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californiagrown
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So whats the worst ski related advice you have gotten from someone or read somewhere?

Ill Start.


So i work graveyard at 24 hr fitness some nights, and i read alot of fitness mags, and stuff, and i came accoss an article in Mens Fitness that was titled "staying safe in the backcountry". One of the tips involved avoiding avalanches. It said that one wants to make sure and stick to steeper terrain because snow will not stick to it and so wont cause an avalanche. It went on to say that safe spots are by rocks or small outcroppings of trees. so uh, i wonder if the editors tested those theories out
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Sallabillz
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lol hurp derp article ..i think ?
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Davin
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haha its funny because the article is correct. small outcrops of trees will hold snow back. steeper terrain will slide more often that a packed area but it has less snow sliding
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4bi9
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you have to be on like steeper than 45 degrees for that whole steepness theory to work and i imagine most people reading a fitness mag and then going to ski backcountry aren't skiing something more than 45
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Greenish
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oops, that was supposed to be under my account
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californiagrown
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ya, no. Small outcropings of rock, and trees, signify weak areas in the snowpack. Its great if you can hold onto the trees when the slide occurs, but the snowpack is weak around those areas.
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ripper_shredder
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this. also called depth hoar (unstable snow crystal)
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ktd619
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it was my first time trying backflips this season, i turn around to ask these two guys who looked fairly good if they thought the jump was flip-able. They told me that they were doing doubles off of it, i called them assholes, went for it, ate shit.

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monkatizer
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most if not every jump is flipable bud
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Smuffy
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hahaha its true
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AGOF
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since we are on this topic i want to see a backflip off of a nordic jump
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monkatizer
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nordic jump?? ur refering to park, and if i was asked that i would give the person shit too
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AGOF
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im not the person who posted before you, i just want to see it done
that is all
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.Hugo.
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Some kid told me to look down at my feet while on a rail haha
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flooz.
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my friend told me to close my eyes coming up to a jump and opening them at the last second, seeing as it would be less scary that way.
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.spaghetticat.
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I was learning corks and someguy on my mountain told me to huck it and he droped and "kucked it"pretty much died lol
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A.rollins
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HAHAHA, im using this as advice from now on
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monkatizer
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O sry, i thaught u were the OP!
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Mr.Huck
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