Post-holes in your skin track?

I was trollin' ya. Good response though. <br><br>I just like to face down the hill. All that really matters is having fun, right?

"If your skin tracks are postholed, you are not in the backcountry, but the frontcountry--which means you're just as lazy as they are." Thanks for that, brilliant use of the cranium, guy.

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Baker ski hill is horrible for this, as any skin tracks near the area are destroyed my the monkeys. I am asking what can be done to educate others about this, besides becoming irrate and taking out the guns. Does this bother others in this forum?? An ideal situation would be a skin track, a sno-shoe track and a foot track. Thoughts?

<br><br>Allow me to reiterate. It would appear that you have these problems because you don't have enough imagination to avoid the very few and limited places where postholing is a problem. I invite you to make issue of your angst with the local monkey population, next time you go to a ski area (Baker no less) to pose as a backcountry skier. Let me know how that goes.<br>

<br> It would appear that you have these problems because you don't have enough imagination to avoid the very few and limited places where postholing is a problem.

<br><br>Oooo, quite the acid tongue there... you DO need to get out and play in the snow. <br><br>I've had non-snowboarding snowshoers destroy my skin track in a very full-of-imagination place. We talked to them very nicely and explained how it makes our skin track tough to climb on, and they said they had no idea, and they wouldn't do it on the way back down. Then, they went and trashed it again on their way down. I guess they had the last laugh.<br><br>Ok, so it wasn't postholers, but nonetheless...<br><br><br>

Touchy, touchy! I changed the "monkeys" in the first post to "walking beasts" to better suit your sensitivity. I think this is better also. (trying to work on my P.C.) I do not think that I lack imagination or "pose" as a backcountry skier. (first time I've heard the latter anywhere, you must skateboard also?) I am sounding like a broken record when I state that skiing the arm or table or hemis traverse is where this is encountered. And yes, 50 of the 80 or more days I ski in a year are "frontcountry" near ski areas. You caught me! If you would please read more carefully, I am going to try and use sky's technique (3rd post) and free myself from undue suffering. Thanks for your concern, I'll try to remember to let you know how it goes using this technique. PS.- trips that I truly cherish will never make it onto internet web sites (or personal web pages) for viewing by "posers" (I like that one!) in hopes that when I go back it will be the same as I remember, free from the wicked stench of exploitation. Go get some white stuff, sounds like you need it, hell, I'll even let you posthole my track!

I believe the acid tongue began with "nice use of the cranium, guy..."<br><br>Otherwise, I agree that postholed tracks are no fun. But the free range of homo postholus is only about 1 mile.

That's it! I'm bringing the [pose]<br><br>Here are some guys postholing my fresh powder skin track at about 8000 feet last May. It didn't really matter, as I was the only person skinning up there... but maybe I should have waited around to vibe them. Alas, the summit was waiting 3000 feet above, and there were two of them, and they appeared to be armed with crude steel weapons.<br><br>