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OR just switch to 4"x5" and then prints fit on 4"x5" and 8"x10" just fine.

Skis and a tripod are better for going down a slope than going up a slope. But not the thread is really going downhill quickly.

Youth is wasted on the young.

People in northern Virginia complain about how slowly the traffic moves, but it is their own fault. What else could they expect if they call the area NoVA? [For not Spanish speakers: in Spanish "nova" does not mean "star", it means that "{it} does not move".]

OP, Make note of this, it is important.

Sometimes the photograph was taken as a slide.

It depends on what one wants to photograph. The requirements for large print landscapes is not the same as aerial acrobatics on skis or snowboards and is not the same for portraits. Those could be taken with a point and shoot but serious work requires more advanced equipment and there is...

The battery temperature could be a factor. Keep the camera in a sealed plastic bag and put it in your jacket. Take the camera out of the jacket and paper bag, wait a few minutes for the optics to chill to the ambient temperature, remove the camera from the plastic bag, shoot your photos...

Typically use a 50mm lens for 35mm, 70mm to 90mm for 120 film and 135mm to 150mm for 4"x5".

I used a spreadsheet that a past moderator posted to print out a bellows extension scale which I used rubber cement to attach to the rails of my 4"x5" camera. That way I can quickly check the scale to adjust for bellows length while I am in the field.

Use chop sticks.

A backpack for lenses and film, maybe. Tripod rarely, but never a gray card. That is what a palm or incident meter is for. It is called photographing while skiing not carrying a photo studio around, which as it may dawn on you now; is not done when skiing or snowboarding.

That is why gloves and mitten have dumb-dumb straps. Remember them as a kid? They keep the glove or mitten from falling off the ski lift. Skiers and snowboarders have them now.

I will put my hands on upside down by placing each thumb on the little finger side.

I just put my hands on backwards.

Usually the lens manufacturers set the minimum aperture a stop or two larger than when the diffusion starts to become a factor.

At Glen Echo?

Red rock and snow make for great photographs. Sometimes the snow sticks for different layers in different amounts.

I will settle for one of these

The 35mm format has always been a bit off for the standard US sizes of 5"x7", 8"x10", 11"x14", 16"x20" and 20"x24". I got away from those problems and moved to the square format, cut the paper and custom mats.

Invest in a CLA now and save yourself a lot of grief. When I was skiing with a camera often I would have my camera CLA'd for cold weather every two or three years.

Au contraire get one step larger enlarger because there will be times that larger than the negative is needed for printing and more importantly if one is active on APUG then they will be drawn down the rabbit hole to larger formats. When I joined APUG I had been using 35mm for over four decades...

As noted above the fixer needs fixing.

Could you stack a few more Soligar extenders in there?

Turtle neck ski shirts do not have pockets. Falling on a notebook would not feel like much fun.

$800US or $800CA? There is a difference, eh?

I would rather work to find something I dropped in a changing bag than crawl around the floor in a darkroom looking for the same item.

Ever try to carry around an a 18% gray card while skiing.

It is easier to adjust 1 f/stop off the palm than drag around a 18% gray card in your back pocket.

What one can do with a focal plane shutter: Open the lens with the 'T' shutter Set the aperature Insert film back Remove the dark slide Crank the focal plane shutter into position Swear like mad Go back to step one