Motorcycle Causes Avalanche

[jethro450]

Motorcycle causes avalanche... and my lame contour HD 1080p didn't get good footage, but you still get the point.

Be safe guys! I thought I was safe since snowmobilers had climbed the hill just minutes before me. I was wrong.

avalanche

 

[joeoim]

Not bad footage at all.
Thank-You for posting.
Not too often someone gets such a front row seat after triggering an avalanche.
You had good luck this day.

Joe

 

[apex jeff]

Majority of sled lines were straight up and down. Your long sidehill crossed multiple trigger points, thus breaking loose unstable cohesive snow layers. Unfortunately we lost a snowbike rider in Feb. after he and his friend cut a long sidehill through a burnt timber slope. Glad you wear out of the slide path and able to descend safely. Thanks for the video.

Jeff

 

[jethro450]

I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Where did that happen?

You are correct too, the sled lines were straight up and down. We, on snowbikes, need to be mindful that we can do things that most snowmobilers can't - like sidehill an entire mountain side. I know I will definitely be more mindful of that.

 

[Mtn-Track]

That's interesting that the slab didn't break along your track line(?). Thanks for posting it up, close call....

 

[apex jeff]

The slide I referred to was just off of skyland road near the continental divide in northwestern montana.

 

[Jeff C]

That's interesting that the slab didn't break along your track line(?). Thanks for posting it up, close call....

I was just thinking the very same thing.....

That is very interesting video. I have not seen one where you are not actually a part of the avalanche as you set it.....

Glad you were not part of it.........

 

[up-high]

Its called remote triggering. The sign of a very unstable snow pack. thanks for the vid.

 

[SLDHVN]

to the OP, glad you are ok, BUT....are you really surprised a huge hillside like that slid when you rode across it?

Be safe out there!

 

[rstibi]

Hills remind me of playing with a loaded mouse trap. Things can go bad real quick.