ippy 66 Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I just thought this would be cute. Kinda like a moratorium. You dont even have to list it. Ill put down some options and you can just chuck in your number. Itd be nice to see whether we have a community that could theoretically have a hike Option 1: No gears, no training, not for me. Option 2: Have an interest but no gears. Option 3: Basic set - shovel probe, beacon. But boot packing it/no skins. Very little actual backcountry experience. Option 4: Basic Set + splitboard/snowshoes + skins. Little - some experience in the backcountry. Option 5: Basic kit,and avi training but no means to mount the summit (special category created just for me). Little to some bc experience. Option 6: All the mod cons, plus avi training from a one day open lecture. None to some BC experience Option 7: All the mod cons plus avi training stage 1 certificate (2 day course). Little to some BC experience. Option 8: All the above and working as ski patrol (sorry, this is going out of my depth now - i think this step is first). Decent BC experience. Option 9: Stage 2 avi training (according to CAA - 100 days on site collecting and studying snow/weather = PREREQUISITE to even take this - hence why i figure option 8 is interim, but i might be hugely wrong). To quote: Participants must have at least 100 days of operational field experience making and collecting weather, snowpack, and avalanche activity observations before applying, This generally requires at least two years of active operational field work and experience under the mentorship of CAA Professional Members. Quite a lot of BC experience i assume. Option 10: Tour planner. Which i guess is stage 3 Avi training. You definitely have all the kit and probably a tonne of other certificates necessary to creating a safe trip out into the backcountry. Loads of BC experience. Option 10b; Tour planner, printed out some certificates from the interwebs on some nice paper and framed them up. Little BC experience. Option 11: You have extensive back country experience but dont have any certificates or nothing You gots the kit and kaboodle and knows your stuff though. ETA: Maybe i should leave the part on backcountry experience to you to answer. I always like honesty, and so will your fellow hikees, so dont be embarrassed to fess up. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 Stage 5 for me. Obviously since i made the category especially for me. No real genuine backcountry experience. 1 hike. Guided and part of the avi course. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 A French media firestorm has been circulating claims that Barack Obama and Beyonce are dangerously in love. It came as Francois Hollande, France’s head of state and a well-known love cheat, arrived in America on an official state visit without his now-ex partner, Valérie Trierweiler. Rumours of an affair between the American president and the superstar singer- both of whom are married- were first made on Europe 1 radio station this morning. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Yes, but do they has their shits? Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites
Tachypsychia 13 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Somewhere between 2 and 3. No gear, but took an avi class. The interest is there. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Sorry it seems I neglected to delete when I realised it was in the wrong place. ippy, not sure. I'll try to find out! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Can't let all this work go to waste. Option 1. I don't need avi gear nor a helmet. Nannies. Link to post Share on other sites
sapporo 8 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 option 4, minus the beacon, shovel and probe! (usually borrowed from friends when hiking) Link to post Share on other sites
ozsnowbum 9 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 between 7 and 11 and i love their fried chicken. Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 2 no training an interest and a bit of boot packing to access side Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Option 11 for me. The first 15 or so years of my skiing was almost entirely backcountry. Most of that was in Australia but I've also spent a season working for a heli ski company in Revelstoke in Canada and I spent a month ski mountaineering in the Indian Himalayas, done some backcountry in NZ as well as plenty of backcountry ski trips in Hokkaido. I started backcountry skiing when I was 14 and then at university I was a leader in the Mountaineering Club. I led many trips into the Aussie Alps teaching uni students the basics of backcountry survival including alpine skills like navigation, roping up for glacier travel, crevasse rescue, building snow caves and avalanche rescue. Still a fair portion of my skiing is mostly backcountry and the only reason I like places like Niseko or Rusutsu is because I can spend almost the entire day off-piste. Otherwise I avoid ski resorts. I have all the gear, know how to use it and have used it real situations but don't always take it with me if I'm heading out solo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Dunga 1 Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 I'm a 2 leaning towards wanting to be full time back country. I defineately prefer the backcountry when I have been on tours, but have had little to no time in the past to get backcountry by myself or with others. Link to post Share on other sites
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