mattlucas
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Doesn't sound any different from any other fall in the Tateyama and that never stopped some of us from getting up there
Myself well I'd go just because everybody says not to
You only live once and even in a whiteout there are some fun runs low down in the Raicho camp area
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Originally Posted By: FattwinsToque is skiing or something like that with the 6 hours of daylight he gets per day.
Hell yah FT
I won't be making you guys jealous for much longer. Looks like your season is about to begin...
Tateyama this weekend and then just a couple more till Hakuba opens up
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CB you'll be skiing way deeper snow very soon. I've got early season powder but thats about it.
FT you're just jealous
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My 9th an so far best day out this season
Dry powder near a ghost town that used to mine asbsestos
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I don't want the last post on the page
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Originally Posted By: kokodokoI just found some photos/slides from out the back of hakuba. afaik.
Dont know where or who.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miya_snowboard/sets/72057594126920992/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miya_snowboard/tags/%E7%AB%8B%E5%B1%B1/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miya_snowboard/sets/881725/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miya_snowboard/tags/%E5%94%90%E6%9D%BE%E5%B2%B3/show/
there is some pretty awesome country there..
Good find but...
Get it right dorkstick
1st link is summit ski off of Tsurugi
2nd link is Tateyama
3rd is a ski of Yari and then a summit ski of Oku-Hotaka. Some great pictures of the couloir off Hotaka
4th is off Karamatsu so you got that one right. I guess 1/4 is alright. -
Get a tissue boys and get over the twintip thing
Enjoy this wintery picture from northern BC. First snow to actually stick on the ground in Dease Lake
This weekend is going to rule!
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Hah Sock Monkey
Beat you to it
Where are you going to go early season?
My 2nd day out this season. No new snow so I have to be extra careful of sharks but it was a lot dryer than the week before because of some nice clear and cold nights. Just low angle turns right now because that is where it is safe to ski. The steeper stuff has the big rocks poking through.
Bull caribou with a harem of 5 cows
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I may be in the middle of nowhere. But I skied a 400 metre run this afternoon. More pictures on the my blog which FT linked to above.
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Well I'm 3-4 hours south of a crappy looking hill with a T-Bar just inside Yukon Territory and 7 hours north of Shames and Smithers Mountains in Terrace and Smithers.
It's all backcountry skiing around here and I'm looking forward to it.
And I'm nowhere near the Rocky Mountains. I'm on the east side of the Coast Mountains
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I saw this thread and waited a day or to for FT to upload a picture of new snow. He didn't produce and this thread needs a picture of new snow
So here we go with September 8th in northwest British Columbia where I now live.
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No worries Soub. Nice skis and line. Ride it switch into the living room
The general lack of excitment and imagination for the pursuit of the endless season has kept me away over the past year. And I guess the fact that I don't live there anymore...
Just a local peak in my hometown FT
When are you back in Canada?
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huh
that really makes me want to post some summer stoke
But for those of you that enjoy it
Here is a bit of what I did ski
Started in the upper right
I've been up to lots. Been busy so have not been on the net so much other than email and keeping my blog up to date.
I've graduated and am moving up to the northwest corner of BC for a teaching gig in a tiny little 500 person village. I'm super stoked to experience the north
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This thread needs some summer skiing stoke
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Originally Posted By: Fattwins
Love this picture. Was wondering if those tracks in the back would be yours
Have to say that I'm jealous of you guys. Even though I am getting out loads I enjoyed my two years of Golden Week ski turns. Getting out there and skiing cool lines with good friends -
sad sad sadQuote:Originally posted by Ezorisu:
I think one thing that a lot of people in the media are forgetting is that the dude was a South Korean national - whatever his rationale was, it is not likely that it was influenced by an upbringing in the "gun culture" of the USA...
This was a really unfortunate and sad episode.
Sad for the families and sad for some people after reading through these 3 pages
I think he lived in the Washington DC area for 15 years. Moved there when he was 8
I don't think you have to live in America to be overwelmed with American gun culture. Any video store has more than enough gun culture for your viewing pleasure
If videos are not to your pleasure just turn on the TV
Some new information
He sent a package to NBC after killing the first two and then went on to finish what he started
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I don't think it is about how fast you want to go or how tight a couloir you'll ski
More about which ski do you not care about as much and can get trashed
Spring BC skiing is bad on gear no matter how much you try to avoid the obstacles
I'd mount up the LBFs
You have had them for a while and a core shot or ski across a paved road won't be too much concern
If you really are planning on skiing into June the snow is going to be the pits by then anyways and going really fast will just be dangerous. Remember all the ice bulges that were forming when you and I skied that line near Korenge last June. Not really cruising snow.
A longer ski will be nice however if you are out late in the day and the snow has turned a bit isothermic. Even though the isothermic snow I experienced in Japan is in no way as bad as what I have been skiing lately
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Kick Ass report
And great pictures
You moving to the West Kootenays?
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You mean the Yakushi just south of Tateyama?Quote:Originally posted by dizzy:
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That's looking pretty goodQuote:Originally posted by dizzy:
am swamped w/ work, won't be up for at least two weeks.
first pics of tateyama are up
620cm base now compared to 690 last year and 570 the year before
2005 season was much better for spring/summer skiing than the 2006 season
Seemed like in 2006 all the warm wind and rain melted the snow off of the ridgelines really early while during 2005 most of the runs were skiable from the top into mid-June
Ewok and Slow that picture is from my Wapta Traverse trip report
****ing pineapple express
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This thread has been moved to the Trip Reports Forums section.
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Seemed strange to have open water in that canyon. Especially with the lakes frozen enough to ski across. There was also open water above Peyto LakeQuote:Originally posted by daver:
nice try man. the wapta is a special place. a potentially terrible place as well. too bad you didn't make it to Scott Duncan. but glad to here you didn't have to emergency bivy out there!
for all the reports of a massive season, things looked a little bare in many places. running water in "the death trap"? yikes.
Have you completed the traverse Daver?
I'm really looking forward to getting back into the Rockies. I've been bitten bad. Too bad it's a 6-7 hour drive.
There was loads of snow out there. And it is a large snow year. But there have been many wind events which has kind of stripped parts of the mountain for snow.
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That's cool dude
I'd love to ski some Pontoons
Was that snow real mush?
Friday 23rd Happo TR
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Excellent!!
A nice early season start and you guys deserve it a load
Nice write up CB. Wish I could have been there with you guys for that opening and its great that you guys are living up to my teachings of skiing till the snow runs out.
I'm not missing the smell of ass though. Dude what were you eating the night before to give you a stink like that?