h.harb wrote:I've skied many 50 degree slopes and even the plus 50 degree left gully on Tuckerman's at 6am, on hard crust. If you try to stand up on your uphill ski on that steep and slippery a slope, what happens if it slips? You are in for a long fast ride between the rocks. Just holding on the LTE, is more that enough to get the lower ski to release, is much more desirable and reassuring. If you extend or try to stand up on the LTE, you also have to come back down, which only serves to make the next engagement late and harder on the edge set. That's just not my idea of a bullet proof approach to really extreme, steep, narrow situations. It might feel good on groomers, however when you get up on a 50 degree narrow chute there isn't much room for messing around.
theorist wrote:They wrote an article about this that appeared in Skiing, Mar-Apr 2001, which may contain the same material: http://books.google.com/books?id=90ofum ... rn&f=false
h.harb wrote:Right, the Deslaurier brothers, used the old, PSIA classic language before I could get back to them about the accurate movement language. Which they did afterward adopt. However, if you know PMTS understanding, and use it rather than their language, you can still learn from their approach.
h.harb wrote:I've skied many 50 degree slopes and even the plus 50 degree left gully on Tuckerman's at 6am, on hard crust. If you try to stand up on your uphill ski on that steep and slippery a slope, what happens if it slips? You are in for a long fast ride between the rocks. Just holding on the LTE, is more that enough to get the lower ski to release, is much more desirable and reassuring. If you extend or try to stand up on the LTE, you also have to come back down, which only serves to make the next engagement late and harder on the edge set. That's just not my idea of a bullet proof approach to really extreme, steep, narrow situations. It might feel good on groomers, however when you get up on a 50 degree narrow chute there isn't much room for messing around.
Rod9301 wrote:Maybe another question us, does pmts stop being useful above 45-50 degrees?
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