Avalanche - Berthoud Pass 1.19.14 - VIDEO Skier hucks into slide with airbag...

[Hott Butt Mud]

Looks like this is his 2013 winter edit. I haven't even watched it because Youtube seems to be sucking right now.

[stfu&gbtw]

Why do people insist that because they don't understand something, it must be "random chance."

It's either that, or it's god's will. Bad shit = random. Good shit = god. Unless you're fred phelps... Then bad shit = god, good shit = the devil.

[cat in january]

Getting ready to leave for work this morning, the Portland News said story next on video of someone luckily surviving an avalanche. Decided that was worth waiting a few minutes to leave.

Shit I thought when I saw him airing those rocks with not enough room. Dude was lucky there. And why exactly was he skiing off that cliff into the avalanche? Saw the yellow airbag in the clip. Guy seemed like a wanker.


Edit:just watched the linked video and it is a lot more than the piece from the morning news in Portland. The editing in that makes him out to be a complete wanker.

[Hott Butt Mud]

Well, I just watched the video I posted.

I like Blackmill.... this dude should learn to ski before he starts filming himself with the pole mount (and put the camera further back on his pole).

And pretty sweet how he just stands and films the wet slide hitting him at 8:40.

[Stairmaster]

"I saw it fracture and then I tried to straight line it over the cliff and then just instantly deploy my air bag."

Does not compute. So he saw it fracture, but then decided to jump right in?

[Crampedon]

I have heard a few good things about those new Vw's, good mileage, but like so many of the new cars you can't keep them more than a few years. My friends wife had a Taureg that needed 4 Rotors at 50,ooo miles. BIG money.

Go Toyota!

I do think the new micro bus is cool-

[Swine]

In general rotors aren't that expensive and are pretty easy to do yourself.

Oh, skier, blah blah, dumb.

Sent from a rotary phone.

[abraham]

HOw many tacos can it hold crampedon?

Fat American tacos or small Mexican tacos?

[kungpow]

Ya'll shouldn't get too worked up on a video of some tool with a GoPro and an airbag doing something retarded... there will be many, many more videos like this one for seasons to come, and definitely a new thread on said video every time. Welcome to the future of GoPro Hero 3s, airbags and idiots...

[Crampedon]

In general rotors aren't that expensive and are pretty easy to do yourself.

Oh, skier, blah blah, dumb.

Sent from a rotary phone.

No The stupid Taureg rotors were almost $500! nuts

I just did a friends ford and napa had rotors for $21. Even my Tundra they were only 40. something.

Oh, that beater that fell off the cliff needs a slap. I wouldn't let him carry my skis.

[Edgnar]

Here is the video from dude's youtube channel so you don't have to watch commercials.

[Crampedon]

Ya'll shouldn't get too worked up on a video of some tool with a GoPro and an airbag doing something retarded... there will be many, many more videos like this one for seasons to come, and definitely a new thread on said video every time.

This is the new VW forum, no snowerblades welcome.

[icelanticskier]

When people say that airbags will increase some skiers' risk tolerances, I suspect that dude is one of the people being referenced.

that dude and countless others. in time

rog

[uglymoney]

The interweb sometimes makes it seem like only ignorant idiots are getting caught in avalanches but that isn't always true. Easy to feel falsely confident in one's own ability to judge a slope when people are skiing stuff most of us wouldn't touch with a ten foot probe.

My dad always told me to drive every mile with the idea that I could drive a million miles the same way without having an accident. Seems like instead of going for a long accident free life in the mountains some of these kids are willing to have a few 'fender benders' since their airbag and crush zone equipped cars will keep them safe. You see the exact same sort of behavior on every road in America everyday.

[Snow Spirit]

I shouldn't, but i find this guys videos so funny.

Clearly he has no idea what he is doing on skis.

Not afraid to get after it though, I'll give him that at least.

[kungpow]

It's hilarious... full face helmet, gopro and an airbag... fuck it, fall off a cliff, bounce off a rock and land into an avalanche of internet fame!

[pfluffenmeister]

looked like the guy was out of control pretty much from the get-go.

he was ~ 4 turns above the cliff? what was his intended line?


pretty ugly all around.

[bendtheski]

Who was he telling he was going to drop in :30? His crew? If so, where's the other epic angle of his awesomeness?

Ok, I'm gonna drop a turd in :30

[daviski]

I travel in the BC with a '72 Beetle ready to deploy at all times

That guy struck me as pompous (lucky) little turd, and the reporters serious intonations of how experienced he was were bizarre to say the least. Did she fuck him? if so there is hope for the very worst of us

15 minutes of fame have rarely looked more idiotic

[MakersTeleMark]

US 40 is fucked.

[grubbers]

Judging from his shadow, dude tailguns like a motherfucker.

[Crampedon]

I travel in the BC with a '72 Beetle ready to deploy at all times

Daviski, I am going to join a VW forum just to use your sig-line worthy comment to this thread that thank god is not in SLIDE ZONE (WRONG FORUM JONG)

and moving ever closer to the padded room….

[bfree]

I bet it was a soft landing...right into a giant moving plume of snow and air.

[MakersTeleMark]

More my style, but a good way to direct this thread in a positive direction (I don't think I've ever seen Jerry Douglas so subdued; it must be his airbag/scarf):

[cyborg]

I travel in the BC with a '72 Beetle ready to deploy at all times

That guy struck me as pompous (lucky) little turd, and the reporters serious intonations of how experienced he was were bizarre to say the least. Did she fuck him? if so there is hope for the very worst of us

15 minutes of fame have rarely looked more idiotic

I know there is always going to be some idiot with a gopro, a death wish and a yearning for Internet fame - I get that. I also get that the media is generally dumb as rocks. But I have to agree with daviski; not only was it bizarre, I think they are doing people a huge disservice by the way they portrayed this. At the least I would have expected a blurb along the lines of "and remember, it's important to be educated before anyone attempts to travel in the backcountry. Take a class blah blah blah say your prayers and have life insurance", at the least. Not too impressed with the reporting. Sounded more like she was interviewing Shaun white about "going big"