Posts by oisin

Quote: Originally Posted by peterw  ....Very hard to initiate turns. If you ski them like they're on rails perfectly carving all the way not so bad, but try anything with a sideslip, even getting on or off the lift,...

We got about 6 or 7 inches of very light snow. Waterville Valley just up the road is saying they got 15(?), not that it matters, Since it snowed a bunch down there our neighbors to the South will all be headed up here.   Whats...

Dan You need to chill out man. This is just a transparent scheme to keep the M'ass people off the slopes so you can get some freshies.!

Quote: Originally Posted by Silly Bims  if you pause, then use the arrow buttons on your keyboard, you can watch frame by frame. Her knee was toast before the ski veered off. Looks like the impact is what injured her...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tog   From the video it looks perfectly clear at that point of the course. Could the snow have been so soft as to have given way under the edge of her right ski when she...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tog  Here's a better quality video from a German broadcast. This is the one the Huffington Post used as posted by Mr. Crab. Her right leg looks slightly more extended than the left...

I used to carry a tarp while hiking as a kid but, around here the weather and bugs are such that you're likely to be soaked and frozen or thoroughly bug bit. A good lightweight tent with fly and insect screening will cost you a couple...

noncrazy   Thanks, that's a good story.  In the case of Nepal, even the capital Kathmandu wasn't accessible except on foot or horseback until sometime in the 1950's. They had constructed a cargo carrying aerial tramway as...

noncrazy   There's now a road along most of the route. I would guess that the changes are profound. Kathmandu itself has changed enormously from what i gather.

I did a trek around Annapurna in Nepal about 30 years ago. since then roads and modern civilization have come into that region and I guess the trip is now a casual guided walk for most. Back the there were no roads in the mountains....