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You be a loooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnng ways from the peak on the south side - according to the Forest Service - rd 80 be closed: http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/recreation/current-conditions/roads.shtml

Go ahead from who? Their are a few more hurdles for them to jump through just yet...as for T-Line and SkiBowl, I'll believe it when I see it. They'll have enough obstacles integrating Summit. You've been able to ski all the way from T-Line to govy for 70? years now - your gondola just looks like a car, and your thumbs a lift tickey!

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'ole one nut isn't the best person to lecture on class - his slagging on Cofidis - WHO PAID HIM WHILE HE HAD CANCER! is disgusting to me. How dare they ask for a medical exam!

The have problems with those too. I was there last year - and the guys upstairs were claiming that people died doing a pendulum jump because they used static rope and not dynamic

The "long" refers to the length of the bar running under your foot, so yes they need different holes.

I have a pair of "super" rock skis you're more than welcome too - as long as you don't mind busted tips.

If MEC doesn't have it checkout The Mountaineer (www.mountaineer.com) in Keene Valley. They have guidebooks from around the world too. Expensive dreams.

Chapel Pond has low rated ice. Also check out Cascade Pass and Avalanche Pass. If your coming from the North, the Mt. Washington Region won't be any quicker to get to - and you'd be driving by all the good ice in Vermont. Lake Placid also has more scenic things to do with the GF other than climbing.

If you've never checked out neice.com - it has much of what your looking for, along with recent photos. The Hostel in Keene Valley's nice and cheap.

Indeed. He was in select company winning the Giro, and the Tour in the same year.

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

Training and per NSP instructions to always have one around.

M1's/M2's - with a few F2's for backwards compatibility. Meadows uses F1's.

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.