 Poster: A snowHead
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Saw this on UKC and had to repost because the guys so amazingly bad-ass yet humble about it.
Freddy skis on a pair of Dynastar Altitrail Powder skis. They are a pretty unlikely ski to tackle the steeps with, even Dynastar describes them ‘a good choice for tourers wanting a ski that’s light, stable and great fun on the way down’. Hardly a rousing endorsement for ground breaking first descents! This is a ski that when you Google it, the first search returned describes how the ski explodes unexpectedly and should be recalled. His boots are Scarpa F1 Rando race boots. This lightweight boot is made for fast touring with a front bellows like a telemark boot. This boot is so flexible you have to put a spacer under it between the binding toe and heel so that its flexible sole will not collapse down onto the ski. When you front point in them they bend like a banana. With the boots held in place with a pair of Dynafit Tourlite bindings (picture a dodgy C clamp) this setup would be perfect for a nice day touring in the Pisa. Perhaps that is how he climbed Cook return to Plateau Hut in four and a half hours. Freddy’s ski poles have large leather powder baskets held on with medical tape.
http://climber.co.nz/81/feature/accidental-extreme-skiing-tourist
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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"Yeah, at the summit I went up the north side but it was really icy and with only one axe and with ski boots it was really hard to climb so at the top I looked for a better way to ski down. I went down to the right of the summit and the snow was much better. The traverse back to Engineer Col was okay but when I got to my stuff I thought I was too tired to go to Pioneer Hut so I went back to Plateau. I didn’t pay much attention in the morning on the way up and below Engineer Col I could not see my tracks from the morning and I got lost in the ice fall. I was almost back to the Plateau but the bridges were very bad. It was terrible, I was scared."
I'm surprised that Frank4Short and the usual suspects on UKC haven't condemned him yet, told us all he's lucky to be alive, that his types give the sport a bad name, that the skiing would have actually been really easy but that since he wasn't a fellow ski god, he had endangered the lives of the rescue services and then posted it on to davidof at pistehors for more of the same.
Still, it's only been on UKC for an hour. 
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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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moffatross, I think I should be reading UKC today while convalescing. Sounds entertaining.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Zero-G, it gets at its best when someone innocently asks about the grading of some trad route, the ethics of using mats to protect the start of trad routes, anything to do with bolting, dry tooling, was it wintery enough for this ascent. Basically if you think there is some self-righteous posting here it's one hundred times worse over there but very entertaining.
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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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Unbe - fkn - lievable!
And he wants to do the Caroline Face too!!! I think it was first climbed only in the early 70s.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Probably best to start your own thread rather than hijacking another. I can recommend the Teton Gravity Research forums as a valuable source of advice, however.
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meh, Brilliant. A very cool guy.
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So let me get this right, on the steepest part of the east face you were having a hard time holding an edge, so with one ice axe you took your skis off and put your crampons on?
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Wow, amazing guy! 
Icebox, Start your own thread, but don't listen to Serriadh, TGR shoot down people who ask questions like that. No special level of experience is required. The technique is not basically different. Take some lessons.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Classic. That's the way to do it 
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