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Thread: Peak 1 avalanche......

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    Peak 1 avalanche......

    WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!

    Peak 1 on Tuesday:









    Solo?! In the current conditions?! Over a huge cliff area?!

    x a bazillion.
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    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.

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    i'm sure this is stupid, but it looks like he must have gone for a ride and then climbed out?

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    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.

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    There are so many WTF's I can't even begin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rmnpsplitter View Post
    After looking at the photos again I cant seem to believe that the person didn't know that they triggered a slide unless they're completely oblivious to their surroundings.
    He/she must've triggered the slide from above on their way up and didn't realize it until they skied down onto the crown. At that point, I feel their best option was to ski the bed surface. Might as well get off the hangfire.
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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by timmaio View Post

    And yes, stupid to be up there solo.
    more stupid to be up there with a group. solo=only one person fucks up/get's lucky/or dies.

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by timmaio View Post
    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.

    oops, missed this.

    now i see kansasboarder's post and am confused.

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    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.

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    Nice looking skin track though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark View Post
    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.
    maybe the person wanted to get a lil pow skiing in before having to ski the less than desirable bed surface. either way, the skier skied away to enjoy more adventures. heard someone died in texas today tho

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    Quote Originally Posted by spook View Post
    oops, missed this.

    now i see kansasboarder's post and am confused.

    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.
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    great photos though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by icelanticskier View Post
    more stupid to be up there with a group. solo=only one person fucks up/get's lucky/or dies.

    rog
    Jesus H. fucking Christ....

    Not this shit again
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    Quote Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat View Post
    Jesus H. fucking Christ....

    Not this shit again
    LOL!!! care to enlighten me otherwise, my friend?

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    nope.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark View Post
    Besides being solo and dropping that particular line, how the hell could you not see/hear it from any of these vantage points:?

    From this http://www.summitdaily.com/article/2...ntProfile=1055 I get the impression he triggered it when he dropped in.

    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.
    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.

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    God damn yall are a bunch of MMQB's who can't even read the report before calling the "person" stupid.
    From the CAIC:
    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.
    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.

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    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.

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    i still don't get it

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    Quote Originally Posted by spook View Post
    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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