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Eejit posted:Does anyone have recommendations for beacon, shovel, and probe? I don't need super crazy stuff, just lightweight and reliable. I don't really have any inclination to ride in dangerous terrain or conditions, but I do gotta have the stuff just in case. tracker 3 or barryvox S any probe is fine but get a 320, the carbon mammut and BD ones are nice I like the mammut allugator shovels a lot
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Feb 12, 2020 20:58
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Tracker 2 or 3 BD quick draw probe (320 as was mentioned) BCA makes good shovels. Do not under any circumstances get a plastic shovel.
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Feb 12, 2020 21:02
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Tracker 3 or 3s for the price. Any aluminum 300cm or more probe. Any aluminum shovel, a bigger blade is arguably better.
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Feb 13, 2020 03:25
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Another great day on my own 2 legs.   
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Feb 13, 2020 03:27
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This is what it is all about. https://youtu.be/skumC1a_j8Q 
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Feb 14, 2020 02:45
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that’s just.. incredible i need to get out west
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Feb 14, 2020 04:23
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Macnult posted:that’s just.. incredible Canada truly is a promise land.
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Feb 14, 2020 04:34
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spwrozek posted:This is what it is all about. Living the dream
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Feb 14, 2020 05:16
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Turns out that was a giant carnivorous plant and seconds after the picture was taken he was never seen from again.
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Feb 14, 2020 14:40
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spwrozek posted:Canada truly is a promise land. 86 Trump sub health care and 3 foot powder days
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Feb 14, 2020 17:58
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Bluebird here in Grimentz I got one of the Arva shovels, used it a bit (not for rescue or anything) and it feels like it will actually work if I have to use it for real. Incredibly lightweight. https://skimo.co/arva-ultra-shovel
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Feb 14, 2020 18:02
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mods please change my username to skiimo
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Feb 14, 2020 18:05
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Hope everyone is ready for the Presidents Day Weekend poo poo show. I feel like I should be working extra hard in my BJJ class in preparation for this weekend in Jersey.
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Feb 14, 2020 18:57
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Yuns posted:Hope everyone is ready for the Presidents Day Weekend poo poo show. I feel like I should be working extra hard in my BJJ class in preparation for this weekend in Jersey. Rental Hell is very much Rental Hell right now, even for a ski shop in Maryland.
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Feb 14, 2020 20:39
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I tried skiing at Mt Bohemia on MLK weekend on a well-forecast 16" powder day and the experience and mood at the place was so awful we left after two incredible runs. Nobody had thought to set up some merge fencing for the lift lines so both lifts had one long single-file line (of two abreast) and you had to take your poo poo off and hike uphill for ten minutes if you weren't skiing the right run.  The triple-lift-they-can-only-load-as-a-double is through the gap in the trees there. Also all the people with the "Fast Pass" had to cross this line to get into their private lane and they were just blowing through, skiing right over other people's skis without slowing down. It's a fantastic skier's mountain with great snow, but the continued mismanagement and adversarial powder-bro mindset of the clientele has made it a real mixed bag.
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Feb 14, 2020 20:47
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I'm pretty sure I'm going to do the ski from lift open at 8 am until it becomes an intolerable circus (probably 10 or 11 am) thing. Our lift line control is a disaster. We got RFID cards but the gates weren't working well so they pulled the gates and now have to hand scan everyone.
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Feb 14, 2020 21:07
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It’s only Friday and our chair that never has longer than a two minute line was already a five minute wait today so tomorrow should be awful
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Feb 15, 2020 00:01
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I do all my skiing in February or later here in California to avoid the crowds and it's looking like this strategy might also result in avoiding snow altogether this year. Goddamn this forecast is bleak.
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Feb 15, 2020 01:30
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We skied (well, VA skiing) today to avoid the weekend and it was fine, minus full blast snowmaking to get ready for the weekend. Green lifts were trash but who cares, they always are. Also while waiting for my partner to meet me at the top of a lift I watched a dipshit in a Trump hoodie do a full face plant down the offload ramp, then get skied into/over by their chair mate, so the day was a complete success no matter what.
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Feb 15, 2020 03:39
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Went to Park City yesterday ($192!) and Solitude today. Neither place had lines of more than 2 minutes and most lifts were pretty much ski-on. I was a little bummed that there hasn't been much new snow in the last couple weeks but these horror stories have changed my mind. What snow there is here is firm but not rock hard, groomers are super fast.
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Feb 15, 2020 05:17
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8 hours, 9 miles, 5600' up, 8600' down    https://youtu.be/TsCRyqMrixA The creek out was fun...  Definitely not a running creek/waterfall situation... https://youtu.be/kuN-4u4qVWE I lived 
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Feb 15, 2020 05:19
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Just arrived at Salt lake airport, ready for crazy lift lines All weekend 
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Feb 15, 2020 05:47
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The Glumslinger posted:Just arrived at Salt lake airport, ready for crazy lift lines All weekend Just make the most of it man and have fun. skiing is still better than a lot of other stuff, even if you have to wait in line.
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Feb 15, 2020 05:49
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The Glumslinger posted:Just arrived at Salt lake airport, ready for crazy lift lines All weekend Today was not bad at all, I kind of think its not going to be too bad tomorrow. Its a blackout weekend for all the season pass holders and unless people booked their plans way out they're probably not going to bother with the lack of new snow. Both resorts I've been to had all lifts running and all terrain open, if there was a line at all somewhere it was easy to find a part of the mountain with none. I haven't seen any major hiccups in service anywhere. Even the actual car traffic coming up and down from the resorts hasn't been bad. Hopefully I don't have to eat my words but I think you're going to have a good time.
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Feb 15, 2020 06:05
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Oh trust me, I've been here over President's weekend before and I know how it can get. We're pretty good at finding the less crowded parts of the Canyons side of Park City Though I am still expecting a half-hour lift line onto the gondola
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Feb 15, 2020 06:13
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I feel like Colorado ski country air traffic is down this year, but I don't have any hard numbers on that.
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Feb 15, 2020 17:46
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“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
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Feb 15, 2020 18:04
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Cold temps and no fresh snow are definitely putting a damper on crowds today in VT, though tomorrow I think is the predicted bigger day for crowds.
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Feb 15, 2020 18:14
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12 degree morning and nothing but man made snow made for super small crowds. I had assumed everyone went up to VT for the weekend but Master_Odin's post makes me wonder where they went. I slammed the back of my head on hardpack on my first run when I tried to ride over a shotput sized ball of ice. But I still got in a lot of runs until I slammed myself a second time in the afternoon and called it a day.
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Just so there's a bit of cross country content now and then: Got about three and half hours of classic xc skiing in today, having mostly skated for three years. Got some pretty good Fischer skis on sale last season, only tried them properly today, practicing classic technique. Such a great feeling to have both good kick and good glide. Diagonal stride is the most intuitive of xc techniques, put one leg in front of the other. It's perhaps the easiest to half-rear end, but it's the hardest to nail. Maybe I did somewhere around five thousand kicks today, fewer than 50 were really good. Soo...try cross country skiing everybody. It's physically hard, but at least it's technically difficult.
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Feb 15, 2020 22:53
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If I had just a bit more budget, I would probably get some just for winter cardio. Hoping next year
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Feb 15, 2020 23:25
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Eejit posted:If I had just a bit more budget, I would probably get some just for winter cardio. Hoping next year But...you have AT gear now.... E: Another killer day in BC. Kind of just storm riding in the trees so no real footage. We have to go pick up the sled we left yesterday and used this as a "rest" day (so only 3800' of vert).
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It was pretty great out today, other than a half hour to get up the gondola, I never waited more than 2 minutes for a lift. I'm used to way worse at Park City over President's weekend. Also, went up Super Condor for the first time, no clue why I'd never done that before, some great terrain off of it.
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Feb 16, 2020 01:53
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Nose butter 360 fail. Needed steeper terrain. https://youtu.be/33dcjaVP02A
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I'm at copper all this week, Monday to Friday. If a goon wanna get at me, please, just post and lemme know. I got dms too Lodge right in the mountain, ridiculous
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KoRMaK posted:I'm at copper all this week, Monday to Friday. If a goon wanna get at me, please, just post and lemme know. I got dms too Wish I was there, sounds good!
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Feb 16, 2020 11:30
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KoRMaK posted:I'm at copper all this week, Monday to Friday. If a goon wanna get at me, please, just post and lemme know. I got dms too If I make it out I'll hit you up. I have to deal with a speeding ticket and my car will be in the shop getting the rear bumper replaced this week so I'm not sure if I do. It partially depends on what I get as a rental. I guess almost anything would be technically better than my car in snow, but it does more than fine with good winter tires.
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spwrozek posted:But...you have AT gear now.... Yeah but the resort is a whole 20 minutes away and the bike path is like, 2
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Ugh, a guy died at Vail by falling off the chair, getting suspended by his jacket and choking to death.
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