Forum: Backcountry Skiing
November 26th 10, 03:40 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 13
Views: 11,803
Carbon Poles vs. Alum?
If you whack your boots with your poles (whack the sides of the soles)
to knock snow off the bottom of the boot, my experience is that carbon
poles will rapidly fail, aluminum won't.
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
November 25th 10, 02:27 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 13
Views: 11,803
Carbon Poles vs. Alum?
In article ,
Peter Clinch wrote:
gr wrote:
Is carbon too fragile for backcountry skiing (ie; they break instead of
bend like...
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
July 13th 10, 09:02 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,608
Ski lift, Five Lakes area, Alpine Meadows CA?
As you hike up the widely used Five Lakes trail in Alpine Meadows,
California, you see a number of towers both below and above you,
apparently intended for a chair lift that, if it were completed,...
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
March 15th 10, 01:07 AM Posted to comp.sys.mac.apps,rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,702
iHikeGPS
Seems to me from the web page description this could be a fabulous
application for iPhone 3G and iPad 3G owners, if it works as described
(haven't had a chance to test it myself yet -- don't own...
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
March 18th 09, 09:50 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,978
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
March 12th 09, 11:05 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,978
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
October 10th 08, 10:20 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,487
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
October 10th 08, 04:58 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,487
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
October 10th 08, 02:16 AM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,487
Geographic Feature N of Donner Lake and Truckee?
Standing out very dramatically on Google Maps (Satellite photo tab) in
the region immediately N of Freeway 80 between Donner Lake and Truckee
is a long, nearly straight-line feature that looks like...
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
July 5th 08, 03:14 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 0
Views: 4,120
Parachuting avalanche rescue dog!?!?
Maybe others have encountered this previously, but new to me:
http://www.gipfeltreffen.at/showthread.php?p=362409#poststop
(you have to scroll quite a ways down)
Photographs and story of several...
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
April 29th 08, 04:53 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,205
Daily snowfall data, Lake Tahoe?
Dave-in-Spokane " wrote:
Booker Bense wrote:
AES wrote:
I'd like to find a database that contains day-by-day snowfall data for
Lake...
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
April 27th 08, 02:25 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,205
Daily snowfall data, Lake Tahoe?
I'd like to find a database that contains day-by-day snowfall data for
Lake Tahoe for the past season 2007-2008. My attempts at Google
searching for this have not yet been successful. Any...
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
April 8th 08, 12:09 AM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,396
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
April 3rd 08, 08:01 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,396
Roadside snow stratigraphy at Lake Tahoe
Interesting roadside snow stratigraphy (I thought that should be
"stratiography" but Webster's says "stratigraphy") at Lake Tahoe at the
end of this winter.
If you drive along roads where big...
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Forum: European Ski Resorts
November 13th 07, 10:50 PM Posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.skiing.resorts.europe,de.rec.alpinismus
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,769
Alpine scenic train ride recommendations?
I'd like to take a 2-day scenic, possibly lengthy Alpine rail excursion
(self-guided, not a commercial tour) in Switzerland the second week in
December with the following boundary conditions:
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
May 15th 07, 03:15 AM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry,rec.backcountry
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,752
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
November 6th 06, 05:46 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry,rec.skiing.nordic
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Replies: 64
Views: 25,552
Going off trail
In article ,
Peter Clinch wrote:
"just a bit beyond dedicated track skis". NNN BC and a compatible light
boot combined with a...
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Forum: Nordic Skiing
November 6th 06, 05:46 PM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry,rec.skiing.nordic
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Replies: 52
Views: 16,383
Going off trail
In article ,
Peter Clinch wrote:
"just a bit beyond dedicated track skis". NNN BC and a compatible light
boot combined with a...
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Forum: Backcountry Skiing
November 5th 06, 01:03 AM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry,rec.skiing.nordic
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Replies: 64
Views: 25,552
Going off trail
In article ,
Terje Mathisen wrote:
You should probably get a lightweight touring xc ski, definitely not one
of those...
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Forum: Nordic Skiing
November 5th 06, 01:03 AM Posted to rec.skiing.backcountry,rec.skiing.nordic
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Replies: 52
Views: 16,383
Going off trail
In article ,
Terje Mathisen wrote:
You should probably get a lightweight touring xc ski, definitely not one
of those...
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