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Challenge: Sports V (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Apple iPhone 4S
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO
Date: Feb 3, 2012
Aperture: 2.4
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/1577
Date Uploaded: Feb 3, 2012
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Ski mountaineering is form of ski touring that variously combines the sports of Telemark, Alpine, and backcountry skiing with that of mountaineering. The spectrum of ski mountaineering spans from ascending a mountain in pursuit of virgin powder to achieving a mountain's summit using skis as a tool, with skiing down secondary.
Ski mountaineering may be distinguished from general ski touring by a willingness to travel over any part of a mountain, not just trails for ascending or sheltered powder snow fields for spirited descent. This may include significant rock, ice, or broken glacier sections, as well as high-altitude traverses as part of multi-peak ascents.
In addition to skins and ski crampons for traction, ski mountaineers may use a range of technical equipment - including crampons, ice axes, and ropes - to reach otherwise inaccessible or dangerous points on foot. When skiing is the primary goal, skis are carried on backpack as far as the mountaineers go; when not, they are removed and cached until the climbers return from their continued ascent. |
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02/13/2012 10:58:50 AM |
| Scenery feels very much like my back yard (without the mountains of course). Expected this to score a bit higher, but still a good score. |
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02/13/2012 09:08:29 AM |
| Got 8 from me. Great image. Love how the trees hold the snow. |
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02/12/2012 01:22:43 PM |
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02/11/2012 07:08:34 AM |
| love the feel of the deep powder and getting through it and enjoying it, like the snow in the air capture and the slanted comp. 8 |
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02/07/2012 11:59:04 PM |
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02/07/2012 09:52:00 PM |
| That's my kind of sport :) I wish I could be in this picture! Great shot. |
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02/06/2012 03:29:35 PM |
| Great photo. Dabs of color in an otherwise snow-blanketed scene. Beautiful setting and a smile. Well done. |
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02/06/2012 07:55:40 AM |
| Love this, the beauty of the scene has been captured nicely |
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