ashw_justin

http://www.bombersplitboards.com/Pages/bomber_split_bindings.cfm actually I haven't used these yet, but they just look so cool.

A couple of guys checked out that approach over the weekend. Ask them (one is skykilo).

Yeah slap I probably don't need to have poles in my hands for anything steep enough to be fun, but I'm too lazy to put them away, and my ski partners think it's funny, and I like to entertain them (because I'm nice like that).

So inspecting the whippet poles, I have to say the attachment point for the pick looks pretty damn weak. All that's holding the pic in is about 1/32" of aluminum (and that's being generous). Sketchy?

Whatever, I'm not sidelippin', bizitch! Shit, where's the video, Phil?

Consider that the total newbie, hiking up the easy route, feels just as hardcore and adventuresome as you do on your uber-hard super-gnar death trap testpiece.

I guess there would be some excitement in climbing an infamous route. There's a lot of fantasy in climbing, otherwise you're just a stupid human torturing yourself on some steep piece of earth for no reason.

T-? minutes to Vonnegut allusion...

I heard some folks went out to ski it a while back, but it wasn't super cooperative.(?)

14/16 on the shemales (said that two women were men). I'm a fuckin genius! woohoo!

Sounds pretty burly. Kudos for not dying!

Also, I just bought a Whippet pole that I will use while riding from now on.

The only thing to note, is that it negatively affects your steeze. What WHAT? photo by philfort

I ride with poles in my hands. In fact yesterday, I was even using them to initiate jump turns in the sastrugi.

That is the most confusing picture...

Damn that looks awesome!

French Technique? If by that you mean pussy-footing around and trying to come in sideways? This here's aMERica, and here we go steer-ate UP the gnar, gawd-dimmit! One could construe flat-footed techniques as a way of compensating for inadequate support for frontpointing? But I'm not an ice climber.

Cool, cool. I commend your uncaging of your e-soul (from the NPS domain). Great service to the climber.

I'm 5'8" 155 lbs and ride a 166 cm Voile. It's the right size for winter conditions. Something shorter would be more appropriate for summer corn riding.

The AT boots I have are sweet for alpine ice. Lock up stiff and punish the ice.

Whatever man, that's fucking sweet. (In a NON-SEXUAL way, mind you.)

Yeah but if she'd stuck it, we'd all be super stoked. GO BIG OR GO HOME!

Also, go to www.splitboard.com for more discussion.

You can get a 161 cm splitboard stock from Prior or Voile. Or shorter, by custom order.

Why is not smart to solo? (versus any other route)