Heliskiing fatalities near Nelson, BC

Our best friends fuck up and die. Doesn’t mean they are bad people or made bad decisions. They are just living the ski life and it’s hard for the rest of us and that shit called life ain’t always fair. But still our best friends and we will love them to the end. One love. Keep shredding the pow. It’s a good life. It’s the ski life. Just raise those kids like they are your own, put one foot in front of the other, and be there for each other. None of us would have had it any other way. Make connections from the ashes and keep on living. It’s not worth it but it was all fucking worth it. Love to all my brothers. RIP.


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this ^^^^

Also, all of us have made decisions that could or should have killed us but we got away with it, myself very much included.

https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/QgVQejjQ

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Originally Posted by Shredeagle

Our best friends fuck up and die. Doesn&rsquo;t mean they are bad people or made bad decisions. They are just living the ski life and it&rsquo;s hard for the rest of us and that shit called life ain&rsquo;t always fair. But still our best friends and we will love them to the end. One love. Keep shredding the pow. It&rsquo;s a good life. It&rsquo;s the ski life. Just raise those kids like they are your own, put one foot in front of the other, and be there for each other. None of us would have had it any other way. Make connections from the ashes and keep on living. It&rsquo;s not worth it but it was all fucking worth it. Love to all my brothers. RIP. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Very kind words ... and absolutley, I&#39;m sure we each had more than a dozen days (more 2 or 3 dozen) where we skied something that slid just a day or two later ... same slope and everything.&nbsp;</p>

Tried to quote. It’s broken. Whatev. But that kudoboard link by dtm was awesome. Chill dude. Living the dream. Rip. Valhalla

Are we going to get a play by play of what happened?

Not a lot to say or learn from an event like this where those that died did not cause the avalanche that killed them.

Wrong place at the wrong time.

Having only heli skied once, I am certainly poorly informed about over all operations, but on our recent CMH trip near by to this, I am curious of opinions about the heli outfits assessments of avi risks. We were delayed two out of four days while they flew into the terrain to evaluate weather and avi conditions, which at the time were rated considerable. I do not know what level of avi training they have, but do know they get out to dig pits and drop some bombs, so, I expect, they may have a better pin point knowledge for specific zones or runs that the forecast agency doesn't have, at least until the operations reports get shared...which I assume happens???

Avi science is not perfect at predictions, but do the heli ops have more specific info on their particular zones that the general forecast does not?

^^^Yes. The heli ops have more info about their specific tenure because they are making observations in that terrain daily. Pretty much any service that has paying clients and is allowing those clients to recreate in avalanche terrain (heli guiding, cat guiding, backcountry hut operators) has access to InfoEx which allows the ops to catalogue and share avalanche observations that are not available to the public.

InfoEx being unavailable to the public speaks volumes about heli, cat, lodge, guided operations. Duty of care is not in their lexicon apparently.