Please Watch!! Best Avy video I've seen.

[_AJ_]

http://vimeo.com/38078462

Not sure if this has already been posted but if not, please take a minute and watch this. We can all relate and learn from this incident.

 

[SNOBI-WAN-KENOBI]

http://vimeo.com/38078462

Not sure if this has already been posted but if not, please take a minute and watch this watch this. We can all relate and learn from this incident.

WEAR A BEACON.....PEOPLE!! THAT guy was LUC KY !!! EXCELLENT VIDEO, AJ

Don't recall ever seeing this one! That is worth watching over and over! Thanks

 

[Vincenthdfan]

My god...that was chilling watching that helmet video footage from the helpless rescuers perspective.

You can just hear and feel the panic in his voice...scary stuff.

It would be bad enough to be the one buried, but it would be worse to be on top looking for the person suffocating as you search...I just cant imagine.

 

[kbl6z]

Very nice video. Really makes you stop and think. Very chilling.

 

[JETJOHNSO]

YOU NEED GOOD EQUIPEMENT, CHECK BEFOR YOU GO OUT

I think this is a great learning tool for all, check your equipment before you need it, as dealer of alot of this stuff, plastic shovels and cheep probes are not worh the weight savings, they broke two shovels in this rescue, In a frantic panic, with adrenelin flowing hard, you can imagine what happens, Nobody thinks it will happen to them, very chilling to say the least, glad this had a happy outcome,

 

[Cascade Addiction]

wow

Very Lucky!!! Glad all were okay. As far as learning from this vid I personally think the HUGE slide to the right, the mentioned avalanche centers avy forecast and all the natural snow rollers along with the sun and what the snow looked like just from the vid was a major overlooked factor that this slope should not even been a choice to play on that day, hindsight is always 20/20 though. Great VID.

 

[tomx]

Watched that earlier today, great vid. Lots of mistakes that are easy to point out in hindsight.

One of the hardest human factors to overcome is that group mentality. I see it all the time when out riding, your plan gets deviated as you meet up with other riders. One dude punches a highmark in a unsafe zone, and it brings on a chain reaction of bad decisions.

 

[redneckj]

Make sure EVERYONE in your group knows how to use their beacon. If you are the only one in your group that knows how to use your beacon and you get buried, who is going to save your ***?

 

[hivoltagesledhead]

Excellent video, lucky survivor and a good teaching tool. ALways wear your beacon, ride prepared and never give up.

This the second avy (probably more) in a few days that has happened on EAST facing slopes !!! Its not just the south facing slopes that are dangerous...ITS ALL OF THEM.

 

[ruffryder]

thanks for the video... 2 shovels down, couple of probes down..

I remember when I took my class, the instructor said when they would form probe lines, at the end of the rescue there was always a pile of broken probes..

Looks like if your shovel isn't strong enough to dig through a snow plow furrow repeatedly, then it shouldn't be on your sled.

 

[mt st helens]

Always keep shovel and probe in your backpack NOT on the sled. You can't always park your sled right next to the area where you think they are. A lot of probe and shovel time is lost after you find them with the beacon, if you have to make your way back to your sled to get them.

 

[hivoltagesledhead]

Always keep shovel and probe in your backpack NOT on the sled. You can't always park your sled right next to the area where you think they are. A lot of probe and shovel time is lost after you find them with the beacon, if you have to make your way back to your sled to get them.

I used to always carry it on my sled,but with the increase in avalanches, bigger sleds and more dangerous riding I thought it was wise to buy an avy bag that carrys the shovel and probe.