http://www.wildsnow.com/430/powder-magazine-35-year-anniversary-out-of-bounds-and-out-of-luck/ Backcountry Skiing Snowboard Telemark Snowsports Information News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:45:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.wildsnow.com/430/powder-magazine-35-year-anniversary-out-of-bounds-and-out-of-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-4402 Mark Worley Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:46:09 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=430#comment-4402 Sounds like you had a cadre of friends that made your rescue possible--without which you might have suffered much more. It is interesting the shift in ski area boundary policies. So many places used to be 100% anti-rope ducking, and now whole-heartedly endorse it and have policies that seek to manage it. My buddies and I skied beyond the ropes perhaps three times back in the pre-open boundaries days, and even when doing so a mere couple arms breadths from the boundary and only for a few seconds was quite a rush. Guess we knew we could lose our passes--and that the patrol could likely spy us easily--but the snow was surely nicer out there! Sounds like you had a cadre of friends that made your rescue possible–without which you might have suffered much more. It is interesting the shift in ski area boundary policies. So many places used to be 100% anti-rope ducking, and now whole-heartedly endorse it and have policies that seek to manage it. My buddies and I skied beyond the ropes perhaps three times back in the pre-open boundaries days, and even when doing so a mere couple arms breadths from the boundary and only for a few seconds was quite a rush. Guess we knew we could lose our passes–and that the patrol could likely spy us easily–but the snow was surely nicer out there!

]]> http://www.wildsnow.com/430/powder-magazine-35-year-anniversary-out-of-bounds-and-out-of-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-4396 Mark Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:10:31 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=430#comment-4396 Starting around 1984, Powder fueled my skiing obsession like no other publication, and I'd tried pretty much all of them then: Ski, Skiing, Snow Country. These days I prefer the backcountry mags like Couloir as the others don't really hit the mark. Starting around 1984, Powder fueled my skiing obsession like no other publication, and I’d tried pretty much all of them then: Ski, Skiing, Snow Country. These days I prefer the backcountry mags like Couloir as the others don’t really hit the mark.

]]> http://www.wildsnow.com/430/powder-magazine-35-year-anniversary-out-of-bounds-and-out-of-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-4392 Zach Lentz Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:25:38 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=430#comment-4392 Thanks for sharing the Keno's story Lou! Very interesting, and for those of us who know the route well, very easy to envision the horror of a rescue through that bushwhack! Thanks for sharing the Keno’s story Lou! Very interesting, and for those of us who know the route well, very easy to envision the horror of a rescue through that bushwhack!

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