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Avalanche prevention

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LeBlanc
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So Im heading west to go skiing pow, and I need some tips for avalanche safety and prevention.
Oct 25 2005 6:32PM
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girl_jibBer
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take a course and buy the gear
Oct 25 2005 6:33PM
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cab_D
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buy a tranciever, probe and shovel. yeah u may want to take some kind of avalanche course too. or just learn how to use your gear. Read a book on avalanches too, to get an idea of what goes on in the backcountry with snow conditons, dangerous slopes such as that.
Oct 25 2005 6:34PM
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LeBlanc
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Well do I need to worry about avalanches in inbounds bowls on powder days?
Oct 25 2005 6:35PM
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Mahre
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stay away....only way to prevent...same goes for hiv..dont expose yourself to it. leave it to us with the proper safety gear already...

a more firm layer covered with freshies..sketchy
Oct 25 2005 6:38PM
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cab_D
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no, inbounds is avalanche controlled.
Oct 25 2005 6:38PM
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leone
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don't die in an avalanche
Oct 25 2005 6:42PM
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waynewong
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no always...people have died inbounds and some of the larger slides last year were inbounds

I was nearly killed at alpine meadows by an inbounds slide...3-foot fracture line above an exposed rock band, pulled 500-feet down the slope over two cliffs and into a tree well....a telemarker saw it release on me and was right there as it stopped to pull me out, felt like I was in a river of snow

wind loading and heavy snowfall during the day may outpace patrollers and if your getting creative and skiing were few go, you MAY encounter dangerous snow conditions...

Patrollers do not always hit every sldie path and you do need to know whats up
Oct 25 2005 6:45PM
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GotamaBCshredder
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weswt is deadly dangerous I wouldn't even come seriously dude :)
Oct 25 2005 6:47PM
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Ptrckroe
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Buy some explosives and set the at the top of the hill before you start, then detonate and ski as fasy as you can.
Oct 25 2005 6:48PM
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LeBlanc
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Well Im going to fernie, do you think I will need to go out of bounds to find sick stuff to ski?
Oct 25 2005 7:27PM
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lcc210
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^no you dont have to go out of bounds, but its fernie so I would...but take a class first so you dont kill yourself. Or go with some experience people, and get all the equipment, books are nice too but are nothing compared to hands on int he field work.
Oct 25 2005 7:28PM
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LeBlanc
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So what, your telling me taht fernie sucks?
Oct 25 2005 7:58PM
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lcc210
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no fernie is sick, inbounds terrain is nice too but after a few months youll get bored and want to ski the out of bounds stuff because its so sick as well.
Oct 25 2005 8:05PM
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LeBlanc
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Im only heading there for a week hahaha
Oct 26 2005 2:49PM
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d-loc
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you will be fine, avalance is more for out of bounds skiing and advanced. and dumb asses like LCC ;)
Oct 26 2005 2:52PM
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lcc210
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ya if youre only there a week you will have plenty of fun skiing in bounds, and you will just end up killing yourself if you go under the ropes.
Oct 26 2005 2:54PM
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JIB_NISSE
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yeah but you can never be too sure, there is always an avalanche risk when skiing powder...the risk is yours
just make sure to go on days where the avalanche risk if fairly low.
Oct 26 2005 3:08PM
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lcc210
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the chances of being caught in an inbounds slide are sooo low, unless its dumping a foot an hour and windy as shit patrol is generally on top of that stuff.
Oct 26 2005 3:10PM
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