For the more out there, hard to pin down pieces: Esoterica is their home. What exactly is Esoterica at The High Route? We'll know soon.
Rewinding an old 1942 text in the Handbook of American Mountaineering and finding some simple and energetic illustrations. We are glad, though, the book’s ski carry techniques are relics of the past.
What if?
That’s a question I ask myself every time I turn on my beacon. What if. What if I don’t come back?
Lacking a local on-piste ski area to “uphill,” no problem: Alex Lee makes the training work in a terrain and conditions smörgåsbord.
The prefix “iso” means equal or the same. We often refer to an isothermal snowpack in snow science and the backcountry enthusiast’s lexicon. You guessed it, an isothermal snowpack is a snowpack with an equal, or uniform, temperature throughout. And on a lengthy ski traverse isothermal snow can be a buzzkill.
The premise of Apocalypse Snow is this: A band of evil monoskiers attempt to capture a “snow surfer” to steal the secrets of skiing from him. Despite the obvious disconnect, the premise—mono skiers seeking the Truth of Skiing from a snow surfer—is quite spectacular, and the film is a delightful display of hilarious snow-sliding antics and an impressive showing of snow-riding prowess.
French culture and specifically French Cinema in the 1980s was a byproduct of the French Socialist Government undertaking several major social initiatives that had far-reaching implications, including raising the minimum wage, granting more paid vacation time to workers, establishing a 36-hour work week. Along with these more labor oriented initiatives, the government also invested in film and art—an iconic element of French culture. If French government subsidies helped greenlight gravity-fed snow sliding involving monoskis and snowboards, then we’re all for that type of government intervention.
