Snowboarder caught in avalanche near Loveland Pass says he was carried 1,000 feet, deployed airbag
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- čas přidán 11. 01. 2021
- Maurice Kervin feels at home in Colorado's backcountry but he's also keenly aware of the dangers. He's spent 65 days snowboarding so far this season but Friday is a day he won't forget anytime soon.
You could only hope for the best and prepare for the worse and he definitely did just that.
Been there done that. March 23, 2003. Set off a small slab after hiking 21/2 hours from the parking to the summit and launching off the cornice. Not deep enough to be a real threat but it definitely caused the pucker factor for a minute or two....
Not for nothing level 3 is sketch. Never heard him say he did a stability test. Loveland Pass attracts so many Kooks because of its proximity to the road but that place is super dangerous it's not a playground. I rode there from 95 to 01 every season and you hardly ever saw anybody with Avalanche gear.
0:41 the reporter says they tested for stability.
Brought the air bag, left the brain on the table.
Seemed pretty smart to me. He obviously took proper avalanche training and equipment to mitigate risk. You can hear in the video they were using radios and were wisely following other protocols including not going down at the same time and keeping distance to be able to dig each other out. Perhaps the problem is you can't cope with people that look different than yourself because you're a weak, little, sheltered twinkie?
What a beast. He was terrible at reading avi conditions but was literally so calm through that whole thing respect
Ayo what the fuck
@@mackaronispace ayoooo
@@brennancork ayoooo
Hopefully Maurice can learn from this lesson and will stick to playing bongos next time the avy forecast is looking bad.
"Most people go into avalanche terrain in the middle danger ratings. Thus, avalanche fatalities tend to occur when there is a maximum interaction between avalanches and people." People should get into the habit of evaluating the snowpack even on days that have middle or moderate danger ratings in the avy forecast. Most people don't know how, or don't want to dig snow pits and testing before riding.
Huh...I didnt know rob zombie snowboards.
Stop turning and point it.
my point exactly
should have been pointing it to start with
It's not that simple. At least from my exp.
Smacking the lip whoopahh
So pitted.
The mountain was giving it's opinion on his choice of hairstyle. Seriously though, glad he was prepared and made it through while many others don't.
are they gonna try to fine them 168 thousand dollars.....
Super lucky dude...
more prepared than lucky. he had the air bag
The airbag saved his life clearly the avy education didn't do anything at all
why do you say that?
@@kosycat1 If they had truly been watching reports for the season, they would know that anything between 30 and 40 deg pitch in Colorado and Utah right now is a ticking time bomb. There's a a really bad layer of snow from Nov/Dec that all this new snow is loaded on that can't really handle the weight. So any little added stress to that snow pack will cause the slope to give away and the slab to slide out, like you see in this video.
Seriously, it's not like a video has been put out by CAIC or Utah Avalanche Center every week stressing about the shitty layer from earlier this year. /s
No way, man! After seeing dozens of videos depicting people with ZERO avy gear or knowledge getting killed because of it, I say nobody has the right to disrespect this guy. He came prepared, and it WORKED. Way ahead of the game. He did describe checking the snow on the way up.
@@darrendix5163 ha okay Darren
I bet that never happened to him on his X-box, whoooooa!
If you watch closely, you'll see an almost-continuous trail of yellow snow coming out right behind him.
Oh wait, sorry. That would have been me.
So glad you're safe!
This dude is a clown
A sense of dread and dreads
Dread or alive
I didnt hear that they actually check avy conditions. SOunds like they were just going by the latest avy report. I assume they did check tho. Silly not too.
Why did he stop and not ride to the left? 🤣🤣
Team kook right there.
i wonder if riding flat would have helped?
duuude
this year is dangerous
Well would you Wook at that.
😆
I say we cut off 1 inch of dred for every dollar spent rescuing them. When we run out of dreds, go to meat and bone!
What about the folks that don't have dreads? They get a pass?
@@schmoopyvonboopy4959 Nope. Anybody in the back country this year with the snow conditions left from November and December, which has been highly publicized, deserves exactly what they get. I don't care if you are a skier, snowboarder, or snowmobilier, if you can't read the snow reports that talk about the 6 inch unstable layer created in Nov and Dec all across the Northwest, I don't feel sorry for you. I do feel sorry for the poor people digging them out. Arrogance doesn't deserve sympathy! We had a snowmobilier die here in Idaho a week ago. Same conditions. Arrogance= Ignorance! When I back country ski, it is under extreme scrutiny. I'm never going to obligate other people to dig me out.
@@schmoopyvonboopy4959 I just got back from Utah for a week down there. Because of Covid, you have to get lift tickets in advance. I bought our lift tickets back in January. The 2 days we were supposed to be at Snowbird and Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon was closed for avalanche mitigation. Even the people staying at Snowbird couldn't ski, because they were doing avalanche control within the resort.
Easy there schmoopy, if you play in the backcountry and expose yourself to Avalanche terrain you can never say never. I don't care how good you are at reading Avalanche conditions you will encounter a slide.
People have no game talking shit. For once, we have a story where the would be victim was carrying an airbag, deployed it and it worked. What more do you want? rescuers lives were not put at risk, no helicopters were deployed. Obviously, he had a transceiver, probe, and shovel as well. BRAVO!! Did everything right. If not for the airbag, it could easily have been a fatality.
Did everything right except for heed the warning of literally every backcountry watcher over the last couple weeks and months? Did everything right by assuming the face was safe because he'd seen others ski it? No, he got lucky and that's it end of story, thank god we have airbags or jerry's would be getting themselves killed every day
Shouldn't have been there in the first place. Bad snow conditions leftover from November and December has made back country skiing a near death experience for the rest of the season!
that's like saying drunk driving and rear ending somebody is doing "everything right" as long as your airbag deploys and nobody gets hurt
Those dreads probably kept him afloat
You got a iceaxe. Use it to self arrest into the bed surface. 1 avalanche course means very little. Takes many courses and 10 years or more to know anything about avalanches.
I don't think anyone is self arresting with that big of a slab coming down from above them.
Yeah, just reach for that ice axe that is probably on your back and slap that bitch into the moving snow you're already sliding with to stop you. 0 out of 10 times, it works every time. 👌😂
Nah, people definitely learn something about avalanches in the first course.
@@InvitingBiscuit Even just the book "Surviving Avalanche Territory" gives you a ton of knowledge on avalanches and what terrain and snow conditions are the biggest recipes for them.
@@The_Samsquantch I used to read Snow Sense every fall to get my head back in the game. I'll pick up a copy of your recommendation, thanks!