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I've Skied This
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbvb07B9uFI
-- According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker." |
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I've Skied This
Which part? |
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I've Skied This
Richard Henry wrote:
Which part? The part where you stand around and brag about it. //Walt // / |
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On Oct 10, 1:29 pm, (Jeff Davis) wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbvb07B9uFI -- According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker." Would you like a little gold-star sticker ? |
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Jeff Davis wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbvb07B9uFI And I've skied this: http://travelguide.all-about-switzerland.info/swissalpineresorts/matterhorn-zermatt-4328.jpg So what ? |
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I've Skied This
BIG ****ING DEAL !!!!!!!!!!
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I've Skied This
In article ,
Kurt Knisely wrote: Cool, nice lookin' line. So how do you know it's safe when you use the tram to whisk you almost a mile above the valley floor and your approach is bootin' it along a ridge up to (near) the peak? It's an honest 55 degrees immediately below the summit ridge. The starting zone is steep enough that insability is usually resolved by sloughing off natually. There is snow on north aspect of the Tetons now to 9000'. We watch early snow. By Thanksgiving, we'll know if we have deep instabilty problems on north aspects. Rod Newcomb will give his pit data presentation at the Avalanche Awareness night at Snow King. We watch the snow. We have a relatively homogenous snow pack or not. The Avalanche Lab publishes comprehensive forecasts daily during the ski season. It is not safe. Each of us makes a decision based on accurate information and experience. It's an acceptable risk, or it is not. Is there usually a cornice you can trundle near the entrance? Four Shadows is conrniced at the summit ridge. It can be a 10 to 20' huck. Toward the eastern edge, the cornice is less pronounced. It's easier there to slip into it transversely. I always ski natural avalanche chutes like they are going to slide. When everything starts moving, I have a much more strategic chance of survival if I'm already headed toward the edge of the slide. That is a fact of my experience. Not something I read in some one's book. I think the recent BD catalog has a pic of Cody peak, with a nice crown line going all the way across the bowl. No Name slid in '99 a week before the Powder 8's. It was a climax avalanche with a 3 meter crown fracture. The jhavalanche.org web site shows the results of a hand bomb on the corresponding shoulder of Cody Peak immediately north of No Name. The Powder 8's were cancelled. Those aspects that slid natually and as a result of control were 45 degrees at best, and a little less. Starting zones with a 55 degree inclination are much less likely to hold a load for a latent release. But it does happen. There are no absolutes. Only good judgement. Good judgement comes from direct observation of the 2007-08 snowpack as it falls and settles. -- According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker." |
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Kurt Knisely wrote: http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_52503.jpg Top of the tram is near where the pic is taken from? Or way out there under the Rendezvous Peak tag? The shot is south of gate 2, out of bounds. It's approximately above Zero G and south of Space Walk, two chutes in the cliff line below this ridge. I was walking up to Fred's house after a ski day a couple years ago and got charged by a momma moose in the middle of Teton Village. I think he's still fhemmer209. They had a nice 4 bedroom for their trip on his buddy's package deal. I think the deal with moose is you have to know how to talk to them. -- According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker." |
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(Jeff Davis) wrote in
: In article , Kurt Knisely wrote: http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_52503.jpg Top of the tram is near where the pic is taken from? Or way out there under the Rendezvous Peak tag? The shot is south of gate 2, out of bounds. It's approximately above Zero G and south of Space Walk, two chutes in the cliff line below this ridge. Can't see any of that from the trail maps, eh? What's with this trail map anyway? Why is there a line around Cody peak? Is it controlled/patrolled, or does that line mean "hike to OB terrain"? You have to boot it or skin from bottom of Cody bowl to get back in-bounds (other than skiing down Rock Springs Bowl)? http://www.jacksonhole.com/JacksonAs...ezvous_map.jpg JH is making it seem like part of the ski area (which it is...sorta). Is there another map/pic with more of the ski lines drawn in? I'll check the JH Avie page. -K |
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