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b) you are cruising low angle groomers on a board of any length, and the wind is coming at just such an angle that snow kicked up by heelside turns gets blown in your face.

Ooh, that smarts.

Cool thread, can’t wait to see some of the results!

I absolutely agree with you about willing to start over with the knowledge you have gained.

Reminds me of one of my favourite phrases:

“Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.”

That comes back to me again and again! And again.

The no-doubt lovingly crafted Splitboard 101 articles on this site are well worth reading.

Here’s the one on skinning: “The Approach”

and again. very annoying not to be able to fill it in! wasn’t really thinking about it at the time…

greenland

Some amazing pics on here. Need to go back to page 1 and start again, take some time!

SerreChe, Love the 1st one. Something about deciduous trees and snow covered mountains… Looks like a picture from a fairy tale book!

Yup, 1st one was the Chardonnet, Started in Nevache, up to the Chardonnet, Tour de Queyrellin then back up to the Buffere.…[Read more]

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Guinness would have been a better choice than straight Gin and Løitens from 11pm to 4am, 5am?

urg.

Looks like an amazing weekend!

Nice edit too, good work.

Amazing how interconnected these weather systems are. He mentioned that this high pressure ridge in the pacific is the reason why that east coast snow storm was so severe. That storm made landfall in Europe this morning and is doing this sort of thing:

Should make for some jaw-dropping surf over the next day or two.

Next level bum-sliding tech.

And me! Going to be enough of us for a Splitfest shortly!

Nice drawing, HikeForTurns and Mountaindog! Beautiful pics, too!

Here’s a few from a day touring between huts near Briancon, SE France with the wife.

throwing snowballs for the doggy at the 1st hut.

tracks of the 4 others before we split off.

Ceri in the white room. Good girl!

hup!

And up to the next hut. This beer is good.…[Read more]

Incredible pics and TR. Pic heavy, and they’re all amazing. I think I’ve spent longer looking at these, every single one, then any in any other trip report.

I don’t know why I find the far north so bewitching, especiallly Iceland and Norway, but I do. And camping on grass next to the water and skiing from there is just perfect!

Thanks for…[Read more]

Lovely pics, Snurfer! And Taylors too!

My wife and I finished our honeymoon here. Went for a walk a way round the rim, then cooked up the last of our food while we watched the sun go down. Waited for dark before we drove back to Vegas and the flight home.

Beautiful, beautiful spot.

w-s: if ou get to Chamonix, it’s the run from the bottom off the Pas de Chevre routes off the Grand Montets. The Rectiligne Couloir gets you in right at the top, and is pretty cool on its own: http://www.chamonixtopo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/pas-des-chevere.jpg (number 3)

Chris: Graham Nash – “Better Days” (1971)

Just finished watching this, and came here to post the trailer.

Very cool film, $9 well spent. Nice camerawork, crazy lines, beautiful backdrops.

Next level billygoating!

:bananas:

And the little clip of Charlet riding the mellow pow run with the hits – one of my favourite runs! Perfect pitch – turn for fun, not to control your speed, enough…[Read more]

Glad it made some sort of sense!

I’ve got an O’Neil promo DVD from a while back, not long after Gilles Voirol died. There’s quite a bit of Gian Simmen for starters (which I always have to watch x32 because there are no chapters!) then 9, 10 minutes of Gilles shredding big lines in Alaska and Bella Coola. Beautiful style, beautiful, big lines,…[Read more]

Bit of a funny thread. Just depends on what turns you on and what you want to be better at. What do you want to be better at?

If you watch clips of Terje or Nico Muller and an effortless method or backside 3 off an interesting transition sends a shiver up your spine and makes you think “God! I want to be able to do that, how GOOD must that…[Read more]