My guide for Chamonix...

[str8line]

Now has info about my camp on his Website.

http://www.nosiesta.net/index.html

Check out why I picked this guy to lead us around for a week. He is a badass and does a really good job of conveying his personality and accomplishments through his written words and photos on his site. Whether or not you'd consider attending my camp, his Website is interesting and he might be a good connection for you at a later date if you plan on visiting Chamonix or the Alps and maximizing your oppurtunities.

There are still a few spots open for the Chamonix trip. I have the ability to lower the price some by arranging double occupancy instead of single if you are on the fence price-wise. There might be some other ways to lower the price as well. I really would like to fill this camp so if you are thinking about it please contact me at gordy100@msn.com

[Mulletizer]

There are still a few spots open for the Chamonix trip. I have the ability to lower the price some by arranging double occupancy instead of single if you are on the fence price-wise. There might be some other ways to lower the price as well. I really would like to fill this camp so if you are thinking about it please contact me at gordy100@msn.com

I won't be able to pay however low the price goes so I was planning to crash the course instead. Look out for me - I'll have M103s and will "accidentally" run into you in the line at the Aiguille where I'll be asking Japanes tourists "Avez-vous un forfait s'il vout plait". Feel free to call me herpes - you can do everything you can to get rid of me but once you've got me you'll never be shot of me.

Your guide's site looks nice although I personally enjoy the ocassional siesta between bouts of gnar schralping.

[splat]

Hey, Gordy, gimme a call. We need to talk.
My friend Benji lives right across the river from the Le Morgane.
It's like a one block walk to the telepherique.

[bbirtle]

str8line, what sort of things are you interested to do in Chamonix? My take is that in some cases they are good value, but in others they are wholly unecessary - I often pass groups where I felt the latter and don't want to see you waste your money.

If you are only planning to ski lift accessible off piste and already have adequate avo safety knowledge, I personally think the guide is wholly unnecessary. You can just ask around, buy the guidebook, and be on your way. Ditto if you want to do ski tours in the Aiguille Roughes. The great thing about Chamonix is if you are armed with a guidebook and map, there is almost always a clear track to follow and plenty of people around to ask for directions and advice. It's a great place to explore, in that sense.

If you want to do anything glaciated (eg Vallee Blanche) and do not have adequate experience on glaciars, they are vital for your safety. Ditto if the tour is technical and you don't have the experience (eg requires absailing/rappelling, or has short roped climbing sections.).

They are also nice to have if you want to gain knowledge of the above skills, treating it as a class.

If you do have glaciar travel experience, then see comments about always having a track and people to ask, be cautious and smart, and things like Pas de Chevre, Col du Plan, Les Trois Cols, are well possible and safe for independent travelers. Spend the 360 euros/day you save on more gear and more beer.

[edg]

Ohhhhh, Danger Will Robinson...

edg

[shirk]

str8line, what sort of things are you interested to do in Chamonix? My take is that in some cases they are good value, but in others they are wholly unecessary - I often pass groups where I felt the latter and don't want to see you waste your money.

If you are only planning to ski lift accessible off piste and already have adequate avo safety knowledge, I personally think the guide is wholly unnecessary. You can just ask around, buy the guidebook, and be on your way. Ditto if you want to do ski tours in the Aiguille Roughes. The great thing about Chamonix is if you are armed with a guidebook and map, there is almost always a clear track to follow and plenty of people around to ask for directions and advice. It's a great place to explore, in that sense.

If you want to do anything glaciated (eg Vallee Blanche) and do not have adequate experience on glaciars, they are vital for your safety. Ditto if the tour is technical and you don't have the experience (eg requires absailing/rappelling, or has short roped climbing sections.).

They are also nice to have if you want to gain knowledge of the above skills, treating it as a class.

If you do have glaciar travel experience, then see comments about always having a track and people to ask, be cautious and smart, and things like Pas de Chevre, Col du Plan, Les Trois Cols, are well possible and safe for independent travelers.

Dude you have no fucking clue do you??? Your posting privlages should be removed till you read up and figure out what the hell is going on.

[Mulletizer]

^^^ Bwahahahahaha.

[Buzzworthy]

Does this have anything to do with www.straightlineadventures.com?





Hint to the Cham dude.

[bbirtle]

Dude you have no fucking clue do you??? Your posting privlages should be removed till you read up and figure out what the hell is going on.

Dude I do not have time to read every single thread on this forum, every single day. He started a NEW thread, said he was hiring a guide, and recommended the guide to others on other occasions outside of whatever clinic is going on. Hence my advice.

Guides are excellent in many cases, but even today we saw six people doing the same route as us but paying upwards of 200 euros to do so, for what seemed to me very little reason. I JUST got done this very weekend trying to talk Horizon about hiring a guide for his entire week here in March. I see this all the time when I ski in Cham' and just want to give people a heads up about it so they can make their own informed decision.

[basom]

i just made 100 maggots laugh thier asses off and i have no clue as to why that is

..........

i would tell you, but that would kind of ruin it for everyone else

[shirk]

Dude I do not have time to read every single thread on this forum, every single day.

Like I said you need to do more reading. Consider it your homework to figure whom str8line is before you actually post agian.

[basom]

Like I said you need to do more reading. Consider it your homework to figure whom str8line is before you actually post agian.

all the lazy american living in france has to do is click on str8's sig. he is obvioulsy helpless and not at all good at sluthing. i'm guessing limited observational skills combined with a healthy sense of self-righteousness and a heavy dose of defensiveness.

[Buzzworthy]

all the lazy american living in france has to do is click on str8's sig. he is obvioulsy helpless and not at all good at sluthing. i'm guessing limited observational skills combined with a healthy sense of self-righteousness and a heavy dose of defensiveness.

or he could click on the link I posted earlier in this very same thread

[Arno]

str8line, what sort of things are you interested to do in Chamonix? My take is that in some cases they are good value, but in others they are wholly unecessary - I often pass groups where I felt the latter and don't want to see you waste your money.

If you are only planning to ski lift accessible off piste and already have adequate avo safety knowledge, I personally think the guide is wholly unnecessary. You can just ask around, buy the guidebook, and be on your way. Ditto if you want to do ski tours in the Aiguille Roughes. The great thing about Chamonix is if you are armed with a guidebook and map, there is almost always a clear track to follow and plenty of people around to ask for directions and advice. It's a great place to explore, in that sense.

If you want to do anything glaciated (eg Vallee Blanche) and do not have adequate experience on glaciars, they are vital for your safety. Ditto if the tour is technical and you don't have the experience (eg requires absailing/rappelling, or has short roped climbing sections.).

They are also nice to have if you want to gain knowledge of the above skills, treating it as a class.

If you do have glaciar travel experience, then see comments about always having a track and people to ask, be cautious and smart, and things like Pas de Chevre, Col du Plan, Les Trois Cols, are well possible and safe for independent travelers. Spend the 360 euros/day you save on more gear and more beer.

matey, you're obviously a nice kid, but you really do set yourself up for a fall
i mean, i'm a bit of a JONG around here, but really...

[bbirtle]

I... Just... DON'T... care... I remember seeing another thread about this clinic in and honestly I didn't read it because I just am not interested, same as why I couldn't tell you what was going on in the "woman xmas present probs" theard.

Seems he's hosting some kind of clinic in Chamonix. Seems he is a guide himself or leads a guide company. May spark a great debate about when and whether you should hire a guide. Isn't that what this forum is for?

Apoligies, str8line, for implying that people shouldn't do your clinic - I didn't know you were a guide yourself and didn't mean to be that agressive. From casual reading, it appeared to me you were attending said clinic, not organizing it.

(I still stick by my words as far as guiding in general though...)

[bbirtle]

PS - I believe I wrote that you definitely SHOULD hire a guide in many cases...

[Orange Julius]

I would wager he is required by law to have a UIAGM certified guide to conduct his camp in the Chamonix area, hence the guide. Not to mention local knowledge etc.

[Mulletizer]

This gets better and better.

BTW I do see your point about some of the guides stuff. Bear in mind people are prepared to pay a lot to have some one else make the decisions - that way they can chill withough the stress of dealing with their own safety. dealing with that type of client is a big part of being a mountian guide. That's not really the go here though, as you'd realise if you clicked on the frickin' link.

[shirk]

I... Just... DON'T... care... I remember seeing another thread about this clinic in and honestly I didn't read it because I just am not interested, same as why I couldn't tell you what was going on in the "woman xmas present probs" theard.

Seems he's hosting some kind of clinic in Chamonix. Seems he is a guide himself or leads a guide company. May spark a great debate about when and whether you should hire a guide. Isn't that what this forum is for?

Apoligies, str8line, for implying that people shouldn't do your clinic - I didn't know you were a guide yourself and didn't mean to be that agressive. From casual reading, it appeared to me you were attending said clinic, not organizing it.

(I still stick by my words as far as guiding in general though...)

Did you even read the posts just above you in this thread? Read more, do your bloody homework and figure out what is going on in our little community you tool. And you wonder why you get ripped on in here.

Sorry to cunt up your thread Gordy. After a few years in the west I hope to have my steeze up to the level to attend one of your camps. I've seen requests from knuckle draggers to attend your camps, any possibility of a free heeler doing one?

[bbirtle]

You mean this link: http://www.straightlineadventures.com/ ?

OK, looks like a very special type of guiding and potentially money very well spent, if you can afford it. Go for it.

What am I missing here. PM me if you want.

[basom]

I... Just... DON'T... care...

you care enough to keep posting and posting and reading your own words on the internet and defending your sorry ex-patriot ass.

typical though.

edit: and maybe you should get comfortable with the basic set of ski porn most maggots already know by heart, then maybe you would recognize who the coaching staff of stra8's camps are.

[onehotchili]

bbirtle -

an innernet-programming savvvy dude like yourself (yes i checked your resume and do know all them fancy words you use...) should know how to click around and do a little googling. instead of just shoving your ski boot further down your throat and embarrassing yourself further... i would suggest humbly excusing yourself and step away from the computer for a few minutes....

[lemon boy]

Holy shit man, I am DYING HERE. LMFAO

Best troll in a long while. Nobody can be this thick headed, I don't care if you are french.

[truth]

ex-patriot ass

This from the guy who just fled the tea party.


This thread is funny. bbirtle is funny. Al is funny. I like this thread.

[irul&ublo]

Dude I do not have time to read every single thread on this forum, every single day.

Well, there's your problem right there; your priorites are all fucked up. I recommend less time watching gay porn and a little more TGR time.

You're welcome.