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who the assbags were with high post counts

Yup. Just wait for the govy tram

there is such thing as a stupid person

It won't make that much fucking difference dude. 30% will be dead from trauma. The rest is what you are fighting over; a decent portion of those are shallow burials where a probe wouldn't make much difference. Spend the money on a book so you can use your brain. Or save it up and buy an avy pack so you don't get caught Of course a helmet, worn at all times, is noticably omitted from the "essential" list (I can smell the salivating marketers!). 25% of skiier/boarder fatalities in one study had a signifigant CHI, 61% of avalanche victims had some CHI. Perhaps I'm just cynical because people spend 50 threads asking about the best beacon/probe/shovel and advocating spending top $ on CYA shit, and far fewer asking about good classes (AIARE are decent), good books (Bruce Tremper - Staying alive in Avalanche Terrain; the now dated Snowy Torrent Series), or more topical resources like the Avalanche Review (subscribe at americanavalancheassociation.org), and when they do they go for the cheapest option and stop at the BS level 1 classes from dumbass orgs like NSP or the mountain clubs.

Every year another "essential" is added to the list, coinciding better with increases in disposable income than anything else. Yes it's good to have the whole package. The most important part of the package isn't a beacon, probe, first aid kit, or shovel, it's your brain. Knowing how to avoid an avalanche, a well rehearsed rescue response, and the ability to deal with the recovered victim.

Any tool is only as good as the crackhead kid running it. Mounting bindings isn't rocket science, especially easy ones like Fritschis.

If you have to ask.....

Thank you oh Patrol master Probes are for fine location at the end of a beacon search. Well, that and probe line corpse recovery. For the former any hit is where you start digging. For the latter get some conduit; whatever else will probably break.

Bullshit. It's pretty clear even with conduit.

Don't get the Voile probe that stores in the shovel. Or the BC access. Get a decent metal shovel, and then a probe. Metal shovel blade of decent proportions, probe somewhere from 260-300cm. I don't use a probe much BC skiing. It sits in a pack so light is good. I haven't found much difference in the assembly of the current probes out there. Pull a cable and lock it off.

The usual liberal lies, confusion and obfuscation.

Is that sunburn or has he started drinking again?

A guide service fighting further development. Amusing.

Fatter skis + skill.

Honestly? If they were given false, misleading and erroneous information by the administration, and based on this false, misleading and erroneous information they voted to go to the war, don't they have a right to change their opinion now that the "truth" has been revealed? Is it revisionist to admit you made a mistake? Is it dishonest to change one's opinion if you were wrong? And if the people who feed you the information were dishonest, should you not repudiate them? Good to see you and JayB acting like good little fascists PP. Protect the profits!

"You know, I'm 3 weeks old, my world view spans no further than the walls of these intestines and I still find Six Feet Under pretentious."

Must be with all the screaming and moaning.

Then the ladies say "Prince Albert, I presume?"

I think it and Onanism are running neck and neck.

I would generally think you are correct on this one. I'm not sure you are correct. Many jurisdictions have private property protection rights afforded them similar to the US, codified in law. France requires compensation before expropriation. The government in the Czech republic is currently fighting to have industrial parks be a valid reason for eminent domain land seizure (something the US has allowed for decades). England has the same traditions of eminent domain as the US (we did inherit their laws). But hey, this is Euro bashing land I'm sure part of the reason Europe has decent rail is they didn't rip up the entire urban and suburban system after they built it the first go around, like Seattle did when it got rid of the Seattle & Rainier Valley RR, that served downtown to Renton.

Oh yeah! Sideslipping entire runs is hella 'sthetic

Definitely snowboard material.

thanks for jinxing me for next friday.

No fucking thanks. I've skied in laceup leather tele boots, that's hard enough. At boots or tele boots are better unless the grades get up there. You are about 1.5 months too late for cheap AT shit, but something int the 80's in the waist, a pair of fritschis, and some nice boots will keep you happy.

BECAUSE THEY BOUGHT THE LAND BEFORE A MASSIVE REAL ESTATE BUBBLE! The monorail was supposed to be cheaper because the ground footprint would be smaller and the land could be resold.