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D System Rating and Grading Backcountry Skiing Descents

Anecdotal evidence suggests it’s a Freddy Kruger nightmare being caught in an avalanche with a snowboard locked to both feet, limiting your ability to fight and dragging you down like cement boots.

Reports filtered in yesterday from Indy. Skiers found a compacted and nicely frozen spring snowpack that yielded skiable lines all day if you picked your exposures. We skied up there today, and sure enough, we’re able to leisurely ski various…

Nope, it’s not April fools — a flood took out a bridge on the east side of Indy, and it’s closed till further notice. Talk about having your spring backcountry skiing plans dashed! Not all is lost, however. Now the…

We immediately wondered if the guide had lost control of the group in some way (perhaps simply because the victim chose not to follow his instructions.

Okay folks, announcing our “Threadies,” this season’s top twenty weird, wonderful and wacky forum thread names from Couloir Magazine, TelemarkTips, and TGR. Enjoy guessing which forum they came from. Rather than arranged in ranking order, we ordered them to tell…