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Hey Jim

Sorry, I've been back home in the midlands for the weekend, and only just got back down to London

Next time maybe?

Fuck her. She supported aparthied, she hated the Irish and couldn't understand why people felt Britain shouldn't be governing part of THEIR country, she hated gay people, she destroyed communities...

Actually I think it more likely you'd have done it in your usual style, which is that of a man trying to shake loose an oversized, but tightly-wedged butt-plug.

I've no doubt however, that you...

no point letting it get to you though rog. it's not worth getting upset over

it's a heartbeat, the cam was chest mounted

Part of the slope had avalanched, and I hit debris, and frozen bed surface. I should have just pointed from there, but tried to keep turning, and on my last turn, just before I crashed I hit...

This. Thanks, Arno!

The point of the post wasn't to show me skiing the couloir well. There's loads of good videos on TGR of people ripping stuff (as I said in the original post). The point was the...

thanks ripz, i have spent a fair bit of time in la grave! and i did know the line pretty well.

i guess in hindsight i feel like my mistake was to try and control my speed by continuing to make...

it's la grave. pretty much everything is lift accessed

this is trifide in years gone by (when there was more snow)

http://www.skierslodge.com/legend/Couloirs_de_la_Pointe_Trifide.html

There's been a lot of people posting gopro footage of themselves ripping stuff recently, so I thought I'd post one of myself crashing into a load of rocks...

This was in Trifide 1 in La Grave, on...

Looks amazing Ian! And very impressive that you went touring with man-flu. I'd have been sleeping in the yurt.

I wrote a TR about it at the time, but I skied the rond a few years ago, when it was basically exposed ice with small pockets of snow the whole way down the face. It was very late April, and we'd...

Hi

tried to send a PM. I'll buy the Kastle skis off you. And i'd take the down jacket, and possibly the helmet. I'm away until mid march, but happy to pay up front. Can collect from Chamonix.
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Hi

tried to send a PM. I'll buy the Kastle skis off you. And i'd take the down jacket. I'm away until mid march, but happy to pay up front. Can collect from Chamonix.

Send me and PM if you're...

i was there last week, and then again this weekend. the snow on the north faces was ok on saturday. you can still ski all the way to the road, some friends skied la voute and chiroze left on saturday...

Pretty hard snow, alot of bumps, but still enjoyable. It's still fun here whatever the conditions. Could definitely do with some snow to freshen things up though

just till march 1, then i'm going to cambodia for a couple of weeks.

i'm hoping to get out again in april tho, so i'll let you know what my plans are nearer the time

currently in la grave for a few weeks. been out, eaten, was about to go to bed when i saw a facebook update from scottish skier, saying how much snow there is in stuben. thinking of driving there now...

There's no avy control in La Grave - they shut the lift if they think it's too risky

I agree, we were really dumb not to report it straight away. I think we didn't realise the size of the slide,...

Lindahl - the crown was only about 50 or 60 cm deep. I guess about 100m wide, maybe a bit less.

LeeLau - the slopes about 30 degrees, maybe 35 at the steepest part, so no, very shallow. There have...

Can anyone help???

I went out to La Grave this past weekend, for the opening of the telepherique on Saturday. In the end heavy snow, and high winds, and a nationwide avy risk of 5 meant it didn't happen until Sunday. ...

Hayduke, Arno; I'd love a drink (although I've pretty much given up alcohol after an 'incident'), but I can't do Tuesday. But it would be good to meet up sometime soon.

GrumpyPilot: Yes, I am an...

Thanks for the offer turnturnstopbeer, I'd love to have taken you up on it, but I don't own PJ's, or a PS3.

Plus it's all a moot point now, as I fucked it anyway.

I was offered the job, and...

Thanks for all the advice.

I'm resigned to the fact that La Grave is a bad idea, and as someone pointed out, I've done it plenty anyway, so it's probably time to try somewhere else. I'm thinking...

I guess the thing about La Grave isn't so much the skiing. As great as that is i've done most things there a lot of times. It's more that I know everyone there, and it feels like a second home now,...

Thanks for all the advice. The job is writing software. Yes, my balls are in her purse (or at least nudging against it), but naked pictures would probably move them from purse-side, to bed-side (John...

Some good advice already!

Hi

On Friday I got offered a job which would potentially allow me to work from anywhere I wanted, but which would still pay me good London wages. Obviously my first thought is take the job and...

the ski the rc112 reminds me of the most is the original legend pro - the bright orange one. they're alot more floaty however, but like the LP they feel super stable, really precise, and really...

I'm 5'11. I bought them from Sierra Trading Post.

If you can get a pair you won't regret it, although like others have said the xxl is pretty great too. I've not skied the coreupt

I used to have the 194 xxl's and now ski on the 188 rc112. For me the rc112 is the better ski. It's super stable, floats well but is also incredibly nimble and easy to ski. So much so that i'm...

I know Colin, and I can say with 100% certainty that he is definitely not French!

The last few days were absolutely amazing apparently. Yesterday was meant to be an epic, but ended up being really wind affected. Now the temperatures are rising.

The road runs aren't really in...

Do you say that having tried them on the line? I've got a pair of 188s unmounted and I'm really curious to hear any feedback from people who have been on the 188 re. mounting points.

From what...

Cheers guys. I couldn't resist a bit of dick-waving on this one, as i've waited so long to do it!

Doug - Grigor's done pretty well for season 1! I'd love it if he does trif 3, but i reckon his...

My "season" was a bit of a disaster. It was meant to be season number 5 in La Grave, but I only really managed 4 weeks and then had to come home.

However i was out last weekend and got to ski a...

Nice one, that looks amazing!

Did you get yourself a rope in the end?

RIP Doug, but also Chad Vanderham, who was a great guy and a great skier.

Here's some footage of the la grave avalanche:

YouTube- Avalanche 23.12.09

I've done 2 seasons in La Grave without a car. One of them i was staying up in Les Hieres, about an hours walk up the hill.

It's no problem at all - it's a really friendly community, and it's easy...

i know it smacks of heresy on this site, but i just don't get the obsession with shifting the mountings back, especially on a rockered ski, which is even less likely to suffer from tip dive. the...

wow, thanks for that. i'm going through a bit of a post season comedown, and those pictures have really cheered me up

i'd like to come along, but can't do the 21st either. 20th is good for me too though

we did talk about hiking along the shoulder and skiing one of the other cosmiques entrances, as they looked untouched, but in the end settled for glacier rond.

we started skiing it about about...

i always put my dynafits in touring mode if i'm on any sort of steep ground. but in this case i was on dukes.

without knowing too much about chamonix, i'd say that the 'classic' routes in la...

yeah, it wasn't a great feeling, but you live and learn!

nice one getting up mt blanc, i think rich was pretty gutted he didn't make it, but i'm really glad for you and alan. i saw him on...

i agree, it's a big line, and ideally we'd speak to someone who'd skied it very recently, or climb it ourselves. it sounds like you skied some great stuff while you were there. did you live over...

horizon, verbier61 - yeah, it was a bit of a close call, but could have been alot worse!

arno - i am back in the uk now. it's pretty depressing to be honest.

scutski - sorry about your leg,...

I've just got back from another season in the alps (La Grave), where i had a pretty interesting last few days.

On my penultimate day in La Grave i went touring, and after taking off a ski for a...