There are occuring PF cards in text or graphic form with coming end of the year. Here are just two ones from Mountainski.eu taken during this year skialpinism trip KAMA SNOW CAMP 2009 Bosna and Hercegovina.
Fasten shoes with damaged shoe sole into binding Dynafit Tech
4 December 2009, 23:16,
Skialp equipment
Tips and tricks
There is nice article Prevent Damage to Boot — Improper Use of Tech Bindings with photo of significantly damaged shoe around holes for pins of Dynafit Tech binding at website www.wildsnow.com. Shoes with proper shoe sole is almost impossible to damage in such a way, but if you shoe sole is damaged, it can be very easy.
Presentation Skialpinism and freeride at Ukrajina at festival Kolem světa v Praze 29. 11. 2009
29 November 2009, 22:15,
Presentations
At festival Kolem světa (Around world) – Praha 28. – 29. 11. 2009 I presented photos from our Skialpinism and freeride Ukraina 2009 organized by travel agency CK Alpina – annotation: Jan Pala – Skialp a freeride na Ukrajině.
Skialp v Beskydech and Skialp kolem Soliska - magazine Koktejl Special winter 2009
20 November 2009, 21:20,
Media
Winter issue of magazine Koktejl Speciál 2009 will be published at the end of November. There are two articles focused on skialpinism activities in the former Czechoslovakia. Skialpinism in Beskydy mountains are described from Czech side, and High Tatras around Cabin below Solisko (1840 m) are described from Slovak side.
Beginning of ski season in Slovenian ski resort Krvavec
11 November 2009, 22:11,
Skialp trips
Freeride areas
I am currently working in Slovenia this second week of November. There were nice weather today on Wednesday, November 11, so I decided to go several kilometres outside of Ljubljana to ski resort Krvavec, which is situated in altitudes from 1450 to 1970 meters. Terrible summer without snow and skis are over, last skiing was on May 8 during trip Skialpinism at Kamchatka.
Introduction of Calendar HO Kailas 2010
4 November 2009, 12:54,
Media
Mountain photo
Ceremonious intruduction of Calendar HO Kailas 2010 will be held in cinema Artefakt, Slovanská 3, Nový Jičín on Friday, November 13, 2009. Members of this mountaineering club had godd fun with taking these pictures and printing them on glossy paper to size A2.
November issues of German journals Alpin and Allmountain are full of skialpinism
31 October 2009, 22:20,
Media
New issues of German journals Alpin 11–2009 a Allmountain 6.2009 came out into the market in the second part of October 2009. Both of them are full of ski-mountaineering.
First skialp trip in this season - Pustevny on Saturday Oct 17, 2009
19 October 2009, 12:26,
Skialp trips
Bruder Libor and me have been excited by great snowing in mid October, so that, we started on Saturday morning in direction to our mountains. Our menas, that we have just a short way from Roznov to Radhost (1129 m). We prefer not going directly from our homes, but go around to park our car at Raztoka hotel. Putting skins on our skis we have started climbing.
Usage, advantages and disadvantages of avalanche equipment Avalanche Ball
8 September 2009, 09:04,
Skialp equipment
Equipment review
There occured discussion about Avalanche Ball at Czech forum Outdoorforum. Avalanche Ball is suitable for faster obtaining first contact with the area of person buried by snow avalanche. Some people in this discussion suppose that Avalanche Ball is equipment of the same value and practical usage as ABS Avalanche Airbag System or Snow Pulse, it is convenient to look more in detaile, what Avalanche Ball is, what's its advantages, disadvantages and way of usage.
Consume hole at Kamchatka, or else how to be hid against wind
4 July 2009, 23:00,
Long trips
Kamchatka
During trip Skialpinism at Kamchatka 2009 – list of articles, photos and results we also had skied down volcano Viljuchinskij (2173 m). At its bottom we slept two days in tents. There was windy weather described by Matus as: „nicely fresh wind blowing with speed higher than pleasant“. So, we started to dig consume hole, which insulate eating people from strong wind.
