Thread: Backcountry etiquette for JONGS

yes bootpacking in a set skin track or traverse is ghey

speaking of traverses... please don't stop on them. Especially in between jong girl (trying really hard to keep up) and not so jong guy. When said jong girl sees it is possible to pass you stopped on the traverse, and yells out "ON YOUR LEFT!!!!" please do not put your pole out to your left and trip the jong girl.

Thanks.

probably just looking for some pole tap

why would anyone bootpack up a skin track? boot packs go straight up, duh. dumb ass boot packers following skin tracks that zig and zag slowly up a hill.

Originally Posted by Ottime

why would anyone bootpack up a skin track? boot packs go straight up, duh. dumb ass boot packers following skin tracks that zig and zag slowly up a hill.

because it is easier to follow a packed trail than it is to wallow in deep powder. And a lot of skin tracks travel to get somewhere, without going straight up. You might have to go miles at a low angle to get to the base of the face you want to ski.

Originally Posted by Jethro

because it is easier to follow a packed trail than it is to wallow in deep powder.

much easier if the snows deep. cut trail for some guys on tiny snowshoes on a really, really deep day who thanked me profusely. I imagine some douche on TGR (to be fair, they are lurker douches on TGR who won't ever reciprocate charity - fuck you people!) would bust their balls. In that situation, I don't give a shit.

Originally Posted by Ottime

why would anyone bootpack up a skin track? boot packs go straight up, duh. dumb ass boot packers following skin tracks that zig and zag slowly up a hill.

this^^^^^^^^^^^^

if you don't have the proper equipment, stay the fuck out of the skin track and bc in general.

p.s. mighty white of ya, hugh.

rog

So, is is a lack of equipment thing? Why not choose another zone/line that makes sense to boot pack.

Traversing in boots is just silly. Even if stomping down a skin track. If you are going to wallow in waist deep powder, the skin track is not going to help all that much. Seems like if you are smart, and you don't have skins or snow shoes, you'd find something you can boot pack straight up. Skin tracks don't go straight up mainly because they can't in steep terrain.

I don't know. Maybe CO is different, but there are plenty of good zones to boot pack and ski in Tahoe. And others that it would be smart to have skis, or at least snow shoes.

And Hugh, snow shoes (tiny or not) are different than boot packing. A one person skin track won't compact enough to support most people in just boots. So, they post hole anyway. In my usual hiking zone, the snow shoes tend to use the skin track through the low angle "approach", but once the skin track starts the switch backs, the guys in shoes tend to go straight up, because it is easier, especially once they establish their trail. When I used to snowboard, and boot pack for turns, I never used the skin track, only because it was smarter to set my own booter, straight up the hill. And I chose my ski route based on where I could do that.

I don't really care if someone boots the skin track. Hugh, teh funz thing about your comment, is one of the biggest douches around here set the skin track so his buddy could boot behind him. On a really deep day.

ANyway, summer here is super fun. And don't piss in my skin track. But that is a whole different issues. As for the OPs question, I've got nothing.

as previously mentioned in other threads but fits here as well,
don't let your jong dog shit on the skintrack!
poop lingers
bobby

Bootpacking in the skintrack is like throwing chunks of plywood in front of somebody trying to swim laps in a pool....

If the track is set and postholing does not happen, what's the problem? If you can't ski over the occasional posthole, you need to learn how to ski.

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Originally Posted by doughboyshredder

If the track is set and postholing does not happen, what's the problem? If you can't ski over the occasional posthole, you need to learn how to ski.

JUST DON'T WALK ON A SKINNER. PERIOD.

or better yet. see a skinner? means that area is probably inhabited. as in you got up too late. leave that party alone and choose your own adventure.

especially if ya have the acreage for it.

rog

That has to do with surface area of skin grip....if somebody walks in the skintrack and only sinks in 1/2", the effective grip capability is cut in half - to go with another analogy, imagine riding your bike on slippery singletrack with a your mudders then switch it to a velo wheel - fun is over.
If you live on the EC and have snow droughts that extend for weeks, this can turn into a constant frustration. We get a big dump and somebody PH up the entire teardrop, then it will be 40 the next day - refreeze like a glacier the next day...then if lucky it will get covered up in less than three weeks.

^^^^well said rog...

Yes, you should swallow mtngirl...

Wait is this the right thread?

Has this been posted here yet?


Courtesy of Straightchuter.

How many times has it been said?

Get up early! Get up early!

Why is it whenever I come down the mountain mid morning or noonish, the closer to the trail head, the lower in elevation, the bigger the shit show it becomes

meanwhile at nine am there isn't a soul to be seen at the top

Originally Posted by flowing alpy

as previously mentioned in other threads but fits here as well,
don't let your jong dog shit on the skintrack!
poop lingers
bobby

No use for the sticky brown klister?

Starting 6:30 from Bham is not really that early. Starting on the skin track around 6:30 would be more appropriate, just my thought.

Originally Posted by fastfred

How many times has it been said?

Get up early! Get up early!

Why is it whenever I come down the mountain mid morning or noonish, the closer to the trail head, the lower in elevation, the bigger the shit show it becomes

meanwhile at nine am there isn't a soul to be seen at the top

Nine? Not around, because I started alpine stylie and am already back at Heidi's scarfing pancake goodness. Why you so late?

This thread sucks.