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Quote: Originally posted by Indosnm: Quote: Originally posted by Fattwins: not for me didnt do anything for me actually when i saw it weeks ago so you didn't even think "FARK" when he went over the edge? Yeah. What’s up Fattwins? why do you think this is just some ~I’m not interested whatever~ Why you being a grumpy old bastard? What he did was incredible and the helmet cam perspective made me shift positions in my seat as I watched. That little wing he had isn’t a parachute or paraponting wing. It’s barely a stunt kite.

Seriously, do you know what cliff that was he dropped?! It wasn't from the very top, rather from the skiers left flank. But still. It was the north face of the bloody Eiger!

Ok, fair enough, I was stoked from the start, it was awesome flying down that slope. But when he went over 'it' I was literally yelling WTF! and Bullshit! At least four times in a row, out loud. We are so lame.

I knew that. But I bet you didn't know about your goat

That is what you meant...wasn't it? The goat, thing. Did I say that.

Plucky - a few days too late, its already shipped. But that would have been helpful so thanks for the offer. I'll let you know when I am in Austria for some filming. Knowing me I will be too lazy to use it. I am not good with stuff. Kuma et al - I got the sportzshot one. Goemon - I don't have a goat, do mind if we [censored] yours? Again.

The Avalanche and BC part of the forum doesn’t get the amount of traffic that this part gets. What you are readimg right now is first class spam, reaching the masses. Please lets checking it out: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/5/121.html#000000

(Regarding “son” and “some” – yes, I saw my spell checker changed my typo into the wrong word. So changed it so that it actually made sense) Anyway, good research mate. Climbing the NE face: Quote: Conditions were perfect. We rarely had to touch rock, and went unroped on good snow and ice. Picture and quote from this excellent Trip Report. Each picture is quite telling and has a text caption. http://ulrichprinz.de/alpin/ch/weisshorn/index.htm An encouraging thing to read. It made me look a bit harder That trip was in July. Obviously April-

Splitboarding! Let me know what your scedule says. We can go touring for 2 days or just hit side country.

Camcorder: 550 euro Helmet cam (incl. postage n remote n cables n shit): 400 usd At least now we have two good quality camcorders so me and my touring crew (which happens to consist only of my humble and dedicated girlfriend) can get a bit of edited double-aspect footage going on, eg, her filming me riding with the helmet cam on my head. Or the other way round.

Here's the deal. I am about to buy a helmet cam plus the required camcorder. Its a lot of money, especially considering I already own a much better camcorder, except it doesn't have an AV In jack as required by the helmet lens. Its costing a lot of money! So here the deal: 1. I buy it and the camcorder (plus the LANC wire-remote record button) 2. I risk my neck finding and riding stuff that I want to ride, filming as I go 3. I let all you slugs watch it for free. Great deal, huh?

The blue contour lines are glacier. The brown rocky bits on the map are rocks. But don't forget, they get covered by snow in winter ..... and so you have the rocky SE face with snowy couloirs rather than the glaciated NE face with rocks in the ice all covered in snow that wont stick unless its spring, by which time the line will be bombing with rocks and ice falls on warm days. Fun. I reckon the line is harder than S6-S7. I have ridden S5 in difficult conditions - with intermittent white out and the day after an avalanche gutted all the soft snow out of it, making it approach S

Yes, I do meet up with some people. He was lucky. OK, the small picture is not the NE face. It is the SE face as viewed from down near Zermatt area. On the map you see the big finger of rock pointing south into the Schali Glacier? It starts on the eastern ridge minor summit marked 4178 and runs down to 2947. In the photo, that feature is the prominent and large rock finger that runs down the shot below the apex summit and into the clouds.

Beanie - I am free in the Cranbrook area all day on the 5th and 6th of Feb. In fact, if all goes to plan then I will be back in the area on the afternoon of the 4th. But if the weather is bad then the heli cant fly and I will be a day late in getting back to town.... Lets do something. Are you gunna bring your Glock 9mm?

Cripes, an ED ascent and S7 descent. I'll leave this for my 40th birthday. Perhaps 45th. The picture is cut off short and doesn't show what appears to be a very bulged and wide rock band. Hang on, just looking at my guide book: the east ridge (the one on the left in the big pic) is 'only' AD. You literally travel the edge of the ridge up onto the glacier and to the summit. AD is well beyond my technical climbing abilities at the moment. Effort required: a 5 hour, 1500m vert hut climb followed the next day by a 6-7 hour, 1600m vert summit climb. This life, what a pain.

Hey Thomas, did you read the D1 review in Couloir Magazine? It was so-so. The review is small, you could print it on a cigarette pack. The details are also rather light and the board doesn't appear to be ridden across the spectrum of terrain of which it is capable, nor in both soft and hard boots. If it was, then they didn't bother to mention any of it. Most of the reviews in the magazine were short and so lacking in detail that they struggled to be useful. Magazines need to be aware that they have influence and testing these boards and then giving very incomplete reviews can have an

torihada - My experience has been that Brits love a bit of fun, boozing, clowning around and good sunshine in a ski holiday. I'm not sure many need to fly to Japan just for that. Plucky - (Its Saturday night... you're drinking aren't you ) ... and it sounds like your nationality-competitive edge is edging back into your stuff. I'm a little the same, so I wont cast stones. As for loud groups of Australian guys: they love being something special where they are, getting attention and strutting around. Its an Aussie thing and I see it often, some guys are even practiced at i

dude, those pants will serve you well for a long time. And the functionality is supreme, especially rolling around in deep powder. I foresee comfortable winter days for you. And tell me is the sharp Sidewinder jacket collar corner pokes you in the nose and eye and if the stiff felt neck thingy jabs you when its zipped up (did you get the one with stow-able hood?)

Quote: Originally posted by Kumapix: how about deleting this thread SJ4? y'only saying that because he teased y' Kiss Army avatar

This shits gold, 1. Any one know whats up with this resort. I looked at there web-site and there was very little about the snow and the terain they offer. Anybody ever make turns there? [in reference to Nozawa Onsen, one of the most famous resorts in Japan] 2. Can i get some pot over there durning my stay or what? 3 what does you being in the kiss army have to do with snow? [in refernce to someones avatar] Keep it coming.

Hi massymor, my girl and I had a place in Milano all last season. It is in a very good position to reach so much of the Alps and we went to most places you mention (although I didn't enjoy the resort at Madonna di Campiglio, sorry ). Your advice was good! I was looking for, and got, similar advice last season. However most of the people on this forum don't visit the European Alps as they mainly simply stay in Japan for the winter. Anyway, I will try and help Quote: Originally posted by massymor: I gonna come in japan in december. I would like to discover a place

SerreChe, we are equally disturbed at the same time. I get up today and see your post here. Just last night I was lying in bed reading "The Alpine 4000m Peaks by the Classic Routes".... scouring for adventure. I have a casual plan to climb and ride three 4000m+ peaks each year. I've been up three and ridden two. Depending on one's definition, there are 32, and some aren't exactly within reach of my abilities (or rideable at all). So the list of 32 slims down pretty quickly. Anyway, I agree that Lenzspitze (4294m) that you pictured is very attractive. Its one huge ice face. I

Sorry mate, reading back I see that I typed Dizzy instead of AK. Total mistake. Just to be clear: all the camp-fire shenanigans and messing around with sleds etc was not what prompted me to post. It was the gun. One minute there was pole vaulting over the camp fire, the next shooting a pistol. 1. I never expected some real-deal pistol play to be part of a situation like that. To me, given my sheltered life, it was out of place. Perhaps if I knew that guns where so popular in the back country in the USA, like a bit if gear tucked away in your overnight pack, then I would have n

Quote: Originally posted by Ocean11: I still fail to see your point db _ I _ dont _ care _

M-Hucker, thanks for taking a second look at what I was on about. You got my thing: it was the gun. I've seen a few of those clips and those socks can be amusing, with moments of crassness. Just this time it had surprise, one moment I am watching the socks talking boyish and some guys on the screen fooling around like most of us do. Then the next moment a guy is shooting a pistol. It was something I totally did not expect to see there and then. I guess its cultural conditioning... one nationality is different to the next. But for TGR to incude that footage really left me scratching