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Snowboard and ski vids. Yeah, this week has all been posting videos to stoke you out, mostly because vids give me a quick 5 minute mental break while sitting here trying to get the internet hustle going from the couch. EDIT: I guess the guy who made the Yin side of the equation is too cool for school and has password protected the vid. Meh, whatever. Yin BLOOD pigs edit from Zach Hooper on Vimeo. Yang For some reason I got the urge to watch some cornice cutting videos, mostly because I’ve never done a backcountry cornice cut to test for stability or to intentionally get a slope to release outside of avy 1. These aren’t how-tos or whys, these are merely vids to simple admire the results. Castle Peak, CA. Note the sympathetic release to the viewers left. Given their reactions I’m assuming they weren’t expecting quite what they got. Jackson Hole, WY. Seems like an odd technique to get it to release IMO, especially since it ended up fracturing two or three feet behind the skier. This one runs a bit The early to mid-90s. A time pre-HD, pre-Olympics, pre-everybody and their mom a snowboard flick maker, pre-that other Jamie Lynn being the only thing that shows when you Google ‘Jamie Lynn’. Good times, those 90s, I think I may dig out the old Mambosock and Batwaves to reminisce. Vid 1 Vid 2 Vid 3 Vid 4 Vid 5 Vid 6, Jamie Lynn today jamie lynn concert in cauterets from HRsnowboard on Vimeo. This vid is to fuel a. man’s back and forth trash talking with his crew (prediction: If you want to enter you’ll have to find the URL to the lottery yourself, I don’t want to be responsible for anybody getting in and ruining their chances. Saw this over on Making Turns today. Early season avalanche on Grizzly Peak (Colorado) that went all the way down to the prior season’s snow and ran the full width of the couloir and stopped a few feet short of the lake in this picture!  The slide stopped just short of that lake below. Click pic to do go first person account of the day. Fortunately no one was injured in the slide. These guys have done a great job at replaying the day and examining what they could have done differently, I though this comment was interesting, especially leading into the season now.
Will be interesting to see how those old and new layers bond, and if the dust layer they mention in their trip report comes back to cause more issues later this season. Be careful out there folks! It’s early season, don’t let your pent up snow blueballs and ‘lack of snow’ catch you with your guard down. So it’s old news to those that follow the alpinism/ski mountaineering scene that K2′s ‘Bottleneck Couloir’ was recently skied for the first time by Dave Watson. I don’t follow this stuff much at all as I typically write off the guys who endure sufferfests like Everest and K2 as being a few cards short of a full deck and a few fingers short of a full hand. But, you’ve got to give it up to a guy who skis something that is 10,000 feet higher than Mt. Rainier and that other top climbers on his trip think is impossible.
Here’s a pic from Dave’s site to give you a feel for the area skied.  Dave Watson's line on Bottleneck Couloir. Click image to go to his site. But, that picture doesn’t do the gnar factor of this line justice. Check out this video Dave posted on Youtube from the same area, on his way up. !!!!??!!!! Seriously nuts. Lines like this take a different level of commitment – from a physical, mental and financial (these guys aren’t living the well paid, glam, jibbonker lifestyle) standpoint – and outside of a fringe group don’t get much recognition for what they do, probably because it’s so far outside the realm of comprehension for mortals like myself. When Shaun White does a 1080 in the halfpipe you can think what your local halfpipe looks like and get a feel for the scale of what he’s doing. However, I have no frame of reference for scale of events taking place on a peak that rises over 28,000 feet! A few more vids below that Dave posted on Youtube from K2. Major props to Dave for his accomplishment, and next time your legs are feeling a little tired after hiking a line at 5k feet think of what these guys go through! Vid from camp 4 Rest day on camp 2 Noticed I’ve had this post sitting in the queue for awhile and apparently never pushed go. Go has now been pushed. Johno Verity recounts his experience in an avalanche on Mount Cook, NZ on August 17th, 2008. His words at 3:30 “there was just nothing I can do” are the reason I break out the books every year around this time to start reading up and get everything fresh in my mind again. To be sure, there’s no substitute for experience, but keeping that knowledge at the top of your mind is still a good thing. Whoa. Ok, so the music is a bit overdramatic/borderline cheesy and sounds like it could have came from a videogame. But that helmetcam shot about 1:55 in made my ass pucker so hard the chair is still stuck to me. More BC on a budget stuff, and at risk of sounding like an REI whore (hey, I’m a sucker for someone that stands behind their products), I got an email in my inbox this morn’ with a code for 20% off a regular priced item at REI. Coupon code ‘FALLDEAL’. Just tested it out and it WORKS on avalanche beacons (a man, I checked and it won’t work on the split kit). Beacons tend to not go on sale much so if you need one buy it now so you’re not kicking yourself in November/December thinking how you could have saved $50-100. EDIT: Check the widget below to quickly/easily find beacons on sale Ortovox S1 – BAM, 20% off (well, once you put it in your cart and enter FALLDEAL)  Ask not what you can do for your beacon... BCA Tracker – BAM! 20% off.  but what your beacon can do for you Mammut Pulse? Yup, on sale for 20% off.  Et tu Pulse? Than Poorman shall fall. I could go all day. Check ‘em all out here and save yourself some beer money. Read the fine print, looks like it doesn’t work on skis and snowboards, but it will work on other stuff like the Voile Tractor skins for your split, shovels, probes, and packs If you know me at all you know that I’m a) cheap but also b) a fan of buying good gear. If you buy the good stuff upfront you’ll save money in the long-run. By shopping around I was all in, from board to beacon, well under $1k when I first got kitted up. So, in a continuation of the ‘BC on a budget‘ stuff just saw that the Voile Mini Telepro T6 is on sale at the REI-Outlet for $32.93. However, if you put in coupon code ‘OUTSNOW20′ you’ll get an extra 20% off, bringing it to…uhhh…carry the one…umm….$26 and change. A pretty good deal for a good shovel. “>
 Voile Mini Telepro T6 shovel UPDATE: A lot of these old posts are getting traffic, but the sales are obviously no longer running. Put this widget below to help you out, also if you go to the right rail and search under ‘GEAR FINDER!’ you can quickly see the prices/offerings across a variety of retailers. Good luck! |
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