Skiing news, Colorado 14ers, Sanctified movie review thoughts and a few comments about Chris Davenport.
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Anyone slightly bored with ski movies that show endless stunning (at least at first) footage, while lacking any sort of compelling story? I see a few hands raised.
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In a move that I’m sure had all backcountry skiing heli-haters throwing fits, last spring a helicopter landed on the summit of Mount Everest. The outfit that accomplished this presents information and video on Mount Everest Net. This amazing display…
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The Colorado Avalanche Information Center is closed for the season even though we’ve got backcountry skiing avalanche danger all over the place, so in a strange twist the CAIC boys are now posting reports at the Teton Gravity Research web forums.
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Back from backcountry skiing today here in central Colorado. We looked for corn snow, found a few silky turns, but mostly found difficult variable conditions. We rated overall avy danger as considerable because of heat, so didn’t get much done.…
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Naxo binding durability update: I got a chuckle when I was checking the TGR forums to see what they were talking about. Person posted this, and mentioned they broke their “fragile” Naxos during what appears to be a Darwin Awards…
