dizzy
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u should go, veronica.
sounds like you can afford the flight and you've got the time off.
this year's snow sucks here. go for it
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he's going to be Church Boy starting this spring w/ his new gig!
going from girdwood w/ chugach powder guides. brother lives an hour's flight from anchorage.
i want: Wall Steet, Dentrites, Sphinx. but Sphinx is far and CPG may not go there
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yes. my brother and i r doing the weekend rate, i think 50K vertical. he's got family stuff and i also wanna play w/ my nephews.
mid april. can't wait!
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good crip, bp.
i paid for my flight to AK and made a deposit w/ the chopper guides today. i feel great.
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maybe the instructor was holding back b/c he thought you wouldn't understand japanese.
if u say u can understand it. did u make that understood?
but, still, u paid 1 man yen for that? i would have ripped their head off for a full refund. f#&$ that s&'$. fts, that's a rip off. i would've asked for the kocho-sensei's boss and ripped his head off too. sounds like horrible service.
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good TR, fubuki
i see u still haven't recovered from sunburn from a couple weeks ago. or u got another one sunday.
did u use my duck hunters again? hope they worked out well
goodbyes suck. there's always a next time.
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thansk again for taking my duck hunting shoes, ft.
sorry again about dropping your shovel handle down the mt.
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hell yeah
love the snowboarder track in the background, too. fubuki's?
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heads up
104 burton custom bindings left right now
kuma, you burton whore, u should get thme
off to a meeting now
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hey kumapix r u all right? what did the doctor say?Quote:Originally posted by Kumapix:
she swerved to get a hit on the side wall, in the process knocking my nose out. -
hey kumapix r u all right?Quote:Originally posted by Kumapix:
she swerved to get a hit on the side wall, in the process knocking my nose out. -
or rent a split board from rapie and then buy a pair!Quote:Originally posted by sock_monkey:
take out the teles and forget about snow shoes! -
good for getting something going b/c u believe in the cause, oyuki!
cherry and i would love to make it up, but i've got work early the next morning. she says go for it!! and would like to have that discussion w/ you in person
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yeah fubuki, i think once u try MSRs, you won't want duck-hunting Atlas. mine are 1025s and are actually better suited for someone 80+kgs. i'd love a pair of this year's MSRs- they look sick
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Excellent Saturday. Five: FT, kumapix, fubuki, BCW, and sock monkey planned to leave at 7:30. we got out the door at 8.
A conbini stop and Citizen Cope in FT's van on the way to Tsugaike. Kumapix rocked up just after we got tickets and were in the gondie line. 45 minute easy hike up Hiyodori. Citizen Cope looping in my head. We were expecting: blue bird, no/little wind, stable north aspects. Sock monkey's GPS chartered every meter of our route. Altimeters and FT's map.
solar radiation was affecting the south-facing slopes of the terrain we were in. It was warm by now and only before 11. We had to negotiate a sketchy cornice of ice. Fubuki wasn't having a jolly good time w/ his equipment, but he managed. Once on a safe spot, FT wanted to cut the cornice.
He had me secure myself to a tree about 2 meters downslope w/ straps.
The cornice cut wasn't going to work b/c there it was too much of a hassle to get a rope underneath it. I climbed back up the slope, kicking in steps w/ my snowshoes. Kuma stuck out his arm to help me up the last meter and afterward we yelled, "Fai-to!" "Ippatsu!" like those guys in the energy-drink commercials.
We went to a saddle, fubuki roped me up using two trees and himself as an anchor. FT had me jump on the cornice. Then I slope cut it as best I could. Now I want a rope, too. 6-8mm, at least 30m if not 60. the thinner and longer, the more expensive so we'll see.
Once I got down the slope as far at the rope let me, I meant to dig a quick pit. But everything I've learned on courses and from books flashed through my mind and I took my damn sweet time. I did easy hits too hard, so I guestimate the instability was moderate 4 or 5 @ 28-33 cm, on top of a H2 4 cm below that. Pretty stable underneath that. I've got to take my time in the pit. I don't like wasting time, but it's not a race. Everyone got ready. I hadn't been thinking about my snowshoes and had left them on top of the cornice. Luckily, FT put them on his pack for me. In return, I accidentally dropped his shovel handle 'cause last week he dropped my shovel handle (saw included) down oshi dashi. I told him and he yelled back "nice joke" Damn.
I went first.
My riding was sh#t but the line was great. Kuma went more into the shade and found a safe spot to snap photos. The BCW wasn't whistling today, but he launched off an ice-covered rock, yelped OH SH#T, and super Mario-jumped back up. Fubuki was next and loved it. FT hiked up further and absolutely killed it! Really strong turns. Sock Monkey came last. BCW, Fubuki, and I went down further. Looking back:
I went over a small knoll and at the last second realized I had had my helmet unstrapped from my last stop and go. It popped off my head as I went over the bump and I caught it as I came down the bump. BCW and I were laughing our arses off at that.
Kuma w/ my camera of SM and I:
We had lunch and then had pristine trees. Kumapix still had my camera at this point. Cell-phone picture. My board is just at the tip of the SJ logo:
Kuma's camera captured some great shots of flying Fattwins. we're eagerly expecting his TR. Sock Monkey's got some great shots, too.
sick sick sick.
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needless to say, thank JTF Christ AK and everyone is all right. the pic of Hugh @ Mon-Pigeon says it all.
get well soon, AK. and get a helmet. that sucks, one of your first days back after a two+ week? break.
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hey, i wasn't the one who was sent to a posh hotel for *free* and not take picturesQuote:Originally posted by Kumapix:
thanks....backstabber!
every time you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing right back @ u
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she took both. much better now.
fubuki, let's happo! c u tonight
good stoke ft
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sad. it sounds like avalanches are rare in that area... mentioning the last time there was an avalanche victim (1990), and being that the guides all thought the area was safe that morning.
--rapidly changing conditions
--what the faithful daily reports (for hakuba, at least) say about always watching out for "the threat from above" (thanks, SJ and DR people)
--traveling in HUGE groups (18 or something like that in one group?!)
--the victims were the last/some of the last skiers to go down the slope (more people who have skied on a slope = more wiegh loading on the snowpack, easier for avlanches to occur)
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a cheap fix option is pocket warmers. you can buy them at any pharmacy. just open and in ten minutes it warms up. lasts 6-8 hours. the brand i use a lot is called HOKKAIRO.
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yeah, freezing. that's as focused as a picture i could take not blur, but windblown snow every where.
it was funny to look straight up once in a while during the hike and see all of the snow blowing overheard
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yeah, i have only one gf. she's a skier who can "almost ski parallel" (her words). she has a bellywarmer with cherries on it. Cherry and i r taking the train&bus fri night. she'll ski w/ her friend at tsugaike.
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great pictures, slow
thanks for the email. can't wait to do it all again this weekend. gf is on meds and recovering from her cold. should be up this weekend, too
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thanks for the advice, fubuki. i'm going.
but i'm going mainly to see my brother and his sprouting nephews and to welcome the new one.
i wanna teach the oldest (5) to snowboard on our resort days. we've squeezed the heli days in tight as. if it's no-fly weather, we get our money back and have snowcat days.
i've been working for 9 years of my life now, supporting myself for about 11. there's a reason i horde my money away in summers ebc do u remember what i told u when we were coming down from tsugaike last summer? u should ditch graduation, especially if there's nothing invested in there.
cb, i'd say come w/ me but CPG told me i got the last seat on the chopper for those days. oh well.
we're having a record-breaking year for such little snowfall here. ak in december of last year broke records--28 feet. that's why i'm going. now is the time.
ak is beautiful.
last time i was there was may three years ago. i still had had a cast on my arm so no riding then：