So have a very good mate who does have a tendency to go off all over the place skiing.
Currently he's en route to the Antarctic (ski touring) - to get there is quite a prolonged journey, and just had this email ..................
Aah....
Arrived Ushuaia late last night and met the only other guest (not in team hotel till tomorrow) - a skier who I had a quick word with last night when we both checked in - This morning he
introduced himself as Seth and we had good long chat over breakfast. From Colorado - v nice guy - then the penny dropped: I'd seen his name on Sluggy's skis!! (And my gloves).
I quickly realised the only thing our skiing has in common is that we've both never done it in the Antarctic.
Anyway my new ski buddy is Mr Morrison !
(and as Per's skis are somewhere in transit he maybe doing the trip on my old mantras which I brought as spares.)
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Who??
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?
Indeed Seth Morrison, for those that don't know he's up there with the likes of Shane McConkey and Glen Plake.
A mate of ours had some of his signature Seth Pistols which were a big mountain "bad ass punk" twin tip ski that also kicked up a really anti social spray off the back.
It's like the equivalent of the likes of David Beckham or some other super star footballer sitting down for a chat and you not really knowing who it is until they introduce themselves to you.
Though no doubt some on here will disagree with that statement.
A mate of ours had some of his signature Seth Pistols which were a big mountain "bad ass punk" twin tip ski that also kicked up a really anti social spray off the back.
Are you still talking about football?
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Weathercam wrote:
It's like the equivalent of the likes of David Beckham or some other super star footballer sitting down for a chat and you not really knowing who it is until they introduce themselves to you.
or (as a friend of a friend did) sitting in the La Grave lift having completed your first ever run there and pointing out lines ("that's Triffide 1 and people actually ski that" etc) to a random american dude who turned out to be Doug Coombs (RIP)
After all it is free
After all it is free
@Weathercam,
Who knows your mate might feature on a new video
If he is going to use your mates spare skis tell your mate to get him to sign them " Thanks for the loan of the skis in the Antarctic"
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@speed098, it's the guide whose skis are lost in transit - in fact one of the reasons they get down to the port a few days early from where the boat goes from (takes nigh on three days to the Antartctic) is that skis and luggage often fail to turn up, and a bit of a mild catastrophe if you've booked that trip and have no gear as there are not that many ski rental shops down there
Suppose you could always join the other groups that are on the ship going down there as it's not just skiers that charter it, but twitchers, photographers, trekkers and wildlife groupies etc etc
Is this the IceAxe Tours thing? I'd LOVE to ski Antarctica, but the cost is pretty mind-blowing...
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Arno wrote:
Weathercam wrote:
It's like the equivalent of the likes of David Beckham or some other super star footballer sitting down for a chat and you not really knowing who it is until they introduce themselves to you.
or (as a friend of a friend did) sitting in the La Grave lift having completed your first ever run there and pointing out lines ("that's Triffide 1 and people actually ski that" etc) to a random american dude who turned out to be Doug Coombs (RIP)
Lol, it's like the reverse of GNAR.
"Yo Hoji, have you skied the Harikiri in Mayrhofen?? I hear it's, like, the steepest black run in the WORLD!"
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
Mine - wandering down to breakfast in very modest Chilean B&B. Hmm thst guy looks a bit crusty with those dreads wonder where his dig on a string is?
Kaj Zackrikson
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
@clarky999, yes IceAxe tours - cost is $10,000 excl flights and then you have to get insured for the trip cost my mate $480
This is the team doing a bit o training presumably ship to Zodiac / Zodiac to shore transfer.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
^ Looks like a goretex/ primaloft/ knitted beanie fantasy camp.
In decades to come will today's ubiquitous look attract the same mirth as the fartbag/neon graffiti of old?
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
@Dave of the Marmottes, my mates gone tooled up in Paramo gear (Enduro range) that should confuse them all with the token Brit walking around in that gear. Though the guide he was climbing with in the Summer (when you might recall was a tad wet at times and who is one of the guides on this trip) was most impressed with the gear as Tim and his son were so dry
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Just in from Tim - not for the faint of heart...........
Hi
Just back to mainland Argentina . Hurricane force 12 winds in Southern Ocean for most of 2 days +( 600 miles) in Drake Passage (S of Cape Horn). Wind speed gauge broke at 108 knots!!!
Lots of tales to tell……and as well as the “surfing” in our ship the skiing was something else too……nothing prepared me for the spectacle of Antarctic
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