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04-17-2013, 08:57 PM #26registered abuser
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just wow.. thats one that will stick with you forever. thanx
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04-18-2013, 12:45 AM #27
Sweet write up and probably once in a decade conditions.
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04-18-2013, 02:43 AM #28Registered User
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Haha, no worries. I was the only one of the two who wore a harness, and it was more just for the ease of clipping stuff to it and just incase stuff went really wrong and we'd need a heli evac or I'd get on ice and need an ice screw anchor. No rope was taken. I don't think I've ever seen a crevasse on the west face actually.
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04-18-2013, 03:13 AM #29“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
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This is OUR mountain - come join us!
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04-18-2013, 06:44 AM #30
nice snow.... sometimes you have steep stuff and nice pow.
It's a war of the mind and we're armed to the teeth.
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04-18-2013, 07:53 AM #31
Sweet! And well earned...
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04-18-2013, 08:03 AM #32
Well played, sir. Well played.
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04-18-2013, 08:12 AM #33
Nice line, great photos, good write up.
Enjoyed it from the comfort & safety of my cubical.
TGR needs more of this.
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04-18-2013, 08:33 AM #34
You are The Man! That is pretty impressive.
I love that part of the world.“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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04-18-2013, 11:04 AM #35Registered User
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Really impressive.
Nicely done. WOW!!!Ski Mad World
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http://madpatski.wordpress.com
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04-18-2013, 11:14 AM #36
rad stoke and sweet turns.
Terje was right.
"We're all kooks to somebody else." -Shelby Menzel
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04-18-2013, 03:37 PM #37Registered User
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Awesome and double plus bonus for me having just watched The Eiger Sanction last night. I saw some great establishing shots of the West face and it made me wonder about skiing it. Waiting three years shows how patience is a key mountaineering skill.
But I do wonder if you are confusing acclimatization with conditioning. After all, ~4000 meters is still pretty high and enough to cause problems, especially coming from 400 meters.
Myth #3 - Physical fitness protects against altitude sickness.
Physical fitness offers no protection from altitude illness. In fact, many young fit athletes drive themselves too hard at altitude prior to acclimatizing thinking they can push through the discomfort. They ignore signs of altitude illness thinking it can't affect them because they are fit and healthy. Everyone, regardless of fitness, is susceptible to AMS.
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04-18-2013, 03:50 PM #38
That's the real deal Stoke!
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04-18-2013, 04:06 PM #39
Pretty sick!
"The skis just popped me up out of the snow and I went screaming down the hill on a high better than any heroin junkie." She Ra
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04-18-2013, 06:09 PM #40
Just when you think TGR is a total waste of time, something like this shows up. Thanks for sharing this great TR.
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04-18-2013, 06:12 PM #41Cham-wow!
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w000t!! Epic effort, way to get after a stunning line!!!!
I wear a harness so my guide or the PGHM can winch me (or my carcass) out of a crevasse. The ice axe on my pack is for preservation of personal space in the lift line.
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04-18-2013, 07:01 PM #42
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04-18-2013, 07:21 PM #43Registered User
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Damn, nice work. I've wanted to make turns on that mountain since I was about 12. Someday I'll ski it and when I do I hope to have even half as good of conditions as you did. I'm jealous.
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04-19-2013, 07:50 AM #44
Chapeau!
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04-19-2013, 08:15 AM #45#1 goal this year......stay alive +
DOWN SKIS
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04-19-2013, 11:14 AM #46
Daaaamn...Well done!
A good friend would come bail you out of jail. A great friend would be sitting next to you saying..."but damn that was FUN"
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04-19-2013, 12:07 PM #47
the scale of big mountains blows me away every time... when you see a single line down a big face it's hard to wrap your head around the fact that lines are so long.. without know it could just as easily be a 500m face
awesome job, I want to get on that
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04-27-2013, 03:18 PM #48"The idea wasnt for me, that I would be the only one that would ever do this. My idea was that everybody should be doing this. At the time nobody was, but this was something thats too much fun to pass up." -Briggs
More stoke, less shit.
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04-27-2013, 05:41 PM #49Registered User
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yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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04-27-2013, 09:24 PM #50
Missed this.
Fantastic.
Envious.Life is not lift served.
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