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My first post in almost a month, I shall be talking about the new addition to my quiver and Snow Trax Online Store's great service.
http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/1st-post-in-while-big-up-snow-trax-store.html
My latest post on the blog is up, I am talking about what makes the perfect storm.
http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/avi-awareness-basics-xiii-weatherthe.html
In this latest post I am discussing various weather conditions which influence slab development
http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/avi-awareness-basics-xii.html
Part b is up!
http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/avi-awareness-basics-xi-weatherwind-b.html
The second post of my collection of post on weather in the Avi Awareness Basics series is up on the blog. I have decided to split what could be one large post about wind/loading into two smaller posts. Anyways check out what I have labelled par (a), part (b) shall drop tommorow...
In my series of Avi Awareness Blogs I have now completed the Terrain Management section and moved onto Weather, the next few post will focus on the effect of Weather. The first post is now up
http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/avi-awareness-basics-ix-weather.html
The final post in the Terrain Management collection is now in the blog
I shall continue the Avi Awareness Basics series by talking about weather
http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/avi-awareness-basics-viii-terrain.html
The latest Avi Awareness Post is now up, in it I am discussing how to discuss how to recognise wind slabs.
http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/avi-awareness-basics-vi-terrain.html
Just to say the latest avi awareness post is now up on my blog, here's a link to the page.
http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/avi-awareness-basics-v-terrain.html
This is a new series of blogs I shall be starting called The Story Behind the
Shot, really they do what they set out to do. I present you with a shot and then
I talk about how it came into fruition. So here's the first post:
http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/story-behind-shot-i.html
I have recently decided to mive all my posting to a blog site. From now on all posting will be through http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/ , this includes all reviews, updates and avi awareness posts.I will post on NS to say when the next avi awareness posts have dropped. For those of you who...
Rocks and vegetation can help hold a slab in place, we call these anchors. In order to be effective anchors they need to be well spaced, if anchors are widely spaced they can actually work as dot to dots. Moreover it is important these anchors penetrate deep into the snowpack, most importantly...
As slope gradient increases avalanche danger increases, the prime gradient is 38degrees. As gradient increases the risk of avalanches start to decrease again. Around 50 degree one can expect frequent sluffing and small scale slabs, thus reducing the chance of deeper slabs running. 60 degree...
Competition means discussion in every sport and here on NS members like nothing more than to discuss results. In a sport such as skiing where we reley on judges to decide who wins there is bound to be controversy, even in sports where there aren't judges, in the same sensse as we do, such as...
Following the success of the rocker2s premier season (2011-2012) Salomon have decided to release an entire range of rocker2 skis able to handle park to blower pow. My friend managed to get his hands on a pair of next year's 122 rocker2s in a 184, the original model. As both of us had the same...
Since I had exhausted the extensive list of skiing films on zune (about 4 or 5), I decided to watch a film about one of the things I used to be pretty much 'obsethed' (see what I did there?) when I was younger; Skateboarding, I still do it a bit in the summer when the waves are down. So anyways...
The other day I sat down to watch some old MSP films and other even earlier films, it was whislt watching them I truly comprehended how much progression there has been in such a short space of time. Being 15 and new to freeskiing (past 3 years) I had missed out on the early days of freeskiing...
The old review has been replaced by this new one -http://aslansskiblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/on3p-caylor-ski-review.html
About Me/Summary: - 5'10", 80kgs, decent level powder skier, currently on 191 ON3P Caylors, wanting to try the S7s as I had heard so much about them. Tested them up at whistler, good range of condition bit of pow, bit crud,heavy, ice a good mixture for 'demoing'
I got a chance to demo these...