Are YOU this stupid?

[sledneckskier]

Here's a link to a great little vid the Avy forcasters shot yesterday on Skyline Ridge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X3LY6kK2Ow

I've seen this a few times this season (would probably see it more if I rode where more people rode!).

I'm starting to think many sledders are ignorant idiots. HIGHMARKING WITH MORE THAN ONE PERSON AT A TIME ON THE SLOPE AND HANGING OUT IN THE RUNOUT ZONE IS A RECIPE FOR DEATH!!!
Have fun digging each other out or explaining to your friends family the stupidity of your actions when folks end up dead.
Take an Avy course Morons!
To those of you who ride safe with good etiquite in the mountains good on you and help teach those who do not.
End rant.

 

[christian]

"stupid is as stupid does"

 

[jgd]

A good video for Mike Duffy's class (what not to do)...

 

[LowMarkLarry]

HEY!!!!!!!!! I resent that. Im not stupid, get that video of me off of here!

 

[Rprecision]

Looked like strong work to me !

Its nice that the whole area was clear cut for sleders to get up there.

 

[JROD]

I know who these people are and no matter how much you tell them, they don't care. Many in our riding group have and it doesn't help. They don't think that anything will happen to them. It's too bad. I half wish they'd get a good scare in a small avy because I think that's what it will take to get it into their heads.

 

[Rmkguy]

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[BigPoo]

people like this I have no respect for at all...but what can we do? lets just hope they dont die but learn a lesson and spend a cold night in the bush

 

[rmkforever]

STUPID! I seen something about like this last year on my trip out to Cooke City. A few guys were out climbin and all at the same time. My group and I stopped to watch because we noticed what they were doing and wanted to tell them it was stupid... before we could we noticed that the top line of the snow ridge was actually cracking and it was ready to slide so we got the heck out of there. It just amazes me how dumb some people can be.

Ride smart, be safe,....stay alive!

 

[BullHead]

very stupid, that happened to me in bc, i was riding up the mountain, just as i started to come down, 2 where coming up, i mean wtf, are they stupid or what, dont know who they where, but f*** at least let me get down to the bottem and outta the way

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

I happen to go to college with one of the guys in that group, he is the one coming down way to the right when it first starts and just turns around when the two start racing up it. If you met him, you would understant, he just doesnt get the power of the mountains.

Also, i know 1 if not more of the people arent wearing beacons, and it aint cuz there hard for money at all.

The scary part is there all one group, this is just what they do and I hate to say it, but again from knowing one of them, it will take at least one of them dying to realize what they are doing wrong.

 

[snobyrd]

i was out riddin today, i went into a big bowl and witness up to 4 guys on the same slope at a time. also one guy on a nytro couldnt climb worth chit so he was side hilling the whole face of the slope, i just sat back and watched thinkin somthing was gonna happen. i approached the group and talked about the high avy danger , it was like water on a ducks back. they were all from alberta, i guess they want to add to the number of albertians killed in avys in b.c.

 

[AdrenalineAddict]

We have a bowl in the area I frequent that has killed before, and it will kill again. We recently received a couple foot storm that was put down on a sheet of ice in this bowl. When I rode Saturday there were a few guys with "Death Wish" written all over'em riding the bowl. I hate to say it, but I know alot of people who still don't think an avy will ever do them in. They are generally the type of people who have never, and more than likely never will, be on the receiving end of advice. What annoy's me the most is I ride with alot of these guys, or at least look out for them when they're in precarious places and I hate the thought that I'm going to have to haul their dead blue bodies to their family's front door some day.

 

[polarisIQmn]

I am by no means super educated on backcountry riding. I'm a flatlander, but at least I know that there should only be 1 person on the hill at a time, not only for avy danger, but simply for the fact that you dont know what the other person is going to do. When we were out in Laramie this winter we were sitting in the hotel room watching them interview the guys that were unfortunatly involved with the multiple avys in Fernie this winter, and it was a pretty sobering video to watch, I know we were alot more aware and leary about certain slopes the rest of the trip. I didn't have a beacon but this summer I'm planning on buying one, turns out my life is worth the $260+ for a beacon.

Chad

 

[JROD]

I happen to go to college with one of the guys in that group, he is the one coming down way to the right when it first starts and just turns around when the two start racing up it. If you met him, you would understant, he just doesnt get the power of the mountains.

Also, i know 1 if not more of the people arent wearing beacons, and it aint cuz there hard for money at all.

The scary part is there all one group, this is just what they do and I hate to say it, but again from knowing one of them, it will take at least one of them dying to realize what they are doing wrong.

Who do you THINK this is?

 

[06MXZXRenegade800]

Something on the news right now, about an albertan guy killed in a avy in golden BC...

Didnt say anything about it being a high risk area or anything and apparently they all had beacons or whatnot but they couldnt get to him in time.

Careful out there guys, its dangerous enough out there even if you arent acting an azz!

 

[Mr.M-Series]

yes ski dooin it we all had becans and were prepared for anything and i would like to see you fags pull that

 

[mtnpull]

yes ski dooin it we all had becans and were prepared for anything and i would like to see you fags pull that

Are you serious? No one is trying to one up you by "pulling that". Only stating that it is unwise and unsafe to all be on the hill at once or hanging out in the run out zone. Beacons don't save lives, smart actions do. Your beacons would do you guys no good when all of you are buried and no on is available to locate and un-bury you. Actually your beacons would help in that instance....for a body recovery. People are just saying to play smarter.

 

[Mr.M-Series]

I have been around the mountians my whole life and have seen alot. and i think i know the power of the mountains. and by the way that was not the base of the hill that was a climb all the way throw the trees and up into the open ethier. you were climbing or getting stuck and i bet that is fun when your sled is stuck and there is an avalanche coming right at you. but thanks for your concern.

 

[Rezrunner]

Really now...

To bad they did'nt have video of when we were up there earlier cookin hotdogs and sippin a few cool ones, and watchin video's of ditchbangers doing their thing...jus kiddin. No one in this group was without beacons or probes...shovels ect.. was a slight mis-understanding on our direction. Only reason that group ended up on slope all at once. There was 9 of us in this group, and 5 of us were making sure that other 4 were going to clear this very slow and shallow av. Oh by the way "Ski-dooin it" what part of virgina are you from? Aj is a very accomplished Mountain rider that you would surely have a hard time measuring up to...and he was wearing a beacon as well as an abs pack...so get your "facts" straight. Was this proper mountain sleddin...or highmarkin? No it was not. Was this our intention, no it was not. Did we act properly when it happened to ensure that everyone came out alive? Yes we did. Dont be so quick to judge. Every one has a moment in back country mountain riding that others will look at as dumb. Learn from it and survive, ignore it and die.