Vapur water bags are great for backcountry skiing and you can kiss your wineskin bota bag goodbye.
dehydration
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Tony had gotten a brain scan a few days before we skied Hayden last year. As it turned out, while he was up there getting 6,000 vert on a big Colorado mountain, the scan interpreter noticed a blood vessel in his brain was ballooned out in a large and potentially deadly aneurysm. It the thing had ruptured, even in civilization his chances of surviving would have been rare. Up on a mountain? Zero percent. In a word, it is miraculous Tony didn’t stroke out (as in permanently) during our Hayden Ski, what with the dehydration and raised blood pressure of hard endurance athletics.
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2007 24 hours of sunlight ski race, full race report, results and pictures from this skimo ski touring endurance competition.
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Variety of backcountry skiing tips and tricks from a hut trip.