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Thread: NE Roll Call 18/19
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04-12-2019, 06:15 AM #4676Gel-powered Tech bindings
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04-12-2019, 06:18 AM #4677
So attending Harvard is a legit heuristics trap?
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04-12-2019, 06:21 AM #4678Gel-powered Tech bindings
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04-12-2019, 06:23 AM #4679Gel-powered Tech bindings
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04-12-2019, 06:25 AM #4680Gel-powered Tech bindings
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04-12-2019, 06:31 AM #4681
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04-12-2019, 06:55 AM #4682
NE Roll Call 18/19
I was across the street and it was a most amazing day on the lift served. Met several folks who had planned on tucks but passed due to the danger and hit the cat instead. Good call on many levels, the snow was so good.
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04-12-2019, 06:57 AM #4683
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04-12-2019, 07:01 AM #4684
I think the cabin could be a light that attracts the moths.
This ^^www.apriliaforum.com
"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
"I have no idea what I am talking about but would be happy to share my biased opinions as fact on the matter. "
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04-12-2019, 07:02 AM #4685
Very sad. I'm no one to judge backcountry decision making, but the loss of anyone skiing under any circumstances shakes me up. Sorry to any and all connected to this tragedy.
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04-12-2019, 07:03 AM #4686
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04-12-2019, 07:05 AM #4687Gel-powered Tech bindings
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I was hoping that was your intent, as I too can't stand that classic refrain.
(My preference is to die as my father did, in his 80s, unconscious in a hospital room, with his wife of many decades by his side, and his offspring some combination of having just visited him and/or rushing back home for the funeral.)Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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04-12-2019, 07:06 AM #4688Gel-powered Tech bindings
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04-12-2019, 08:32 AM #4689
I was up there yesterday. It was a great day until about 4:00PM when Robrox and I made it down to the bottom of the Sherburne to see a Medivac Copter, Ambulance, and fire engine, with all the crews just hanging out, no sense of urgency... seemed to my untrained eyes to be a sure sign that something bad had happened up there.
Rob and I made some decisions yesterday that I really started to question when I saw the initial reports of a death "in Tuckerman Ravine." Now that I have more info, I feel a lot better about our decision making processes, and the lines we skied. I think we were well on the "safe" side of the situation yesterday... but you can't ever know 100% for sure if you were smart or just lucky, can you? It's a lot to think about.
+1 on hating the phrase "Died doing what he loved." Skiing is not worth dying for. People who say this seriously are just trying to avoid assessing their behavior and its potential deadly consequences, IMO.
Jonathan S - I was the other guy with Rob when you stopped to ask what we were doing on the Graham Link. Good to kinda meet you. Helluvan effort you put up there yesterday. I just followed you on Strava.
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04-12-2019, 09:38 AM #4690
I also ski solo backcountry but am more conservative, carry a beacon and I have a Garmin inreach.
Why solo? Because it's hard to find partners. I and other skiers are protective of their stash or worried about being held back on the ups or down by another lack of skills or fitness.
I hope we all learn from this tragedy and one way is to create a good system for partnering up.
I did aiare I partially to help me find partners. I also find partners through meeting people through mutual friends so someone can attest to my level of fitness and ski.
I think some system of receiving reviews or ratings from people with whom one has skied would be good. Not exactly sure how, but would like to think about it.
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04-12-2019, 10:26 AM #4691
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04-12-2019, 10:42 AM #4692
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04-12-2019, 11:09 AM #4693
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04-12-2019, 11:11 AM #4694
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04-12-2019, 11:23 AM #4695
I'll leave the discussion about the Ramond Cataract avvy to y'all. I much appreciate the observations thereupon.
My little test pit in GOS revealed that slalomming around the larger patches of windslab and sking the glazed sugar of the sun warmed bed surface was the way to go. (The thin wind slabs, 1-8 inches, could easily fracture and were not well bonded to the crust. That 6-8 inches of strudy crust was sitting on 4-6 inches of sugared snow, which sat on a broken crust layer. 2-4 inches thick. Having learned what I wanted, I stopped there and refilled the pit.)
Bluebird at start with a few whispy clouds later on. The crust picked up a reflective sun crust that peeled away beautifully on each turn. The thin slabs broke off corners and edges but didn't cut loose.
The skinny gully next to #1 had, on many previous attempts, kicked my butt. Not so yesterday.
We went over to Hermit Lake through the Graham Link Carwash. Andrew took a run up and down Hilman's while I waited on the sunny deck at Hojo's. The Sherby was very nice, fully covered too. One note, the wave just after Dead Man's Turn is getting big, take it easy off that turn.The sad truth is that whine does not age well
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04-12-2019, 11:41 AM #4696
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04-12-2019, 11:45 AM #4697
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04-12-2019, 12:29 PM #4698
Tour of VT this week. Worked out pretty effin’ well!
Monday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
‘Tis the end of my eastern ski season. WA and AK for the grand finale.
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04-12-2019, 12:36 PM #4699
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04-12-2019, 04:47 PM #4700Gel-powered Tech bindings
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Maybe I should have spent more time trying instead of responding to my partner's intro of him as "[Name] here has flexible objectives for the day." with my usual semi-joke about how the prior day we had met our two objectives of "nobody dying or being seriously injured" and "no major gear breakages or loss" with bonus points for all partners still being on speaking terms with each other.
Also quite possible that we were the last people he ever spoke with (unless he talked with people who arrived later in the Fan after his first lap in Central).Mo' skimo here: NE Rando Race Series
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