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It seems that Japan needs to take ski guiding to the next level. How many of the so called guides have actually taken avy classes or for that matter guiding courses of any description. I have hired a couple of guides in Niseko only to be pretty disappointed. I thought it would be the right thing to do, support the local economy only to find their knowledge limited. Very different when hiring a guide in Chamonix. You know what your going to get every time. The international UIAGM standard for guides needs to be adopted by the Japanese so the quality of the guides service remains high.

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a couple of things must be present for an avalanche. 1 snow 2 bed surface, an avalanche must have a surface to slide on. 3 slope angle of 30 and above usually does the trick 4 a trigger which can either be human or natural. Other natural features also create problems. Convex rolls, loaded gullies or lee ward slopes, cornice areas. Natural avalanches are usually a good sign of in-stability and in Niseko the highest danger period is usually during or right after the storm. Wind events can change this

If you have you medical card in Colorado you can nominate a provider or be one yourself. This will allow you to legally grow your own plants for personal consumption. You can also nominate a someone else to be your provider. If this provider has several people linked to their operation they can grow a lot of plants. IE 50 to 100 in many operations. It is really the next step to making the substance legal. In many mt towns in Colorado it is almost part of the culture. If you are a tourist eg a pom coming to visit, you cannot just go buy dope, you have to have your medical card. The Police i

To have pole gives us more options and the more options we have as skiers the better we are. Aside from the obvious use in an up hill travel situation we use them in 2 main ways when skiing downhill. The 'running ' pole use is a timing devise for longer groomer type turns. The ' blocking ' pole plant is used in the steeps and the bumps essentially to block the body from continuing down the hill. It allows the feet to catch up to the body. Missing these blocking pole plants in the bumps can be fatal at times. To have or not to have poles depends on the options we want.

74mm under foot is about the smallest I would go. Considering she only skis on the piste it should be OK. 88mm seems to be about the standard for an all around ski these days and with the addition of the reverse camber it its various forms, has made the soft snow ski a lot more fun.