Wedge Mountain (Whistler) fall

[nortonwhis]

Surely the snowboarder had 0 fucking idea whether his line could have possibly went at all. And since they didnt bother with an anchor at the top, something tells me he wasnt about to rap out of there. Just pure dumb luck they both survived...

[muted reborn]

Sooo.....kinda looks like these two nabbed first descents on The Wedge?

[jackattack]

Falling leaf technique level 100

[bennymac]

Sooo.....kinda looks like these two nabbed first descents on The Wedge?

count it!

Soon this guy will have a youtube series about the fifty times he’s been helicoptered off a sea to sky mountain.

[Bronco]

https://streamable.com/ogicax

Dropping! [emoji23]

[gmorgg]

WOW! im surprised his snowboard is still in one piece after going through that choke!

[dmcd]

"I fell off a 200 foot cliff I had no business being on top of and my buddy dropped in a sliding rock fall through a 100 foot couloir and we got a free helicopter ride! Here's the link to our facebook meetup at the top of Pyramid Peak next year!"

[Cocximus]

My takeaway is that I'm not progressing fast enough if I don't call SAR at least once a year.

[PNWbrit]

He's taken the video down.

[JayPowHound]

He's taken the video down.

I imagine he's gotten quite a bit of feedback at this point, hopefully some of it sinks in but for some reason I kind of doubt it.

For those who saw the video.. even if committed to that "chute" wouldn't you have down climbed to the snow before strapping in?? The start just fascinates me. What did he expect to happen...

[jono]

Yeah, between co-traveling with rocks and almost taking out an eye bouncing the axe off them it's a very unlikely sequence. Pity that's such a shot to the ego.

[mcski]

He's taken the video down.

Damn. I hope someone copied it. The video of that chute was the only redeeming thing he did

[romeo tango]

.
with the success of Cody, Wirth and other experienced ski mountaineers,
I've always wondered when the 3rd string team would move forward,
now I know ....

no disrespect or blame intended

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[nortonwhis]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aRw...usp=share_link
vid

[toastybroski]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aRw...usp=share_link
vid

Wow… no words.

[romeo tango]

.
he hung on to his ice axe,
that's good ....
.
wait, no he didn't
leash?

[romeo tango]

.
ok,
i think i've got it now ....
.

[garyfromterrace]

count it!

Soon this guy will have a youtube series about the fifty times he’s been helicoptered off a sea to sky mountain.

The Fifty (evacs).

[crankplank]

seen plenty of gopro of people doing wild things on purpose.

that may be the wildest gopro footy ive ever seen, god knows what the approach to this hell send looked like on the old helmet cam.

[blitzraider]

That's NOT what we call skiing/riding a line these days, right right?! Wtf...

I think I'll be happy doing side hits at the resort, but I'm pretty chicken so lol

[gcrfinch]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKmv8I9xm4p/ https://tareef.tech/blog/mount-archi...ent-n-glacier/

[californiagrown]

^^^ holy moly. I want to give benefit of the doubt to folks because no one was dialed their first few times stepping into bigger terrain (bigger being subjective each time), and the guys who originally pioneered this stuff were certainly not dialed. But holy damn, the sheer amount of easily avoidable mistakes combined with a really carefree attitude about the mistakes and consequences, combined with a very obvious lack of skiing skill/coordination are just mindblowing to me. His recipe seems to be:

1) decide on an objective far beyond my skill and knowledge level.

2) look at google earth and caltopo for a couple minutes to decide on a route

3) show up with a partner even less skilled than myself and be surprised at how different things look on the ground compared to google earth

4) completely blow the planned schedule by 2x and do the most dangerous part of teh day a couple hours before sundown

5) fall within 30m of the top of the line and tumble down 300m over a cliff band and yardsale so badly it takes an hour for your partner ABOVE YOU to collect all the shit that exploded off.

6) let your partner then ski off down the wrong drainage with waning sunlight

7) Rely/hope on a cellphone signal deep in the yukon to commmunicate with your partner to meet back up with the last few percent of phone battery (and drain your phone battery all day taking pics and tracking GPS, but dont bother carrying a batter backup)

8) decide that instead of sucking it up and sloggin out the way you came in, try for a cross country, unmapped, hoped-for route bushwacking through an unfamiliar forest as a shortcut back to the car that would have at best only saved an hour off your 3 hour return trip

9) get lost, get bogged down, call RCMP for rescue. Again.

Hey, atleast the guy is spreading out his rescues amongst the provinces now? It is just massive amounts of dunning krueger i think?

[californiagrown]

^ oh shit, i just read the bottom of the blog. 10) at the end of the disaster proudly proclaim things like:

I think my theoretical route plan actually worked quite well.

I do think we'll be back for the other 3 ultras in the Haines Junction area

I'm still happy to have got up north for our first peak (and ultra) up in the territories, and I'm excited for the next time we can make our way there

The people in Haines Junction seem great, and we'll be glad to return!

[dmcd]

I said this two years ago, and it was obviously very true: The worrying thing is that it all feels like those two are the kind of people that won't realize how lucky they got to get through that with as light of consequences as they did and the lessons won't be learned.

[John_B]

I try to not be too judgy but that dude is going to kill himself or partners. Sketchy skiing, sketchy scrambling and sketchy judgement.

Edit: Well now I kind of feel like a cunt. Looks like a partner from a trip with sketchy scrambling and a near call to SAR ended up dying the next year on a solo trip on a chossy peak.