Working For The Weekend S3|E3 - East Coast Avalanche

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Avalanches happen out East. The "Working For The Weekend" crew experienced this first hand on a trip to the Chic Chocs in Quebec. While a healthy dose of luck was involved in allowing Nick to walk away relatively unharmed from this event, it was the groups' many precautions and years of experience that ensured that the remainder of the crew was unscathed. Get educated, be cautious, respect the weather and terrain.
East Coast Avalanche Bulletins:
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Further Education Resources:
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Music in this episode:
Sofa Surfers - "See the Light"
Blue States - "Red and Shine"
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About The "Working For The Weekend" Series:
Now in it's 3rd season, "Working For the Weekend" follows longtime Meathead Films veteran, Ben Leoni. Ben continues to live in Portland, Maine, and holds down a career as an attorney. He dreams of his weekends skiing in the mountains in between piles of paperwork. The 2015 & 2016 seasons kept him plenty busy with his job but he still managed to find time to get outside and explore.
Showcasing legendary backcountry zones as well as hidden gems around Maine, New Hampshire and Quebec "Working For The Weekend" continues it's groundbreaking tradition of showing the best skiing the Northeast hast to offer, without the aid of chairlifts. From deep powder to treacherous ice, Ben and his crew of friends embody the "earn your turns" mantra for the East Coast.
All episodes can be viewed here:
skitheeast.net/category/tv/meathead-films/working-for-the-weekend
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Flylow Presents: Working for the Weekend
A Ski The East Web Series
Featuring Ben Leoni
Additional Shredding In This Episode: Louise Lintilhac and Nick Martin
Filmed On Location: Chic Choc Mountain, Quebec
Cinematography in This Episode: Lincoln Benedict, Adam Mikaelian, Dana Allen
Edited by: Cam Willis
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@AlbaAdventures 7 лет назад

An incredible series.. Nearly cracked with the footage of Ben hugging Nick after the slide and learning he was OK. We know the importance of family and friends. Great episode.

@cgean7279 7 лет назад

Glad to see that proper planning and good communication skills got everyone home safe, that's how it's done. This is why I have much respect and admiration for all the meatheads and the extended ski the east family, total professionalism. Peace & Love & Powder Snow :-)

@SkitheEast 7 лет назад

thanks!

@peterhull8006 5 лет назад

I enjoy this series and thank you for sharing it. After this episode I feel a need to inject a sober note. Many if not most backcountry avalanche victims have avalanche training. The training can foster confidence, but it doesn't necessarily prepare you for conditions that are exceptional. There's not an abundance of collective experience with exceptional conditions. For example, inside an elevated tree line like the designated safe zone in this film isn't always going to be a safe place. A 25 or 50 year avalanche can sweep into it and snatch you or bury you. If the avalanche hazard is extreme, don't expect protection in trees a few feet above the chute. In exceptional conditions, maintain an exceptional safe zone and safety margin farther away than normal from openings. My sister had extensive training and 20 years of backcountry ski experience, but a 40-year avalanche wiped out her safe zone and took her. '

@CoasterCupcake 5 лет назад

I'm sorry for your loss, man.

@andrewwallus847 5 лет назад

Not trying to be a know it all or a dick but, why was "if you need to dig a pit dig a pit" offered only as an "option" at the END of a video about avalanche danger? Thats the START of any safe experience on uncontrolled slopes with the angle of that which was skied and not an option (in fact MULTIPLE pits while ascending through temp zones is best). Glad to see everyone walked away...but at the very least this vid gives only some of the right info and a slightly wrong impression of what being "on it" means.

@TurkeyBacon41 7 лет назад

Loving the chic chocs, great stuff guys.

@johnbilliris 2 года назад

Bring it back!!

@allenrogers3182 7 лет назад

Well done, thanks for sharing this.

@majestic-skies 3 года назад

Just moved to Quebec! I have to check out this spot myself :D Hopefully on a safer day than this lol

@ny_bass_hole8158 8 месяцев назад

If look at 4:56 there’s an even bigger crack at the top where more snow was gonna slide off. That could’ve been a lot worse.

@AirTimeEh 7 лет назад

Wow you have so much footage and story about this, it seems almost fake, and everyone responded to the incident with no emotion, very profession, Awesome vid.

@davidhill703 7 лет назад

Great video and great message. Not at all to suggest you did anything wrong, but in the interest of learning, what could have been done to avoid the avalanche? Is it simply a matter of backing off that location that day?

@jimgooch3704 7 лет назад

Well...they followed the avy report for the prior week and came up with a good analysis. Without speaking for the crew, I'd say the only thing they might've done differently would have been to find someone with solid local knowledge to consult. You can't know everything, and even those who spend their lives in the b/c understand snow reading to be as much art as science. In freedom there is danger. Sometimes, that's all there is to it.

@davidhill703 7 лет назад

Agreed. I was grasping at straws with my question, hoping to be assured that "this would never happen to me, because I would have done more to avoid it altogether!" That's wrong. This video was shown in the classroom portion of a level-one avalanche class I attended this weekend. The instructor used it to show that even if you do all the right risk assessments, you have to be prepared for being wrong: Go one at a time so that only one person is at risk at a time; find safety zones and use them; communicate with one another; practice what to do in case someone is caught in a slide. (Having the right rescue gear goes without saying) So ... while I don't think they set out to do so, thanks to the Working for the Weekend team for promoting Eastern avalanche safety so vividly with this video.