Backcountry Dance Party... really?

But taking a shotgun into the backcountry on a tour and skeet shooting snowballs with albeit steel pellets is OK then?

It isn't really the same thing is it?  Speaker guy could make all the noise he wanted without being rude if there were no other people around to hear it.  Same with gun-fire.  Doesn't bother the people who aren't there. 

It isn't really the same thing is it?  Speaker guy could make all the noise he wanted without being rude if there were no other people around to hear it.  Same with gun-fire.  Doesn't bother the people who aren't there. 

Well you are assuming nobody else could hear it....you were there, I was not so I guess you are entitled to that assumption. However, your stunt disturbed me at the time and still does....can't really explain why...but toting a shotgun on a backcountry tour just seems wrong and very odd. I think I'd be very disturbed if I came across another skier with a gun in the BC or at the trailhead but that may be my European sensibility towards firearms...I know you Amerikans love your weapons.
I bet the critters enjoyed your gunfire.

Long as we're drifting...I sometimes carry a side-arm. I've never drawn it.

One time I came over a hill and face to face with a bear. She moved down slope without a conflict.

Another time. a group of five or six tweaks came up to a buddy and I on the trail into Bagby Hot Springs. What was friendly turned into asking how we'd like to give up some of our gear in exchange for not getting beat. I moved my pack so the side arm was in plain view (it wasn't concealed), and told them we'd be moving on with our gear. This was a summer trip, and I acknowledge that if one of them was armed, it could have escalated.

I wear ear buds.

I tried skiing to music and didn't like it. I had a long time partner who always listened, it was very hard to stay together and coordinate line choice. Even though I couldn't hear his music it still had a negative impact. A boombox seems over the top, perhaps guns in the backcountry could help solve the problem. They certainly have historical validation, preservation of the free world and all that... I have yet to see the skiing with a boombox Olympic Biathlon.

I think the OP should find somewhere to ski with less people.

But I agree ... techno sucks!

Music, especially dubstep, can be dangerous.


Consider that some people cannot use headphones. They get anxious either because they cannot hear what is happening around them or because they start to panic when anything is covering or is inserted in their ears.

When I was in elementary school, a guy never wore anything over his ears. In winter he would suffer a lot, he'd rather ran all the way home than cover his ears.

Kid's tortured him, mostly verbal abuse, but once they tried to put a beanie hat on him and he totally freaked out and beat them up which surprised everyone because he was super quiet and rather skinny kind of guy (I learned much later from a third party that he has several anxiety disorders). Obviously a rare case but it needs to be considered too.

Lots of people out there with what seems weird to their surroundings but they feel is a normal.
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