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No friends on a powder day, right?

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Started by RossF in Ski Chatter - 20 Replies

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RossF
reply to 'No friends on a powder day, right?'
posted Jan-2009

Yeh, I would absolutely hate to live there )

Ian Wickham
reply to 'No friends on a powder day, right?'
posted Jan-2009

The production quality of the vid is first class :wink:

Ise
reply to 'No friends on a powder day, right?'
posted Jan-2009

RossF wrote:Yeh, I would absolutely hate to live there )


no, ain't no skiing here, just a couple of drag lifts, they dropped in for lunch, that's all filmed at Verbier which is where everyone should really go.

Neiltoo
reply to 'No friends on a powder day, right?'
posted Jan-2009


Great Film!


Not sure who filmed it, but Guido Perrini has done a lot of stuff with the Falquet brothers.
In my early days in Verbier he was a ski bum with a 16mm camera, these days he makes some awesome movies.

http://vimeo.com/2492092

I was planning to go to Tignes at the start of March, maybe its time to try somewhere new )

RoseR
reply to 'No friends on a powder day, right?'
posted Jan-2009

bandit wrote:
RoseR wrote:Thats excellent, I wonder how hard it is to do?


Rose, did you see the footage of touring bindings and skins in use in the early part of the film?

I imagine it's quite hard to get to be that good :D

I did and then watched it again. Would that be the sort of set up suitable for what I want?
I'm a laydee

Bandit
reply to 'No friends on a powder day, right?'
posted Jan-2009

Yes, along with a set of skins, this sort of setup would take you where you want to go. Here is a link to the Fritschi site.

http://fritschi.ch/index.php?page=572

On the r/h side under Technologies, most of the headings lead to little moving demos of the features. Many of the features are common to all makes of touring bindings.

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RoseR
reply to 'No friends on a powder day, right?'
posted Jan-2009

bandit wrote:Yes, along with a set of skins, this sort of setup would take you where you want to go. Here is a link to the Fritschi site.

http://fritschi.ch/index.php?page=572

On the r/h side under Technologies, most of the headings lead to little moving demos of the features. Many of the features are common to all makes of touring bindings.


Hi Bandit, thanks for that, I will certainly do some investigation while I am away. I really think its the way for us. We are not ones for up the lifts, down the slopes, then repeat. We want to get up under our own steam, have a walk round, come down in our time. We are certainly non conformist skiers.
I'm a laydee

Ise
reply to 'No friends on a powder day, right?'
posted Jan-2009

You'll may find in Finland they go for Nordic touring more than alpine touring, it's more like cross country with slightly more robust kit.

Topic last updated on 11-January-2009 at 12:20