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jared

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  1. It's funny when its a police car.. not so funny when its an ambulance causing the traffic jam. Lights, sirens and a long line of cars stuck behind the ambulance that should be speeding to the scene of the emergency. Try to never injure yourself seriously in Japan, help is a long slow ambulance ride away.

  2. It might pay to add a couple of quick draws to that rope pete. That way you can set up a sort of pully system to pull people out of holes. (quite) a few years ago on this forum someone fell into a hole with a creek in the bottom of it. His mates had ropes etc. to pull him out but he still ended up very cold. Since then I have carried rope b/c.

     

    On glide cracks - if you are skiing boarding and pointed more or less down the fall line you are not likely to fall into one as the ones I have seen tend to be shorter that a pair of skis. When you stop facing across the slope in line with the cracks is when I have seen people fall in. Perhaps stop in concave areas rather than just over the top of convex knoles??

  3. Jynxx - its not worth hanging around waiting for powder, but it is worth going skiing. The absence of powder doesn't mean it is not fun to ski. There are lots of steeps and fun terrain as well as parks also groomers for some hard carving if that's your thing. Also you should usually be able to find some good snow to ski on if you go BC. Its just not very often we get to ski deep fresh lines.

     

    Best town? I have done the last few seasons in Queenstown but this year we are shifting back to Wanaka to ski. If I lived closer to Christchurch I would be heading for the club fields. All have their own strengths and weaknesses.

  4. Powder in NZ is pretty hit and miss.. we were just deciding when we would take some time off work and decided on the middle 2 weeks of August was the best bet. Late enough in the season that there should be plenty of snow on the ground whatever the weather at the time. The snowfall is entirely random and could happen any time (but usually doesn't). Hard for planning holidays but ok if you live close enough to just take the day off work when you need to.

  5. I'm in Dunedin but I'll phone the place on linwood ave.

     

    I kinda need it early next week (but I'm gonna be a bit late I think), I left it a bit late organising it cos I just assumed it would be easy to find online. I have another friend trying to get me some, if he cant get any I'll get back to you and try your friend. Thanks

  6. Hey minty - I was gonna pm you but they seem to be disabled at the moment.

     

    Do you know where in NZ I could buy some Malolactic culture? I only need enough for about 60L. Also, any difference in quality between the dried stuff and the liquid ones?

    It is starting to look like I might have to order it from the US.

    This is my first attempt at making Pinot noir.

     

    thanks

  7. Originally Posted By: JA
    Originally Posted By: blef
    ...All the things going on certainly don't add to the case for Japan thumbsup

    They also don't detract from the beauty and fabulousness of the snow there!

    Don't be a wusss, go to Japan next season! wink biggrin


    Don't know if I would go so far as to call the above post "uppity" or "mocking". Mine was, but that's not because of his choice of holiday destination so much as his OTT reaction to JA's friendly post.

    Yes he used the work wusss - it was clearly a joke - see smilies afterward for clarification of meaning.
    I used the word prick but not towards a non japan visitor (that may or may not be an alter ego of one of you lot)
  8. Originally Posted By: Captain Stag
    So for the record, what combined disaster effects would you expect the average 'in town for a couple of days' visitor to notice if:

    1 - It was their first time there with nothing to compare it to?

    2 - If they had a few trips to Tokyo under their belt?


    None??

    A few less lights than normal??

    It wouldn't be that HHaidar was more or less right about Tokyo being business as usual in the context of being a tourist in the City would it?
  9. I guess it's time to face up to the blatantly obvious and undeniable truth that your caustic sounding friends are trying to impart to you TJ OZ. No one will ever want to go near Japan ever again, especially not to ski. The risk of an earthquake occurring is just too great and humans just have such long memories for disasters like these.

    It happens all the time, no one will go near Moscow or northern Europe on account of Chernobyl, no one will ever go to Thailand or indeed anywhere near the Indian ocean because of the tsunami, may as well forget about Australia, it got burned then washed away. You may as well just get used to the idea that Japan is going to be a ghost town from now on. Tourists never forget!

  10. Apparently I’m not that bright and I missed your blatantly clear point. I wasn’t having a go, I was just after a little clarification in the interests of furthering the conversation.

     

    To me your point could have been any of the following:

     

    People should not go skiing in Japan because of the disaster.

    People will not go skiing in Japan because of the disaster.

    People should cancel their trips.

    People that previously did not have plans to go to ski in japan are now unlikely to make plans to go and ski in Japan this season.

     

    Anyway, I will leave you to talk to the bright people, enjoy.

     

     

    “funny†is from you comment on page 6 where you said “I find some peoples thoughts on this quite funny.†You have since edited it changing the word funny to interesting and elected not to mark the post as edited. I'm guessing since you took the time to untick the mark as edited box you will deny it.

     

  11. The NZ one - the prediction was made 1 week in advance of the earthquake and the one for the 20th is for NZ not Japan. I think if you look he makes all sorts of predictions and he gets a few right by the shear number of predictions made. I'm not ready to believe just yet, I'll stick with traditional science for now, but if there is a big one on the 20th (or even a day either side) I will start paying him more attention. (as will many people I suspect)

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