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Sanno Alot of the areas around Austria get alot of day skiers from places like Munich. Areas like Kitzbuhel and the Kaiser on the weekend are like a zoo. Mid week there is no croud. In France Where there seem to be more week long holidays i might agree with you.

Prety much same everywhere. Weekends =longer lines. I will say this that the lines in Japan are not that bad. Europe on the weekend can be really bad. Large funnel like lift controls mean a bad scene. Practice your elbow tecnique. States lines are long but organized. Ski weekdays if you can

FT BP do you know any sites to get movies with subtitles? Try www.piaratebay.com plenty of movies many with subs of various langs. you will need a good program like azerus to download them with. PM if you need any help

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shuffle board played on ice.

I can deal with out the musik. It reminds of being in yodobashi. I think people over here need to have something loud and annoying being blaired at them. But I have a plan. A pair of dykes and my climbing harness. And the there was silence.

so would FT

With the exception of a few days I think it's been good. May be i just hit the right days.

oh really

They look prety sweet. Have always lusted after a pair of there tele boards.

Was mostly on trail up in the top sections was not paying to much the map so i really could not tell you.

Just got back from Hakuba for the weekend. First time there and had a good time. I will agree with FT that there is alot of steep stuff to be found espically in the tress. Just wish I knew where some of the stuff emptyied out at. Enjoyed Goryu a bit more then 47. There seemed to be way to many people at 47 this weekend. I think the one thing about Niseko that i like is it seems to have consistantly light flufly powder. I have seen a lot of places with steeps(veriber, cham or LaGrave). But Niseko always seems to have light powder more so than Colorado. Any way had fun while I was

I know a lot of places closer to the Austrian border have both a German name and an Italian name. Has to do with Austria owning parts of Italy before WW1. However I think Turin is a bit to far west.

well cross country will take care of that. If you feel a little unnerved about being on skinny skis. Look at some backcountry cross country skis. there a bit wider and the bindings are a bit heavy duty. You can also go with an older style 3 pin or a cable binding. these type of bindings wil also require slightly diffrent boots.

Gamera a snowplow turn is just like the turn you would use when learning to downhill on alpine skis. Place your skis in a wedge and apply pressure to the inside edge of the direction you want to turn. If you want to slow down place equal pressure on both inside edges. As for telemarking is actualy easier on the knees then alpine skis Do not try thhis till you start felling more comfortable on your skis

Furrano a few weeks ago.

Glad to here you had a good time cross country can be fun. snowplowing will work. once you start to get good at going down you can always try to do a telemark turn.

If worse comes to worse try mail order and have it sent from the states. Sometimes even after shipping its cheaper. Had a BD tent sent over for less then it would of cost me here.

found this works well silk weight and a mid weight cappleine, fleece and then shell

Some Jackets have a built in RECCO. The weight is minimal. You should always wear your tranciever into the back country. RECCO is only an added value thing and you should not depend only on it.

If I dont the kids start hounding me asking were is your helmet daddy! So I wear it even on groomers

let the fights begin this happened up at steamboat. http://9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=K...47-c589c01ca7bf

What type of sick stuff would you need something that fat for? I have a older pair of Jaks whic are about 90 under foot and that seems plenty wide.

CB Can you list a few.

162mm under foot may as well just buy two snowboards