J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

Pablo Escobar wrote:You don't want an influx of Scottish folk in Zinal, your continued ski-porn will make that a reality for you :lol:

All done with photoshop, it's a well known fact there's no skiing whatsoever outside regular ski stations.

Here's some I've mocked up using images from regular skiers at regular ski stations :

It does look interesting but so far I don't know anyone who's got one and it's the only device on the market that I've never personally used. On the one hand I''d say none of the manufacturers are producing poor kit but then I think back to the Ortovox X1 which had some problems. When we just bought some Pulses I didn't seriously consider S1's at all.

This isn't a new finding. A survey of data by the Innsbruck University about 5 years ago of data from the late 90's did suggest a 50% injury rate and around 10% fatalities from those injuries. However, the Swiss Avalanche Institute also published data at the same time showing at least 30% fatal injuries and suggestions the rate was as much as 40%. Other older studies show figures around 25% and head injuries at around 60% in some studies.

amanda n wrote:wow :shock: amazing as always ise

here's the photographer himself in action :D

forgot to take a camera out today :D it was pretty major as well :D

So far there's not enough tracker 2 units out there to get good, informed reviews. It will be a 3 antenna unit like the S1 and Pulse, but likewise the S1 hasn't been around long enough to get good reviews and hasn't made much impact in professional use.

Right now, the best and most proven three antenna unit is the Pulse. It wins over the tracker 1 for multiple burials but this is a contentious area and the frequency of multiple burials is hotly debated, the figures are pretty hard to analyse.

If I could have any transceiver, I would have either a tracker 1 or a pulse right now and in fact, we have both pulses and trackers currently along with F1's

AJ wrote:
I have to agree with Bandit in that people`s respect for other piste user`s is slowly diminishing,Or am i now more aware of it now i have children.

I don't know but the last person, in fact the last two people, who skied into me were children, in both cases the parents didn't tell the children off and just literally laughed it off, the children certainly didn't get any learning experience from it.

Not a good start to the day, we arrived at Saint-Luc and I realised I'd forgotten to pick up my helmet, hat and gloves, since we'd aimed to go for a short tour the helmet wasn't a big deal but hat and gloves are useful, I'd got a brimmer and luckily David had a fleece hat spare but the gloves looked a show stopper until I had the brainwave of calling a friend who lives in Saint-Luc and borrowing some gloves.

After this start we rode the lifts up to the high point of Saint Luc, the Bella Tolla, and traversed around the peak to get to our line. Looking in :

And then a look back at the Orxival where we skied yesterday, it's the one on the right with some sun hitting it:

And then we're in our line skiing down into deserted valley:

About here the wind picked up and David realised he'd left his hard shell at home, so we've barely got a full set of kit between us :roll:

Then it's a quick a 300m climb out to the col, it's the first time I've climbed with the Kilowatts and I wasn't sure if my skins would fit, they're about 7mm too narrow but they seem to work fine. David wasn't having so much luck though, his skins weren't holding well and he resorted to using my crampons for some extra grip.


After another descent to another damn, we climb out again on a 200m section, have a late lunch and drop by my friends chalet to return the gloves and some tea and home made cake, not a bad day :lol: