Comments on: Friday Ski History Contest — Win a Backpack from Backcountry Access

By: Lou

Lou — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:34:28 +0000

Sounds like a sanfu, I’ll check on it. But I’ll have to contact you via email for address and such. Please be sure to check your email.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:44:08 +0000

Lou,

I haven’t received my prize of a BCA back pack yet, so I’m just checking that I haven’t been forgotten.

By: Lou

Lou — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:40:08 +0000

Thanks Bela!!!! Great to get the story from the source!

By: Bela G. vadasz

Bela G. vadasz — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:21:26 +0000

Here is the story on the Chute Out photo.

It was a good “fat” Sierra snow year as many were in the 80’s. Mimi and I saw the line filled in well clear through the upper section. By then, we had been to Chamonix a few times and had been extremely (no pun intended) motivated by the steep skiing going on. We were still in our Sierra “3pin” era and were on a mission to ski anything steep in “pins”. Our friend, Eric Perlman was along and at this spot in the couloir, both he and Mimi were firing away with motor drives clicking. After I completed the descent, I named it, “Chute Out”, a play on the photo shoot we ended up doing. Mimi got the best shot and it won an important award in Photographer’s Annual.

It was a great, fun day on skis in the High Sierra.

-Bela G. Vadasz

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:05:04 +0000

I guess I should have tilted it less when I cropped it (grin).