 Poster: A snowHead
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I've just watched the video clip lbt posted. WTF was that guy thinking?
WRT skis coming off or staying on surely it depends on the type of fall you have. If you are going slow and side slipping then if you do fall you are likely to remain with feet below you, and so having the skis on is a good thing. The minute you go A over T (particularly at speed) then you want the skis to come off to prevent further injury.
Just as a matter of interest if you knock the DIN settings up by 1, what difference does it make to the forces required to come out of the binding? I'm not sure that changing it up by 1 or 2 is going to make much of a difference if you stack big time anyway
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes, a big fall they will come off anyway, it is just a matter of making the release require a stronger jerk. My normal now is between 7 1/2 and 8 for sideways release and half a point more for forward release. Less than that and the normal jolts of skiing crud or landing little unexpected jumps make them come off too often. They still come off very occasionally during ordinary skiing - but I imagine everyone who skis reasonably hard has that experience.
I also like a bit more forward flex from the boot so tend to do up the top cleat more loosely than the others.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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norris, I don't know, I haven't read it. Most people have seen my Alagna story before so I hadn't given the reference.
Wayne wasn't there (it was in Alagna) but does know the guide and I sent my account of it to Alpine Experience because Giles Green who invented the boot-arrest method was an Alpine Experience guide.
If it might be the same story I'd be interested to see his version!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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snowball, I hadn't read your Alagna experience - sounds like you had a lucky escape....
Wayne documents an incident he had on the North face of the Bellecotte. I have the book at home, will see if I can scan and post tonight.
There is a chapter on the Giles Green self arrest.
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snowball,
I'd not seen that thread either...do you have enough pics to make up a mini TR..?
And my pack burst open last year after a fall...well, a tumble compared to yours, and I lost a few things so I now have it tied shut....
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I think I've rather done it to death on here. Anyway I lost the photos with the camera. I only have this one taken from several miles away looking back up the valley after the helicopter drop (it was about at the top right hand edge) and a few of the local houses and the helicopter landing. I have tried to mark what I think the route was. For scale the cliff is more than 1/2 km high.
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snowball,
That looks from the Alagne side, IIRC. I will see if I can savage some shots from the Col du Lys down the front side.
We need something to keep us going ..
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Alagna and the lifts are over the ridge to the left of pic. Which is Col du Lys, I can't remember.
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snowball,
The Col (4200) is the classic heli drop point for a lot of descents. I haven't done that many but you can pop over to Zermatt from there down the glacier or you can ski down the front side and come out at Staffal. That glacier is pretty steep and rugged. If you go over to Zermatt most of it is about mileage so you might want to ask the guide what alternatives drops he has down that side. When we did it, the route was pretty classic and long and therfore not very steep and all we could do is look up at the sides and see great lines and a few tracks down these faces. The peaks and the ridge concerned would be around the Breithorn, Pollux etc etc leading across to the klein matterhorn. Otherwise it is a 65kms run which is all about getting back quickly enough. Do not fly later than 1030 latest to have a comfortable trip and not the manic hurry-up we had....!! Still great fun but there are better ways down that side from what I could see.
I am sure you can't see the Col from that side or if you can, I can't make it out ftom that pic.
It looks to me that your line would come down from above the Punta Indren drags ....... only got into Balma from there and the drags were never running there anyway...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I did one years ago which ended up as Saas Fee - not sure if that was the same start point (looked like you could go any direction).
Victoria is one or two peaks further up the same ridge as Malfatta couloir.
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FAQ
1 edge makes for some interesting moments, especially on a heelside traverse above a cliff...
Luckily I came to a stop at the bottom..
