Alaska Heli trip '15
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The first one? I didn't even recognize, just followed the guides "to the right...right!" (I first went to the "other" right :embarrased1
. Arrived at the gathering point oblivious for why the SO was bit nervous.The second? You'd hear it on the vid how I say "Whoaw..." but the moment it was past it was forgotten. So no, actually not in that very moment. Was too focused on the "infront".
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Yeah... no, that's not clumsiness, that's just being topographically challenged. Why do you think we learned to navigate cliffs and schrunds?
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Yeah Neni! I'm glad this thread is back from the dead. I hope you have a great season.
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I'd pay a lot for a topo brain update. If I'd knew how to improve it, I'd do. I've a very "graphic" brain, can memorize quickly if colours are included. But everything monochromatic is PITA plus I lack spacial sense.
By navigate you mean negociate? Jump? :eyetwitch2:
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Yeah. It was either that or hoofing it back up the mountain every time we'd cliff ourselves, of which they were many. That's why I hire a guide in unfamiliar places because if it's got a no-go zone or an exceptionally long flat track I just KNOW I'll end up there.
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Oooh... sounds familiar. I'm actually not really a scatterbrain, but somehow... if there's a trap? I'll find it :dunno:
Oh dear. I'm worlds away from navigating anything by jumping. I've tackled small schrunds if there is a clear runout - for the potential consecutive tomahawks. It's hit or miss. Simply not confident with air - yet. Should I go back to the very basics and... dunno, book a summer camp park course in Laax?
BTW: love that term
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Oooh... sounds familiar. I'm actually not really a scatterbrain, but somehow... if there's a trap? I'll find it :dunno:
Oh dear. I'm worlds away from navigating anything by jumping. I've tackled small schrunds if there is a clear runout - for the potential consecutive tomahawks. It's hit or miss. Simply not confident with air - yet. Should I go back to the very basics and... dunno, book a summer camp park course in Laax?(summer, cos then the broken bones have enough time to heal till pow season)
BTW: love that term
You know you're gonna need a new board for that, right? >
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I'm glad you "liked" this @neni!!!!!
I was beginning to think that nobody realised I was joking!!!!! :|
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You just forgot the "goofy" part
and I'd like the image of having a beer in one hand :happy:
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It'll have to be in one of these though, so you don't spill it down the crevasse midway through that yodell!!!!!You just forgot the "goofy" part
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Wow, most of that was very hard, if not impossible, to pick out for a casual observer. If you made the video, you knew what was going on way better than the rest of us.
But having said that, I think often times, we are our own worst critics...
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Found some takes of SO hitting runs where he didn't faceshot-whiteout the cam after the first turns
[ame]https://vimeo.com/160648003[/ame]
So much fun to go through the material and re-live the moments. Should have taken the time earlier when the memory still was fresh; now I hardly can sort the pics to the takes n runs.
[ame]https://vimeo.com/160648003[/ame]
So much fun to go through the material and re-live the moments. Should have taken the time earlier when the memory still was fresh; now I hardly can sort the pics to the takes n runs.
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Let me be the first to say LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVED watching that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Such an awesome perspective!!!!!!! Awesome edit.
TFS :rock:
TFS :rock:
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Impressive. I guess the angle, width and rhythm, of the turn is dictated by the slope angle. I would love a less steep slope that would allow wide open turns. Snow looks pretty firm too.
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Naw, the snow was actually soft. At least at my speed, it was soft
And I do way more and wider turns on a similar run. He just loves to do fewer turns...Edit: well, not soft as in Japan fluff, but fresh fallen AK pow soft. The ridges were windpacked, but the slopes were - uhm - soft
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Your husband gave me manwood.Found some takes of SO hitting runs where he didn't faceshot-whiteout the cam after the first turns
https://vimeo.com/160648003
So much fun to go through the material and re-live the moments. Should have taken the time earlier when the memory still was fresh; now I hardly can sort the pics to the takes n runs.
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