A Dozen more Turns!!(Avalanche Accident)
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Luke....have you heard from Sam? I'm not sure how much he is on here. If not, let me know and I'll get a message passed along for you.
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Just Makes You Think It All Happens Too Quick. Rip
Just Makes You Think It All Happens Too Quick. Rip
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I only just got to see this movie a week ago in an Avy course put on by Mike Duffy( Snowww1). It was very illuminating and eye opening. I took more away from that movie about decision making than I have on anything I have ever thought about. God bless you Sam and Blake's family. I am sorry it takes such a tragedy to sometimes make people think and re-think.
Also must say that having gotten to watch it in a room full of people, the experience was rather intense. Some that where there were in their first awareness course and I could see them re-thinking past experiences and actions in their minds.
Also must say that having gotten to watch it in a room full of people, the experience was rather intense. Some that where there were in their first awareness course and I could see them re-thinking past experiences and actions in their minds.
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I just watched the video for the first time, It is a real eye opener. I would recommend that anyone who rides anywhere near the mountains watch it. The thought that if 1 person is in question everyone should be will save countless lives if we all adhere to it. Sam, Thank You for The video.
all the beacons, probes shovels and classes in the world will do you no good without a little common sense! if you listen the guys knew full well that they were in the wrong spot and were aware and thinking about avys but got complacent for that "dozen more". everyone has a chance!
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Good to see this topic got moved to first of all the topics....Thanks Mods!!!!
Say, very good video and interesting to learn a lot from the most experienced.
Living here in Michigan, near water, I similarily see people with the most experience in the big lakes drown under situations that only a few can answer, the weather can be calm or to extreme gales, it rarely seems to matter...... One would sometime question, if God is calling your name, it becomes your time.
May Blake RIP!!
Living here in Michigan, near water, I similarily see people with the most experience in the big lakes drown under situations that only a few can answer, the weather can be calm or to extreme gales, it rarely seems to matter...... One would sometime question, if God is calling your name, it becomes your time.
May Blake RIP!!
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very good video makes you think
very good video makes you think
Best Yet!!
Doug never ceases to amaze me. This film is truely first rate and it brings home the sobering truth. It was just as clear as Kemp's in person presentation that did not leave a dry eye in the room. I will recommend this to several of my friends.
Doug never ceases to amaze me. This film is truely first rate and it brings home the sobering truth. It was just as clear as Kemp's in person presentation that did not leave a dry eye in the room. I will recommend this to several of my friends.
Excellent Movie
I have sat down at least 10 times with many people to watch the movie "A Dozen More Turns". I have played it over and over in the Washington State Ssnowmobile Association Safety trailer many more times. It is a very moving story, and still brings tears to my eyes. It is story about the human facor and AVALANCHES.
We have shown it in some of the Avy courses and have sent a link to most students.
As the posts below says, many have lost loved ones to avy's. I also have lost family members and freinds to Avy's. Please use common sense,
Don't let this happen to you or your riding partners. Ride another day
Sam was trying out for the BEJING OLYMPICS on the PARA bicycle team. Last year he placed 9th in the tryouts.
Amber, Sam, Doug and the crew did an excellent job on the video. They have saved many lives, and will save many more in the future. Lets get the Avy Rate down to zero per year.
My condolonces to Little Blake, Addie and the Extended Family
Mick
I have sat down at least 10 times with many people to watch the movie "A Dozen More Turns". I have played it over and over in the Washington State Ssnowmobile Association Safety trailer many more times. It is a very moving story, and still brings tears to my eyes. It is story about the human facor and AVALANCHES.
We have shown it in some of the Avy courses and have sent a link to most students.
As the posts below says, many have lost loved ones to avy's. I also have lost family members and freinds to Avy's. Please use common sense,
Don't let this happen to you or your riding partners. Ride another day
Sam was trying out for the BEJING OLYMPICS on the PARA bicycle team. Last year he placed 9th in the tryouts.
Amber, Sam, Doug and the crew did an excellent job on the video. They have saved many lives, and will save many more in the future. Lets get the Avy Rate down to zero per year.
My condolonces to Little Blake, Addie and the Extended Family
Mick
My wife asked me why I had a tear in my eye--the sight of Blake's wife with his infant son was too much for me
Glad it wasn't just me....Watched it in bed on my lap top and the wife was laying there....Wish she wouldn't have seen it....
What I hate the most is that we all make as many safe decisions as we can and still there is the possibility that something like that could happen .....but.....There is also the chance that I could be killed on the way to work..... or get cancer or....or......or......
By percentage I know driving a car has to be a much more deadly venture....yet we drive and don't focus on it because its something we HAVE to do to live and work.....yet any activity done "for fun" the person is branded as "selfish".....should we all never leave the house?
So we just have to be as safe as we can and listen to each other when someone doesn't feel right about the conditions or a climb....
Be safe out there guys......but don't stop doing what you love cuz something "might" go bad.....
Live your life to the fullest.....just don't push the limits to hard....
Erik
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I have been forcing all of my family and friends to watch this . Thank you Sam for this film and all you have done.
This is the picture i have been sending along with the link . I have been next to slides in Island Park that make this slide look tiny . When i started riding in IP 1996 , i went with a crew who rode Jefferson every time . I have seen 3 slides in my life , after they happened . The biggest one was about 1/4 of a mile wide where it broke .
The slope must slide every year , there were no trees on this huge ridge . It is near that Cabin that is in the middle of nowhere , for those of you that know Jefferson . The slide went down the slope it started on , then turned 90 degrees and ran down the valley .
Hit the bottom of that valley , and turned 90 degrees again and went another 1000 - 2000 yards . The pile of snow and trees was around 80 - 100 feet tall where it stoped . The pile of snow was littered with tree's , wich looked like tooth picks . I remember seeing tree's with a trunk 5- 6 feet wide at the base hanging out of the thing , and not just one or two . More like hundreds and hundreds of huge tree's.
I have not been sleding for some years , just a trip now and then . After watching A Dozen More Turns , i am buying ABS bags ,probes ,shovels,beacons for my whole family . I dont care what it costs , this film has stirred up old memories of Jefferson .
Thank You !
This is the picture i have been sending along with the link . I have been next to slides in Island Park that make this slide look tiny . When i started riding in IP 1996 , i went with a crew who rode Jefferson every time . I have seen 3 slides in my life , after they happened . The biggest one was about 1/4 of a mile wide where it broke .
The slope must slide every year , there were no trees on this huge ridge . It is near that Cabin that is in the middle of nowhere , for those of you that know Jefferson . The slide went down the slope it started on , then turned 90 degrees and ran down the valley .
Hit the bottom of that valley , and turned 90 degrees again and went another 1000 - 2000 yards . The pile of snow and trees was around 80 - 100 feet tall where it stoped . The pile of snow was littered with tree's , wich looked like tooth picks . I remember seeing tree's with a trunk 5- 6 feet wide at the base hanging out of the thing , and not just one or two . More like hundreds and hundreds of huge tree's.
I have not been sleding for some years , just a trip now and then . After watching A Dozen More Turns , i am buying ABS bags ,probes ,shovels,beacons for my whole family . I dont care what it costs , this film has stirred up old memories of Jefferson .
Thank You !
Remember when I was in high school and just learning the Jefferson area hearing about a local getting caught in an avy there. estimated to have been buried under 30+ feet of snow. even with the right equipment theres no chance when this avy hits.
True Spirt!
I guess everybody looks at things a little different. Well train, well educated, well informed and well prepared. You can be all this things and forget all about the warnings and the conversations and risk it all for the few seconds of that RUSH. I think this says a lot about the consequences of our actions and there affects on others. For those like myself who seek the rush of being on the edge. I don't see ever losing a NEED FOR THE RUSH! But this is a big eye opener!
A reminder that we might not be the only one affected by are actions. Knowing that our death might be only one of the effects of our actions.
The spirit of those left behind tells me a lot about the fiend they lost. I know for the first time in a very long time I could not hold back a tear.
HARD CORE STUFF!
I believe his true spirit lives in the fact he is still affecting peoples lives and will for ever.
James S
IF YOU CAN'T DIE DOING IT IT PROBLEY ISN'T ANY FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess everybody looks at things a little different. Well train, well educated, well informed and well prepared. You can be all this things and forget all about the warnings and the conversations and risk it all for the few seconds of that RUSH. I think this says a lot about the consequences of our actions and there affects on others. For those like myself who seek the rush of being on the edge. I don't see ever losing a NEED FOR THE RUSH! But this is a big eye opener!
A reminder that we might not be the only one affected by are actions. Knowing that our death might be only one of the effects of our actions.
The spirit of those left behind tells me a lot about the fiend they lost. I know for the first time in a very long time I could not hold back a tear.
HARD CORE STUFF!
I believe his true spirit lives in the fact he is still affecting peoples lives and will for ever.
James S
IF YOU CAN'T DIE DOING IT IT PROBLEY ISN'T ANY FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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