Eleminating the off season!!!!
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completesportsman
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Cool, looks like fun.
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wybhtn
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ummmm the longest hunting seasons would go to montana hands down......
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mathewsman
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Awesome photography work! Bet you feel like your on top of the world. Not to sound like your mother, but be safe back in there--i.e. avalanche beacons, & shovels.
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RE: Eliminating the off season!!!!
Never was an off season. Backcountry skiing has been a pssion of mine for many years. OldOregon, remember that 40% of avalanche deaths do not come from suffocation but rather occur by mechanical injuries bouncing off rocks and wrapping around trees during the slide. Avalanche Beacons are agreat tool but are not foolproof. My Father made a career out of snow and avalanche research, he started the first avalanche warning program in the US which is now the CAIC.
http://avalanche.state.co.us/index.php
To be fair it must be said that Knox Williams is the man who kept it alive after the program left the USFS and became the CAIC. He was a protege of my Father's.
Dad waving off a Life Magazine photographer who was getting into the starting zone where he wasn't supposed to be. Those are five pound sticks of seismograph powder he's setting to get a slide for the photographer. This was on 'The Roll' slide on Berthoud Pass in the mid 60's. Normally they used just one stick but to make sure the photographer got to photograph a slide they used four daisy chained with primer cord. Plus it makes a bigger bang.
Never was an off season. Backcountry skiing has been a pssion of mine for many years. OldOregon, remember that 40% of avalanche deaths do not come from suffocation but rather occur by mechanical injuries bouncing off rocks and wrapping around trees during the slide. Avalanche Beacons are agreat tool but are not foolproof. My Father made a career out of snow and avalanche research, he started the first avalanche warning program in the US which is now the CAIC.
http://avalanche.state.co.us/index.php
To be fair it must be said that Knox Williams is the man who kept it alive after the program left the USFS and became the CAIC. He was a protege of my Father's.
Dad waving off a Life Magazine photographer who was getting into the starting zone where he wasn't supposed to be. Those are five pound sticks of seismograph powder he's setting to get a slide for the photographer. This was on 'The Roll' slide on Berthoud Pass in the mid 60's. Normally they used just one stick but to make sure the photographer got to photograph a slide they used four daisy chained with primer cord. Plus it makes a bigger bang.
