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2 Important Avy MYTHS! (As posted in General, but good for here)
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This is NO place for hijacking and personal insults. An important topic was posted. Let's stay on that topic! This is an excellent thread Jim, thank you!!
I too have many pics of the Red Meadow Avy. I had to ride back out through the scene at Fiberglass (slide happened 15 minutes after we passed through, though we didn't know about it until the end of our riding day). It was NOT pretty. There are pictures in my mind that will never go away from the things I saw.
I too have many pics of the Red Meadow Avy. I had to ride back out through the scene at Fiberglass (slide happened 15 minutes after we passed through, though we didn't know about it until the end of our riding day). It was NOT pretty. There are pictures in my mind that will never go away from the things I saw.
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drphil
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I for one will say that I had a totally different mindset when I just read through this entire thread than Fordman and RMK
My thought was its about time that Jim.... OR anyone else in "his position" in the industry begins to speak about stuff like this. I ride quite a bit each year but I dont see what they do and if the knowledge and expertise are put to use teaching others then its a great thing.
Death or injury is not a pretty thing and Karma for those flinging crap is a real tough pill to swallow when it shows up...... and trust me it SHOWS UP!
Keep talking Jim!!!!!!!
My thought was its about time that Jim.... OR anyone else in "his position" in the industry begins to speak about stuff like this. I ride quite a bit each year but I dont see what they do and if the knowledge and expertise are put to use teaching others then its a great thing.
Death or injury is not a pretty thing and Karma for those flinging crap is a real tough pill to swallow when it shows up...... and trust me it SHOWS UP!
Keep talking Jim!!!!!!!
being somebody who rides the Red Meadow area a bunch of times during the year, it scares the crap out of me to think how far the ice/snow from that slide went, it went over to a trail by a gentle little treed slope along a lake, nothing that would scare most people, but seeing where slides can run out to is really scary, you dont think your in dangerous places, but your in range.
I also know people who just go out for trail rides, not real sledders, they jsut have sleds, but they do down trails that cut across smaller avy chutes, or in runout zones, they dont think anything of it as they arent "sledding" but are in just as much danger as anyone else.
Its also crazy to think we have already had slides in the bridger range, I wanted to go out and take my sled for a test/tune run in them, but im gonna stick to the roads with stuff lookin like this!
I also know people who just go out for trail rides, not real sledders, they jsut have sleds, but they do down trails that cut across smaller avy chutes, or in runout zones, they dont think anything of it as they arent "sledding" but are in just as much danger as anyone else.
Its also crazy to think we have already had slides in the bridger range, I wanted to go out and take my sled for a test/tune run in them, but im gonna stick to the roads with stuff lookin like this!
The classic thing I see people doing is "avoiding" avalanche chutes and thinking they're safe. Our group saw quite a number of avalanches big enough to injure or kill last year in the middle of logging cutblocks....the exact areas the "I don't ride avalanche terrain" folks spend their time riding around here. 1-Get educated. 2-Get the gear. 3-Practice, practice, practice!
Exactly! Practice Practice Practice! People ask me every day which beacon is the best. I tell them "the one you're going to practice with the most". All the latest safety gear in the world will do absolutely no good if you don't know how to use it. The last thing you want is to have an emergency and then wonder how to turn your beacon on.
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