Poster: A snowHead
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meh wrote: |
@T Bar, right and should I ever get in the position where I need to ski off piste and have no other option than to do so without avi kit or knowledge on how to assess the conditions I guess I'll have to take a chance too. I'm not sure either of those italicized criteria apply here though. |
I very rarely have had to take the transport but it has usually been more convenient.
I generally carry Avi equipment but if I was skiing without and there was some pleasant looking low risk off piste I would not hesitate to ski it and have done so plenty of times in the past.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Right, so have I as I said mere posts ago but that still doesn't make the low statistical risk a good razor to judge the immediate risk. The best advice which is basically what the OP is asking for is to ski off piste with the knowledge about how to judge the immediate risks or with someone who has that knowledge and to take companion rescue gear in case the judgement was poor. That you or I occasionally go against that best advice is at best clouding the issue and just shows that we are flawed humans susceptible to 'heuristic traps'.
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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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Just because there are loads of tracks ... (and close to a piste)
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@marksavoie, bloody hell
where is that?
Is it the Grand Motte?
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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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@ed123, it's sveral years old and has been posted several times across various social media. Think it's somewhere in Italy, but might be wrong on that.
Sobering photo.
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rob@rar wrote: |
@ed123, it's sveral years old and has been posted several times across various social media. Think it's somewhere in Italy, but might be wrong on that.
Sobering photo. |
So is this (photo courtesy of Admin, Tignes, March 2011).
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Avalanches occur on-piste too. An even more sobering thought. Remember the child who was killed in an on-piste avalanche during a skiing lesson in iirc December three (?) years ago in a big French resort when it was dumping like crazy?
The photo above that has been doing the rounds for some years is shocking because you see pictures like that very infrequently.
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