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As in you don't believe they could do this, or "Yeah, right" I won't let them?

It feels slow to me too. SOme sites are running quick (fark/tttips etc) but cc.com takes over a minute to respond sometimes. For the past week or so. Quite variable though. Not saying timmy is wrong, just that I have noticed it too.

Yup, similar. I think the slope at the very left of the pic is the edge of the one with all the big tracks on it. The attachment shows the whole of the Connaught drainage, with my best guess of where the group was caught marked. Edit: Dru is right now that I look again... Sorry.

klenke - that would be Eagle peak according to my map. Avalanche is just out of picture. Edit: Wrong, it is avalanche, see dru's post below!

Cool that you got out and had fun! One question; obviously fun+ is better than fun, but is shitty+ better or worse than shitty? I hope to see some Freshiez here tonight... Please? I would rate most snow here as shitty right now due to some major crust.

Same same, but different!

Who the heck is Doug Scott?

Have you seen xXx ? He has some cool shit. That stunt where they jumped the dirt bike over the exploding barn at the drug ranch? Holy Shit! They really did that too! Or the "Making Of" was a crock...

Good ideas. I was mostly trying to get people motivated though. With the recent multiple burial things going on, I thought it might be a good idea to drag this up. I'm not trying to test people on how the undo their jackets Obviously there will be not perfectly scientific results. I think a lot of people bury beacons too shallow in practice, and a lot of people don't spend enough time on multiples. It gets a lot harder when the sending units are 2ft down even. Might reinforce the need for probing skills too!

I did post some conditions. What do you think is needed to even it out?

At the risk of... Here's something on topic: HotChoc made with coconut milk powder rocks! It makes good in no-bake cheesecake too.

Coz he likes to get us going. I should google it and see if it's bull like his last one...

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?