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Protection in ski touring

metod19. 01. 2013 10:59:53

Hello!
Several times a year I go to the mountains in winter too. On foot, I'm not a ski tourer. I properly prepare and equip for the tour: ice axe, crampons, etc. and use the equipment appropriately. On steep, hard and icy slopes, crampons and ice axe are mandatory. Meanwhile, I observe skiers who happily ski on the same terrain. I'm interested how a ski tourer protects himself (stops) in case of a fall on such hard, icy slopes? It all seems very dangerous to me, maybe I'm wrong?

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ljubitelj gora19. 01. 2013 12:03:29

Probably like this:

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IgorZlodej19. 01. 2013 16:36:21

Skiing off groomed slopes we divide into touring skiing and alpinistic skiing. In classic touring skiing of course occasionally you need ice axe and crampons, especially on ascent, in classic touring skiing but usually you don't need that gear. Alpinistic skiing is of course completely different chapter. Some simply attach ice axe to ski pole, have it at hand, say on backpack belt, sometimes need to have it in hand. I remember one such skiing from Prestreljenik Window to Italian side, when some 10 m were really fucked and without ice axe wouldn't get down on skis. In such it's of course much safer to put on crampons and descend on foot.

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Becar19. 04. 2013 09:38:53

Fall into abyss without injuries

Would ask touring skiers and also others, is this story even possible in that way as described? Because by some physical laws it's very unlikely.

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sla19. 04. 2013 10:10:51

Apparently fell into Slovenian gully. There was apparently lots of soft snow (powder).
Otherwise Davo Karničar also "controlled fell" over Sinji slap velik nasmeh