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Almost Losing Skis in Pow

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SteveXs2
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One of the first days my friend had his Armada ARVs and Naxo Mountain Bindings he hit a drop into a really steep section that always slides and sunk it real far and ejected. He was down lower with the snow that slid so I dug his skis out for him, one was a good 4 feet under the surface and the other was like 10 feet away from that.

I think it'd suck so much to lose a ski in pow. A local guy they call 'Avalanche Mike' was buried one day, and the next day he went back there to find his skis.


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May 20 2004 6:30PM
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Matty.
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u dont normally lose them, u just have to keep digging, they are pretty big so if u have a shovel its ez to find them

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May 20 2004 6:35PM
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404404
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The only time i hit a back contrey kicker (only like 3 feet of snow) i ejected after i landed cuse i didnt lean back and took me like 5 min to find my ski. Then the envormental police came, kinda long sorty.





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May 20 2004 6:37PM
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dilla_says_go
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cant you just buy straps or somethin?
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May 20 2004 6:41PM
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SkeeOrDye
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^ great idea, lets flip head over heels with 180cm skis flappn around attached to your ankles.
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May 20 2004 6:44PM
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meb9486
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we arent ski bladers, we have real bindings that release when we want them too, so we dont need to strap our shit to our feet

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May 20 2004 6:49PM
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hoodratz47
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you can get streamers that u attache to your pant leg so you can fallow the streamer. best way to prevent it ,, dont crash..





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May 20 2004 7:27PM
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cj
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i bombed a 45er and had to dig for a good hour...found it a good 6 feet under, NOT FUN.


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May 20 2004 7:28PM
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Irotate360
Posts: 6836 - Karma: 22
i hate loosing skis in pow. one time it took us and hr and half to find a WHITE ski. that shit sucked




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May 20 2004 8:07PM
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V-Pro
Posts: 247 - Karma: 10
I had the same experience last year. Lost my skis and it took like an hour to dig them out. I was like 2 hours walk back to the ski field boundary and it was near the end of the day. Was starting to shit my pants. The whole time I was trying to decide what I was going to replace my skis with when I had to buy new ones. When I finally found my ski I was dancing around like an idiot when the first dude I had seen for about 40 min ski psat. He tought I was a fucken luney.
May 20 2004 8:55PM
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Sinister
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well,what happened to me sucks pretty bad.So it's Spring Break and the snow is slushy,really heavy and wet,definetely not powder,so we go this really steep out of bounds run at Sunshine Village,just for fun on or way home,it's 4 30 and we're roasting.So i start going down and my skis get stuck and my leg buried from my pelvis down,the other one only to my knee.RTeally hard packed snow covered my other leg and i had to dig my legs out,try to release the binding with my pole,and then i had to dig for 40 minutes because the snow was like fucking cement.It sucked major balls.
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May 20 2004 9:09PM
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B-Har406
Posts: 2484 - Karma: 6
i lost a pole up on challenger if u ski big sky if u odnt remember that pow day ya it sucked i coulDNT find it fro a while




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May 20 2004 9:42PM
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KillerMonkey
Posts: 6435 - Karma: 108
get some high tech avalanche shit and put it on ur skis that way you can find em easily


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May 20 2004 9:45PM
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aussieskier
Posts: 805 - Karma: 182
dude this year i lost my ski my friend had 2 go into town and buy a metal detector worked fine these skis were seth pistols so it was worth it
May 20 2004 9:47PM
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skibum193
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ya, we were seshing this backcountry kicker me made, and i didnt have my straps on, and i lost it fur an hour, then my snowboarding buddy landed on it, hella funny, except for the 30 min i spent digging for it.
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May 20 2004 9:47PM
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SteveXs2
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To the guy who mentioned 'high tech avalanche gear'... I think I'd rather buy a pair of backup skis because it'd be much more convenient and possibly cost less too (to get a beacon small enough to sit on a ski).

CJ can relate to this kind of stuff, 6 feet under... that's gotta suck. Another friend of mine was dropping into a gully and lost a ski, I found it like 15 minutes away a good 20 mins after. I've only ever had this problem once at the end of the year when my skis were popping off like mad for no apparent reason, I was skiing in a tree line and I just double ejected and i only had one friend behind me to help out.

The worst thing is when you go around a small tree and your ski gets stuck in a buried branch, you get lashed forward and it sucks to have to back out.


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May 21 2004 1:10AM
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apestead
Posts: 1861 - Karma: 28
or you could just get the streamers... so i suggest you all just stop being fags and do that.
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May 21 2004 10:42AM
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Pistolpusher
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My first powder day with my new seth pistols i was skiing this line and i have two section poles and i was planting my pole and the next i know i dont have half a pole...so i have to hike back up the line in like 3 feet of powder and dig my entire line out to find my pole a good 30 minutes of searching....finallt found the second half of my pole....i was steamed. anyway i know its not a ski story but its close.

May 21 2004 11:13AM
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apestead
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must not have been a very good line if you could stop after losing a pole and hike back up. sounds week.
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May 21 2004 11:53AM
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canonrider
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I lost a pair of goggles... if im heading out to the backcountry on a pow day i wouldnt care about wearing bowder straps, if its gonna save me my pollards, id wear em


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May 21 2004 1:42PM
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CTripper
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i dropped my pole off the lift night skiing. i was pissed. i was walking under the lift looking for it, and snowboarder kicked snow off his board on me and told me licked my mom's vagina. i was lucky and i found my pole because i stepped on it.
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May 21 2004 1:56PM
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WONTON
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let's ski with metal detectors!!



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May 21 2004 7:08PM
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trevorwoulddoit
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One time in the interior I ran into some guys from Germany and we were hiking a ridge and before we went we talked about avalanches etc... and one of them said that in Europe all the cheap riders tie a 30 foot red rope to themselves so if they get buried the ski patrol only has to follow the rope. How's that for high tech?


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May 21 2004 8:25PM
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skimack
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I've skied with kids who have pre-released and lost their skis off cliffs. Sketchy ish when you realize you're halfway down a rowdy line and you only have one ski on to stick the mandatory air into trees at the bottom.
On pow days my bindings go to to three levels higher just so they don't come off,

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May 22 2004 12:39AM
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Switchin_Dirty
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 107
tighten your bindings, get powder straps, and try not to fall....if you do don't be a pussy, start diggin...
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May 22 2004 12:45AM
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lineskier10
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ya when i was at alta this xmas break i was skiing in the 4 feet of fresh pow that had dropped in two days and my ski ejected after i hit a cliff, and it went really deep and i thought i had lost it because the snow also kinda did a mini avalanche thing, but thankfully i found it in 10 mins or so
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May 22 2004 2:15AM
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hazel_32
Posts: 170 - Karma: 14
yeah i few years ago one of my freinds first started to snowlerblade....and for some reason he didnt have straps and his bindings were shit..and at the bottom of this little park was a lake...so he slid this small box and his blade flew on and went all the way down the park and into the lake...then he got 1260's...he is ok now




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May 22 2004 9:51AM
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alev
Posts: 7819 - Karma: 410
get the wicked cool streamers
last year i was at my friend in 2 feet of pow at brighton and my friend popped out and rolled forward into a tree, and it took us a half hour to find his ski....this all happened a hour after my dad offered us to use his powder cords
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May 22 2004 10:04AM
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*rkp*
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i hate digging for skis with a passion!!!

May 22 2004 1:25PM
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WIllW
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haha i lost a ski in pow hitting a hand rail,
it was totaly under at the grass
only for like 5 min though
May 22 2004 1:55PM
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skierdudeguy
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i lost my publics in pow for like, 15 20 minutes. sucked so bad

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May 22 2004 2:57PM
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bobdole
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have explosives with you. if you know the area of your ski then lite a couple of heavey explosives and throw em' in the area. if your lucky, your skis will fly out in one peice and you might have enough time to get them on and boot it down the moutain to try and escape the massive avalach you created

or....a shovel would do i guess


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May 22 2004 3:57PM
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drewishish
Posts: 3710 - Karma: 23
wat i hated wen i skied was wen u crashed adn u went all teh way down the hill practically and ur skis poped off one is way up on top and the other is way at the bottom i think that really sux
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May 22 2004 4:05PM
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Switchin_Dirty
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^^I like the explosives idea....lol ha ha that would be funny!
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May 22 2004 7:04PM
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marmot
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i was at lake louise and there was 4 feet of fresh, i was riping when a root buired in pow caught my skis, to me 45 minute to fined them
May 22 2004 7:55PM
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Switchin_Dirty
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^your din setting must have been to low...
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May 22 2004 10:28PM
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Jetal
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'The worst thing is when you go around a small tree and your ski gets stuck in a buried branch, you get lashed forward and it sucks to have to back out.'

That is totaly the worst shit, totaly not fun especially the face plant that follows.
May 22 2004 11:35PM
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J.D.
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Yeah, my solution is higher DIN, and some neon tape stuff (not the sticky kind, the construction work kind) from my pocket to around my binding. If my ski ever goes deeper than about 4 feet though (the length of the tape), I might not be able to find it. Still, it's easier than not having it, and my ski's never been that badly buried before, either.

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May 22 2004 11:58PM
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TAK
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I got some Spatulas and I think I might leash em up. Leashes just seem a good idea in powder seeing how whenever you lose a ski it either disappears right away or takes off down the mountain.
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May 23 2004 12:10AM
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D-spin
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yea man once i ate shit and lost my ski and had to dig for like half hour, it sucked but ever since then i kinda just remembered teh time i spent digging and keeping that in mind your just more carfull


May 23 2004 12:49AM
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ski8990
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I am always so freaked out when it happens. I start panicking and i think 'what if i cant find them? o god im fucked!' then i find them and i kiss them all over. i probobly shouldnt have told you that last part
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May 23 2004 7:35AM
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faah
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i lost my publics one day in the pow. we looked for an hour or so then the lift closed and we had to leave, so i had to ski down through the powder through trees on one ski. came back the next day and looked for a while, then gave up and stepped on it 15 ft below where we were lookin.
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May 23 2004 3:18PM
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^ good karma


Pussyfooter, while you are at it i think you should probably make a shout out for the kkk, the aryan nation, white people in general, upper class ceo's, george bush, conservative repbulicans everywhere, anyone that says 'them niggers', cross burners, and racist homophobic misogynistic backwater bum fuck confederate flag flying neo nazi mother fuckers all across america -AlpineCowboy84

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May 23 2004 3:34PM
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rightcoastskier
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yea i was skiing some pow and my ski popped off and i had to hike up and started digging, turns out it was at the base of a tree about 50 feet away



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May 23 2004 3:44PM
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Ahmets_Brother
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its kinda hard too lose your ski in 2inches of pow

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May 23 2004 3:59PM
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pdrago
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Using a strap or leash is a really really bad idea if you are skiing deep serious powder in the backcountry though. If a slide starts and you are pulled into it, you want to have everything release from your body including poles and skiis. Otherwise you could be anchored in a buried. If you are on the resort it sounds like a good solution, but never do that in the backcountry. Any experienced powder skier will tell you that.

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May 23 2004 4:06PM
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