After deploying the airbag, get rid of the skis and poles asap. They will drag you down. Keep fighting to swim and stay on top of the snow. Do not worry about losing them; your life is infinitely more valuable.
Glad you're safe. Thanks for that first person POV, never seen it that way before. Are you a lefty? The Mammut bag trigger can be moved to the other side if you're a lefty, I think. Depends upon which bag.
Huge slide. That the first skier (assuming the guide) traversing the face did not trigger the avalanche will make me think twice next time I am out in the backcountry. Glad you are ok, and thanks for sharing.
When skiing a backcountry slope in many areas of the San Juans, the snow either gets more stable or less stable. Often you can't tell the difference until you're at the bottom of a run or...
you were far enough away from the guid but I wonder if someone was too close behind you? That wave that went thru the snow when it first broke was crazy.
The first thing to learn when doing free skiing : you are catched in an avalanche, try first to GET OUT OF IT ASAP. The guy should have taken some speed and go straight in front on the right side. He would certainly be able to escape from this situation. He was lucky that the avalanche did not continue and get for exemple to a cliff.
All the cool images you see when people are skiing does not show this. As big and important some people think they are Mother Nature does not care. Not worth it if you ask me for a few turns you could have done inbounds if your first on the lift.
Man, this guy got lucky. Looked fun though, a ride intop of a Lanch’ Not sure the emergency tug was needed but hey, I suppose better safe than sorry. Other people are right, horrible conditions, it was bound to happen with all that crusty garbage.
Its all so groovy ... till it ain't. All the "beta" in the world and I'm sorry to tell you its still a crap shoot. Is 8 inches of fluff really worth it ?
I lived in Silverton or a few years. Avi capital of the U.S. It's nutso. If you have a wife and/or kids, avoid that sh _ _ until they are old enough to fend for themselves.
That’s what I call riding the mountain. The sound of the snow creaking and settling in at the end was also horrifying knowing that it may be the last thing you hear if buried.
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Freaky perspective. Good share... looking at the turns made before the slab let loose leaves me wondering about the skills y'all apparently Don't have. Relying on a trigger..... learn to ski and all its environment
Just in case you were wondering, you can heli ski in the avalanche capital of the world. “Deep persistent slab” is life here in CO. Our backcountry is generally hazardous most of the time. I can’t imagine what insurance looks like for these guides.
That’s gotta be the coolest thing you could possible live through and have video proof of. Unscathed too, simply rode a magic carpet of snow for a couple hundred yards😂
It had not...I was on the run just before this one. You can see the guide and 1st skiier (This one) ran tracks higher than the previous 3 groups and it broke just above previous traverse lines...
Thank God that was not flowing over a cliff of any sort because a low one and you'd be buried, and obviously a high one you'd be broken & buried. Especially since you were along for the rider wherever it was going until whenever it stopped....yikes. Thanks for sharing & glad you were able to.😎
He still had momentum to traverse out to the right the moment it broke. Guess h just froze with fear the moment it broke. Helps to always, i mean ALWAYS go through what you would do in this case whenever you go out in the backcountry. Imagine where you would exit out of the run(into safe zones) every 50 yards or so, so its an instant reaction the moment the shit hits the fan.
It's not traveling uphill; it just appears that way. The whole slab is sliding downhill. The wave you see is the slab flowing over the staunchwall as it goes downhill.
@@Useryofcsdnx hes standing still on snow that's moving down. look at the track he's following at 2:01 - it's clear he's moving down relative to where that goes beyond the slab edge
Sometimes when Avalanches happen, the initial energy waves will send an Instagram to our parallel universe to activate. That enables anti gravity to take over for just an instant. Sending everything we know to reverse. Very rare this one was caught on camera.
