Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Start off with the free Avalanche Awareness Tours at the top of Blackcomb on Weds (I think) - enquire at the Guest Relations desk at the Blackcomb Daylodge.
Then enquire at The Escape Route in the Marketplace for their 2 day Recreational Avalance Awareness Course.
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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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Robbie, veeeight, thanks for that, I think it is important to be aware of your environment and not just the bars
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WElcome. The free tour is a good place to start.
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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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veeeight wrote: |
Start off with the free Avalanche Awareness Tours at the top of Blackcomb on Weds (I think) - enquire at the Guest Relations desk at the Blackcomb Daylodge.
Then enquire at The Escape Route in the Marketplace for their 2 day Recreational Avalance Awareness Course. |
As veeeight says.
The recreational avalanche course is pretty full on (actually 2.5 days as the first part is an evening theory session), the first whole day is particularly long (start at 8, tranceiver practice, tour around, dig some pits, then classroom session until late in the evening), but it is an excellent and very interesting/worthwhile course.
http://www.whistlerguides.com/winter/avalanche_safety/skiers.htm
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gosh - loads of people beat me to it
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will deffo do the free tour first and maybe think about the 2.5 day course because it is quite an expensive trip and only 8 days on the snow so I would prefer to be boarding. Not at the stage where I have even been off piste yet so maybe a bit premature, but is something I want to do sooner than later
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rayscoops, there's no point having an avalanche transceiver unless you're skiing with someone who has one too, plus a shovel and probe each. Otherwise, you may as well wait for the dogs to dig you out, long after suffocation.
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Snowy, ever the optimist you
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Snowy, best I get my mate to cough up the necessary spondoolies to buy the clobber as well then! What if we both get buried, which is likley as we will be skiing together?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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rayscoops wrote: |
What if we both get buried, which is likley as we will be skiing together? |
Another thing they'll teach you
When skiing risky terrain spread yourselves out so if you start an avalanche hopefully it wont get you both.
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stuarth, some one told that it is safer in an avalanche on a snowboard because you can ride it out. That is why I decided to go for boarding rather than those little skatey mini ski things, was I told the truth ?
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You know it makes sense.
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rayscoops,
Not sure, but I reckon it would be less embarrassing to be dug up with a snowboard on than snowblades in the backcountry!!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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colinmcc wrote: |
Snowy wrote: |
rayscoops, there's no point having an avalanche transceiver unless you're skiing with someone who has one too, plus a shovel and probe each. Otherwise, you may as well wait for the dogs to dig you out, long after suffocation. |
What bilge!
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Perhaps rather strongly put - perhaps you misread the point? If you were skiing with a group in the backcountry would you be happy to be the only one with tranceiver/probe/shovel?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Bloody snow 14cm fell last night and I'm stuck in work! Ah well hope the forcast is right for Monday night!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Ben133, It was awesome. I got some turns in for you in Outer Limits, Lakeside Bowl, Xhiggys, Arthurs Choice, Bark Sandwich, Gnarly Knots etc.
Awesome day. I was teaching too, so got to use the ski school line to avoid the lineups! Mind you, I nearly lost a client today over a cliff, when his ski came off dropping into the high traverse into Lakeside Bowl....
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veeeight, I skiied Arthurs choice and bark sandwich a couple of weeks ago, they are proper thigh burners! ( If you did it top to bottom without a stop or fall!) great bumps!
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Thanks stuarth for putting him right.
I doubt the mountain safety people would put themselves in any danger anyway, or else they wouldn't be around to rescue scores of other buried people.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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There were bumps on Catskinner earlier in the season, but the groomers seemed to have a frenzy lately, and groomed it, Heavenly Basin etc.
However good bumps are still to be found in the Blackcomb Glacier by the blowhole, Staircase, Davies Dervish etc.
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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.
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...and which is the worst bump run you've been down lately (so I know what to avoid!).
How is The Bite looking? Those moguls were a bit gnarly when I last when down it.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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That is fast! I skiied it at the end of the day, fairly quick ( could of gone quicker) and it took me about 15 minutes!..... and my legs were burning
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Snowy wrote: |
...and which is the worst bump run you've been down lately (so I know what to avoid!).
How is The Bite looking? Those moguls were a bit gnarly when I last when down it. |
Probably Gearjammer. The Bite and Staircase are pretty nice, but get knarly in the steeper sections with WV sized bumps.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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are they even bigger than VW sized bumps then?
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geetee, I skiied the Dave Murray quite well, in a tuck most of the way, theres a sharp left and a really steep section which flattens out almost imediatley, and when in a tuck you end up sat on the back of your skis! Most people tend to ski it like a downhill so its conditions seem to stay quite well packed, and most of all its a black so it tends to frighten half the people away, so it was farely empty!
I found Franz quite simular to peak to creek, although busier ( as expected ) i skiied it when it was " run of the day" so the rollers were really smooth, Franz was narrow at the top as there was womans racing on, which ended the first day in disaster with my GF sliding down holding my leg, and me with her skis in my other arm, so we tended to ski down ptarmigan, Bears club and then onto the blue into creekside ( our base) which tended to be nice till the end of the day.
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Liam, I meant the Dave Murray Camp not the run.
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well it is snowing, and snowing, and snowing .......... I am in 7th Heaven ! Also having cups of tea at 5 am because of jet leg
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with the ski school up on Blackcomb at the rendevous point, and that was a killer, ive never been pushed as far in my life! I had a french instructor called Sebastian
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Thats where I'm based, and yes, I know Sebastian
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