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Dude your so young to have such problems. I've heard about insoles with magnets, sounds weird but some swear by them?!

' If god wanted Texans to ski he would have made bullshit white!' I hate Texans!

Grear pictures, makes me want to get on a plane and give it a go!

Got that jab in pretty fast, I'm impressed.

Girl, I just got back from shelf road, a premier climbing locale! Pretty sweet for sure.

Damn, I'm feeling left out!

I thought u were from Cali!

Hoping for something more specific.

How do you define a lot of BC skiing experience, so many days? so many trips, what?

Hey TLG, sssssh, there's enough toproping gapers out here already.

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It was a beautiful March day I was skiing with my buddy Brian, whom I'd skied out of bounds with for many years. He wanted to step out of the ski area boundry for a run down an east facing slope called west willows, I wasn't so sure because it had gotten warmer since we last skied it, the week before. He talked me into it none the less. I went first making a few turns heading to the left and stopped above a group of stubby pine trees, with the intention of taking a few photos of Brian as he skied down past me. I had him through my view finder, when I heard what sounded like an F-16 flying right above my head. I looked up and saw nothing, then looked back at Brian and off to his left the slope was breaking away into an avalanche. My heart skipped a beat as I yelled 'avalanche'! He immediatly turned left toward me and as he did so the area he was just skiing on slid away, in fact at one point the tails of his skis were in mid air! Good thing I had stopped above some tight stubby trees because that was the only area that didn't slide down 2000 yds to th bottom of the valley in a hugh roiling cloud of snow. We looked back at where we had just skied, there was an eight foot fracture down to the ground, a slab avalanche. My legs were shaking uncontrollable, after a few mintues had passed, as we traversed a few yards and dropped down on to the now bare slope where we hiked back to the top of the ridge and into the ski area, thankful that we only got a scare, especially Brian. I learnt a lesson here, listen to your instincts not to people who don't neccessarily have a lot of b/c experience

Hey, Wolf Creek has 65 inches not bad! I love the Cascades, I love all mountains.

AlpineK, I boot packed in all those places, the PNW, Utah, the Tetons. What I've learned from these internet chat rooms is unimformed opinions fly all over the place. Someone reads something or hears a rumor they repeat it as fact. Silverton ain't that great, give me the Hole any day.

You sound like the wanna-be poster child for powder magazine, all hype and no sense grasp of reality.

If your sports shop is any good they will have a special iron that is designed to remove old glue from skins, let them do this for you, its faster and they can put on new glue if needed.

One more thing. I have two sets of holes in my skis, one for the Freeride and one for Salomon bindings. When the freerides are on, the Salomon holes are plugged. You'll have to get in with a ski tech at one of the local ski shops, that won't be too hard for a women in a ski town. I'll bet you won't need to change them that often because when the ski area gets good you'll be there more often than not. I doubt if you'll be in the back country that much, people are scared of the Colorado backcountry. You'll most likely change over in the spring when Colorado backcountry hopefully gets stable.

Have had Fritschi since they first came out. Still don't beleive the perfect At binding has been invented yet. If you are going to tour and not ski really steep stuff, look into the Dynafit tri-step binding. Super light weight, works great, I just wouldn't use it in a steep Couliour. Remember that the Colorado bc isn't like that in the NSW, certainly more dangerous.

Johnston creek is in the woods, low avi danger.

Check out Johnston creek area, a number of climbs from 2-5WI at the end of the 2.5km hike. Take hwy 1A from Banff. The end of the hike is a 70m wide sheet of ice plus ice all along the route in.

It's not "the climbing culture' it's the American view of the climbing culture. I've been all over the world and it's only in America that people act this way, I believe it's become part of our culture to second guess everything, and I put it squarely on the shoulders of the American media. Also in the context of the internet its about insecurity and anonymity. Most people in these chat rooms are new to climbing, not a lot of experience, so they want to validate their own selves, and this can be easily done in the hidden world of chat rooms. The only thing to do from others mistakes in the world of climbing is to learn from them and not repeat them.

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The helmet fad is about image, that 'I just got out of an extremo competition', that's why I also ski with a pack in bounds and bendy poles with silly little baskets on the end. People want to belong to the magazine image. Yes helmets do save heads, but I've seen people die who had helmets on. If you want to wear a helmet that's great, but remember half of your actions are about 'looking cool'! I wear a helmet but only when they make me.

I'm in the Ouray area, drop me a line if you are looking to come down this way ice climbing, I'm always looking for good belay partners.