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01-06-2004, 11:31 PM #26
I'm a tele-r, I am always ahead of myself.
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01-06-2004, 11:37 PM #27glocal
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Originally posted by 2stix
I have a technique I use on deep days that hasn't let me down yet.
I have bought a roll of florescent marking tape (the kind with no adhesive) I roll out about 10-20ft of it, tie it onto a brake and stuff the rest up the cuff of my pants.
When I bail, the tape leads me back to my skis every time!
Works golden and is magget cheap!
Hope you like the idea.
But I haven't used them in many years. But I do have a technique for finding buried skis if I do lose them in the deep.
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01-07-2004, 12:27 AM #28Registered Lurker
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Pfffttt!
Tucking your neon streamers into your pant legs is soooo 2003.
Wake Up maggots, its 2004, let those streamers fly behind you.
It's all the rage this year.
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01-07-2004, 12:56 AM #29Registered User
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Originally posted by The AD
OK, it took me about five minutes of thought to realize you are talking about toy carabiners.
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01-07-2004, 01:02 AM #30Originally posted by splat
But I do have a technique for finding buried skis if I do lose them in the deep.
drC
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01-07-2004, 01:11 AM #31Registered User
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Originally posted by Dr. Crash
Sledbug on each ski?
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01-07-2004, 07:37 AM #32
gaped out of a new 210 elan in my early bridger daze- searched long but left it in nw passage overnight- next day "rented" a metal detect from the patrol and went up with it in an instrument case thingy... clipped the suitcase handle to my pack for the traverse over- above bgully the case broke off from the handle and slid 50+ feet down into floof, after the retreival slog I had to carry it in my arms... once I got there it did finally work and I found that ski using it but that suct and I paid for my jongass throwin that shoe...
like the cheap hiviz tape idea
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01-07-2004, 07:48 AM #33Originally posted by cj001f
Ortovox had the ski maus for just that purpose. A transmitter on each ski, they transmitted on a sideband. They were like $99 a pair, and you needed the ski maus compatible beacon.Last edited by bad_roo; 01-07-2004 at 10:37 AM.
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01-07-2004, 09:49 AM #34
Last ski day, I lost a XXX. I mean REALLY lost. It flew 100 feet and then slid for another hundred. It went down a rabbit hole into the root system of a huge pine. After digging for 15 minutes, we noticed the trail and followed it and found the ski. It was a 1 in a million find.
Man, I've had this conversation a dozen times over the past several ski days. Here's my idea for an invention:
at any home store you can buy "remote finders" which include a remote with a button and a receiver which emits a beeping sound when the button on the remote is pressed.
With some modifications, I think this would be a cheap and viable device for finding skis. You would superglue the "beeper" to your ski. The sound it emits would have to be LOUD, like fog horn loud, and that's a technical problem.
When your ski pops off, just press the button and follow the sound.
An actual transciever would cost too much, but a cheap radio frequency device would be inexpensive.
If someone steals my idea and make a million bucks, then fuck you.
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01-07-2004, 09:57 AM #35Originally posted by Seldom Seen
Pfffttt!
Tucking your neon streamers into your pant legs is soooo 2003.
Wake Up maggots, its 2004, let those streamers fly behind you.
It's all the rage this year.
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01-07-2004, 12:41 PM #36
Thanks for the replies everyone?
Some great answers (sssDave) and funny ones from SteepnDeep & Indi. It’s obvious that Bandit XXX is trying to hide his true feelings of “corda phobia” with his sarcasm.
I lost my ski on Saturday in the Catherine’s area at Alta, for about 10 minutes. I was confident that I would find it, but it still brought back vivid images of my powder cords sitting inside my backpack in my vehicle.
Another problem I have with the cords is when I remove my skis to hike. The quandary lies in the unraveling of the cords then, and the replacement of the cords on a steep chute or ridge.
I think next dump I'm gonna strap em on and hope that I dont get hassled
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01-07-2004, 01:04 PM #37
Re: Powder cords, do you use them? Why not?
Originally posted by MacDaddy
If you don’t wear them, why?
Is it because you are too “core” and you never crash, and when(as if) you do crash, you don’t worry because your skis are set to at least 15 din?
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01-07-2004, 01:24 PM #38Originally posted by MacDaddy
Thanks for the replies everyone?
Another problem I have with the cords is when I remove my skis to hike. The quandary lies in the unraveling of the cords then, and the replacement of the cords on a steep chute or ridge.
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01-07-2004, 01:29 PM #39Originally posted by altagirl
No kidding. That's why I've only used streamers once. They would not stay tucked up in my pant legs no matter what I did and it was too much hassle messing with them constantly.
The pocket should only cost a couple bucks. Even less if you can sew it yourself.
You can add to that idea by putting one of those "beaners" on the end and a "cork" (or something light with good surface area) on the end to wrap the tape around. That way you could leave the tape in your pants and only click it onto your skis when the conditions permit.
If your sking conditions where loosing a ski really means loosing a ski, might be a good investment.
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Damn come to think of it, I should make some of these and sell them on PM gear. Shouldn't cost more then a buck or two!Man, It was great...
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01-07-2004, 02:21 PM #40Originally posted by descender
This is a problem. But if there was a mechanism remove and re-attach the chord to the binder (velcrow etc) you could leave the gay streamer stuffed up your gay legs. I will try this next time.D'oh!!
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01-07-2004, 05:21 PM #41
what do Gay legs look like
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