This is the World Famous TelemarkTalk / TelemarkTips / Telemark Francais Forum, by far the most dynamic telemark and backcountry skiing discussion board on the world wide web since 1998. East, West, North, South, Canada, US or Europe, Backcountry or not.
This is the World Famous TelemarkTalk / TelemarkTips / Telemark Francais Forum, by far the most dynamic telemark and backcountry skiing discussion board on the world wide web since 1998. East, West, North, South, Canada, US or Europe, Backcountry or not.
This is the place to debate politics, global warming, and yes, even the origin of man, whatever. Simply put, if you want to argue about off topic stuff, you've found the right board. Have fun!
The first one is Black Prince, and there's not a whole lot there that I would consider low consequence. Especially the area here I think called the "tree triangle". Not low angles and not dense enough trees to create significant structure to prevent complex snow layers. If it moves you're getting taken into another tree and suffering mechanical injury
"There's no fun in over-speccing". Your favorite skier
Only time I've been on a glacier was the Blue Glacier on Mt Rainier. Did the 16 mile hike in on day one. Went onto the glacier on day 2 with my equally uninformed brother with ice ax and crampons. No ropes. No one knew we were thereAfter going about 1/2 on the ice I said "We may be so dumb, we don't know we're dumb." Then we did some really dumb things without knowing we were doing dumb things. Angel on my shoulder I guess.
Only time I've been on a glacier was the Blue Glacier on Mt Rainier. Did the 16 mile hike in on day one. Went onto the glacier on day 2 with my equally uninformed brother with ice ax and crampons. No ropes. No one knew we were thereAfter going about 1/2 on the ice I said "We may be so dumb, we don't know we're dumb." Then we did some really dumb things without knowing we were doing dumb things. Angel on my shoulder I guess.
I feel like the norms have definitely changed. I've talked to a few folks that considered it completely normal to ski up on the Wapta ice fields solo back in the day. One fellow I chatted with once had actually solo'd the whole traverse. Maybe things were safer back in the day when the glaciers were thicker with deeper snowpacks, maybe risk mitigation has increased and we have less of a tolerance for risk. Some might call it progress. Personally I think risk as the responsibility of the individual, but others disagree especially in times of stressed public health systems
"There's no fun in over-speccing". Your favorite skier
