About the fourth time we've done this video - major league screw up.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
fatbob, and the guy who comes to help him, still has his velcro strap over his avi airbag handle
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yeah, fatbob, I had not seen it so posted this - posts get lost in the hub-bub of the forum. I think it's worthwhile repeating this sort of thing (fairly often, actually), if it scares one some people into getting themselves educated about avalanches and so saving their lives. I have certainly been re-thinking some of my "adventures"...
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I hadn't seen it either.
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fatbob, I had seen it before. It's a good video with a pertinent message so I have no problem with it being re-posted on here about once a season. I'm surprised none of the SH experts have been along to criticise his mountain craft. As far as still having the strap on is concerned... You can pull the handle even if the strap is on. At least that's what the guys at Sport Conrad told me when I bought mine. It just takes a bit more effort. IIRC I had the strap on when I did the test firing in the shop.
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As far as still having the strap on is concerned... You can pull the handle even if the strap is on. At least that's what the guys at Sport Conrad told me when I bought mine. It just takes a bit more effort. IIRC I had the strap on when I did the test firing in the shop.
I agree you can, the thing I always worry about is that its not really designed to work that way and it maybe quite easy to have the Velcro strap done up to tight and then in a real situation it becomes to hard to pull the handle.
Its a great video though and anything that makes people think more is a good thing.
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I've seen it a few times and think it is well worth repeating as it highlights the major heuristic problem with powder blindness in that its too easy to breeze past red flags due to competition for good lines.
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Interesting video, but what I really enjoyed was the skiing in the first 45 seconds or so. It looked fabulous and was great to watch. A lot more fun than watching people slowly ice-axe up a couloir then even more slowly side-slip/ jump turn down it again. The avalanche bit was interesting too!
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I've seen it a few times and think it is well worth repeating as it highlights the major heuristic problem with powder blindness in that its too easy to breeze past red flags due to competition for good lines.
Thats a really good point, and something a lot of people do, I know I do even tho I know better, the other thing that lots of people do is when putting together video edits we all cut out the bit where we stop and discuss the slope and terrain, this sometimes does not help other people as they think you just skied straight over a blind lip without stopping and looking at the snow pack.
I posted a couple of vids when I was in Davos the first video we stopped twice to talk about the lines and snow pack, which I edited out, the line I wanted to do nearer to the rocks which you can see at the end of the video, avalanched just after we got down, so I am as guilty as the rest of the ski industry, maybe I should do better??