re: #121 teleskiguy

It’s all relative I suppose. I went alone a few times this year, I skied a lot of “green runs” in the back country because the snowpack was just too sketch this year. I never skied a pitch that was more than 25 degrees in the back country this winter.

If I had been hurt or whatever, I would have been screwed. But I took the risk anyways. What us skiers will do for some powder. It’s pretty insane, actually.

I went alone a few times but it just scares the fuck out of me. If you break a binding or twist an ankle a mile from your car near dark you are fucked. One of the last times I skied was at a lift area a few years ago. I was on the easy slopes under the lifts and trying (lamely) to practice graceful teli turns. On occasion I would over turn and wind up backwards. Arms flailing with many hoots, hollers and laughs from people on the lifts above. By mid morning I decided to teach myself to ski backwards with many jeers from people in the lift. By afternoon I noticed others trying it too. I still laugh to think of packing my shit in the car in the evening and looking up to the slopes to see almost everybody trying (and failing) to ski backwards. Perhaps my greatest achievement.