& Backcountry ski-board-climb-hike entrance controls..any ? 5/8/06

(Eugene Miya) wrote in news:4480af47$1@darkstar:

In article ,
Elder Kurt Knisely wrote:
I prefer the mature pines, usually the aspens are too close together.
They're all one plant, right?

Bio/botanical trolling, eh?

We were discussing this Sunday near a pure stand of Aspens and gazing at
bear scat, overturned rocks, scraped out deadfall and berry bushes.
Eventually, the pines will take over. And then the beetles or fire...


I skied
while the neighbors snowshoed (dang climbers...).

Americans too lazy to learn to ski. Europeans ski more.

If it keeps warming up and drying out in the mid latitudes, none of us
will be skiing much longer. Hard to imagine that with all the sub zero
nights and the 600" of snow at Xxxx this season.


There's one difference between climbers and skiers. When you look at
a nice pic of a snow covered mountain are you looking for the best
continuous line to ski down the mountain or what rock face you'd climb
(and then rap off)? Dang climbers...something inherently wrong w/
those folks :-)

Is the rock facing S or north?

S.


Bring cavers (troll for Galen in r.b., as if there's lots of non-ater
skiing in FL).


Oh, yet another breed entirely. I still have my old Gibbs Ascenders
from HS.


Frankly, most of the climbers I know prefer not to rap for the
complications it entails. If rapping it is, make it minimal.

To me it's all part of the same activity. I'd asked about the
avalanche hazard first.

Still, there are skiers who climb and there are climbers who ski. Most
will self declare their preferred demise. Which do they do more of each
year? Did they change their lifestyle/employment options by moving
closer to their passion?


"Skiing ends about 50 degrees. Ice climbing starts about 45 degrees.
In between is very interesting ..." --Hooman Aprin


:-)

-K