 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You might say "why you should read the terrain better" - can't imagine what posessed him to ride into that depression.
mind you we've all done stupid things - I cratered into a large hollow once that took me 30 mins to wade out of and have had to self rescue from a treewell.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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On second viewing fatbob has a point, but that's still quite a sobering piece of footage. If the roles had been reversed and the eleven year old boy had gone into the crevasse I doubt that his smaller board would have broken his fall quite so effectively. Hopefully this helps to make a few people think twice before going into unfamiliar terrain with insufficient experience.
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Some good lessons though, not going off piste on your own even a little bit, the depression thing, and also assuming lots of tracks equals safety, plus the self rescue v getting help question. I did think he was a bit hasty un clipping, it looked a long drop.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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not going off piste on your own even a little bit
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Hmm, don't agree with that. Times, places and experience are obvious caveats, but when you take away the safety blanket of being in a group you also take away the illusion of that safety blanket, which leads to better (or at least more cautious) decisions. Also less people around to trigger slides above/add weight to the snow.
I've done a lot of solo offpiste and really enjoy it, but I keep it more conservative.
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Sobering thing, glad he came out of it ok. Jack really was a star here.
jbob, I dont think he was that hasty unclipping, it said 'sometime later' and he had wedged some of his rescuers ski poles beneath him first to create a platform to stand on. A good idea and something worth remembering.
Easy to spot the dangerzone on the slope though when you know something is going to happen.
Thanks for posting it up
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This is the Flaine with the notorious holes off piste, right? 
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clarky999, I don't agree with myself, I often stray on my own but on known ground, no holes and folk around. Mind a couple of years back at Le Tour, in the fog and just off the side, an English guy, at the end of the day, last in the party, went over a roller which followed him and buried him, he died. It was thought he skied off the side accidentally due to the bad vis.
Bones, I also like the poles idea, one up for skiers.
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that is scary !!!
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