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Never skied rEAl back country
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who has never skied real back country, with cliffs and tons of powder.
i sure haven't
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Um, everyone on the west coast pretty much does.
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ignorance is bliss I suppose. After a few good tours the resorts just don't compare anymore
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i havent...
i went to ski bc onse, but it was very windy for like a week and all the snow was blown off and turned into ice... so my trip was shit.
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I got my first real 'backcountry' line down this past week in tahoe, and let me say, fi I could ski that instead of park everyday, I would. but I'm stuck back east until march.
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I think I get better at park when I ski it less often, whenever I go I feel like I accomplish something or try something new. You can't ski one disipline constantly or you just kinda stagnate, or at least I do. I like doing something a little different everyday, getting better at one displine often carries over to another.
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I think if you skied BC everyday you wouldnt get much better at skiing, not only do you only get one or two lines in during the day, the snow is almost always ideal. I think charging crap in the resort all week and skiing BC lines on the weekend is the ticket.
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what I was saying si that I liked it a lot more than skiing park. I ski park and groomers only, because that is what I have acess to. but, anytime I can ski trees and good snow, i do, and the one BC line I skied was the best thing ever, and it was like.. 4 days after any snow had fallen.
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yeah I've never skiied Bc and been disappointed with the snow quality, and I've been out quite a bit.
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when i was out in whistler, we went heliskiing. sickest shit ever. i love it. the only sketchy shit is avalanches.
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that and getting sluffed off a 700 footer might suck
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i have skiied the BC of penn. hahah, which is max. 2 feet of pow, some gnar booters, but sadly no cliffs...or a lift...or fucking anything for that matter, its a damn farm that has some open fields that happen to be on the side of a mountain....so anyway...
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Um, whoever said that the conditions of backcountry is almost ideal obviously doesn't do it all that often. Those who have visions of ducking a rope and finding feet pow are very mislead. While one can find better snow often in the back country, it can often be wind blown crust that without the knowledge of how to ski sucks.
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Well Utah is the only place I've ever skiied Bc and I refuse to retract my statement. I got prolly 50 days of BC last season
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we dont have cliffs let alone powder in minnesota.
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ive never skiied more than about 6" of fresh, i live in IL.
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i have ski's that on an actual run at sunshine and at lake louise, so it isnt really classified as backcountry but my friend, it was fun. id love to try that shit that tanner rides at the beginning of his seg in 1242
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In tahoe, we got brought up hiking out of bounds into the BC. I remeber first doing this when i was like, 9, and the powder was as high as me. on another note, tommrow in tahoe, will be the best powder day experienced, ever
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Of course it comes now, 3 days after I get back. I didn't see any new snow for the week I was there.
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the best backcountry place i have skiied at has been snowbird/alta backcountry! it was sick!!
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i havent skied backcountry, an ive only skied a foot of powder once. when i went to alta, it hadnt snowed for a week
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i never did, new jersey doesnt have bc
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I havent yet... I have maybe skied trees alot in the east, but no real bc powder, but friday Im going to fernie, and they have TONS of snow
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ive never done rEAL backcountry, i went to whistler but it was raining and shit
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i have never skied more than 10 inches of pow
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I have, at brighton its easy. You go up the crest lift ski down to wren hollow take a certain way, then theres a "you are now entering the backcountry" sighn. you hike a ways up (not far if your a panzy or really far if you want some fun intense skiing). Then ski/hike there for a while and go back for more and go up the lift!!!
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i skied my first backcountry lines last wednesday and not on the west coast but on east, in the Chic Choc. That was amazing
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ive never skiied back country. the deepest powder i skied was only a little more than a foot on the side of the trail
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i skiied bc at panorama like 3yrs. ago and i think i wasted my experience because i was definitely a worse skiier tham i am now and didn't appreciate it, if i were to go somewhere with bc this season i'd actually appreciate it
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ive skied 2 feet of heavy powder...does that count?
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i skied a hardcore 2 inches of pow
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I jumped a cornice that was out of bounds and then got some pow below it. I think skiing untracked in-bounds powder is just as good
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i havent, there was a bit of pow at tremblant but tahts it
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your stupid man. real backcountry dosnt mean cliffs and powder and all that shit. it means hiking or skiing your ass out of the parking lot or lift to get your turns. your stupid if you think BC is only cliffs.
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not yet... its very disapointing
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i skied at heavenly 4 years ago...
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