary black ice in the middle zones, opted instead for couloir barbey. i'll be back!!!
a reno classic, peavine!
morning shred seshuan, combe maudit aka kuffner arete
rock chute, snow creek 18 hole pga-land
wooo hooo fired up for !invierno viente diez!
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Dmo
climber
S. Lake Tahoe, CA
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Good times.
skiing down is always more pleasant than knee bashing through the choss.
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Pate
Trad climber
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There is such a thing as too much snow.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
somewhere approaching Ajna
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Excuse me while I clean the drool off my keyboard.... NICE everyone!
Eric
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10b4me
Ice climber
the reticient boulder at the Happies
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great picks.
now where is that early season snow?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Some home made support cuffs to help your ankles out?
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Pate
Trad climber
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I'm in agreement w/ Steve. I cut up an old kayak hull to make my old Asolo's "Plastic" in '87.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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You perspicacious dudes are correct in theory but these weren't
no funky home-made lash-ups. They were made by Galibier and called
Rigid Rands. I might own the only pair in the US. Still got 'em and used 'em the last time I went telying! I'll post a pic.
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t*r
Trad climber
high in the sky with the clouds and snow
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those are boots. crazy boots!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 21, 2009 - 02:43pm PT
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Pure granolahead funk, to be sure!
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Pate
Trad climber
The Lost Highway
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Nov 21, 2009 - 02:46pm PT
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Yeah buddy. Forever.
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Pate
Trad climber
The Lost Highway
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Nov 22, 2009 - 09:55am PT
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cleo
Social climber
Berkeley, CA
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Nov 22, 2009 - 10:17am PT
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Wow! Totally genius with the boots!
I tele ski, and snowboard, and when it comes to descents in powder, I'd rather be on a snowboard. Problem is, the technology hasn't evolved *enough* for me to plop down another $1500 on a backcountry snowboard setup. I have an old Burton Custom. It sort of works... too heavy on the feet, and I wanted to use it with mountaineering boots, but with the weight and no backing (using race plate bindings), I could barely control it with those mountaineering boots. But it snowboards great with traditional snowboard boots and bindings (still too heavy for going uphill though)
I want a lighter board with clip (race-plate-like) bindings (Voile is now making these), and I want there to be a backing so I can use it with mountaineering boots (not happening yet, though I could use it with randonee boots, which I didn't like).
Needs more (side to side) control/stiffness while skiing (e.g. traversing steep, icy slopes)... the Burton system was pretty terrible at this.
So... I gave up before I really got started, and learned to tele, which I like very much as well.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 22, 2009 - 10:40am PT
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holy Moley! Reielly, Grossman, far be it from me to preach to the leather clad trads, but they do make plastic boots for that stuff....
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TMJesse
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Nov 22, 2009 - 11:28am PT
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Marty D. Cruising spring corn near Carson Pass 1993
[Re-post] Mr. Timid and Marty that day
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Pate
Trad climber
The Lost Highway
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Nov 22, 2009 - 11:32am PT
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WHAT a spine back there just begging to be crushed!
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matty
Trad climber
los arbor
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Nov 24, 2009 - 12:04pm PT
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Somewhere in the french alps:
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Ricardo Cabeza
Trad climber
Warner, NH
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Nov 24, 2009 - 01:23pm PT
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Cleo,
I wouldn't reccomend anything plastic for your boot setup. You won't get the flex or feel for the board on your descents, at all. Having a feel for or connection with the mt is one of the biggest factors for success.
A split board it really the setup you want to get with for BC snowboarding.
I'm assuming that with the progression of backcountry, there are leather(or synthetic) boots that accomodate crampons.
Otherwise, if you don't need crampons, you don't need stiff boots. Kick steps, it's easy and much more comfortable in cozy snowboard boots than plastics.
Lighter and simpler is better sometimes.
Most of what you're going for ( I assume) is the gnar . Powder couloirs or chutes. Skinning up on a split board will be much easier than walking or snowshoeing.
Just my thoughts.
Best,
Brandon-
EDIT: I just re-read your post and see that you get into some ice against the fall line. My opinion still stands. Yer not gonna die, and the descent will be that much sweeter!
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Fogarty
climber
BITD
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Nov 24, 2009 - 02:19pm PT
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Teaching my doughter Alexa how to Ski,
She loves to carve the Tele turns now at 16 years young.
Tele'Ho
Every one have a great Thanksgiveng.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 25, 2009 - 06:18pm PT
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Jaybro- Right about the time that my granola was getting too stale to work with, I graduated to plastic and big sidecut boards. Took some spectacular dives, at first, when I would angulate hard and fly out over the shovels!!!
Never have put on downhill equipment but I catch all the air that I could want on my long Burton Supermodel.
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Pate
Trad climber
The Lost Highway
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Dude- are you gettin some into Bear Creek canyon there? Where's that at??????? I see the KYGO sticker, so it's gotta be CO.
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Pate
Trad climber
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Dec 30, 2009 - 11:00am PT
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My father just had knee surgery last week, a replacement. A lifelong skier until about 10 years ago when his knees forced him to quit. Never a severe injury, just wear and tear.
Will this be me? Or you?
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Josh Nash
Social climber
riverbank ca
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Dec 30, 2009 - 02:24pm PT
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first time nordic skiing. rented em cheap and had at it.
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powderdan
Social climber
mammoth lakes
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Dec 30, 2009 - 05:37pm PT
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ya backcountry dan! evan DR was impressed with deerhorn! thats a good one. it took me two trips to bag that bird. the photo in secor doesnt reveal the depth(literaly) of that approach. contact me for some turns.
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PeteC
climber
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Dec 31, 2009 - 03:46pm PT
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3D chute in June
top of 3D
Mendenhall last spring
More Mendenhall
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Pate
Trad climber
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Jan 30, 2010 - 09:57am PT
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Rippers bump
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Kurt Ettinger
Trad climber
Martinez, CA
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Awesome shots. Here is one breaking track up Tallac two days ago after a couple foot of fresh
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Tork
climber
Yosemite
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Mar 10, 2010 - 08:30am PT
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Mandingo
Trad climber
Radlands, CA
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Mar 11, 2010 - 01:46pm PT
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New York Mtn, CO
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Mar 12, 2010 - 06:46am PT
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Some additional reading material: "The Dangerous Game"
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Stan Hetrick
Trad climber
Huntington Beach, CA
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Mar 12, 2010 - 07:57am PT
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johnokner
Trad climber
NJ
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Mar 17, 2010 - 04:48am PT
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Here are my ski tracks from when i was just out in Utah
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