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Quote: Originally posted by keba: I might try staying in-bounds, all that talk about avalanches and helicopter rescue has dampened my enthusiasm. That is actually a very good call! (I'm not being a smart arse). And I am not trying to compound your fears, just trying to prove for yours and others benefit that they are perfectly founded in reality. Here is a small quote taken from the following article, credits go to the dude at pistehors.com. His discussion in this piece is a good service to back country users. Analyses of 2005/06 French Avalanche Deaths check out

Hey Krusty, interesting post. I suppose I have been talking about old man-made snow, not the fresh stuff. Does low density man-made pack down the same as natural low-density snow? For some reason I have a bias that no matter what the original man-made crystals where like, they all settle and compact after a few weeks into the same kind of frozen white plastic. It feels different to ice, harder to edge on.

Do you do the raw egg with the sukiyaki? mama desue

Kintaro – I’m not interested in your condo, but it appears you want everyone else to be… feeling a bit lacking of late? I honestly didn’t even click the link. Anyway, tourists that go to island holiday resorts like Guam and shop in American style malls with cinemas are, be definition, tasteless and unimaginative as hell (by the sounds of things, just your type mini-guitar buying punters). And Guam is a titty bar gun shop haven by all accounts. “Go figure”. As for your dig about surfing decent waves… I really doubt you could surf them yourself. I’ll surf what pleases me. You are mostly

Goemon will deliver. He once created a dude using an orca as a snowboard.

Toque - I'll post another picture of that rocky brown stripe: higher above it is a small patch of solid glacier, still marked on the map. It is small, but is clearly a glacier. So I wouldn't be surprised if further down the glacier is under the rocks as you suggest. You’re pretty safe walking on small glaciers in summer as even if there are any cracks they are fully exposed and you can see them. The entire cirque at the head of the hanging valley was once a system of glaciers feeding a bigger glacier. Today it is a collection of boulders and loose rubble, mud and gravel from this prev

As I mentioned last week, I was going to the glacier in Zermatt this weekend but it really didn't seem worth the effort. So instead I explored a cool hanging valley near Andermatt, also in everyone's most hated country, Switzerland. I know this really is not relevant to the forum, but what the hell. What looked like some recent snow higher up turned out to rock-hard neve that the wind had polished like glass. We (me and The Pig) hiked 1300m vert in little over 3 hours, it was hard work at nearly 10 per minute the whole time. We topped out at 2800m and decided against the next le

Hello Keba, I don't use the above maps, but generally, grid references are only useful if you are writing out a detailed multi-leg navigational data sheet for a long hike the following day and even then I just use land marks and features for each leg. Some grids can be nice to exactly describe the start and end of each leg, but once on the ground the avalanche conditions tend to dictate your movements along a general route and you seldom take a direct line for 1200m heading Mag 274 degrees from GR 352753 to GR 270992, even if that's what you has written on you navigational plan. Al

Skis are always better than a skid-biscuit on hard and icy (man made)

Quote: Originally posted by excited: Whats it like boarding on that man-made snow? Tell much difference? It is appalling rock hard high density stuff. Wrist breaker for snowboarders. Lots of snow making in Europe, resorts list it as a feature in their marketing. I see it as the single biggest reason to avoid a resort.

Quote: Originally posted by snowglider: Quote: Originally posted by db le spu: Ohh Snowglider, who cares if its off topic? exactly! no one cares, the irony of my post seemed to escape you, perhaps Lloyd can catch it for you p.s. I always thought a fagot was a bundle of sticks? Irony is a whore. You are correct, a fagot is a bunch of stick, that's where it all started (a bunch of fresh herbs on twigs in the French fire pot thingy).

Quote: Originally posted by daver: Quote: Originally posted by Ocean11: Time out! daver's breaking the rules! Who would win topics are required by convention to have pictures of all the contestants. certainly ocean11 you, or anyone with an even mild understanding of semantics must agree that although for the average pin head a picture does indeed say a thousand words, conversely, for the creative ones among us, a word surely paints a thousand pictures. O11 is right. There must always be a pair of pictures.

>when our Hawaii beachside condo gets completed oh wow, really. What a worthwhile time killer until 2007, selling little guitars to tasteless tourists in an American style shopping mall in Guam. Beats dressing up as a Catholic priest 10 times a week.

Quote: Originally posted by daver: was at a station the other day, an old one, and had a calling. arrghhh! crunching in a squater is such an indignant way to take care of business. Nearly every cafe toilet in Milan (that I went to) has a squatter, and messier than in Japan.

I like any toothpaste which is not available in Japan.

> i'm sooo english. i simmer with rage at bad treatment or crap food. Well, London is hardly a beacon of light in either respect. Some places in Paris can be below expectations, but places in easy to access areas with English (and other) menus can serve quite bad food. Pity you don't have a kitchen: Paris has a collection of butchers, delis and green grocers that I have not seen in other cities. Plus they stay open reasonably late. I don't know where you live, work and eat in London, but without any emotional bias that others will accuse me of, I fin Paris a much more satisfy

>Roight I love that, a classic. And Peter! Any one called Poida here? I went to buy two replacement tent pegs at lunch. And I came back with a new Exped one man tent.

A few weeks ago we met some young guys doing an experiment on the street in Paris. They started the day with a worthless object and tried to trade it for another object to someone that valued it what they offered. Several items later they found themselves with a big bloody cow bone that they wanted to trade with me and my dog. I would have swapped it for my girlfriends hair clip but I didn't want to carry a friggin huge leg bone with me all day. >It's strange how people's impressions differ so much. I find Parisians to be much the same level of coldness as most other cities, a

Quote: Originally posted by Ocean11: We ordered ice cream at a cafe in Paris, and my wife's choc-ice came on a pretentious little glass stand thingy (although wrapped in its cheap silver paper). When it began to ooze out the wrapper, she despaired of getting a pretentious little spoon to go with it, and began to eat it out of the wrapper as you do. Then the garcon minced up like a condom with a hole in it waving the late little spoon, and declared my wife to be a 'cochonne'. I had cross-cultural understanding in those days, but these days I might just give someone like that a short, s

Not sure what traps you guys go to, but the waiters at our local cafe in Paris wave at us from across the road. In fact, many people stop and have a chat. My dog has developed horrendous epileptic fits, it looks like he is about to die. He has only had 4 in the last year, but one was on the street in Paris. I was not there, but complete strangers came to help and even took the dog and my girlfriend to the vet and translated. Paris has some pretty clear negatives, but I have been impressed with the friendliness of some people. It also has race problems. Many black guys in

Quote: Originally posted by B A Barackus: ...A couple of feet in the high country. Sorry, thats almost a meter for you non-Americans. Yes, got that one. But I'm still stuck on 'mom'. What's that mean? Colorado higher back country is in full swing, better than it will be on 75% of days in the European Alps. When it comes to snow and terrain America does kind of seem to be... king.

I have taught my otherwise humble Japanese lady to stick her finger up at Hummer drivers. She even (softly) yells out "hey, bastard", and flips them off with her middle finger.

Ohh Snowglider, who cares if its off topic? This thread was dead for years, which in a way is the ultimate 'off topic', but no one complained. The thread comes back to life and then goes on a tangent. How is that worse than no one posting in the thread since 21 Nov 2003. Think about it. Secondly, it is hardly going to be an informative research thread for future visitors, now is it. The topic is almost meaningless to begin with. Stinking fish in the company canteen today…. because its Friday.

Quote: Originally posted by misorano: Mate, Marriage is an institution foisted on us by the church. Men are biologically not meant to be monogamous. It seems to me you've run into a situation where subconsicously you think your offspring would be better off popping out of another womb, with different DNA. Throw off society's shackles and follow the part of you that sticks out in front. It'll lead you in the right direction. Marriage and church = yuck, fair enough call. But the rest of your post! Holy cow. So how many women have you been having sex with behind your poor wives back

15-20 minute walk. I really appreciate being able to walk to work and back each day. It makes a difference.