J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ir12daveor

bandit wrote::D In my local ski shop.....

Isn't there some law stating that you need to have a Swiss Passport to use those skis?

That might change from Canton to Canton though! )

Tony_H wrote:That really is a ridiculous thing to say, and purely provocative.
No one would argue a bobble hat would have stopped that rock.
No one said bobble hat wearers are better skiers.

YOU as a helmet wearer assume people who dont wear them think they are better skiers.
I am hardly a great skier, and if I fell over on a rock I might die. Thats my decision, and what this thread was all about, but we dont need ridiculous comments like that.

Pot... Kettle... Black! :roll:

bandit wrote:Right, now I've got decent connection and the right cables. Here is the image of my pal's helmet with the offending rock in his hand.



The area where this happened is in view just above and right of the helmet, you can see our tracks where we came back onto the piste.

I'm not convinced that a bobble hat would have been much use :shock:

Probably not. But then again the bobble hat wearers are so good that an incident like that could never happen to them. :roll:

In my opinion there are some very good reasons to not get the Freeride over the DSP.

The freeride is a one antenna transciever with only a 30m search strip. It will need to be orientated to the transiever you are searching for to get an accurate direction and could potentially waste valuable seconds in a real situation.

The DSP is a three antenna with a 50m search strip. (in practice can be up to 60m). It can cope with multiple burials and is very straight forward and easy to use.

I would only recommend three antenna transceivers now. They have become the standard for a reason.

Quite a few sheep following the marketing and going to one of the most over hyped and over priced (at least for day trips) resorts in Switzerland. Great if you want to use the park there which is pretty super sized, but for just normal skiing and boarding there are better places that offer as much terrain for far better value for money.

With respect to the training centres, they are all free. (At least in Switzerland). The idea is to provide an easily accessible training facility for anyone leaving the controlled pistes. Many of the Swiss resorts now have something like this near their freeride areas. Davos has one in Pischa, Andermatt on Gemstock and I believe many other areas have them too.

To be honest in a real situation I'm not sure how much adrenaline can really help. I had the lucky/unlucky situation of having to search through the debris from the avalanche pictured below last winter. We didn't know if someone had been buried or not, and we came within 15 minutes of being victims of it ourselves! The adrenaline was certainly pounding especially when I got ghost signals on my transceiver twice! Despite the adrenaline I was still totally at my limit trying to climb around the debris field and keep some sort of a reasonable search pattern. I am quite fit and spend every weekend in the mountains either biking or skiing winter and summer, but without experiencing this I would not have realised exactly how much effort it takes.

Luckily there was no one buried but we still spent an hour searching, a good chunk of that with a Rega helicopter flying over us.


To get an idea of scale the slide was 300m wide and slid for 1.3km (close to a mile!) The debris extended about 200-300m out into the flat at the bottom of the mountain and was 5-6m deep in places.

AllyG wrote:ir12daveor,
Congratulations on being brave enough to admit to giving Tony some of the 'one stars' :thumbup:

Unfortunately I don't believe in grading people, or I'd give you 5 stars myself for bravery and honesty (not for one starring people though).

Hopefully, now you will be brave enough to write a polite response explaining what you object to in someone else's post, rather than just giving them one star. And that way, we will all be able to improve our posts, once we know what's wrong with them.

Mine are usually too long - so that's all I'm saying for now :D

Thanks again,

Ally

In my opinion thats also pointless. This thread from Tony as it was put did not deserve 6 pages of posting for what is essentially just noise. Giving a star for a post like that shows that people don't hold the thread in high regard. Replying and saying why just leads to people ending up fighting on the forum and getting tit for tat. If your post is one starred then maybe its time for some introspection to see why it was one starred rather then starting a flame war in a thread.

I'll admit to having one starred some of Tony's posts... but from what I see I am by no means the only person and certainly not the most prolific of one starrers. I see many posts from him one starred that I had nothing to do with.

In some cases Tony's attitude comes accross as close to "f**k you, I'm right". Some posts like this thread were as Private Ryan said... Totally pointless. If you want to say:

Tony_H wrote:Today was a good day, thanks to Wickers. Cheers pal.

On a public forum then at least let people know what you are talking about (or send him a PM). Just posting something like that gives the impression that you are full of yourself or only posting to a small clique that already know what you are talking about. I see many other posts like this that seem to bring very little value to the forum such as telling people who choose to wear helmets that they "Look like numpties"

If you are getting one stars how about looking to yourself and see why that post might have deserved a one star rather then just saying someone is out to get me.


I'm now waiting for multiple ones stars for this post, even though I don't think I am the phantom one starrer.