That’s done everywhere; either with explosives dropped from helicopters or with a howitzer. Outside Anchorage, there are howitzer emplacements that are used for avalanche control.
hes cutting the snow here. He was meant to trigger the avalanche but i dont think he expected it to start up above him aswell or for it to be that big. But you dont ride sideways along a mountain you ride down so he was cutting the snow.
SmokeWeedEveryDay629 your clearly lacking knowledge in avalanche safety and techniques to trigger avalanches. I recommend you stay clear of the back country.
+Secundus hello, so yeah kinda but people who know about snow and avalanches know more or less where its going to snap and drop from and there is a technique used in the business called cutting snow which is where you cut into the snow(fancy that) and relive it of its tension thus setting off the avalanche.
Looked deeper than a couple feet, but its hard to judge scale with the skier out of the shot. My point was that by in large most people don't dig pits past 2m because you generally don't interact with the snow much deeper than that with the weight of an average skier. If it triggered on surface hoar or what ever below 2m it is likely that no one would see it. Dropping a cornice would be good except that he was halfway down before he hit the cornice. Too easy to armchair quarterback safety.
That’s why they teach you how to to identify cornice in snowmobile safety class. Pretty sure that’s the cause of most avalanches caused by humans. Really light snow that hangs on a ridge, usually after a snowstorm with high winds. A snow drift on a mountain.
He's ski cutting on the convex which is a common technique to check the stability of a feature or aspect before you ski it. Obviously this one took him by surprise but SCA is anything but deserving of a Darwin award. Even the best trained will find themselves in situations like this when they're pushing themselves to the max.
Impressive , interesting that there were 2camera angles on that one . And a Heli floating about Maybe an inspection on a film shoot that nearly went very wrong who knows ...only speculation.
You've watched too much simpsons. Helicopters trigger avalanches only when there's a person dropping explosives or the helicopter has some sort of blasting device.
imagine accidentally triggering an avalanche, surviving it and then being told several people died in that avalanche...I woulda felt like a murderer and been depressed for a very long time...I wouldn't be able to live with myself like that so I'm praying for the people who have to...
This validates my thinking and rule. Skiers need to stay OUT of the powder. I have a responsibility to every skiers yard sale in the powder. Run by fast and spray them hard.
3 meters? more like a couple of feet. In any case its not the depth of the snow pit that's giving the information .. you dig it in a place where the overall depth is not so big. Its the layers, snow structure, and the bonding your interested in.
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Skiier gets to the bottom. *heavy breathing* "Wow! Best run of my life! That carving towards the end was just.. mwah~ My sponsors are gonna be so stoked. Let's see the footage." Camera guy: 😐
looks like there is 2 layers of unstable snow there. Maybe he was doing a cut to try to trigger or maybe he neglected to dig a pit?? lucky he got away, woulda been a hell of a long dig to get to the body
