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Backcountry skiing.
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Parachuting avalanche rescue dog!?!?
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Maybe others have encountered this previously, but new to me: <[link]> (you have to scroll quite a ways down) Photographs and story of several skiers caught in an avalanche on a steep face in the [Swiss?] Alps in 1960, and subsequent rescue attempts.... more »
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the end of the skiing season
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Well, This is a clip from the closing of the BC season near Warsaw (Poland) in the end of March, 2006: [link] This was actually the last skiing season. There was no skiing snow in the area nor in 2007 neither in 2008. Oh, in the end of the clip I am trying to demonstrate the telemark... more »
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Daily snowfall data, Lake Tahoe?
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I'd like to find a database that contains day-by-day snowfall data for Lake Tahoe for the past season 2007-2008. My attempts at Google searching for this have not yet been successful. Any ideas? Thanks . . .
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New social networking site for backcountry junkies
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I recently launched StrayRocket.com is a social network, kind of like Facebook or Myspace, but just for outdoors junkies. Just trying to get the word out. It's located at [link] The ideas is to have a social network for people who dig a variety of outdoors sports and activities such as rockclimbing, mountain biking,... more »
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cracked bales on Rotefella Super Tele 3 pins
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just had to alter a tour quite a bit when my wife's Rotefella Super Telemark 3 pin bindings failed within a few days of each other. They were being used on fairly normal nordic tourers (Morotto Jokylkyrkkjas) with Crispi CX-T light plastic boots, touring waymarked routes with nothing aggressive going on (kick 'n' stick over rolling country with... more »
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Roadside snow stratigraphy at Lake Tahoe
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Interesting roadside snow stratigraphy (I thought that should be "stratiography" but Webster's says "stratigraphy") at Lake Tahoe at the end of this winter. If you drive along roads where big snow-blowing snow plows, instead of pushing snow back onto the banks at the sides of the road, have cut away... more »
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Updates to BeaconReviews.com
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I recently updated the [link] website. The updates include a new review of the Ortovox S1, an updated comparison table, retesting of the multiple burial features of the ARVAs, Pieps DSP, Barryvox Pulse, and Ortovox S1, testing of the Pieps DSP using the latest software update (version 5.0), updated of the... more »
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Sledge, Pulk?
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mccannam <mark.mcca...@gmail.com> sed: ...It seems a whole lot of folk use PVC without a problem ... Maybe carry a simple repair kit with some kind of sleeve that could be glued/taped/clamped over a break. OTOH, I plan to use a tow line as a back-up to the tracers. ...Ain't that the way it is. I spent considerable time looking for a local... more »
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