Unknown Euro Stoke (PICS PICS PICS!!!)

[Jiehkevarri]

It's been a while. But I promised to scan some of last winter's stoke...took a while, the kid (2month old girl!:)) has been keeping me busy.

Well, this place ain't Chamonix but there ain't no crowds either.

Because I'm not that fluent with (English) words I'll let the pictures do the talking. Hope you guys and girls enjoy!

First some scenery pics:

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25433.jpg

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http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25437.jpg

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[Jiehkevarri]

Me, myself and I...

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25440.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25441.jpg

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[Jiehkevarri]

360 windlip drop!(by one of your clients, young new school guy, with some racing background = a good skier!)

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25444.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25445.jpg

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Same guy, pencil heli to crash...:)

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25448.jpg

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[Jiehkevarri]

Again, same dood...fakie 180 windlip drop to some nice landing, and not to mention some nice powder skiing...

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25453.jpg

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A little scramble to get back on the ridgeline...

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25461.jpg

Random boarder dood in the mist

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25462.jpg

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A Finnish boarder dude who lived a month in Slovakia, and drank A LOT!!! Also, still managed to do this every morning from 8.30 o'clock on...

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25463.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25464.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25465.jpg

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[CaddyDaddy77]

mmmmmmmmmmmm

:D






Congrats on the kid, BTW!!

[Jiehkevarri]

Myself on some of the lines

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25469.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25470.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic25471.jpg

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Me again, hitting the brakes (it just got harder underneath, after the nice pow start)

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Random scenery pics

http://www.sunpoint.net/~skimba/105_0550.JPG

http://www.sunpoint.net/~skimba/105_0511.JPG

http://www.sunpoint.net/~skimba/103_0389.JPG

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http://www.sunpoint.net/~skimba/104_0495.JPG

http://www.sunpoint.net/~skimba/105_0505.JPG

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http://www.sunpoint.net/~skimba/105_0513.JPG

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http://www.sunpoint.net/~skimba/104_0436.JPG

http://www.sunpoint.net/~skimba/103_0349.JPG

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Couple of more good'uns still to come (maybe next week or so?).
One Love!

[CS]

Very nice.

And congrats on the little'un.

[MacDaddy]

Thanks Dood

[HyRUPz]

Nice - thanks for the stoke.

From cubeland w/ love,

Hyrupz (Friend of Walsh and Kristi)

[splat]

Yo, J!! Nice stuff.
Are those 4x4 Big Pintails you have? If so, what length?

[Jiehkevarri]

Nope. Those are some skinny-ass Dynastar 4x4 verticals (or something like that)...one client's skis. The guy skied pow on them with ease. (Ok, the snow was not that deep but anyway...)

In general, the snow situation was really interesting this year. The wind packed good amount of snow to couloirs and trees while some open places were almost totally bald (as you can see from some of the pics).

The wind usually plays a huge role to the snow situation in the Tatras anyways, as the lee sides can have nice layer while (usually very strong) wind scrapes the snow off from the other side. This year the wind stayed N/W for about a month, so the same stashes kept hiding all the snow for a long time, restricting us from some of the lines but at the same time kind of eased the route decision making...:) And the locals only check the slopes and some routes just on the side of the slopes, so with a bit of hiking we usually got all the goods by ourselves!