The Paramarker
The paramarker talks about his new gear.
Mark sent around a film today…Cruise-azy! And about skiers! It’s from a site called extranormal.com: “if you can type, you can make movies.” Cool.
Bro Down, the movie
12,276 Feet of Rock!
Jeremy, Tim, Gus, and I climbed and skied Mt. Adams this past Monday the 7th of July, 2008. The taste was sweet!
7/26/08: Today I changed the filetype of this video from a .wmv file to a .flv and installed the FLV Embed plugin on the blog. Hopefully, Mac users will be able to view this rock n roll summit now.
Speeding between death and ecstasy
Giora sent me this movie today. It amazed me with footage of Everest (spindrift!) and scared me nigh to death with a filmed ski descent of the South Col. Yikes.
the film quality is pretty stunning.
—Giora
Couldn’t agree more…
The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mt. Everest in 1970. He skied 6,600 feet (2000 m) in 2 minutes and 40 seconds and fell 1320 feet down the steep Lhotse face from the Yellow Band just below the South Col. He used a large parachute to slow his descent.
—YouTube synopsis
Tearing up the Slot
Deep powder at the end of March? What?! It was real and we’ve got pics to prove it. After (yet another) week of cold temperatures and consistent snowfall, Jeremy, Tim, and I went to scope out the slot. We were happy with our estimates of conditions and there was indeed about 20″ of new snow.
We thought there was no way we’d ski the thing because of avy danger, but we brought a rope and harness and Jeremy eagerly volunteered to drop in on belay and get the thing to slide. He got an unconsolidated slough of the top 3 inches to go, but other than that the snow seemed relatively stable, unconsolidated pow.
We looked at each other…smiling. “Let’s hit it!”
It was March 29, 2008 — one of the best ski days I’ve ever had…
