Backcountry Dance Party... really?

I don't know, I ski to have fun. An epic to Bagley Lakes isn't somewhere I'd expect solitude either. I was jamming LMFAO while skiing today, upped my stoke factor significantly. If you don't like the techno just get some bigger speakers and rock some Hotel California.

It's rude anyplace, wilderness or not, next door to a ski area, in the parking lot.. It's bound to bother someone. Probably bothers a lot more people than would ever say so. That said, there are places you can expect you might be forced to hear other people's music, but only because you can expect people who don't think much about other people to be around. Out on a ski tour isn't really one of those places.
Headphones and a respectful volume are a much better alternatives to being a disrespectful toolshed. My $0.02

Enough of this complaining about snowshoeing in skin tracks   I remember over 20 years ago, taking a girlfriend on a camping trip down a really rough road way back in the forest, only to have a group of four wheelers show up across river late at night with generators and loud speakers; so soon after I married one of my wives (the present) we went camping into the William O. Douglas Wilderness, drove back roads for miles, backpacked in 5-6 miles the first afternoon to be followed by a group backpacking in battery powered boom boxes.  It's America, and it's freedom of speech!


Oh yeah, and hats off to those rad young dudes who pull into the Paradise Parking Lot and treat us all to their hip-hop music blasting out of their oversized speakers in their cars; I wouldn't have any other chance to hear such music! Since I moved way out into the country, I've not had the opportunity to have my rib cage rumbling to the bass of some young b*st*ards car music at a red light stop :

It's all a question of context and perception.

If you had run into a TAY geezer in telemark gear playing a violin or god forbid a flute at the top of Bagley Lakes there would probably be a thread about how marvelous it was and how inspirational it was followed by a Lowell Skoog post on the history of music playing by old timers in the backcountry.

Because he was young and it was techno, your perception is skewed.
The BC is huge and if I come across a group of people doing stuff I don't care for..then I set my skin track in the opposite direction and within a few minutes am far enough away to forget them.

Yes, you are a fuddy duddy.

If you want solitude and quiet I wouldn't go to Bagley Lakes.

Had a great day out there today and I don't know about the techno but I do somewhat enjoy the sound of people scraping across ice all day at the resort while I lap epic pow

Had a great day out there today and I don't know about the techno but I do somewhat enjoy the sound of people scraping across ice all day at the resort while I lap epic pow

That's really what it's all about. I was talking about skiing with a friend at work today - he commented that it was "icy skiing in a cloud" last Saturday. Then I showed him a picture of a head, an arm and a ski pole with flying snow all around from the same day, maybe a mile away...classic.