Anyone noticed the sudden explosion in this?
Loads of people now getting caught in avalanches, risking other peoples lives by setting them off etc.
I bet 90% of deaths from these homosexuals are found with a go-pro attached to their dead corpse. Honestly, fricking social media is the only reason it is getting popular and causing all this. It has a low barrier of entry, any moron can technically do it, so they do to try look cool and the end result is obvious.
An actually dangerous hard to get into sport like ice climbing etc doesnt suffer from it because people are very fricking careful about it. back country skiing? easily accessible to social media addicted men and women, so this doesnt happen.
Dude, backcountry skiing has been a thing since the early 90s. It's not a trend, it's just that there's too damn many people in general and a percentage of them will engage in whatever sport you enjoy. Hell, I remember the good old days when you didn't have to wait in line to jump on an ice climb after work.
Back country skiing has been a thing since skis were invented, dingus.
Cross country came before downhill.
Snowshoes are for the mixed terrain and variable snow conditions encountered when mountaineering. The biggest advantage of snowshoes is they are significantly lighter so if you're doing an approach that is 80% below the snow line obvious choice is the shoes.
If a route is 80% without snow, I doubt anyone would bother brining snowshoes. Those sound more like late summer conditions than winter conditions.
>I speak for everyone
first: Suffer from groupthink and a very limited world view.
second: I live on the coast in the Pacific Northwest where it isn't uncommon to go from just above sea-level to 6,000 feet or more. Passing the snowline on a hike can happen, at-least, 5 months out of the year.
Next time if you're going to talk about something you have no clue about start by asking questions instead of making it obvious you have a narrow world view and a very low IQ.
I live in the PNW and know exactly what I'm talking about, sounds like you are talking out of your ass.
Yes routes often start below the snow line. Very rarely would 80% of a route be below the snowline in the winter. And if it was, no one would bother carrying snowshoes for only 20% of a route.
>I know what I'm talking about
>Says something absolutely moronic
You live in Seattle and hike capitol hill trolling for gay sex.
Try going outside sometime buddy and you might understand.
>Come solicit gay sex on Cap Hill with me
no thanks, Carlos, your drug fueled homosexual erotic fantasy land holds no interest to me.
I expect you to keep saying lame shit and lying though--that's just who you are.
Snowshoes are king in the Cascades and Olympics for the bulk of the year. Continue your larp though--you cant help yourself.
>Snowshoes are king in the Cascades
This is all you have to say to show that you never go outside in winter. Everyone skis.
>I don't have an argument
>I'm going to continue making moronic assertions
ah yes, the Seattlite tells the rural dweller how to back country... priceless.
>Everyone skies
Obviously you believe this because you've never been off a resort in your life.
lol, keep chanting your moronation city parasite. You don't have an argument you have a mantra lol!
You should see a therapist buddy, making up all these stories in your head is unhealthy.
Ice climbing and backcountry skiing go together though.
The government-forced shutdown of everything back in 2020 included ski resorts, so more people took to the backcountry in general. Then add in the influx of people from more heavily locked down states, and things should make a little more sense.
i like a nice groomed trail... the problem is you have to see other normies sometimes. i like going OUT to not see anyone
>want groomed trails
>reee normies!!! I wanna be alone
I didn't realize it was possible to be this moronic. Are you vaxxed too?
Go on a weekday dummy
ill go on a monday morning and see one person like 500 yards away from me.
this is why i need my own land, i have enough for some in central minnesota the problem is you gotta find a plot that doesnt have fricked up zoning covenants so you can build whatever primitive cabin you want. No im not vaxxed lol
Backcountry skis are simply the most efficient way to travel in the winter. Cross country skis can't handle significant hills and snowshoes are slow as frick.
BC is popular because resorts are so expensive and crowded as frick now - the pandemic only made it worse. I dont think social media has anything to do with it
>the pandemic only made it worse
No, it did not. The spread of disease didn’t close down movie theaters and bars and whatever the frick else normies do in their free time. The spread of disease didn’t send people outside due to having nothing else to do. The spread of disease didn’t crowd the outdoors. It was the people who forcibly shut down the economy, the people who told us to just waste 2 years of our lives at home, the people who called for what is functionally equivalent to mass house-arrest without due process. Do not misattribute the cause of all this bullshit.
It's 6 sentences you fricking moron zoomer Hispanic. Stay off my trails.
Buddy, you understand when you say all that shit, all someone has to say is “those people made the choices because of the disease” and your entire argument is moot, right? Did no one ever teach you what the concept of cause and effect is?
>the government controls my thinking "I shouldn't go in public because there is a fricking pandemic"
Reminder that all of those restrictiins were lifted almost every where before summer 2020, and that many people's behavior remained altered.
I don't know how it is in your neck of the woods. Things for me have pretty much stayed consistent. I climb areas you have to do a little bit of work to get to the crag. Most days everything is unoccupied, you might see one other party your entire day out. The only exception is major holidays, but then I just choose something that is either harder or a little extra trek and no one is there.
seethe more frickface lmao
"noooo stop doing things that i like to do"
fricking gaper
It's peak nu-out.
All out seems to have had an explosion in the last few years, but backcountry skiing has always been popular.
How could influencer wannabes getting killed by avalanches possibly be a bad thing? It's fantastic. That's the last year they'll be around to annoy you. The collateral casualties knew the risk they were taking when they entered avalanche country, and it really doesn't matter if the YouTubers triggered any of them because avalanches can ride 'em cowboy without warning any old time. It's not like it's safer for whoever happens to be nearby if the avalanche yippie-ki-yays on its own.
Winter is a garbage season that shouldn't exist, and people who do winter sports and PrepHole are fricking insane, but I do respect mountaineers because of the technical skill and hardships inherent in their sport, and because no one b***hes and whines when they get mowed down by a serac, step into a crevasse, fall literal kilometers down the face of a mountain, etc. It's one of the most honorable and badass ways to die. But people who go out on the absolute trash season that God thought up while he was taking a drunk shit, and then b***h about the consequences... shut the frick up and go be a corpsicle somewhere else.
>Winter is a garbage season that shouldn't exist, and people who do winter sports and PrepHole are fricking insane,
Nu-PrepHole scared to go outside
>Nu-PrepHole scared to go outside
I've been using this board since it was created, been using PrepHole since 2007. There are no doubt already underagegays born in 2007 calling oldgays newbies. The worm turns. Frankly, early PrepHole was as cringeworthy as Reddit or ebaumsworld. It's really improved over the years.
I've just about done it all outdoors. I've been rock climbing and spelunking on numerous occasions (though I'm not dedicated), swimming in rivers, lakes and oceans, archery, and lots of hiking and backpacking. I'm also a sportsman and to that end I canoe, kayak, wade, fish, and hunt birds. The one thing I won't do, is do any of that in winter, except for fishing and hunting, and it pisses me off while I'm doing it.
Why? I'll tell you. It's because it's fricking cold, it's slippery, snow and ice are destructive, the deciduous trees all look moronic, driving anywhere (a sad necessity) can be obnoxious and dangerous, and while not PrepHole you have to shovel snow, scrape cars, spade out gutters, sock and drip your pipes, paypig the utility companies for heat, etc. And the fishing fricking sucks compared to warmer seasons, because fish are smarter than ice weirdos and know better than to purposely do more than the bare minimum during that useless, annoying, dangerous bullshit.
The only good thing about the indoors is the existence of winter. If not for winter I'd be 100% anti-indoors. Winter weirdos are also the biggest gear paypigs on planet Earth, because it's impossible to "enjoy" winter without fifteen layers, huge boots, a tent with a furnace built into it, etc.
You know, it's funny how everyone on this board LARPs being both an ultralighter and a mountaineer. The two are mutually exclusive. Anyway, frick you.
> it's fricking cold
Wear layers
>it's slippery
Wear micro-spikes
>driving anywhere (a sad necessity) can be obnoxious and dangerous,
Put chains on your car
> Winter weirdos are also the biggest gear paypigs on planet Earth, because it's impossible to "enjoy" winter without fifteen layers, huge boots, a tent with a furnace built into it, etc.
Yes you need to have the proper equipment to survive in the wilderness.
>rd LARPs being both an ultralighter and a mountaineer. The two are mutually exclusive
They are not unless you are going on long expeditions.
>old man crying about how the winter is cold
Move/snowbird to Florida then, complete the cycle you’re destined for.
>LARPs being both an ultralighter and a mountaineer. The two are mutually exclusive
>alpine style mogs the moron
Isn't this just completely normal weekend stuff for any nordic person? Is it a trend for you americans? lol
yep. since 2014 or so it is getting really popular.
in Japan where i live too. nobody was interested in doing it before here. since gopro started existing the number of deaths by people venturing out has increased dramatically
Did the percentage of deaths by PrepHole shenanigans increase, or did the number of deaths increase because the population increased? Also, did gopros impact this at all or did it just make it more visible?
There is a difference between cross country skiing and backcountry skiing.
Backcountry/touring skis have both walking modes similar to cross country skies, but also downhill modes that lock in the heel like resort skis.
Yes and no touring skis are a very wide term including both what you describe and 9 foot wooden skis.
"Alpine" touring skiis are single cambered and designed for more verticle use. They are less efficient at cross country travel. "Nordic" touring skiis are bi-cambered and designed to be more efficent for travel with ability to "kick and glide" but are much less effective going downhill in deep snow.
>spend hours and hours busting your guts to do a single run
Gay shit
and then die in an avalanche with a gopro strapped to your head
>missing the entire point
How can one post on PrepHole and not understand why people would want to go outside and enjoy the wilderness instead of standing in lift lines?
They aren't enjoying shit, just shredding le ebin lines for their Instagram
>They aren't enjoying shit, just shredding le ebin lines for their Instagram
>let me confidently tell you about people I've never met
Dudebro epic backcountry homosexuals all have the same personality type so yeah
thank you for the good posts
the fact it stayed niche for DECADES till go pros existed is proof enough.
it literally exploded from 2014
how can you prove that it was about people wanting to share it rather than more people learning about it?
>dude just believe me
Do you have a single piece of evidence backing this up that isn't "recordings of people doing [thing] means more people do [thing] than when before gopros existed"?
>I don't actually know anyone that does backcountry
>I will now continue to parrot reddltisms as if I thought of them myself
I took up backcountry skiing after repeatedly hiking up mountains then being jealous as I watched other people ski back down while I slogged.
>nu-PrepHole gets rolled: a thread
cry about it more op
I'm trying to learn how to move in the backcountry in winter. Have done a couple summits in snow conditions, only microspikes and an ice axe. But recently got some crampons, shovel, probe, (still need beacon), and I want to get out there. Gonna be split boarding, or just carrying my board and riding down. Hiking is more fun when you get a reward out of it, in the summer it's fishing in the winter it's shredding.