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Marylou - I'm going to spell it out for you. There isn't much chance of you recovering someone buried over 6ft deep alive - per this Interesting graph. Therfore I see the only benefit to a probe longer than 240cm for avy recovery as convenience. I always carry a probe.

Go straight to the exit. Do not pass go. do not collect $200

If someon'es buried over 200cm (that's 6+ ft) it's going to be a bit before you get them out. Big advantage of longer probes is you don't have to bend over (but this only matters on probe lines - conduit!)

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Sky- Everyone know Yuichiro Miura was before his time in glisse technique. There are skiier's that rock, and boarders that rock - like these guys:

Spraying about how much harder core boarders are is so 1999

I saw several slides last spring on the ridge whose name currently eludes me (skier's right from summit)

My scenario experience is similar - it's a good 30-45 minutes before you find someone that way. They are already on the downhill part of the survival curve by then.

Dude, we've seen your velcro gloves.

Beacons do save lives. Use them. If you've ever taken part in a probe line - you'll use a beacon everytime. That said, beacons track record is nowhere near as good as a climbing rope. This study http://www.bcaccess.com/pdf/CompanionRescue_Atkins.pdf has only 32% of recreational transceiver searches being succesful. DON'T GET CAUGHT!

Should have waited longer late March it was 1/2 mile or so, mid April it was down to the parking lot.

If the weather's nice, I doubt you'll be anywhere close to alone. It can get popular up there - particularly in March.

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Agree with the former - alot of people do the latter though.

There's the Powdermag forum or Teton Gravity forum. Why integrated bindings?

BS on the skiers. It's extremely tiring for a skier to sideslip - I've yet to see a skiier sideslip for more than a dozen feet or so. Both fatal accidents at Meadows have been snow boarders this year.

Since when is substituting a turbo straight 4 for a flat 4 easy?

Your a long drive from "Alpine", but that long drive take you to some of the best alpine rock in the world.

I spend my saturdays sideslipping. It's a whole buttload more work on skis than a board.

Is this that wonderful phenomena where a narrower than your skis trench manages to get edged the entire length of the chute?

Because the glue sucked the first year, everyone returned them, G3 had didn't have enough to replace them? The only thing that sucks about the BD Glidelite's is they only come with a dinky velcro strap, and not a skin bag.

They seem to stay on twintips better than regular tips. On my Crossbows, until I installed the rat-tail ala wildsnow, the stupid clips would unclip all the time. Irritating. I've not heard anything good about Low-Fats.

Yet more humour lost on our neighbors to the north I used to see the Pentagon on my walk to lunch - I know where it is

The Canadian Military doesn't own skidoos and parkas yet? Dear. Our neighbors to the north are dimmer than I thought!