I thought everyone in France just screwed onto the car whatever old plates they found lying around in the cellar. Plake style.

I mounted my (2012/2013) CD4 with BootCenter at -14, a full 4 cm back from recommended mount for that year/model. I tele so it is normal for us to mount a couple of cm back from Alpine mount.
...

^ ^ Wow! Just wow. He sure grilled a joker there.

Note to self: always ski with phone in Lifeproof case.

Yesterday in Vallée de la Sionne (avalanche lab valley near Sion).

“Eine schone gute lawine”
http://youtu.be/vXGzNWZk1JY

Steep tree skiing is not without danger. Just a little slide that slams you into a tree is easily lethal. And it happens way more than you think. Try ask the local pisteurs. Contrary to some...

same story in the Alps. So far.

Dupraz make really surfy snowboards and now skis too. I haven't tried them but word is they ride really surfy
http://www.dupraz-archives.com/site13-14/d2_home.html

Boom. Tell Peter, Andy and Ray I'm sold. Will gather crew und repraznet

Yeah, 108L!

and 170 102L's for lighter smaller riders.

SiSt, While we got your attention and wishes are being collected:

^ agree: a 108 or 110 version in 186 would be an awesome All-Mtn shredder. I have to admit I keep wanting to steal my friends...

I've been riding Down 102's for a couple of seasons. I haven't tried Cochise but the 102's are everything you are asking for and I imagine have a similar handle on varied snow conditions as the...

^
as opposed to ...
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phew

and a Nyon section (called LaDole)

CAS (club alpin suisse) do have good courses and group outings but not really guides.

Happy to help, and shred. I’m a lifelong skier from Geneva.

Facts:
- There are 3 kinds of people in Geneva: skiers, non-skiers, and Cham skiers. They don’t mix.
- France is cheap (not that...

have skins, will travel

I have a powder problem, and I take my powder uncut.

(edit add: and if I can take a lift for the first 8,500, or so, vert ft then, hey, why not!)

I take lifts 80%, skin 80% and ride unpasturised snow 95%. The requirement for my quiver-of-one ski is as close to a “ski that does it all” as I can imagine. I need a ski that can charge big vertical...

watch the precipitation radars. It hammered StB.

ButtFly,
Aim not for Alps Vaudoises but up at col St Bernard. Max dumpage there. But beware - big winds too and we know what that does. It's a crazy windy spot there - especially in this wind.
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I presume you meant "4 Vallees". 3 Valleys is Couchevel etc (how is your Russian?).

You do not need a 4x4. A compact car will do but snow tires is a must (it's simple: you ride what you want but...

I ended up with a really really good season last year on 3 counts: low-cost, good pow days and fitness. I didn't get my usual annual pass for Verbier/Cham/Aosta as early season was really flakey in...

Whymper?

Bad ass!
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Da Captain,

1) If you've got a snowboarder in your group of learners you could get that person to help you teach others to spread the weight on both feet. A beginner telemarker coming from skiing...

Yeah. You're right. There was this really weird thing in the US (and only in the US) where people thought to tour you should tele. Weird because AT was perfectly good at the time. Don't give us that...

What's the difference between an expert and a beginner Telemark skier?

The expert gets up a lot quicker.

^^^ hi klar, I should be around.

I'm looking for a clear tape to cover the metal surface of my NTN Freedom base plate (which could be the cause of bad balling of snow). Ideally 3 or 4 inches wide.

Any advice on what quality or...

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You're dreaming if you think there aren't rocks just below the snow surface.

So you think gas will be indefinitely cheap? Nice joke. Pass the bong, I think you've had enough for now.

Spite makes people stupid and, unfortunately, alcohol. Weed usually chills peeps out.

I'm pretty careful where I leave my skis around beer o'clock and near car getaways. And I tele so that most...

In the US skiing is predominantly an expensive rich white man's sport for control freaks by control freaks. That article keeps it's thinking firmly within that box.

In the Alps, in mountain areas...

PM me your email and i'll email friends there introducing you.

They'll sort you out.

I'd join you for a tour from Andermatt to Engleberg w snappi. Been talking about it long enough now.

But you know it all boils down to where the snow is. So just wing it! Gimme dates and I'd do a...

Yes... BUT!

Storms roll in from the south that time of year so the Italian side can go OFF

Without looking it's roughly 20 days to make a season pass pay off (at gaper price ;) )

Just a quick note to add that Verbier terrain is not the best for boarders. THere's plenty to ride for snowboarders but to really get to the goods there a lots of traverses and flats and climbs.
...

^ call. I don't know if it's posted. I tried to look for you but I get bored quick on shitty websites.

Annual means annual, Season means WinterSeason up until end April. Lifts run in summer and...

https://www.esecure.ch/Verbier/Product.aspx?num=71
or +41 (0) 27 775 33 63

As mentioned by many it is the annual pass that covers other places.

Cham annual is likely cheaper, which is why...

CAS, Club Alpin Suisse, has quality courses at decent prices.
http://www.sac-cas.ch/en.html
They have a Nyon section: www.cas-la-dole.ch . The next meeting to accept new members is Thu 10 Oct....

I skied that line earlier this season.

I think it would be hard to top Gary's catered chalet for "cozy" in Cham
http://tinyurl.com/cat229f
Definitely TakingYourLady worthy.
...

Nice job riding back into the slide you let off !!!
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2) Dent Blanche

^^^
might be the elusive Dahu!

Second that. I've been riding them a lot this season and they are a nicely stiff (that's what she said!), low sidecut ski that is ultra solid in all the difficult parts of the day:
- Perfect for...

psssst.... race days the lifts (up to Gentianes) open really early so riders, journalists AND spectators can get up early.

As it's heating during the day I'd expect they get the race going early....

Was there last weekend. As posted a few pages back that end of Aosta valley has less snow then Cham/Valais. Not bad but not stellar. One skis down to 1200 comfortably in shady areas. As elsewhere...

Thanks for the tip but I'm actually on a course up there so its not by choice.

for info
The guy in the accident in Champex triggered the slide by skiing over a steep rock band that is overlooking the "combe". For the last 30 years it has always been a rock band there, but...

Somewhere near Cham...

Snow is still deep. All powder run, from 2900 right down to the car at 1100.
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Lots of surface hoar in North slopes. Be carefull on next new snow.
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