snoboy

Ade: I don't know if there is many jobs for someone with your views of history...

OK this is back to the top, coz most of you have some sort of snow by now... I've done a couple runs lately, but didn't time myself.

The following is my opinion: Stoop & Scoop. Don't even think of bringing them where they aren't allowed. Keep em in frontcountry. Teach em to be an avy dog. If they aren't perfectly trained, they suck. This applies to people too, so dog-lovers don't flame me. Nice dogs are cool. But don't be suprised to meet people who don't want to see them on the trail.

Actually, specialed, it was rated at considerable on the day of the accident. Extra high isn't even a rating. One avalanche does not a rating make! Oh, maybe you are part of some special Rogers Pass avy forecast team that I don't know about. Sorry if you are. Edit: Here's a good news link.

They are lying, but yes it has been a warm spell.

I guess I meant for, "Iain - its funny, I have always liked skiing at the Pass," to mean that I didn't find it creepy. Sorry, my bad. I think I will find it a bit creepier now though. These two recent accidents (and the one at Red Mountain earlier in the winter) have certainly made me question my motives, and rationales for b/c skiing. More than before is what I mean. For some reason, maybe how close to home these two were, they are shaking me a bit more than usual. It is also bolstering me in other ways. I haven't felt like it was a good winter to go out in the b/c much at all this year. So maybe my snow sense is tingling at the right times anyway.

Now 3rd Hand... "for those who are familiar with roger's pass: the slide was a class 3.5 natural that ran down glory 1 on the north face of Mt Cheops. The party was in a percieved safe zone travelling up the skin track towards Balu Pass underneath Ursus trees. The slide ran down the valley, up the other side, taking out the group and timber and then curved down the valley. From all reports no one did anything wrong." From the thread on telemaktips.com.

Dru - they aren't groomed, signed trails. That is the media talking out of its ass. They most likely were on a well used access route, that sometimes looks groomed from the amount of traffic it gets. Iain - its funny, I have always liked skiing at the Pass. I found it helpful to have a huge resource of snow info available. "She said it happened on the north face of the mountain [Cheops] in Connaught Creek Valley section of Balu Valley, about five kilometres west of the Rogers Pass summit." In my memory there is no place there where it would be neccesary to expose 17 people to the hazard at the same time... Of course the report may be wrong there too.

Yeah, that got me too! And Knock Creek = Connaught Creek most likely. I am pissed that CBC is reporting on the shuttle disaster, and not much on the avy. Both were 7 deaths, isn't it supposed to be the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation???

Man, this is starting to screw with my head. From CTV

HELP!!! How do I turn it off??? I like it at My Home, but not on search results. Edit: Oh hell, maybe I do like it. I still wanna know how to turn it off though!

To take a little of timmy's work away from him: Not default anymore!

Mounting some skis for the groomers... Done! I didn't even drill any holes in wrong places this time. Now each ski has 17 holes! Think Tua will warranty them if I break em?

Uhhh, so was I...

F'in Guy! That's awesome. I guess the nickname Herminator is even more apropriate now.

Hehe. I take a lot of vitamins, I recover quickly. Took you 44 minutes to recover from that one

And Luna's posts aren't showing up on the "Recent Posts" search. ??? I smell a rat maybe? Or is this normal for newbies EDIT: And now they are... Oh well, whatever.

Lift skiing.

There' something weird though... If you go to her(?) profle and click on "Show all Users Posts" Nothing comes up. Maybe its coz Luna is noob...

More guesses here: It has been wet this week in the Kootenays, and warm. It rained to at least 5500' last night, but the trend looks like cooling, especially by Sun evening. There is lots of water around to freeze up...

"You really ought to take Cavey's advice and move the fuck outta our country if this is the way you really feel." Ah, isn't it his country too. Isn't that what you're all fighting for, the right to say what you want and be who you wanna be, or is that just a load of spray too? Not Trolling! Serious Question.

Yah, well I thought I'd seen this before, and I guess I did (see glacierdog) so the bells went off in my head. I just googled the entire letter, and there it was...

Whatever...

Maybe she don't ski. Hell I didn't even know where this place was before last September! It's all there though ChrisT.