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You can all take your closing swings at me, get it out of your system. I'm quite relaxed with being the 'blithering' odd-one-out on this topic. And I don't care to 'convert' anyone either, so no need to act defensively. I've said what I think and note with interest who here thinks fooling around with semi-auto pistols in the back country and then giggling over it on a commercial ski footage is par for the course. Ocean:. Playing with fireworks around the camp fire is an entirely different thing to playing with a pistol (and then commercialising it for the ski-porn watching masses). Y

Hang on, I didn't use the word "normal" correctly. It wasn't a literal inference that it is normal behaviour for Americans. More so that pistol carrying and shooting is extremely unusual behaviour outside of places like America (and, more the benefit of making a point, Iraq). The fact that it is around the campfire in a back country skiing trip is, to me, a totally bizarre and abnormal thing. Owning guns for your hunting is your business. Shooting them at cans on safe land is also your own business. Carrying a pistol on a back country ski trip is scary, but also ones own busine

>but spud, your comment? come on mang, there are jerk offs everywhere That's beyond Jerk-off if you are Australian, British, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Austrian, Kiwi, Swiss, Japanese..... etc And what's wrong with my comment? I have never imagined that a person would own and travel with a semi-auto pistol, let alone fire it whilst sitting around a back country camp fire for a laugh [at explosive objects in the fire]. Especially when they are out back country skiing. That's not normal behaviour for a non-American westerner like me. I don't a

Check out the closing scene in this clip at night around the camp fire. That's not normal behaviour anywhere except America and Iraq. So ends my interest in anything to do with TGR movies. What a load of shit. http://www.tetongravity.com/viewer/Clip_TSS_EP08_COLLINS.aspx

Here are four freeride board lengths, all 28cm wide. Made by people who so far claim to care. http://www.venturesnowboards.com/index.php?inc=euphoria.html

Quote: Originally posted by eskimobasecamp: DB - you live in Paris now? EH? Girlfriend has been living there for 6 months, we rented a really small pad. Sadly those days are almost over (Paris days, not her).

>so I appreciate this video for what it is Gay porn.

Quote: Originally posted by Kumapix: another video review by yours truly! That by Forum *************** Holy SHit!!! The music was really good throughout the vid The riding was awesome. They know how to make rails interesting There was no big mountain riding This is THE video you want to put on when you wake up in the morning before you go riding. Oh dude, it hurt to read that. Why you man? Of all the people that could have said these horrible things why did it have to be you??!!! Why couldn't it have been some baggy arsed gansta wannabe wanker who I didn't l

Beanie, yep its for my CAA1, all back country based which is great: no resort, no town. Just a remote mountain hut for 7 days. Aftre the course do you wanna swing by and met up for two days of touring? It would be a Monday and Tuesday.

If all goes to plan then by June next year I will have done 40 to 50 days. Or I will be dead. Or in prison for a crime I didn't commit. Life is uncertain.

Sure, thats certainly possible at the end of my Purcel Mtns trip when I return to Kimberly. I fly out from Cranbrook two days later.

A guy I know once claimed that Chinese sounded crass. Strange adjective for a language. Personally, I find almost any language other than English irritating after a while. They all have annoying features. I can't handle hearing my Japanese girl talking on the phone in J. And even with English, some accents get on my nerves. Like the American mouthful of hot potatoes pronunciation of R. And their 'er'. I'd rather listen to some innit English guy all day than that. In fact, verbal communication [censored]s me off all together unless I'm having an unusually good day. F

one of the boys.

Quote: Originally posted by Kumapix: here is the bakoda tool. get one similar: I've spent 5 minutes trying to open one of those bastards before. Just bought myself a new lightweight Leatherman tool. Oooops, it doesn't have the big Philips head for the binding plate screws. I tighten my screws every outing. I don't trust snowboard bindings at all. They are over hyped junk held together in such a way that constant care and maintenance is required. On the other hand, mid level ski bindings are safe and soundly constructed. There is way too much reputation to blow if you p

Get 4wd, its a no brainer. Ever driven in fresh snow before?

Hey Thomas, its good to hear from another D1 rider

Quote: Originally posted by Oyuki kigan: db le pu, i am from Cranbrook, and i grew up on Kimberly. Cranbrook is by far the closest airport, and is midway between Kimberly and Cranbrook. Its about 15 minutes from the airport to either town. You can fly into it from either Calgary or Vancouver. thanks Oyuki. I have a spare day at each end of my trip so will likely ride around the resort on both of them.

Snosurf sorry for the bombardment mate - I set out trying not to be too tech for you, but failed. Too much jargon in one big lump. But you responded well to the flurry of posts regarding the avvy risk. Thats cool. Besides the risks of riding alone in avalanche terrain, if there is anything to take out of this side topic it could be the causes and dangers of windslab on a 35 degree slope. Just focus on that for the moment. It is essential knowledge for any off-piste rider, especially in crowded Niseko when searching for fresh tracks after no fresh snow for a windy week, so you start s

Snosurf - sorry to push the point, but I think you missed it. Please don't feel criticised or attacked, you probably are really nice guy. Reading your response, this is what popped into my head: 1. having av safety gear would have been almost useless to you since you were alone. And it doesn't prevent an accident anyway. 2. even if you were wearing a beacon, no one could see you anyway. So no one could rush to your aid and search for your buried quickly dying body. [i repeat from my first post: do not depend on other people seeing you in the first place] 3. you were over con

Quote: Originally posted by Rag-Doll: Get the 7:10 am shinkansen - if you can't book line up early for a seat but even if you don't get a seat, the 7:10 is quite quick and you'll get there around 8:30. Go out of the Echigo Yuzawa station via the lefthand exit (as you walk through the ticket gate). Hail one of several taxis that are waiting there. Be sure to go straight out with no stuffing around (there is only a handful of taxis) to ensure you get a taxi. There are change rooms and coin lockers and gear rental at the Mitsumata ropeway building. There are other places near by that also

Cheers Daver. What resort is in the Kimberly area?

Looks pretty close. Local bus should do it. google map I'm going to the back country in the Purcell Mountains, staying in the Ptarmigan Lodge (after flying in by heli. Sorry, I'll buy some CO2 offset credits)

So Calgary is the best international airport? I can get direct flights to there which is good. I really don't want to rent a car to ultimately reach Kimberly as it will sit there unused for over a week. And sadly I don't have spare time to traverse the great nation of Canadia. How do I get from Cranbook to Kimberly?

Shock horror, ultra conservative SKI, conformist and some might say bland, reacted in the expected manner when tattoo was mentioned. If ever there was a 'just ignore him' moment, that was it. The problem with tattoos is that undoubtedly, a lot of absolute morons have them whilst a lot of clearly not-morons don't have them...and that makes the entire idea easy to dislike. In terms of appearance, who cares? Some people are born plain ugly, some people choose to get permanent tattoos, and some people dedicate their life to owning a home entertainment centre, a two car garage and a su

If only I could correctly calculate the lag variable in the moving average of the missiles trajectory.