Frikadeller

I saw those in the Gear Issue of Backcountry. Looks interesting, especially the hinged tounge. I imagine that would make walking and skinning a little more comfortable. But, how does that affect the down hill parts?

Well, that is your experience. Not mine. I tour just fine with my splitboard, and I also use it as a mountaineering tool. I do have skis too, but I find that I reach for my split more than the skis. Could also have something to do with the fact that I am a much better snowboarder than a skier. But I think that just because you have are not able to use a splitboard as a mountaineering tool, does not make it a fact that it cannot be used as one. It's like saying one cannot ice climb with an alpine axe.

I have tried this my self, and so has some of my partners. The Mountaineering boots are not stiff enough for me. I tried using a Tele boot liner that had a power strap. That helped a little, but the AT boot blew the doors off the Plastic Mountaineering boot option. Well, OK, you can french better in a Plastic Mountaineering boot...

The Scarpa's that I use work for me. I do leave the walk mode in the open position when I ride powder. For kickers and drops, well, they seem to work OK for me. I hated riding in soft boots even though I come from the snowboarding days when we rode in Sorels back at the Donner Ski Raunch... I still ride my soft boots at the resort once in a while, but really, I just like riding in hard boots, so my use of AT boots seemed pretty natural for me. The thing about using either Splitboards or AT set ups is that they are in no way the same as resort skiing. Even AT skiers will say that they are sacrificing something when they use AT gear. Same goes for splitting. If you want that surfy feeling,all the time, stick to the resort. For Me, Snowboard Mountaineering is about the climb, and the decent. If I have to sacrifice for the climb (by using soft boots, crampons that don't fit, etc. etc.) then I might not make it to the decent in the first place. For me the Splitboard is a tool, that sits in my quiver of other mountain tools. use as needed.

Thats what I do. I use Scarpa Denali boots which have a real vibram sole, and accept a step in crampon. Just get the Voile Mtn Plates and you're set. But I also found that when I tried to use mountaineering boots with a stiffer liner (koflach plastics, with a racing tele liner) I was able to get closer to that surfy feeling. On my AT boots, I just leave the walk mode in walk, and that gives me enough flex in the system to get that feeling. Your mileage might vary though. Also, using an AT boot setup, you shave a considerable amount of weight off your splitboard set up. Even more weigh can be shaved if you use a Dynafit toe peice for the skin up rather than the Voile slider plate. You do have to carry the plates in your pack for the decent, but hey, whatever. You already have your crampons and other crap in the pack anyhow. I dunno, I am pretty pleased with my AT boot set up. So are most of the people I ride with that also have that set up. You could try it pretty cheaply by buying boots off ebay, and the bindings are only $50 new from Voile.

That much pig requires alot of Beer. A keg is a good choice. Beware though, I know I have tried, you should not try to drink the entire keg your self.

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[quote=snodger Really, it's on USGS maps? Another theory of mine is perhaps that it was a joke put in by whoever made the maps for google. I could imagine them laughing as they waited for someone to notice... You know what, I am full of shit. I checked the USGS Topo, and it shows a snowfield there, and not a pond. Nor is it labeled as "polallie pond" on the USGS map. Ooopps sorry. For some reason I thought I had seen it labeled on a topo as that... Another point of interesting labels, look at google maps terrain function, and look at the palmer glacier. They have the label in the white river... So maybe your theory might be closer to the truth. They are playing a sick joke on all of us. But just for shits and giggles, maybe if you run into any of the Crag Rats or member of the Nordic club, they actually might have a better grasp on the history of the area, and might know why it is labeled as "Polallie pond"...

I saw that a few years ago when I fist started scouting the area via google earth. It also shows up on the USGS tope maps. If you go to the area labeled "Polallie pond" you'll only find a huge ravine. I am sure you have seen it if you take the trail from Tilly Jane hut to the cooper spur trail. Now, it is possible that that area might have had a dam on it 100 years ago. In one of my Mt. Hood history books they mention a wooden flume that went up high in the north side that collected water and transported it to the farms in the Hood River Valley. Could this have been one of the collection points? It is also feasible that the pond and dam where the victims of erosion that swept it all down hill, as seeing that ravine seems to get bigger and bigger every year. It is even swallowing up the trail that goes right along the edge of the ravine. I have no proof of any of this, just pure speculation.

Really! Cool.I got the impression from the FS web site that the road would not be open this year at all. Too bad it's too late for some Snowdome skiing.

actually, i'll want it to celebrate my survival. So, after all that spray you posted, especially the parts about how "you knew what you where doing", you still have not cut down the tree? Lame.

when the shit hit's the fan.

Bags of groceries. Social Security... Has run out, for you and me! We all gotta duck...

Bags of groceries. Social Security... Has run out, for you and me!

Bags of groceries. Social Security...

Bags of groceries.

neato, thanks!

Most people climb the south side in late winter, early spring. If you wait till early summer/late spring it's a complete clusterfuck with hoardes of climbers going up, and skiers/snowboarders kicking snice on them from above. Here is a SLOW day climbing in the late spring. (Not my picture, but makes the point.)

Fuuuucccckkkk!!! I NEED to ride some snow, and SOON! This post/video reminds me of that. Thanks!

So, as I am finally healing up from a ripped achilles tendon in my right leg, I took a little hike on Mount Hood. Shit I am out of shape from this injury. While looking up at the Wy'east, I started wondering. Has the Black spider on the east side ever been climbed? I know some people have tried, but has there ever been an actual ascent of this portion of the mountain? It looks like one of the most suicidal routes on the mountain. No, I an not considering it my self, just wondering if it has been done. (I know some freaks got lost and rapped it a few years ago, but that's all I have ever heard)

Plumbers are dying on the job? Well, we do bleed. My blood is involved in that urinal you piss in... (that means I cut my self on the that damn thing when I installed it...) When was the last time your blood was involved in YOUR job? On the "Dying" note: a few years ago, I was on a crew that was building a "Pearl" district condo. One of the Plumbers was in a shaft, tying in some waste lines, when he lost his grip. His tie in point failed and he fell 100' down the shaft, and died in the hospital a few days later. So, yeah, some of us die making sure you can shit in a toilet.