tour du Ciel, day 4 (photos)

Dave Mac wrote:

A 2000m climb does sound tough though. In Niederau, at 7.00pm most Tuesday nights, groups of local ski tourers set off at various points of the valley, and head for a stuble at the top of the Marbachjoch. It's only a 700m climb, but remember, this is after a working day.

There follows some music, a meal, a little drinking, and conversation, with a late night ski-down by helmet torchlight. Not on your scale, but definitely sharing your mountain spirit. 

brilliant, what a fantastic way to keep fit! we don't see much of that here, we do have a few nocturnal snow shoe tracks particularly over in the pre-alpes closer to some of the towns.

PS, those 2000m were in three slices and some of that was that vertical. 2000 in one go would be a bit much for me

Just looked at your slide show. The photos look amazing presented all together. Some really wonderful mountain images, you must have had a superb trip (except for the boot)

bandit wrote:

Just looked at your slide show. The photos look amazing presented all together. Some really wonderful mountain images, you must have had a superb trip (except for the boot)  

http://snowslider.net/slideshows/Tour-du-Ciel/

that's from Adobe LightRoom, it's quite a nice tool.

That is one good slide show. Very cool.

Trencher

Superb photo`s ise the scenery just blow`s you away, Thanks for sharing.



AJ Adele

AJ wrote:

Superb photo`s ise the scenery just blow`s you away, Thanks for sharing.



AJ Adele 

That's the thing in the Valais and the Val d'Anniviers particularly, it's mountains like kids draw them, sharp, spiky, big and with snow on the top

Truly amazing stuff Ise. What exactly is an uphill kick turn. Sounds

IceGhost wrote:

Truly amazing stuff Ise. What exactly is an uphill kick turn. Sounds  

It's a way of rotating your skis 180' to change direction as you're moving uphill, you can be on steep terrain and need to zig zag up. You can reverse kick turn which is another variation and also downhill kick turn which is a typical steep technique where it's too steep or too narrow to turn like a steep couloir entrance or moving above cliffs when you can't drop the height of a jump turn or generate the torque for the take off.

I tried to find a youtube but it was rubbish, I'll look again tomorrow.

Used to kick turn, but you need two good knees for that,so now I rely on almighty jump turns.

ise wrote:

I tried to find a youtube but it was rubbish, I'll look again tomorrow. 

here's a disaster turn, I suppose most people have messed up sometime :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iIe1JvAxas

here's a good one of a downhill kick turn used to turn around near a cliff, a good example of why it's a life saver turn:

http://www.skinet.com/video.jsp?ID=1000005483

and an uphill touring kick turn in photo's :

http://www.cosleyhouston.com/alps-ski-advice.htm

Okay, me thicky Reverse kick turn???

Please describe it

bandit wrote:

Okay, me thicky Reverse kick turn???

Please describe it  

in that final link in photo form as well, but really those photo's are awful. You rarely see people use it and it's not something I've ever really practised.