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  1. 02-11-2014, 05:51 PM #1
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    Colorado Sledneck whacked by Avy, complete with obligatory GoPro Footie

    Appears to have happened yesterday. Sorta looks like he turned right into the slide he triggered. Lucky the slide wasn't large so he was just knocked off the machine instead of going for a ride

    http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/A...244826061.html



    Cody Strong told 11 News he’s still in shock and can't believe he survived. He was snowmobiling near Gunnison at the time.

    On the Colorado Avalanche Information Center website, the Gunnison area is in a high danger for avalanches, and Monday, had an avalanche warning in effect.

    The video caught on Strong’s helmet camera shows him riding around through the trees. Then, in an instant, a wall of snow hits him.

    "It literally felt like I was flying through the air, like I felt like impact on me and everything," Strong recalled.

    He was swept away in an avalanche. He said the snow ripped him off his snowmobile and took him roughly 100 feet.

    "It literally ended up being like a freight train that took me away. As fast as I said that, it was done and over with,” Strong said. “You see it, (then) you can't see anything, you're body is going through motions, and then it's done and over with and you stop."

    Once the panic stopped, and he saw all of his friends were okay, he took a minute to let everything that happened sink in.

    "We literally survived an avalanche, that could've been way worse than it was," Strong said.

    Strong said this has prompted him to be more cautious and he is now going to take avalanche safety courses. He encourages anyone who's headed out into any of these areas in the backcountry to do the same.
    Happy that he's OK, and that it scared him into getting some education.

    Mystified (or maybe not anymore) that someone with limited understanding of avy safety would decide that its a good idea to go out brapping when the danger level is High.

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  2. 02-11-2014, 06:02 PM #2
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    Looks like he remotely triggered it, but he didn't understand that he could remotely trigger it from the low-angle line he rode... "I knew enough not to ride up there."

    It looks like you can see the crown and bed surface between the two trees in the background when he puts the helmet down.

    Glad the dude's ok and it sounds like he was humbled and really learned his lesson.

    So glad I don't have to routinely deal with a spooky snowpack like CO.
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    Holy shit I just laughed hysterically when the snow hit his dumb no throttle controlling ass.
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  5. 02-12-2014, 08:14 AM #5
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    ...because turbo sled...
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    At least his helmet and jacket match his sled
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  7. 02-12-2014, 09:34 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by LightRanger View Post
    Looks like he remotely triggered it, but he didn't understand that he could remotely trigger it from the low-angle line he rode... "I knew enough not to ride up there."

    It looks like you can see the crown and bed surface between the two trees in the background when he puts the helmet down.

    Glad the dude's ok and it sounds like he was humbled and really learned his lesson.
    seriously, really learned his lesson will play out with his future decisions on high days, not moments after death knocked on his helmet.
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    Should have learned the Chugach look over his shoulder, cause he got hit by his own sluff.


    What's with the guy at 4:07 with the inflated airbag? Were two sledders caught?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shredhead View Post
    What's with the guy at 4:07 with the inflated airbag?
    Sledneck steeze. The in-crowd rides pre-inflated.
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    Whats wrong with that dudes sled?
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    Quote Originally Posted by philth View Post
    Whats wrong with that dudes sled?


    Believe the weird noise is turbo wastegate?
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    Wow. That guys is a horrible sledder.
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    Even better - the part where the snow whacks him ended up on a Weather Channel piece about avy danger in CO. Saw it Monday at the car shop.

    At least it was only a few secs of vid with no attribution...
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    Quote Originally Posted by telebobski View Post
    Even better - the part where the snow whacks him ended up on a Weather Channel piece about avy danger in CO. Saw it Monday at the car shop.

    At least it was only a few secs of vid with no attribution...
    I saw it too. It aired on NBC National in partnership with TWC.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AaronWright View Post
    At least his helmet and jacket match his sled
    made for tv.
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