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2 way radios/walkie talkies

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blong131
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my familys spending 2 weeks in vail so we wanna get walkie talkies. i know nothing about these. anyone got information or reccomendations?
Nov 1 2009 1:41PM
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blong131
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thanks for the input, im not gaper or asian.

no cell reception and vails damn gigantic, so my parents want a way to contact me
Nov 1 2009 1:58PM
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blong131
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and im sure as hell not from nj
Nov 1 2009 1:58PM
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flexpattern
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i have a really cheap pair of waterproof binatones - the range isn't great but they will do- watch

i went to vail/keystone/breck last year so good! theres a really ballin' run called Hairbag Alley in vail and when the pow came down me and my bro had first tracks down there, and nobody came down it for hours - we were just boosting off logs and throwing 180s into the pow off all these mini cliffs, and just blasted through the trees it was soo much fun! and when the Mongolia button lift was closed we hiked up it with some local kids, and the pow was soooo deep loved that day! So sorry for the thread hijack... just reminiscing on some good times!
Nov 1 2009 2:05PM
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blong131
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if 19 is younger then yeah hahah

im gonna be skiing with just my sister in the back bowls all day, and im gonna wanna find my parents so they can buy me lunch and shit. i dont know the area, noone in my family does.

i really dont understand how this is that hard for people to comprehend
Nov 1 2009 2:07PM
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flexpattern
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tbh you don't really need radios unless you are going off bc - i only really took them with me cos i have them for kitesurfing - so i figured that they might come in useful out on the mountain, but seeing as I never lost my bro at any point i didn't really need them... so reall just for skiing - a total waste of money - just arrange rendezvous points and you will be sorted
Nov 1 2009 2:17PM
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apcaipse
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I'd just tell your mom to get you them. There's no harm in having them and you are much safer with them. Even if you're not doing BC you can use them. And if your mom needs them to feel safe, why not?

Besides the obvious money issue.
Nov 1 2009 2:33PM
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blong131
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she is buying them for the whole family, she just wants me to find the best for the money.
Nov 1 2009 2:34PM
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Ben.
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radios are a pain in the ass at a resort. theres always about 300000 idiots on any given channel
Nov 1 2009 3:47PM
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Matty_C
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radios come in handy when you're skiing tech mini golf lines so you can check with the guy at the bottom whether the line you're about to drop into totally blind from the top is what you think it is rather than a fred syverssen death trap. other than for that, total waste of time.
Nov 1 2009 3:58PM
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mak
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Sometimes, if you're on the right channel you can catch some hilarious conversation on walkie-talkies, so they're not completly useless.

Nov 1 2009 4:24PM
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MacMahoooon
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Keep in mind that the FRS type radios work best in line of sight, so up and over a mountain you can lose contact.

That said we have found the the MOtorola Talkabout series are probably the best out there, comparing them to the Cobras and various other brands. I have a set of the http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Two-way-Radios-and-Accessories/MR350R+Talkabout+Two-Way+Radio_US_EN which so far have been great. We use them mostly for tree skiing, calling lines and communcation between vehicles on road trips, but they haven't failed yet. And they have a million channels to block out the thousands of families who set their kids free on the mountain and assume everything is fine because they have a walkie~
Nov 1 2009 4:39PM
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tag_team
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Whatever you get, just make sure you give a lot of 9ers over it. really the only thing that justifies owning  a walkie. (I feel like a had decent service last year a vail...)
Nov 1 2009 4:43PM
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