Darn All The Snow Just Disapeared

[catskills]

Serious side country or back country video worth watching.

http://vimeo.com/34534418

 

[andyzee]

After the avalanche looks like the snowboarder was standing that with a surprise load in his briefs. Good thing no one was hurt.

 

[catskills]

After the avalanche looks like the snowboarder was standing that with a surprise load in his briefs. Good thing no one was hurt.

Good to see the snowboarder did not get caught in the slide. That was a lot of snow released and he could have been buried deep and not made it out alive. Its almost impossible to come out alive if your down 10 feet upside down.

 

[Cannonball]

Good to see the snowboarder did not get caught in the slide. That was a lot of snow released and he could have been buried deep and not made it out alive. Its almost impossible to come out alive if your down 10 feet upside down.

Given the amount of exposed rock it seems unlikely that he would have been buried alive

 

[neil]

Typical snowboarder scraping all the snow off a trail

 

[MV Frank]

wow..lucky guy

 

[drjeff]

Red Flags all over the place, post 30" snow cycle, and if you notice from the clip of the skier going first (albeit much further to one side than the border attempted) past slide debris right below that face, that got pretty close to being a Darwin award winner there!

I wonder if the group hadn't been shooting video if they would have attempted those line?? Or is this just example number 12,987,654,345 of how in the presence of a video camera, most people's I.Q. drops by about 50 points

 

[catskills]

Given the amount of exposed rock it seems unlikely that he would have been buried alive

Yeah right. If you say so. :roll:

Note to everyone. I do NOT recommend you go back country or side country skiing with Cannonball.

 

[Edd]

Given the amount of exposed rock it seems unlikely that he would have been buried alive

Yeah right. If you say so. :roll:

Note to everyone. I do NOT recommend you go back country or side country skiing with Cannonball.

I suspect Cannonball was putting emphasis on the word alive, and implying that he would indeed be buried, but dead.

 

[catskills]

I suspect Cannonball was putting emphasis on the word alive, and implying that he would indeed be buried, but dead.

Let me ask you how much effort Cannonball is going to make to find and dig you out if he thinks ah your probably dead anyway. If you really think Cannonball is going to put 110 Percent into finding you and then bust ass to dig down to try to save you after his comment, then yeah you go ski back country or side country with him.

 

[Cannonball]

Let me ask you how much effort Cannonball is going to make to find and dig you out if he thinks ah your probably dead anyway. If you really think Cannonball is going to put 110 Percent into finding you and then bust ass to dig down to try to save you after his comment, then yeah you go ski back country or side country with him.

That is exactly what I was saying. Screw you, you're dead, I'm eating your half of the trail mix.

If I had a nickel for every half-buried snowboarder I've left for dead in the sidecountry, I wouldn't still be eating off the dollar menu.

Not to mention, do you realize how easy it is to score with the grief stricken girlfriends of your lost ski partners?