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Dogs in the backcountry...?

post #1 of 36
1/4/09 at 12:58pm
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I think its utterly ridiculous to bring your dog into the backcountry. How selfish must you be? If your going to bring your hippie dog into the BC, at least clean up it poo poo. You can't get on a skin track here in tahoe without hitting some dog poo. Its frickin' everywhere. Leave the dogs at home please. There is a reson the resorts don't allow them.
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post #2 of 36
1/4/09 at 1:42pm
I don't mind the poo-poo, but I freaking hate it when they blow smoke into my face.
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post #3 of 36
1/4/09 at 1:59pm
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I don't mind the poo-poo, but I freaking hate it when they blow smoke into my face.

What do you do with the poo poo? I don't understand how somebody would enjoy a cigarette in the BC?
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post #4 of 36
1/5/09 at 8:00am
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What do you do with the poo poo?
My dog eats it which sometimes results in an infinite loop and the dog locks up until i restart it.

But seriously, I am sort of ambivalent about dogs in the BC. If they are well behaved and aren't barking at every pine tree I'm cool with that.
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post #5 of 36
1/7/09 at 9:29am
Aren't you familiar with the term "avalanche poodle?" That's what you throw out onto a suspect slope to see if it will slide.
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post #6 of 36
1/7/09 at 9:39am
Isn't that what first-timers are for?
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post #7 of 36
1/7/09 at 9:39am
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Aren't you familiar with the term "avalanche poodle?" That's what you throw out onto a suspect slope to see if it will slide.

Jack Handy ski tip?
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post #8 of 36
1/7/09 at 10:37am
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Isn't that what first-timers are for?
Yes, the term is a euphemism that is definitely applicable to that situation, as in "Since you're the new guy you get first tracks, we need an avalanche poodle."
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post #9 of 36
1/7/09 at 11:38am
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Originally Posted by Tahoegnar420 View Post
Leave the dogs at home please.
No thank you. It must not have snowed there lately. It only takes about an inch to cover the frozen poo. Also, coyotes use the same tracks that you use and they are not that good at bagging their appears-to-be-dog poo.

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There is a reson the resorts don't allow them.
Yea, that ain't why. All our areas allow dogs before and after the lifts close.
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post #10 of 36
1/7/09 at 2:01pm
How do dogs become hippies? Do you clean your own poo?
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post #11 of 36
1/7/09 at 3:31pm
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No thank you. It must not have snowed there lately. It only takes about an inch to cover the frozen poo. Also, coyotes use the same tracks that you use and they are not that good at bagging their appears-to-be-dog poo.


Yea, that ain't why. All our areas allow dogs before and after the lifts close.

TG420 - you really need to listen to Captain Serious here.
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post #12 of 36
1/8/09 at 9:19am

Come to the Wasatch

If it's that big a deal to you, then move to Salt Lake. Dogs aren't allowed in the backcountry in the Cottonwood Canyons because they're both watersheds for the metropolitan area.

I do take my dog into Millcreek Canyon but ALWAYS double bag the poo and carry it out to throw away. . .
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post #13 of 36
1/8/09 at 9:31am
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I don't mind the poo-poo, but I freaking hate it when they blow smoke into my face.
And that damn patchouli smell. Would it kill them to take a bath???? Screw you fido!
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post #14 of 36
1/9/09 at 3:59pm
Pshaw.

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post #15 of 36
1/11/09 at 9:47am

A reason to not take dogs backcountry skiing

One of the first times we skied the backcountry we took along our dog, Zeus. No sooner did we take Zeus off leash than he promptly, barking in joy, took off and summited a nearby 12,500 foot peak. Not wishing to climb that peak, it took us ten minutes of calling to cajole him back down. Finally we started skiing. Zeus was ecstatic, running with us, yipping and yapping. We didn't get further than about 50 feet when Zeus ran under me while I was in the air, and I landed on his paw, slicing it open. Fortunately, we were still close to the road, so I picked up Zeus, bleeding all over, carried him back to the car, and we drove back to Denver. The microsurgery to re-attach Zeus' seven severed tendons cost me $1000, and we won't even discuss the antics over the next six weeks as, every single time I was already late for work, Zeus, while doing his business in the yard, would find a way to wiggle off his halo-collar, bandage, and splint, leaving everything out in the snow. We have never again taken a dog backcountry skiing. (TRUE STORY; ANOTHER BEAR WAS THERE AND CAN VERIFY)
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post #16 of 36
1/11/09 at 10:08am
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I landed on his paw, slicing it open.
Yeah, this happens to dogs all the time. I've taught my dog a whole set of commands for the BC like "trail" which means he runs behind me and "go" which means I'm catching him and he needs to sprint out of my way. And I don't take him when there's other skiers or when we'll be in dangerous terrain.
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post #17 of 36
1/11/09 at 11:39am
I pretty much just take my dog into low angle areas. He gets a good run, I get a workout, we aren't in the way of any skiers. Trained him not run the skin track and to stay behind me on the descent. On the way up, he's ahead of me.
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post #18 of 36
1/12/09 at 8:43am
There are few things I hate more than going skiing with somebody who's brought along an ill-behaved dog. Besides the safety issues (both for the dog and for us), they're annoying as hell and tear up far more than their share of powder.

That said, a well-behaved ski dog is a lot of fun. My doggie isn't a powder hound, she's a corn dog (her legs are too short for powder) but she's a heeler and a working cowdog, so when I tell her to do something she does it well and quickly. And when the other dogs are making asses of themselves and their owners I just smile when my dog stays right behind me and behaves. She'll wait at the top to take her run until I stop and call her - it's a lot of fun watching her come down.

I don't think you should EVER take a dog skiing until you've spent a summer (at least) hiking with it on trails, pounding in voice commands so that the dog is bombproof.
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post #19 of 36
1/12/09 at 8:21pm
Agree with the previous 2 posts. Spencer, our Welsh Springer Spaniel, is really well behaved in the mountains (he's climbed 9 of the easier - meaning walk-up or Class 2- 14ers with me, and heels on trail off leash), and I take him along for low angle skiing in the late spring. He knows to let me ski down first and follows in my tracks.
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post #20 of 36
1/14/09 at 5:33am
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Originally Posted by Jer View Post
I don't mind the poo-poo, but I freaking hate it when they blow smoke into my face.
Ain't going there...

Seriously, I am glad this topic is finally being discussed on the web after a long-lasting lack of coverage.

My pet peeve is ungulates in the backcountry, a lot of them don't even respect the other flora and fauna in the wilderness and leave traces through doing things like nibbling on the trees.

Cool people, good well-behaved dogs, a good burrito at the end of the day.
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post #21 of 36
1/14/09 at 5:52pm
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What I hate even more are gapers in the backcountry. Today I got asked if I set the skin track by someone who chose to follow it. Its a corn cycle for crying out loud, set your own skin track if you don't like how steep mine is. I like to spend as little time as possible going up so I set the track steep.

Sometimes Im stoned and don't know where I am going.

Then to top it off, the guy just beaterd down the slope....
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post #22 of 36
1/14/09 at 5:55pm
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Originally Posted by Tahoegnar420 View Post
What I hate even more are gapers in the backcountry. Today I got asked if I set the skin track by someone who chose to follow it. Its a corn cycle for crying out loud, set your own skin track if you don't like how steep mine is. I like to spend as little time as possible going up so I set the track steep.

Sometimes Im stoned and don't know where I am going.

Then to top it off, the guy just beaterd down the slope....
wow man your so core. Setting steep skin track, talking about gapers.

If your so core why were gapers anywhere near you?
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post #23 of 36
1/14/09 at 6:04pm
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Originally Posted by mudfoot View Post
Aren't you familiar with the term "avalanche poodle?" That's what you throw out onto a suspect slope to see if it will slide.
Put a beacon on that poodle or you might get the PETA after you.
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post #24 of 36
1/14/09 at 8:55pm
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Put a beacon on that poodle or you might get the PETA after you.
I know you're joking, but because this is Epic I just wanted to make clear the real-world ixnay on a a "regular" human beacon for the doggie. "Bug" http://www.sos-find.com/pages/beacons.html type beacon maybe, human beacon no.
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post #25 of 36
1/15/09 at 7:11am
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I know you're joking, but because this is Epic I just wanted to make clear the real-world ixnay on a a "regular" human beacon for the doggie. "Bug" http://www.sos-find.com/pages/beacons.html type beacon maybe, human beacon no.
Don't bother with the "bug". I got one for my pooch with the analog beacon that can receive the alternate frequency from the bug. That part worked fine. The problem was that the sharp rap on the "bug" and the batter would dislodge from it's seating. What a pos. I sent both back asking for an explanation of the crappy construction with no response from SOS. Obviously they don't really field test their products. Freakin' ridiculous.
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post #26 of 36
1/15/09 at 11:37am
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Originally Posted by BushwackerinPA View Post
wow man your so core. Setting steep skin track, talking about gapers.

If your so core why were gapers anywhere near you?

because sometimes brah, I need to get my fix before work and the bc is crowded in tahoe. If you get to the spot late and the skin track is to steep for, you always have the option of stepping to the right or the left of the existing skin track and making your own.

It happens all the time. You catch attitude for stupid thinngs by people who have no athority telling you anything, and then they gape down their line.

You have peple bitching about snowshoes in the beat up skin track. You have hippie skiers who don't clean up after their dogs, yet its fine for me to have to clean their turds off of my skins.

I ski with a dog sometimes, and I pack its turds out. Its not that hard. My dog usually only craps once on a tour, so how hard is it.
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post #27 of 36
1/15/09 at 11:56am
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Originally Posted by Tahoegnar420 View Post
I think its utterly ridiculous to bring your dog into the backcountry. How selfish must you be?
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Originally Posted by Tahoegnar420 View Post
I ski with a dog sometimes,...
Huh?
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post #28 of 36
1/15/09 at 1:05pm
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Huh?

what?
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post #29 of 36
1/15/09 at 2:09pm
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what?

HUH?
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post #30 of 36
1/16/09 at 3:50pm
Troll.
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