[pct-l] glissading

[m_factor@hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

Here in the northeast, a lot of people have never heard of glissading.  
Without big snowfields, it can be kind of difficult to find good places to 
glissade.  Too many trees.  (Hmm, glade glissading, anyone?)  You end up 
just doing short little slides every now and then.

I first learned about glissading in the Alps and there, it's just a part of 
hiking.  Everyone does it.  Had some fun with it in the Cascades a few years 
back, too.

Even though I've got built in skiis (long feet), I just don't have enough 
opportunities to practice and get good at it.  So, we just wear our rain 
pants for the descents and once our balance goes, sit down for the rest of 
the slide...  Wheeee!

Mara

>From: Bighummel@aol.com
>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:22:33 EST
>
>Goforth writes:
>
><<  It seems very few people can do
>  standing glissades anymore, it takes good balance and it really helps to
>  use a longer ax in order to develop your skills at first - both in 
>standing
>  glissade and in an outward facing plunge step. >>
>
>It also helps to have really long feet!
>
>Greg "Long Foot" Hummel
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