The French don't need Whippets!!

Nice video Lisa, thanks.

Although I have followed Colin's alpine career with much interest and admiration, I had't realized he was such a gifted skier as well. He has prodigious talents.

As to whippetts, I only use one also but am always worried I'm going to commit hari kari with it.
I also prefer the old ones where you can remove the pick but alas, lost my pick and haven't been able to find a replacement. I bought a new fixed one instead.

However I'm fast getting to the stage where if I need a whippet = I shouldn't be on this slope and prefer powder and slush.

Why do you feel some of the achievements recorded in your NWMJ are superior in terms of their "pointfulness" in relation to this French guides record of his achievement. Seems somewhat hypocritical to me .... as usual.

If you have read a newspaper you may have noticed that it is divided into news and opinion. Are newspapers hypocritical for having these two parts? No, newspaper publishers assume that their readers are smart enough to tell the difference.

The NWMJ is a historical document. It is news. I feel that recording local history is important, regardless of what I may think of any particular event that is recorded.

On the other hand, I have definite opinions about the sport and culture of extreme skiing, and I express them from time to time in other settings. Some day I will write at length about this subject. But not here and now.

I would not be so quick to cry hypocrisy.

If you have read a newspaper you may have noticed that it is divided into news and opinion. Are newspapers hypocritical for having these two parts? No, newspaper publishers assume that their readers are smart enough to tell the difference.

The NWMJ is a historical document. It is news. I feel that recording local history is important, regardless of what I may think of any particular event that is recorded.

On the other hand, I have definite opinions about the sport and culture of extreme skiing, and I express them from time to time in other settings. Some day I will write at length about this subject. But not here and now.

I would not be so quick to cry hypocrisy.

Well that's an easy out Lowell isn't it? I'm only recording news in NWMJ but when I expres my views about other people's news it's an opinion even when the two seem to conflict.
My understanding is you "are an "or are " the "editor of NWMJ and that implies some choice is what you publish and an implicit endorsement of the achievements you choose to select from the many.
Your comments regarding the French Guides achievement would in TAY parlance and culture probably described as "mean spirited" if made by others and no matter how pointless it seems to you, it ignores that as in most skiing and mountaineering endeavors, the greatest meaning is a personal one to the participant.
That is why most of us do not make fun or get negative when somebody posts about their first time at Muir or repeating Muir twice in a day or skiing in bounds at Crystal or Alpental. All these ,I'm sure provide great satisfaction to the participants and are worthy as a result.
You don't even have the grace to admit that Colin's video and the French guides video are remarkably the same.
I think your mean spirited post was more a reaction to a post from me than to the event and that your distaste for me is clouding your judgment. I hope you get over it sometime.

I think your mean spirited post was more a reaction to a post from me than to the event and that your distaste for me is clouding your judgment. I hope you get over it sometime.

Pot, meet kettle.

Pot, meet kettle.

Perhaps but I admit freely to being a hypocrite..it's part of the human experience. I try to avoid it but it's inevitable although I do try and fail.
You however are a hypocrite without the grace of self-realization... a far greater sin IMHO.
Anyhoo- I'm sure these nice folks are tired of our squabbling.. I know I am......I suggest we take it elsewhere.

F me that's an amazing video on all levels.

Despite opinion to the contrary.