Fleeing the Wrath of a Pyroclastic Surge | Fight for Survival during Mt St Helens Eruption
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- On May 18, 1980, following months of small explosions and earthquakes, Mt St Helens erupted. The catastrophic blast devastated an area of around 230 square miles, causing more than $1 billion in damage. Ash, rock, and hot gasses spewed into the air. Ash blanketed the Pacific Northwest and stretched to 11 states and Canada. The blast reduced the mountain's height by 1,314 feet. The USGS said it took just two weeks for the ash from the eruption to circle the globe.
KOMO News reporter Dave Crockett was within a mile of the mountain when it erupted. Crockett was a 28-year-old news reporter for KOMO news station in Seattle, Washington. He felt a strong foreboding in the early morning of May 18, 1980, when he was on his way for assignment on Mt St Helens. "The mountain will erupt today,” Crockett said to himself. What he experienced was one of the great survival stories you'll ever hear.
0:00 Introduction
0:48 The Mt. St Helens Eruption
3:03 Events Before the Eruption
6:02 The Dave Crockett Story
20:42 The Rescue
26:43 The Eruption Aftermath
30:41 Conclusion/Survival Tips
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I've always found this eruption incredibly captivating and was happy produce a video about the Mt. St. Helens eruption. The raw power of Mother Nature and her unleashed intensity is truly awe-inspiring. Having visited the region, I can honestly say that I've never encountered anything as humbling. Witnessing the mountain cleaved in two, surrounded by a landscape that still bears the scars of the eruption yet is booming with new life, is an experience that is unforgettable. It's undeniably one of the most amazing places I've ever been to.
@outdoordisasters I live in North Idaho and have seen Mt. St. Helens from a distance but have never seen it close up. I collect the statues that are made from the Ash but I would love to go visit Mount St Helens someday.
@@timberdaniels7317 This was an excellent presentation. I think this podcaster should narrate Nat'l Geo docs! (And audiobooks)!
We can see Mt. Baker from Vancouver on a clear day and it's the most majestic sight of the most perfectly shaped mountain I've ever seen. (I also have a beautiful candle holder made from the ashes of the Mt. St. Helen's eruption). Edit: I misspelled "Helens" (no apostrophe).😊
Thank you so much Outdoor Disasters!🏆🌋🌎
@@timberdaniels7317 I've got a jar of it on a shelf in my basement. We were at the Mother's Day Rodeo in Western Montana, then clouds started rolling in... nasty clouds. My dad was an Air Force vet and started to wonder if someone's finger got a little too itchy.
By the time we got home it was looking like a GREY Christmas, drifts of ash forming. It stayed that way until a good rain storm, but I'm sure there are still ample deposits in the area. And my dad went crazy replacing air filters on the vehicles.
All I want is for our narrator to hike with me once, narrating my every move and making my hike feel like an perilous adventure.
Nope just want the voice for a well deserved nap. 😂😂😂😂
🤣and we will all eww and ahhh...😀
@@sf9145 That would be great! Haha
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He would probably go “Oh my Holy God, what is she doing!? That can’t be legal! I’m gettin’ outta here!” if he narrated one of my excursions.
This production alone is worthy of a million plus subs. I can't think of any other channel that gives such a detailed substantial in length educational prologue.
Thank you so much!
Absolutely!!🙂
I knew David well in the late 90’s early 00’s. He suffered almost paralyzing PTSD for decades after this event. We lost contact about 20 years ago when I moved out of state. Last I heard he was a photographer in Montana. I hope he has finally found peace.
Thank you very much for that insight. I can only imagine the pain he went through after something so traumatic. Producing the video was anxiety inducing. The video of him talking while walking under the darken ash cloud is haunting. You felt how afraid he was in that moment. I pray he has found peace as well.
I saw a piece on him in the last few years celebrating 40 years since the disaster and they interviewed him. He seemed fine.
Ever since I discovered your channel, I have enjoyed your story-telling skills, thorough research, well put together content, and the helpful, potentially life-saving tips you give at the end! I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, just a few hours from Mt St Helens, so I am familiar with many of the stories surrounding this event and was thrilled to see your video on it drop today. As a person of faith myself, I very much appreciated that you didn't downplay that part of his story. That's something many media sources often try to gloss over or ignore completely. I thank you for sharing his honest reflections of what happened and his quotes giving much of the credit for his survival to God. Even if you don't agree with someone's personal beliefs, I feel it takes away from a person's story if you don't include their thoughts, opinions & beliefs about what happened to them. So again, I appreciate your honest retelling of his actions, reactions & words! You were already one of my all-time favorite content creators, and this just further cemented that position!!
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I deeply appreciate your wonderful comment. I will never downplay or gloss over any part of the subject's story. Crockett's strong faith is very important to him (and me as well), which helped him successfully navigate through this ordeal. To leave it out would undermine the authenticity of Crockett's story. I appreciate you, Lindsay. Your comment is very touching and it's truly a blessing to be able to retell these amazing stories.
@@outdoordisastersis he still alive today?
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Now we’re talking! Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier are literally major features of our back yard. Walk out the back door and you’re looking right at Mt. St. Helen’s and all her beauty. Turn slightly left, I’ve got Mt. Adams. A little more left and you’re looking at the hulking mass of Mt. Rainier! I love it. Another fantastic video, my friend!! Thank you for all you do!!
Always appreciate your kind words my friend
Having lived in WA & seeing/hiking around Mt St Helens it's absolutely beautiful! The history & rebirth at Spirit Lake is amazing to see, truly awe inspiring to see in person. Listening to the stories of the local residents is very interesting & gives you an idea of what they experienced. Also recommend to check out the infamous picture that Richard Lasher took during the initial eruption right outside his car, absolutely breathtaking! Thanks for covering this, very well put together, love the channel! 🤘
My dad was visiting my grandparents at our family's cabin 36 miles away as the crow flies when the volcano erupted. Ever since I was a little kid I've been fascinated with Mt. St. Helens due to the fantastical stories he told of his time at the cabin. This story, along with the stories of photographers Robert Landsburg (who captured the timelapse of the mountainside collapsing) and Reid Blackburn (who covered his film roll with his body to preserve it), really put into perspective just how horrifying that moment must have been, especially in contrast to the far safer experience my dad had.
It took a miracle for him to survive and a double miracle for him to be found!
Considering the utter devastation finding the one thing that is not obliterated is a little easier.
I initially thought that this would be about the photographer who was caught by the eruption and photographed the pyroclastic flow as it raced towards him, where at the very last minute he crouched down and used his body to protect his camera, knowing he would die. I had no idea anyone had survived within the blast zone of this eruption, what an amazing story of survival against all odds. Great video!
Great video! I got to see the eruption from a rooftop in Puyallup. 125 miles away from it and could still see the cloud rising.
O shit dd !!! 😵😮
You are alive !! 👍👍😊
What a great video! Please do more like this!!
80% of where I live (Shoalhaven NSW Australia) was burnt in the 2019/20 black summer fires. I wasn't personally affected in the sense that the fires never reached my house, but they came very close and we had to evacuate.
Even all these years later, the thought of those days can bring me to tears. The devastation was unbelievable.
While not quite the same as a volcano eruption, I think our feelings of what we witnessed would be similar.
The death of all those poor animals is in itself a major devastation ..
I always wanted to go to Australia then I realized the place is on fire half the year flooded the other half and overrun by rabbits.......
The grass is always greener story.
Good to know this dude survived but also I feel the best advice as to how to survive exploding volcano is don't get close enough to a exploding volcano to have to try to outrun it's offerings...
Thank you for the advice anyway! They're my fav bits ;DD
It's remarkable the reporter managed to hold onto his cameras until he was rescued! He would have been crestfallen to have lost all the images of the historical events he captured on film & in photos.
I never knew that you should build three fires to signal for help! Good advice. 🔥🔥🔥
@@isabellind1292 There is another guy that was closer, he took a bunch of snaps then tried to out run it but couldn't. He protected the film with his body and was found still inside the car.
@@user-wm3bf7pi3u Oh, I never knew! Robert Landsburg (48 yrs old). Can you imagine the presence of mind it must have taken to protect the roll of film when he must have been terrified! The poor man.
He should have been awarded posthumously for the pictures he left behind that contained invaluable images for the science of geology. Thank you for telling me. RIP Robert Landsburg.🌹❤
I been watching CZcams since it’s creation , this channel is amongst my top 5 channels. You deserve millions of subscribers 💪
Wow, thank you so much for that wonderful compliment! You rock!
The best way to avoid an outdoor disaster is to stay indoors and watch TV while pretending to be outdoors and taking risks and eating snacks.
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Excellent writing, editing, and narration, as always. Thank you!
Three things I remember from the eruption: Dave Crockett; Spokane covered in ash; and Harry Truman, the old man who refused to leave the area, having lived there for almost 50 years.
I'm also reminded of the White Island disaster back in 2019 - much of the horror captured on video.
Fantastic video my friend! The documentary I watched was good, but this video was way better than that documentary about Mt. St Helens! It felt really immersive the way you narrated like I was there when it erupted! I never heard of Dave Crockett in regards to the eruption, I've only heard of the elderly guy who wouldn't evacuate his home and the young man from the US geological society who was measuring the seismic activity from Mt. St Helens who unfortunately didn't make it out. Anyway thank you for a great video and I look forward to your next video!🙂
I love your voice and earnest style of narration. It reminds me of the type of narration that old documentaries from the mid-20th Century had.
Most documentaries after that time period tend to favor a more casual, conversational style, but there is still a place for a more serious, formal, eloquent style of narration as well.
Thank you very much! Very pleased you recognize the style I'm aiming for.
On May 15, 2023 a landslide took out a bridge on state route 504 that leads to the Johnston Ridge Observatory. 12 people were stranded at the observatory over night and had to be flown out, their cars were stranded for several months.
WOW!! That was absolutely awesome!! Thank you very much for another fantastic video!! This channel just gets better and better!!!
Thanks again!
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I lived in Olympia at the time. Hiked and camped all through there as a kid. Used to go to summer camp at Spirit Lake. I believe it was a Sunday. The sky went dark as we played in the streets.
Amazing how many of your stories brings back so many memories for me. I’ve hiked, camped and hunted in many of these locations mostly in the US Southwest. I was actually living in the PNW at the time of the eruption. It was on my 14th birthday and I was having my last fishing day on a river with a friend before moving to Arizona. It was a birthday I will never forget. In 2006 I moved back up to Washington just 30 miles from Mt Saint Helens. I visited the Johnston observatory and even so many years later all I can say is that it was surreal. The North ridge of the mountain still looked like the surface of the moon. Your story telling captures the moments perfectly.
That's awesome. Thank you so much for your comments!
Subscribed due to incredible story telling, and your discussion of survivors crediting God for their survival. I adore this channel. Man i have neuroimmune disease and its very new to me. It's stolen my independence and im angry.
But i listen to these stories and if they didn’t give up i cant either. Thanks for helping me so much.
Fills me with joy that I can do my small part in giving you hope. Keep fighting and have faith. God will get you through.
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40,000 subs!!! That’s awsome! Can’t wait to see that Nmbr climb to 100,000! I’m rooting for u! U do a great job & have the perfect voice for this! Another awsome vid!
With people as yourself who support this channel, I think it's attainable. Thank you so much!
Wow what an exhilarating story told by CZcamss best channel and this may be their best ever story! I was in my early twenties when Mt. St. Helens erupted and needless I was enjoying life to the fullest and so I paid basically no attention to it as it did not affect me! Since that time I have learned what a monumental event it truly was! But I never understood it like this and what a story about a newspaper reporter, a kid about my age captured the moment and came away with his life! Thanks Outdoor Disasters for opening my eyes!
I was 21 years old when this went down, lived in Northern CA. The devastation rendered by Mt. St. Helens eruption boggled the mind!
what an amazing, incrdible story of survival !!!! how he kept his head, found enery reserves, is super human !!!!!
When you said it was a miracle he found the rescue basket, I spontaneously said, "Another one!"
Yes,God certainly turned out for Dave!
As a person who can see St Helens 40 miles to My NE. You've done a Great Job on St Helens and Your other volcano video You put out!! Keep it up!!!
Great video man, you have one of the best channels on the outdoors. I expect you to hit 100k subs in no time!
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We visited the Johnson Observatory some 10 years ago, but it was very windy and the volcano was swept in dense clouds. On our way back we stopped by, what i suppose was mr Crocket’s car.
Have heard many stories about the eruption, how many perished and also many survived, though mangled half to death in the river that had turned into a deadly lahar filled with logs and debris.
It’s cool to see nature show it’s strength like this, but god forbid me even being close. Last summer we missed an exit in Grindavik, Island, a place that is now covered in lava. We went to see mt Etna and Stromboli, but we’ve seen on TV and internet how these two volcanos can go from “friendly fireworks” to natures killing machines ….
Damn you, OD, your videos are addictive, well make and your (voice?) and the background music are perfect for the stories.
Thank you for sharing and watching my friend! I gotta go see Crockett's care next time Im in the area.
Why haven't I heard of this guy before? The vulcanologist that staked out a hillside facing the bulge and continued to report until the actual eruption killed him is featured often. He was the only one who insisted that it was going to erupt at the bulge and not at the summit, but he was ignored. Sorry, I can't remember his name. Dave is new to me and thank you so much for bringing him to my attention. What an incredible story of survival against all odds! Your presentation was exquisite without screaming or woe is me narrations, just calm descriptions. You have a new subscriber.
I was 10, living in the very NW corner of Oregon at the time. We sang a song in music class about Harry Truman prior to the eruption. The sky got black the day of the eruption and we had a thick layer of ash on everything. My mom instructed us to not touch the ash on the cars because we really wanted to run our hands through it! It was a strange time that I will never forget. Every time May 18th rolls around, I remember.
Once again you deliver great story of will and determination! Your channel is one of my favorites !
I have a beautiful glass Christmas Ornament made with the Ash of the eruption.
I was driving by that special day in 1980. We were among the finalists 50 vehicles the cops let go by. The ash cloud followed us into Wyoming but a blizzard knocked the cloud apart. Didn't have that much fun again until 3 Mile Island,...
I was a kid visiting Portland, Oregon some time after the eruption and dust was still coming down there, covering the plants and just falling from the sky.
I have just subscribed to your channel, your videos are outstanding. Your information about these disasters is spot on, perfect. At my age, I have been here long enough to remember these disasters when they happened. I thank you for sharing these incredible videos with us. Excellent work!
Welcome aboard my friend! Many stories to dive into.
It wasn't just eastern WA that dealt with ash deposits...Vancouver, and especially Kalama and Longview all had piles and long berms of volcanic ash deposited on both sides of l-5 during the cleanup afterwards. The Toutle River actually rerouted itself. Over the last 43 years, the ash berms have been re-covered with new growth of trees and brush, but those of us who live here know what lies underneath.
I live at the base of Mt Lassen in NE California. It's 17 miles to the National Park from Shingletown. I had always thought when it errupts again we would be relatively safe from pyroclastic flows. That was until I looked at a USGS hazard map. Uh-Oh...My bad, it would come through the front door, out the back slider and halfway down to Anderson. Highway miles do not equal air miles.
Pyroclastic...today I learned a new word. Thanks Outdoor Disasters!
You're in the flow now!
9:55 That footage of St Helens exploding was so surreal. It would give me nightmares to see that in person.
His ability to shave and re-grow facial hair in such difficult circumstances is amazing! As is his ability to do a voice over on other survivor's film footage miles away while choking on ash.
This is so informative!!! Fantastic video; I love this kind of content!🌻🌼🐝
Not many people alive today have survived a pyroclastic surge. Those are hellishly fast - you can't outrun them. The heat of the blast will kill (almost) everything in its path. Just look at the panicked flight of those caught in Pompeii. Hiding indoors is futile - there is no oxygen in the cloud. I genuinely fear for the people of Naples.
It's seriously my nightmare getting caught in one of those things
Thank you for sharing this story and video! What a survival story! 😮
Nature is truly formidable. Great vid!
It truly is.
I was a senior in high school when St. Helen erupted. Quite a news story for the day!😢 16:58
We lived in Auburn, WA. I remember standing on the roof of our house (as all the neighbors were doing) and watching it.
Some guy on CZcams created a Mt. St. Helens eruption playlist that has 188 videos of the event. I binge-watched them all!
Another good episode!❤
DAM... seriously not many people get to see a mountain collapse
think about that
i would have seriously shit myself
Man the narrator made you feel and see everything like you were there! Excellent story telling.😊
What a wonderful story!!😊
Dave Crockett's car is at the Cowlitz County Historical Museum in Kelso, WA.
Man I remember my tv going black for about 30 seconds and the news man came on with the news of the eruption 😞 and I was living in Louisiana
We were watching the Bulge Grow in my 5th grade class in Vancouver WA. Just 40 SE in the Portland Vancouver Area. Wow. Watched blow out ash foe hours!! Glad I wasn't on the Otheside of St Helens. Poor people and critters.
wasn’t there another photographer in the vicinity who didn’t survive? and knowing he wouldn’t make it bc he couldn’t outrun the debris, he captured the eruption with his camera as it approached him and, morbidly, his last moments?
Yes
Yes
Another great video! Love your channel, your content and your voice! 😁❤
Thank you so much!
@outdoordisasters I hope you get a ton of 🐱 in your lifetime bro. You deserve it my man! GOAT!
I really enjoy your videos
Thanks
You keep delivering ! Really well made. Do you do your own narration ? You got a talent there, it sounds totally professional. Well articulated, discrete. These stories can't use a sensationalist narration i think. You see this a lot with documentaries on true crime while i think it's a bit disrespectful towards those who were involved.
Thank you very much for the work you put in them !
A hiker/urbex youruber filmed his hiking around the affected areas where some vehicles etc are still visible, partially buried with vegetation reclaiming them. Haunting
For all its beauty and full body splendor, Bud Ice can be a cruel teacher...
LMAO
Now YellowStone is something we need to watch…they say if that one erupts it will affect the whole world…
We were in Michigan when Mount Saint Helens erupted. The sky in the west turned red. It was hard to believe that wè were seeing this from so many, many miles away.
I just discovered your channel. You have a great voice. For a minute there I thought you were Leonard Nimoy. For that i subbed. Plus I experienced the weather that year.
Thanks for the sub!
@@outdoordisasters you're very welcome
He shuda had his racoon hat
A few years later I went and saw my sister in Washington and we found out that Amtrak provided the way of releasing all of that volcanic ash
1:04 "symbolling??!" Symbolizing. But this is merely a slip of the lip of our favorite narrator.
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You should narrate one of those self guided walks in National Parks
It's puzzling a pyroclastic flow etc travelling at 'breakneck speed' when cervical fractures are difficult to perceive Edit:Unimaginable force explains everything.
Thanks for the incredibly descript narrative and irrelevant but not distracting music
A 'speeding tidal wave' must be horrific..
The ferocious scorching mud was really hostile ,the scorching sludge malicious probably.
David Crockett took it personally
I must practice perpendicular movement
Watching this from the Portland Oregon area to n new years day, 2024, after there were already earthquakes in Japan and California today with tsunamis following in japan. Ima need the ring of fire to settle tf down now.
He’s what you call lucky 👍
I visited Mount st Helen 2 years after it erupted. Everything was covered in ash still. It looked like a moonscape or something.
We had just moved to Union Oregon when ST. Helens erupted. I was 8 and I remember a ½" thick layer of ask all over everything 290 miles away.
Who would ever consider a volcano as a beauty......😮
Sheesh, what a story. 👌🙏
That was fascinating. The pictures! Thanks! Looking forward to the next one.
I'm from the Portland area. My family was in Disneyland for vacation when this happened, I was 5. When we got home, not having a clue about volcanic eruptions, I thought the ash on my mom's car was snow & ran my finger over the hood of her car, then licked it. Yeah, not a good time. -10/10 Do not recommend. Sometimes kids move faster than parents with their hands full. 😂
Excellent video as always! Thank you!
The narrator’s use of adjectives and simile is, in two words; insidiously resplendent.
Dude sounds like Thomas Sewell. I can dig it. Great delivery as well, it’s an easy listen. You’ve got a sub in me
Thanks for the sub!
Lahar not mudslide. A lahar is much more dangerous then a mudslide. If you get stuck in a lahar it's much harder to get out without help. Once the lahar stops moving it instantly hardens like cement. Trapping you there.
Spirit lake by the volcano was buried underneath volcanic ash. It took years before it resurfaced again.
Yay 🙂
"For all its beauty and splendor" you trying to make a new catch phrase there? 😉
I like your videos. However, it sounds like your voice is being filtered through a VHS tape that was dug out of the attic. This is due in part to your cadence (which is very charming) having a "classic documentary" feel, but also I think you need a new microphone.
This is me wishing you success, let's get that microphone!
I love your voice ❤️ you are so professional even better that people that do news etc, you have a unique voice an are on point an clear in what your narrating ♥️ I'm a sub an follow your channel all the way from New Zealand 🥰
I love the Kiwis! Welcome and thank you for watching!
@@outdoordisasters your welcome x
My rule is simple: Less than a thousand miles from a volcano You're too close for confort. I'm more than a thousand miles from the closest volcano. The perfect spot to survive an eruption, I believe.
Dude. You overwrite. Its exhausting. RELAX YOUR SYNTAX! 😮💨😓😵💫
Dante's Peak footage lol.
VOLCANO SHARKS!
Another example of how important it is to have a close relationship with god most high!!! People use the term “life changing experience” very loosely. It is exactly as the tee suggests, an event that you were involved with that out your life on a totally different path that would absolutely not been possible without being involved with the event. For example, between my mid teens and mid twenties, I was traveling all over the world all winter long every year snowboarding all the most icon mountains of the earth. But make no mistake, while very dangerous and offering up a totally different set of challenges, for us it was never once the big mountain that ever took any of us out. It was always every single time the backyard local ski hill. Im from Pittsburgh, so our local go-to ski hill was 7 springs in the laurel highlands about an hour and 15 minutes outside the city of Pittsburgh. While I was at the Matterhorn for 9days, the trip was really pretty uneventful. That year, was the most mild winter at the Matterhorn in many decades. In fact a lot of the mountain that was rideable terrain was not even covered in snow. So basically if I remember correctly, I was limited to the areas of rifflealp, riffleberg, and schwarzsee paradise. On the slopes of schwarzsee paradise, I had the most eventful experience of the trip. I had just switched over to a new technology binding made by K2 that they called a cinch binding. And was riding a brand new deck that was the same specs I always rode K2 152 wide models, this particular one was a K2 152 satellite wide model, and I had my favorite deck, with me also, just in case this one didn’t quite feel comfortable. Which was the legendary, K2 eldorado. I never rode the eldorado that week because I really liked the satellite wide model. But at a certain point on the mountain, both of the bindings popped open oddly at the same time, which effectively left on the ground, careening towards a sheer cliff. Luckily i was able to come to a stop about 80 feet away from it. The conditions of the snow pac at the Matterhorn were some of the worst snow pack I’ve ever ridden on.my first impressions were if you were blessed to live in Utah near the wasatch cache range, and regularly ride or ski places like snowbird, or Alta, or any other resort in the area, and were regularly spoiled with the best and deepest powder in the world, and ended up in the alps or atleast the Matterhorn, you wouldn’t know how to handle the horrible conditions, of pretty much a total ice sheet, with little to no snow on it. Which was ok by me, because, in Pittsburgh, like it or not that’s what we have to work with here. So the advantage of cutting your teeth on horrible conditions is that you can kill it on any surface anywhere anytime. I ultimately came home from that trip, and a few days later Christmas came. That year my brother had given me a gift card for my local ski hill, 7 springs. I used it on December 27, 2007 and that’s where I took my final run down the mountain. It was very abrupt, and I was absolutely not expecting what ultimately occurred. Although in the bsck of my mind, I knew that it was coming time, or probably passed due for my card to be pulled. This is because, every single year on my birthday trip to 7 springs, one of us had been hurt to a moderate degree. Including, my roommate stabbing himself in the eye with a ski pole in a mogul run the year prior. Everyone except me had taken their turn. About 25 minutes before our pass expired we were on the north face of the mountain, and which is where the steepest part of the mountain was that had the longest slopes. On the lift we decided that we would take a last run down what was called “the gunner chair line” I left the edge of the slope on top and basically never cut a turn or carved until I was about 2/3 of the way down the slope, so I was at about terminal velocity as far as snowboarding standards go. And at about the point where I had covered the first 2/3 of the slope I made a very quick right turn and immediately transitioned to the back edge, my back facing downhill to make a left turn, and it was at that moment I knew I was fucked. Upon transitioning to the heel edge, that was facing downhill, the edge caught, and when I say I flipped end over end for so long at a certain point a long way in I had more than enough time to do a lot of thinking about the situation. I ultimately was relegated to thinking, “oh my when is this ever going to end!” Eventually it did. I lost all kinds of my equipment on the slope, including both of my gloves. When thing’s stopped, my first thought was, that must have looked extremely bad, because every other time you crash in view of a ski lift, everyone will heckle you. Althusser time, nobody was doing anything of the sort. At that moment I was not aware of the severity of the situation, because I was dazed and confused, and my calf’s felt really fatigued, which is common during a snowboarding run from constantly being on your toes.so after about two minutes I was still feeling all of the original negative effects, but decided I had to try to skip up the hill and grab the equipment I lost that was at least in close proximity. I rolled over onto my stomach and pushed of the hill to stand up, and at that point began to realize that there were bigger problems than just being confused and having just tired calf muscles.when I went to stand up I realized that both of my legs were broken and it was apparent that Eve though I had never broken a leg, it didn’t quite take an expert to know that it was a severe break that was not compound in nature, but my fears were ultimately confirmed 2 days later. They were effectively pulverized from my heel up to my knee in both legs. Oddly enough, it was mis diagnosed at the first 2 hospitals I went to as a sprain. At the second hospital I had to go to the next morning, the doctor initially diagnosed it as bilateral sprains, but as I was leaving the next day came in and said “I was looking at you x-ray again and saw that your right leg is actually broken in so many places I can’t even tell quite how many fractures it has, this is beyond my skill level, go and see this guy at Gigi’s office in cranberry, I already scheduled the appointment. Which was strange because it was a Sunday evening appointment he scheduled for me. So I went to the appointment he took other x-rays, and came out and said “I can’t believe you are at an office visit with injuries like this, nobody comes in an office appointment with injuries to this degree. He proceeded to tell me that my right leg had a total of 32 separate fractures, and that the left had 17 separate fractures. And then told me that the likelihood of the only possible option for my right leg was amputation at the knee. I was so fucking shocked, I said “I was only snowboarding for fucks sake!” He told me that the fractures were what they call pilon fractures. That is commonly seen when someone jump off of a great height, and when their heels impact the ground, the talus bone which is a spherical bone on top of the heel, and under the tibia and fibula, impacts so hard from the abrupt stop from falling that it is driven up into the tibia and fibula, effectively splitting the 2 bones apart and shattering them into varying degrees depending on the accident. Apparently this was a. Extreme case. Because of not only the number of fractures, and swelling, but as I found out after I got home that weekend, that not only were there multiple screws that were completely rattled out of my bindings, the deck was so destroyed that it was basically town to splinters on the 2 ends and delaminated 33:33 and the metal edges were almost completely separated, torn out of the deck and bent all up. The surgeon said you have to go to the hospital for a surgery. I said when ? He said right now! I’ll do it tomorrow morning. I said wait I didn’t even bring my cigarettes with me, he said you won’t be needing them m, you’re gonna be there for a long. Which from the first surgery, was a 28 day stay in the hospital, which luckily, they didn’t amputate my right leg but were able to put on an external fixator to stabilize it until swelling reduced. That was only possible because since my leg was in a snowboard boot it prevented me the pieces of my leg from dis lodged to far from the other pices ultimately I had a total of 7 surgeries, developed bad infection at the incision sites at the hospital, and spent a total of hundreds of days in the hospital. I became addicted to painkillers as a result of gross irresponsible overprescribing, i was getting 400 Vicodin a month 100 dilaudid shots a month, and a morphine pump that hit me with a dose ever 6 minutes around the clock., when I was abruptly cut off I immediately became a junkie. And it took over 20 years of my life. However, the best things in my life would not have been possible without these negative events. And thts how I have to look at it. Being able to see the blessings of a bad event.
Why would he need flares and signals and such? He was already praying. God wouldve helped him anyway.
Always remember - if you ever find yourself in a life threatening situation, just pray to God. You dont need to do anything else. Praying alone is all you need. God will save you.
(Well occasionally he will tell you to just fuck off and die, but that only means you werent praying hard enough.)
31:52 - Who's the nut job standing and filming that?!?
Obviously, he got out ok, but sheesh!!!
I don't click buttons until AFTER I have viewed the post. Lately many creators have issued (almost) orders to like and subscribe before the program even starts. That is ridiculous. I might not like it. Or I might like it, but not choose to subscribe. Most, if not all, viewers know how to like and/or subscribe. You needn't tell us.
The thing that brought me joy was his unshakable faith in God! May God bless this man!!❤️🙏🔥
Well done. What an UNBELIEVABLY harrowing and tragic CLOSE call for Dave Crockett. The Lord was certainly with him. STILL, a VERY sad outcome for so many and a remarkable testament to what ‘Mother Nature’..God CAN do. (The ONE thing I’d just LOVE to see stopped is the dumb “conversions” we have to listen to. For instance, “So many MILES..equals so many kilometers”…or “so many FEET equals so many “METERS”. Sounds SO dumb…)
Haha yeah I know. But half of the audience is outside US and received numerous request to use metric measurements.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not parish but have everlasting life. John 3:26 Let’s worship the creator vs. creation.
AMEN 🙏
AMEN 🙏
It feels like the entire narration is clickbait. As if a 9th grader is using a thesaurus to write a English paper.
I think it's unfortunate that you chose to dramatize this with a mix of visual sources with zero attribution, meaning that people can't tell what's real, what's interpolated from real sources, and what's complete fiction.