 Poster: A snowHead
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As a self-confessed ski nutter and spoiled beyond belief most years, my Swiss ski instructor mates decided to buy me a ski-flying package as a 'shut up and get on with it' wedding present - much to my wife's chagrin. I have seen the various youtube and google video clips of the Eiger (not the North Face by the way, whatever anyone says!) and back-country USA, but have have any normal people tried it yet??
As far as lunacy goes, this seems to be the limit. I have skied - or tried to - almost everything I can think of and some stuff I shouldn't have but this sport has got me twitching a bit. Basically can anyone reassure me that it is not completely insane and that I stand a 50% or so chance of surviving?!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=speed+flying+ski
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Powderhound wrote: |
As a self-confessed ski nutter and spoiled beyond belief most years, my Swiss ski instructor mates decided to buy me a ski-flying package as a 'shut up and get on with it' wedding present - much to my wife's chagrin. I have seen the various youtube and google video clips of the Eiger (not the North Face by the way, whatever anyone says!) and back-country USA, but have have any normal people tried it yet??
As far as lunacy goes, this seems to be the limit. I have skied - or tried to - almost everything I can think of and some stuff I shouldn't have but this sport has got me twitching a bit. Basically can anyone reassure me that it is not completely insane and that I stand a 50% or so chance of surviving?!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=speed+flying+ski |
one of the pioneers of speed flying died recently in Verbier... I say check your life insurance small print carefully if you want your wife to be well looked after once you are gone.
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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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I saw that. An acquaintance in fact - and a certified fruit loop actually...
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| Powderhound wrote: |
| I saw that. An acquaintance in fact - and a certified fruit loop actually... |
Some guys were doing it in our local ski resort recently - on a closed blue piste. It didn't look too bad under those conditions and there is probably a place for it although ski resorts will need to be very careful how they manage things. The Eiger north face in 4 minutes though... hmmm.
Good luck anyway!
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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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Ref the Eiger - I agree... hmmm! What is the freefall time for the same??
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Powderhound, ..... at best guess I would reckon ...... about 4 minutes..... 
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Powderhound, Have you and the wife had a falling out of late
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Frosty the Snowman, Not since she snapped her ACL skiing powder in Cham in the sunshine while I was working... Poetic justice perhaps (my life is not worth living if she reads this by the way!) but she is getting better quickly luckily
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