AlpineK

Glad I missed the cluster fuck. Football is I'm not really a football fan anymore, though I used to be. I just want to say FUCK DAVE SHULTD

I'm sure there'll be some really good ski days for you this winter and spring. Just pick the right slopes.

I don't have time to type out all the problems you cause.

I'm just trying to be eficient and deal with two problems at once.

Here's my well thought out solution. Have both GW Bush and j_b molested by the Borax 20 Mule Team. How's that for critical thinking.

It's been a long time since I've heard anyone use the term tatas

I've skied a lot inbounds with dynafit bindings; both steep and deep. As far as I'm concerned beefy bindings only help when you're skiing bumps, chopped up crud, or huckin big cliffs. I'm hoping your attitude about the CO backcountry is just macho internet posturing TLG. Show some respect when you're really skiing.

ahhh the good old days.

I'm serious. Honda does not make stuff that any tree service would use. In fact Stihl is the company that makes the very best chainsaws for regular use in trees.

Fuck Honda. It's gotta be either Sthil or Husqvarna. Also chainsaws are heavy enough already. I'm not going to haul a saw up in a tree that weighs twice as much.

I agree that engines used for recreation should be forced to meet much higher standards. There is curently no alternative to the 2 stroke for chainsaws however. I'll think about it when there is an alternative, but until then.

How about Erik = Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy

There can be only one AK

As noted on this site AK used to tie with UT for second place for fatalities until the days of the modern powerful snomobile. source

Quite often the stupid slopes are the ones you want to ski, and the safe slopes are ...especially in CO

FUCK THE MOUNTIES

I grew up skiing at the mounty lodges. I took the basic climbing course and dropped out of the intermediate climbing course as a teen. I think the group does a number of good things, but the vast majority of interactions I and other climbers have with mounty groups make them look like a bunch of clueless and anoying idiots who deserve lots of abuse.

In CO you have cold temps and lots of wind. Also early in the season there will be long periods without snow. All this leads to typically unstable snowpack until spring when the snowpack becomes equatemp. Boot packing a slope mixes the layers and thus makes the slope more stable alowing a deeper base to build up. There is a good chance that skiers would continually trigger avys on slopes in CO, so a base would never build up and a lot of skiers might get seriously fucked up. There's an article in on of last years issues of Couloir. The subject is a semi-bc ski bowl that's part of Aspen Highlands.

As far as I'm concerned Colorado is an area we should sacrifice to the gumby's. Sure the skiing can be great, but the state has gone out of it's way to build up its image as the skiing meca in the US. I say fine let the gumbys have it. I want you all to note how TLG is getting paid to boot pack the slopes at Silverton. Nobody boot packs slopes in the Cascades, BC, the Wasatch, or the Tetons. The truth is unless you boot pack a slope in places like Colorado the slope will keep sliding and sliding with skiers on it and never build up a base. Backcountry skiing in CO is pretty sketchy till spring. Colorado seems nice on a superficial level, but in reality it lacks substance. TLG, I've skied at Teluride and all over CO and I don't deny it's cool, but I'd take skiing in the rest of North America over CO any day. Ice climbing and rock climbing are different stories

FUCK YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF WHITE COLLAR SHIT If your ideas come to pass I hope a tree falls on your house and kills your dog because you couldn't afford the $10,000 labor cost it will take to cut down a tree with crosscut saws

I've heard some good things about that place, but BC is closer.

I sure hope not.

Also, given our current pres GW and our past president Clinton, what you actually do has nothing to do with the image you maintain.

I've just read a story on MSN about how Shelton hates him. It would seem to me that Shelton has not come forward with specifics. Without specifics I tend to think there's a good chance it's like one of these spray war type things we have here on CC.com. Let's here some specific charges.

I really don't know much about the guy. Trask, Why is he a liar and a cheat?