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I think skiing is a lot like climbing in the sense that if your not sketched and fallin some times, you aint pushin your self hard enough. that said skiing makes me hard... HA HA HA...

 

I like to ski the chaired mountains as much as the back country. call me a jibber if you will, but I love the park... the feeling of taking a big hit off a table top, or the glorious rush of spinning a 360 on a huge step up. The trick is to accurately judge your speed so you land in the right area. this is some thing I have trouble with. hence I pay for taking the hits. I do take bigger hit then any of my comrades, but I pay alot more. After the park we tend to head out of bounds. this is were my favorite cornises( confused.giffuck i can't spell), and little cliffs are found. fun little stuff, to bust a trick off this stuff and land into the deep powder. but big cliffs, well big for me and big for skiing. the 40-60ft cliffs really turn me on, I think its because I've nocked my self out a time or ten on these fuckers. Call me an idiot, but if your not taking hits and pay for it your not getting better at taking the hits... I push my limit every year and every year it seem like i get better, and more comfortable on the wonderful sea of snow...

 

Discuss? do you guys like taking hits or is it the surfing, making glorious turns that gets you going?

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One of the biggest thrills I get out of ski mountaineering isn't necessarily just the turns. It's the power you feel as you blast around the mountains with so little energy expended, looking back at a distant summit with satisfaction knowing you were just there 20 minutes ago. It's like a whitewater kayak for mountaineering, while all the walkers are in rafts.

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Sphinx said:

Huh? You just got high or something? Skiing is about hacking your lungs up, dodging crevasses, and hiking/skinning for 6 hours for a 45 minute run through crust and ice. Duh!

 

I know, I love the back country. But I was just expressing the other side of the coin. I like both heads and tails... funny its almost like alpine climbing verses goin to the sporto crag yellaf.gif

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Fejas said:

Sphinx said:

Huh? You just got high or something? Skiing is about hacking your lungs up, dodging crevasses, and hiking/skinning for 6 hours for a 45 minute run through crust and ice. Duh!

 

I know, I love the back country. But I was just expressing the other side of the coin. I like both heads and tails... funny its almost like alpine climbing verses goin to the sporto crag yellaf.gif

It really is...I'm a pansy, so I don't do terrain parks, but turns inbounds are too easy. I can get down pretty much anything inbounds, if not gracefully or quickly, but in the BC you get steeps, real hazards (eg crevasses), the snow is rarely perfect, and I just get bored inbounds. I really suck though, so take everything with a grain of salt.

 

PS lifts cost too much...more reasons for bc. fruit.gif

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Alas! A worthy topic to bring me back to this fine little site. The hiatus was long, but the last big week in LL was super fantastic, snow was tasty, and the women were even tastier LOL!!!!!!!

 

I think it is best to be well versed in all aspects of glisse. Becoming an all mountain rider is key. When you can carve turns into the park, and then rip it up and jib in front of the kiddies just as well, it doesn't get any better.

 

Almost wintertime baby!

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Any body that back countries big mountains, is not so suck...

 

So do you bc because of the asent/desent?

 

I ask cuase most of my bc day are spent on pitaly litte shiters slicin thick trees in deep powder, and try to rail fallin trees, and building jumps to through myself off of, or finding little cliffs to drop... I don't do a lot of big mountains, cause i've never had the proper gear, and when you don't have good gear, those long slogs and steep asents are a bitch. that said, i am investing in better gear fo bc this year...

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ExtremoMtDude said:

shucks fejas! from the sounds of it you are going to have your own HUCK DOLL this season! LOL, rip it up homey!

 

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Watchin Shane play with that little action figure of himself on "the front line" is absolutly hillary-ass...

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Speeking of shane, did any of you pick up the latest Skiig mag, there is a picture of shane sliding sideways down a 45 degree face for 2000 vertical feet, on water skis no less... he mounted up bindings on a pair of water skis... fuck that!

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cj001f said:

Fejas said:

Oh, boo fuckin hoo!!! There are plenty of free heel jibbers if that make you feel any better...

 

 

I've yet to see a free-heel jibber ever do a telemark turn in the pipe - what exactly makes them free-heel?

 

Check out the ski porn "parrelled 3.0 - soul slide" it is full of freel hellers taking big hits, rippin it up in the park, and doin double back flips of kickers in the back country... it has a lot of big mountain too, its a bitchin flick!!!

 

"what exactly makes them free-heel?" Sha, bindings, duh...

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Sphinx said:

cj001f said:

Fejas said:

Oh, boo fuckin hoo!!! There are plenty of free heel jibbers if that make you feel any better...

I've yet to see a free-heel jibber ever do a telemark turn in the pipe - what exactly makes them free-heel?

The binding. rolleyes.gif

Hmm. I've always defined telemark skiing as a turn. T-Races + Bishops+ Piste Pipes = Alpine.

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cj001f said:

Sphinx said:

cj001f said:

Fejas said:

Oh, boo fuckin hoo!!! There are plenty of free heel jibbers if that make you feel any better...

I've yet to see a free-heel jibber ever do a telemark turn in the pipe - what exactly makes them free-heel?

The binding. rolleyes.gif

Hmm. I've always defined telemark skiing as a turn. T-Races + Bishops+ Piste Pipes = Alpine.

Don't tell that to the folks over here that! boxing_smiley.gif

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