Can I straightline?

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02-11-2005, 12:54 AM
Tyrone Shoelaces

Can I straightline?

What are some good straightlines in the Tahoe area with loooong ass run-outs?

I still can't ski for 3 months or so, but my orthopod says I can start running now..so long as I stay in a straight line..no pivoting.

So I figure straightlining stuff on skis would be even more low-impact on my knee than straight running. I mean, hell, I'd just be like, standing there, on my skis, but moving kinda fast, and going straight. Safe for the knee, no?

I thought of Once is Enough at KW, but I wouldn't be able to make that big sweeping GS-er at the bottom yet. I think I need to go backcountry.
02-11-2005, 12:58 AM
splat

Dude, go to Sweden.
02-11-2005, 01:02 AM
runethechamp

It's kind of a lame one, but there is one at the bottom of the cirque that goes all the way to the flats there. Starts right through some trees...
02-11-2005, 01:06 AM
Tyrone Shoelaces

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Originally Posted by runethechamp

It's kind of a lame one, but there is one at the bottom of the cirque that goes all the way to the flats there. Starts right through some trees...

crazy...but I actually think I know exactly where you're talking about. Skiers left of Kodak? Sometimes called Warriors chute by the KW crew.

I'd have to actually ski down to the top of that one though.

I need something where I can just skin to the top, and straight it out. No real skiing or turning can occur anywhere so I don't damage my new acl.

Sweden seems to be the only solution.

I wonder if my ortho ever had anyone ask for "straightline clearance"
02-11-2005, 01:17 AM
runethechamp

Well, you can just take Chair 1 up, hike up the flat into eagle bowl and there you are.
02-11-2005, 01:20 AM
Tyrone Shoelaces

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Originally Posted by runethechamp

Well, you can just take Chair 1 up, hike up the flat into eagle bowl and there you are.

you're absolutely right. What am Ithinking with all this moping around with this not being able to ski crap. I'lll just keep straightlining the Wall for the next 3 months. See you fockers there. http://www.tetongravity.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif
02-11-2005, 01:21 AM
funkendrenchman

You could straightline Thunderbolt or Challenge or Dematte's, or Exhibition, or.....
02-11-2005, 01:30 AM
hucksquaw

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces

but I wouldn't be able to make that big sweeping GS-er at the bottom yet.

[ALTERNATIVE] me say make turn on other leg....
02-11-2005, 01:34 AM
kush1

get there early and just go straight the whole way done the wall. Then you could head to west shore and straifht run that! there are two, so Ill see you on march 4th right?
02-11-2005, 01:37 AM
Tyrone Shoelaces

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Originally Posted by hucksquaw

[ALTERNATIVE] me say make turn on other leg....

FKNA! nothing but straightlines and left turns all the way to the bottom. Brilliant!
02-11-2005, 01:38 AM
kush1

so, I WILL SEE YOU ON THE 4TH RIGHT?????

edit: dont make me give you a drunk call tonight
02-11-2005, 01:38 AM
Tyrone Shoelaces

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Originally Posted by kush1

so Ill see you on march 4th right?

for sure...filming from the bottom this year.

EDIT: figured you had to be wasted postin this late at night and turned my phone off :the_finge
02-11-2005, 01:39 AM
kush1

thats the 30th of march not the 4th, you will be straight running shit at red lakes by the 4th riht? I have acamera and need sluts............... :D
02-11-2005, 01:42 AM
Tyrone Shoelaces

oh yeah...duh...the 30th.....shit, I just might enter the comp already then

hell Alkasqawlik straightlined Vista one year and qualified....I'm in ;)
02-11-2005, 01:43 AM
runethechamp

Yeah, once should go just fine.
02-11-2005, 01:43 AM
hucksquaw

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces

What are some good straightlines in the Tahoe area

Straightlines? shiiit anything with snow on it has the potential to be a "straightline," just point your tips down the fall line and let those bitches run..
02-11-2005, 01:53 AM
kush1

tyrone take whatever it is that doesnt show your online thin goff......................ok im durnk you may bget a ohne call
02-11-2005, 01:59 AM
AKA

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces

I thought of Once is Enough at KW, but I wouldn't be able to make that big sweeping GS-er at the bottom yet. I think I need to go backcountry.

That turn is so last year. Now ya straightline at the trees and slam the brakes, its way extremer.
02-11-2005, 02:03 AM
Tyrone Shoelaces

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Originally Posted by kush1

tyrone take whatever it is that doesnt show your online thin goff......................ok im durnk you may bget a ohne call

hahaha.....I'm not answering that...stop calling! your waasssteeed! :the_finge
02-11-2005, 02:06 AM
AKA

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces

hahaha.....I'm not answering that...stop calling! your waasssteeed! :the_finge

Im not gonna answer that call. I know im next. :nonono2: :nonono2:
02-11-2005, 03:40 AM
crashnburn'd

Move to MN... Ski straight down every single thing you see, bludgeon yourself due to boredom, then repeat.
02-11-2005, 07:16 AM
Big E

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Originally Posted by hucksquaw

[ALTERNATIVE] me say make turn on other leg....

I seem to recall reading that when Marc Girardelli blew out his knee, two months or so after surgery he asked his doc if he could ski on one leg. Figuring this guy is one of the best in history and that he could ski better on one leg than most could ever hope to ski on two, the doc agreed. A few weeks later, the doc gets a letter from Girardelli thanking him for the good work on the surgery, etc., and saying that he has been off skiing on one leg for a bit now. He also included a pic of him skiing on one leg, with a note on the back saying "Note which leg I'm skiing on." It was the one that the doc had just fixed :eek:
02-11-2005, 11:09 AM
irul&ublo

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Originally Posted by Big E

I seem to recall reading that when Marc Girardelli blew out his knee, two months or so after surgery he asked his doc if he could ski on one leg. Figuring this guy is one of the best in history and that he could ski better on one leg than most could ever hope to ski on two, the doc agreed. A few weeks later, the doc gets a letter from Girardelli thanking him for the good work on the surgery, etc., and saying that he has been off skiing on one leg for a bit now. He also included a pic of him skiing on one leg, with a note on the back saying "Note which leg I'm skiing on." It was the one that the doc had just fixed :eek:

That's pretty funny. Quite awhile back I took the deposition of an orthopedic surgeon. Turns out the guy used to work for Steadman, back when he was in Tahoe. We started talking about skiing, him working on the Mahre brothers etc. Then he tells me this story about Girardelli; several weeks after whatever knee surgery was done, Girardelli is meeting w/ the docs and PT people, to discuss rehab. This doc walks into the room to find Girardelli in the middle of doing one legged squats w/225 lbs on the repaired leg...Girardelli asks, "Doctor, can I do this?" Doctor nearly shits his pants, but has to say, yeah, I guess you can.