WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!
Peak 1 on Tuesday:
Solo?! In the current conditions?! Over a huge cliff area?!
x a bazillion.
WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!
Peak 1 on Tuesday:
Solo?! In the current conditions?! Over a huge cliff area?!
x a bazillion.
Old's Cool.
After looking at the photos again I cant seem to believe that the person didn't know that they remotely triggered a slide unless they're completely oblivious to their surroundings. Seems like a sketchy situation with some poor decisions involved that led to the person somehow skiing up to and into the slide path. Glad nobody was hurt.
i'm sure this is stupid, but it looks like he must have gone for a ride and then climbed out?
I saw the report saying that he chose to ski the bed surface and that the slide was triggered on the way up.
I've had my eye on the area, scary to see it go.
And yes, stupid to be up there solo. I wonder who it was.
There are so many WTF's I can't even begin.
Hey look, gravity still works!
Besides being solo and dropping that particular line, how the hell could you not see/hear it from any of these vantage points:?
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if you were going to choose to ski down the bed after you'd seen an earlier avalanche, wouldn't you at least stop at the crown before proceeding? that looks to me like he skied right into it. is it not possible that he set it off right when he got to it or a little below and got lucky?
The following quote from CAIC:
"On Tuesday, a skier triggered a wind slab on a northeast aspect of Peak 1 in the Ten Mile Range above Frisco. It stepped down into deeper weak layers as it exited a steep chute. This avalanche could have easily had fatal consequences if the skier was not able to arrest in the bed surface."
doesn't seem like it was remotely triggered.
You don't ski down to a bed surface intentionally to check the crown. You approach from below/side. This person obviously didn't see/hear that it had ripped and skied right into it. If s/he did trigger it, I just can't believe how they didn't get flushed down.
Nice looking skin track though.![]()
Old's Cool.
Me too. CAIC reports *usually* state if the slide was triggered remotely or not. The preliminary report did not state this, so who knows.
Either
(1) The slide was remotely triggered and then skied into - LEMMING.
(2) The slide was triggered directly - LEMMING.
Strange, strange, strange. And stupid.
great photos though.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
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From this http://www.summitdaily.com/article/2...ntProfile=1055 I get the impression he triggered it when he dropped in.
That said, once I did see it go, I'd be looking for the safest way to tiptoe back to the ridge instead of going right up to the freakin' crown and down the bed.The individual made it to the bottom of the mountain without injuries after triggering a slide below him.
"That can happen sometimes when you're skiing down," SCRG spokesman Charles Pitman said. "The compression will set off a slide below."
Officials sent out the Flight for Life helicopter to survey the slide area. Officials do not believe anyone else was involved, as only one set of tracks was seen from the air.
God damn yall are a bunch of MMQB's who can't even read the report before calling the "person" stupid.
From the CAIC:
Yeah, ballsy to be up there under current conditions, but if I have to hear one other internet jockey call someone a dumbass before knowing wtf happened I'm gonna puke.It looks like the skier may have triggered it remotely on a kick turn near the ridge...then continued up to the top. Then skied down to the fracture line. The skier made about 7 turns on the bed surface, then cut hard right back out on the ridge and skies the southeast face.
Avalanche propagated widely in the bowl below the chute.
From CAIC:
Comments: It looks like the skier may have triggered it remotely on a kick turn near the ridge...then continued up to the top. Then skied down to the fracture line. The skier made about 7 turns on the bed surface, then cut hard right back out on the ridge and skies the southeast face.
Avalanche propagated widely in the bowl below the chute.
i still don't get it
I don't understand how you can trigger that remotely on a kick turn near the ridge and not see it. Not from where the speculated trigger point was. I can understand being above it, triggering it and not seeing/hearing it, particularly headed uphill in the wind.
Hope their smart enough to buy a lotto ticket!
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