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Relax. I'm not in the market for the heli-ski experience. You found out why, first hand.
You signed some waivers right? There's a reason - its because, just like pretty much every science, avi science is far from an exact science. Accidents happen to the best people out there. Just browse the slide zone threads for proof... extremely experienced guides at reputable ops get fucking killed sometimes.
That was a partial burial from a small slide. It didn't step down, or cause any sympathetic triggers elsewhere in the area. If I were the guide I would not exactly have been happy about having to take you all out on that slope that day, but hey, you paid big bucks and they wanted you to have a good time. That's the balancing act all heli ski ops need to maintain. Its a risky fucking business - and as they say, don't hate the player, hate the game. There was very little chance of anyone getting killed that day, and no one did, or even got hurt.
In my opinion you got exactly what you paid for - an experience you can share with the gran kids..
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heli sking is so last year ...
here at the ratbagger lodge we get pow n enjoy 2 sports ...
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[QUOTE=old goat;4214878]Is there any reason to think that heli skiing would be any safer than other backcountry skiing in similar terran? QUOTE]
Load up the hell of a copter with a bunch of type A folks who have paid the big money, want the stuff they seen in the Warren Miller movie last fall, land on terrain they didn't ski UP so how do you know what you are skiing down? The guides don't really know either, not like if they had skied up it, aviy science is not an exact science but IMO heli skiing is MORE of a crap shoot
Winning comps or races is not back country savy its just sking really really good;) the one time we got mixed in with a heli op coming out of a BC hut I would say the heli skiers had the opposite of BC savy ... they just had the money to not have to ski uphill
Something a buddy was telling me last fall which i found very Ironic was that his work schedule this winter was gona be so good he wouldn't have to guide heli skiing, same guy has been heard to say heli skiing is like eating too much ice cream ... it makes you sick
That run would have been tlked about/planned and cleared in the guides meeting to ski so someone was gona ski it, in spite of the big aviy danger ... everybody who got on the chopper wanted to ski
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glad your sister is OK but I have to ask why you didn't you b-line it to your sister's side ?
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Good question. I was a little closer than it appears in the video - fisheye lense or something. You can't hear on the footage but I could hear her plain as day. She was saying she was fine and the guys were digging her out. It was more just a relief that she was ok. I was looking at this giant churning river of debris trying to spot a ski or a pole - then all of a sudden she's
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fine and saying she's ok and I injured. Hard to describe. Adrenaline was going and I just had to take some breaths once I could see she was fine.
