Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

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Re: Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

Post by Woodserson » Tue Apr 03, 2018 1:13 pm

MartinF wrote:
Woodserson wrote: I am intimately familiar with this particular area so I'm good, thanks, and what you say is true for many places.
Yeah, I'm always impressed when winter trails, groomed traverses etc. turn up in the exact same place year after year... when there is absolutely nothing to indicate their existence in the summer.

Whereabouts is the area you speak of?
Le Chablais along the Franco-Suisse border.

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Re: Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

Post by MartinF » Tue Apr 03, 2018 1:27 pm

Woodserson wrote: Le Chablais along the Franco-Suisse border.
Beautiful! I started a mountain-bike tour to the Med in Thonon-les-Bains, once. The villages higher up struck me as very unspoiled.



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Re: Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

Post by Woodserson » Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:55 pm

Unexpected medical issue just popped up this morning and while everything is going to be OK I have to get shots for the next couple of weeks at specific dates.

I can't believe it.

Everything was ready, tickets, car rental, vacation time, everything. We were 5 days out from blast-off.

I guess more spring skiing locally?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Keep laughing!



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Re: Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

Post by fisheater » Sat Apr 14, 2018 11:26 am

Sorry to hear Woods, but I admire your attitude. I hope you get more spring skiing, you seem to have some great terrain for that (and winter skiing). I am south of T$ and Askel, I am hoping it stays warm. They are getting snow, it's raining here. The problem is it turning into freezing rain. Power outages and iced trees crashing onto property is never fun.
Best wishes, always enjoy your photos and videos.



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Re: Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

Post by lilcliffy » Sun Apr 15, 2018 12:11 pm

Hey Woods- very sorry to hear about you having to cancel your trip.
Hope everything is okay.
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Re: Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

Post by Woodserson » Wed Apr 18, 2018 12:25 pm

Whiplash! Cleared to travel! Leaving tonight!



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Re: Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

Post by Woodserson » Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:42 pm

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Re: Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

Post by lowangle al » Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:26 am

That looks good Woods, have fun!



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Re: Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

Post by Woodserson » Tue May 01, 2018 8:22 am

I have returned. It was interesting. We hit the spring-wet-slab-avalanche week almost perfectly BUT had great weather. Lots of low angle stuff with nothing above and blown out snowpacks. TR in a few days, lots of pictures and videos.



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Re: Spring skiing voyaging... which ski to bring?

Post by Woodserson » Tue May 01, 2018 8:32 am

Harris wrote:Since you are skiing with an alpiner, keep it simple; you aren't building a nuke here: use the all mountain ski you ski downhill best on, forget the fish scale base skis and throw the skins on when your buddy does. I mean you and your bud are basically getting from one downhill experience to the other together. For a sleeper advantage keep some smear-on Dominator Butter high fluro wax in your pack, with a cork. That will help you hang with him when it counts, avoiding as best you can the snow gremlins that reach from under, grab, and cause us telemarkers to face plant in wetter snow.
This was the advice I ended up going with. Totally solid and correct.

I know I initiated two pages of discussion about the Objective BC's but after doing some touring in NH before we left I decided to go with a smooth based pair of Objectives I scored on a sweet equipment trade. (They had been drilled three times and have been beat up but still a total score!)

Also, the DOMINATOR BUTTER was a total lifesaver on one day in particular. This shit works, yo!
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