Avalanche Safety Reminder

[tudizzle]

The mountain does not care...who you are...how much your sled cost...who loves you.....if you are prepared or not....it DOES NOT CARE.

Ride safe...make smart choices...live to ride another day.

Choose your riding partners wisely...they may be your only life line when everything goes wrong.


Check out this avy clip....does it look safe to you? What is your first move after seeing your friend disappear?

[YT]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHNtGvEQsn8[/YT]

 

[capulin overdrive]

That's a good one, for showing that anything can and will slide.



Damn lucky he didn't t-bag an aspen. If you t-bag an aspen, you're gonna have a bad time!

 

[west dreams]

Thanks for the post, My buddies and I take Mike Duffy's class every year. You always walk away from the class learning something new that you may not have caught the year before. Its a great sobering reminder of the dangers we all face at any time. Hope everyone has a safe year.

 

[Goinboardin]

Good clip showing how fast things get real. Takes me back to a terrifying moment I was a part of in 2010 (many mistakes made that day). It's tough to forget the first time you think you're going to have to figure out how to tell your buddy's family why he's not coming home. Thankfully, the situation I was in worked out OK, but there was doubt at one point, and the only reason it worked out was LUCK. That happened October 24th, so it's never too early to start thinking about this!!

I have a nerf football I hollowed out to put a beacon into. Turn beacon on, stuff in football, tape shut, throw ball into trees, then go find it as fast as you can with another beacon in hand. Enables you to practice alone or with friends, with or without snow. It's kind of fun really.

I just started re-reading Bruce Tremper's Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain as a refresher.
"The good news is that we have two important things going for us, first, we have a choice, and second, we already know the enemy. The bad news is that the enemy is us, and that is the hardest enemy of all to conquer."