Teton Avy (GoPro)

[mrwaffles989]

Not me, but one of my friends. Scary stuff...



http://teton.outerlocal.com/skiing/j...e-gtnp-outpost

[Bunion 2020]

Interesting video, thanks to you and your friends for sharing.

One comment was, what happened to safe skiing protocol?

Exposing 1 at a time?

Were the slope angles so shallow to lull your friends into thinking avalanches were not possible?

Again, thanks and yes, scary stuff.

[JoeStrummer]

Not sure I agree that triggering and surviving an avalanche is the same as Class 5 boating. But I'm glad he's alive and shared the video and I hope the next one doesn't have more energy.

[moose pit]

Just popped off on landing eh... that could have been worse, it looks like it is in that kinda terrain that is assumed to be good to go.

Wind slab in the open pocket? (although all the snow in the vid looked like it was sort of consolidated - from the couch based on the amount of ski visible)

[camlax]

thanks for sharing. i agree about the safe skiing though. cutting above your partner like that is never a good habit to get into

[hick]

What's up with skiing pow with a whippet (among many other questions that have been posed)?

[mrwaffles989]

Yeah when we skied together, we always went one at a time, safe zone to safe zone. I don't know, maybe they thought it wasn't steep enough to slide? That slope looked relatively non-threatening, but damn the whole thing went.

[mrwaffles989]

Not sure I agree that triggering and surviving an avalanche is the same as Class 5 boating. But I'm glad he's alive and shared the video and I hope the next one doesn't have more energy.

Yeah I don't know what he means. Maybe just shit can go wrong when you least expect it. He is one crazy kayaker though..

[CookieMonster]

a little snow kills
slope size does not indicate
a hazard to the careless

[n0t1ap]

Haiku responses
Are always appropriate
When discussing slides

[neufox47]

wow.

OP did he intentionally avoid that tree when he was moving slow at the beginning? Seems like he could of grabbed it.

3 skiers all going at once in a terrain trap... Glad they are ok and alive.

[summit]

Lucky... all three of them

[flyman683]

What's up with skiing pow with a whippet (among many other questions that have been posed)?

When combined with the GoPro I think it allows the mountain to know you're "core", so it thinks twice about killing you?

Or maybe you hari-Kari if you know you're going to be buried, so you don't suffocate?

[PNWbrit]

I thought he was "just" going to terrain trap his buddies in the gully.

[CookieMonster]

Haiku responses
Are always appropriate
When discussing slides

When you've written as much about avalanches and human factors as I have, you sometimes realise the importance of a little creativity. There is a message in that haiku, and I don't think that using haiku is any less valid than using prose. Certainly I meant no disrespect.

Great haiku however...

Sent from my Paranoid Android using TGR forums.

[Jethro]

Any chance you could post another link to the video? It has been removed from youtube.