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Vince said:
And I thought my snapped ACL first run on the first day at Whisler after a 15-hour plane ride was a shocker of a story, spider bite first day. Horrible.
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Worse is the bloody spider came in my boot from home in Mallorca ! Snapped ACL trumps spider bite by far. But I was lucky it wasn’t bad, this year a guy had two fingers amputated on the island because the bite caused gangrene
 
Ouch!! Not the kind of violin I'd want to play with! What do the brown contrabassos look like??!!

That's a pretty fukt way to go about a skiiing holiday, Todd (and Vince)! :eek:
 
piranha-bro2 said:
Ouch!! Not the kind of violin I'd want to play with! What do the brown contrabassos look like??!!

That's a pretty fukt way to go about a skiiing holiday, Todd (and Vince)! :eek:
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Ripper of a place here, its my favorite place in the French alps, beats Chamonix hands down in my opinion , get your self up here Q , plenty of space in the van and the house, come what may I’m skiing tomorrow, went to the boot fitter , and we put what I call lightening holes in my right boot liner and we molded the boot a bit wider to take the swollen foot, with holes Cut in the liner to give extra space , and the extra width we got in the boot, and no sock , I should be good to go , pain be buggered
 
Drizzling shit in Brisbane, returned from a camping holiday in my van getting sunburned drinking beer by the water and chilling, to drizzle and 83% humidity.

I got bit on the arse four times by a Redback spider once. Really glad the Dr never suggested amputation!
 
chrisk said:
Drizzling shit in Brisbane, returned from a camping holiday in my van getting sunburned drinking beer by the water and chilling, to drizzle and 83% humidity.

I got bit on the arse four times by a Redback spider once. Really glad the Dr never suggested amputation!
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That must have hurt like hell. Tonights wine is for you Chrisso, pity you aren’t here to quaff it
 

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sideshow said:
I had a brown violin spider in my ski boot that bit me.
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Hearing loss is a bugger eh? If you'd heard him playing the violin, maybe you wouldn't have put your foot in there.

Back to the weather channel: We had some spectacular lightning and very loud cracks of thunder with a monster deluge of rain here last night. Plenty of flash flooding in and around the suburbs of Hobart. Blundstone Arena (where they'll be holding the 5th Ashes test in a few days) became a shallow swimming pool. The entire oval was underwater. It's only about a 10 min walk swim from my place.
 
It's a brilliant spot Tom, I did that walk, it's not exactly a climb, years ago heading home from a Melbourne Laverda ride. I arrived at Thredbo late approx lunchtime and the Crakenback Chair lift closes at 4, miss it and that adds a good 4ks to the 7k I think trip one way from the top of that chair lift to the mountain peak. I was a lot fitter then and did the descent jogging, got some bounce off the elevated steel footpath.I made it back before the chair closed thankfully Its used to limit erosion from all the foot traffic. There were maybe 30 people up there when I was there. They must have been camping. BTW the snowmelt was such a thirst quencher and I froze my arse off. Hot ambient temp maybe 30c but wind chill was bad. There was plenty of really big Snowdrift and a freezing wind off The Main Range. Love it up there.
 
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Paul LeClair said:
Andy

great video and looks like 4 great days of backcountry skiing!!! So glad to hear you got out before the "deep freeze" hit. That must have been in the Monashee Range near Revelstoke?

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Paul - we were skiing out of the Blanket Glacier Chalet - about a 5 min flight SW from the Revelstoke airport in the Monashees. The region felt the effects of the atmospheric river with unprecedented snowfall... made for great skiing.
 
aebbern said:
The region felt the effects of the atmospheric river
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They used that term here now for the first time that I have seen. A warm "atmospheric river" associated with a vicious storm further north of us. It looks to me just like the warm air from the south being drawn into the deep low - usually associated with a warm front. It was minus 15 a week or so ago, bloody cold for cycling I can tell you, to forecast plus ten tomorrow and Friday, totally bizarre. The minus a couple at night has them ordering in extra titanium plates and screws for all the hips expected by the orthopaedic mob.
 
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