Thanks. Me skiing upside down. 20190323_141224(0).jpg The Pine Nuts across Carson Valley. UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_e8.jpg Clearing storm. UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_de.jpg Sampling the goods. UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_d9.jpg Open park-like forest. UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_e9.jpg Well, that's not quite perfect,...

I had a real sweet tour yesterday on the ridges east of Lake Tahoe. Skimming some of the web blab, you'd think the west was all about skinning the steeps. And much of it is. But, man, I mean, man, you cannot beat Tahoe for low angle fishscale touring. Yesterday we had a few inches of soft snow (i.e ...

I have had problems posting pics in the right orientation because some programs read code adjusting the orientation and others don't. A solution that has worked for is, after downloading the pic to your computer, rotate it through the compass (eg 4 times) and that removes the code.

what else is out there? There are a lot of choices. I've never tried the Hoks or things like them cause I have never seen the advantage of them over a pair of light wide skis that actually ski well. I have snowshoes but wear them only when doing chores like shovelling my roof...out touring I always...

Have you tried a regular (mid fat to fat, full metal edges, designed for turns) backcountry ski or splitboard with full length skins? (There are literally dozens if not hundreds to choose from.) Why is that not a good option?

One of the beauties of kickers (at least the old style kickers) is you do not need to remove your skis to take them off. You don't need to remove your skis to take off full skins, either, but that takes either short skis, great flexibility or committing the unpardonable sin of asking your partner fo...

falling, such a pain....sucks getting old...one minute you're up and fine and then the next you're on the ground wondering what happened...the sun is shining but it doesn't care...Vermont maples look down at you and say "get up, get up you old codger"

There was a "thing" once of cutting full-length skins into a single half-inch wide strip to make skinny skins which basically converted a smooth ski into a waxless ski. It worked but they would roll off when you made a turn. I only use my kicker skins (often over a waxless base) for climbi...

Good answer! I feel the same in some respects...though my frame of reference is using 3-pins, leathers and a soft light ski like the Fischer Boundless (100 uf?) when others would be on plastic and cable bindings. That looks like an ideal tour for them Boundless.

I ice skate on frozen ponds and find it amusing when people express concern over the safety of the ice. One can reliably assess the thickness and safety of pond ice (of course, if one knows what one is doing.) OTOH, one cannot reliably assess the safety of steep snow-covered slopes, as has been demo...