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i was in a slide today

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wilkesyachtingco
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so... today i went to have a great ol time at squaw valley, as i often do. as i am sure many of you are aware, we have received a rediculous amount of snow latley. anyhow, i was riding up the shirley lake chair, and looked of to my right, and noticed a pristine chute below the attic that dumps out of the granite cheif traverse... (this is for all the kids who know squaw) so me and my little brother exit the chair to the right and make the long traverse across the bowl to the skiers left. we kept high enough to roll up on to a shoulder of rocks that had about three untouched lines. i picked my chute and droped in. it was probably 80 to 100 yards long and maybe 20-35 feet wide... approx... anyhow, i made my first turn to the left, and it was deep. realy deep. i unweighted for my next turn, when i saw the snow in front of me and to my left fracture. the entire chute ripped out, and since i had barley dropped in, i was not going nearly fast enough to point it out. i tried to poit it out and to the right to avoid a small stand of trees, but to no avail. the slide had me, and i started thinking of everything you are supposed to do in such a situation. i was sunk in up to my knees, and had no control what so ever. the slide was pulling my feet in diffeent directions, so that when the snow came to a stop, i was streached out way more than anyone should be. the snow stopped a few feet from a stand of little trees that i though i was going to get dragged into. at any rate, i was able to dig my legs out, and turned around to see that the whole chute had slid from just behind the point where i had dropped... the fracture was about a foot and a half thick. thank goodness i was able to stay on my feet, or things could have been worse... now, its no seth morrison caliber of avy ride, but it was the biggest slide i have ever personally witnessed, and it just so happens that i was the trigger, and rode that mutha out...

so theres my story- has anyone else ever been in a slide? if so-- chime in with any stories... it was frickin scary..










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Dec 22 2002 1:47AM
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mammothpunks
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ya you got lucky - there were 10 foot crowns up here in mammoth some places.


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Dec 22 2002 3:42AM
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Nik
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crazy. stay safe. we don't need any dead kids.

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Dec 22 2002 5:39AM
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tori
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Yeah, I was in one pretty much exactly the same as you in New Zealand.
I dropped in to a chute, made one turn to my right, and as I was unweighting it all just started to move with me. It was a pretty wet slab so it slid slow at first, but I was on my hip and couldn't get up.
I just rammed my downhill ski down as hard as I could and worked diagonally across it so I came to a stop on the edge of the debris buried kinda waist deep just as the chute opens out.
I was lucky because the runout flatenned out real quick and I could've got buried pretty deep.

As soon as it started to slide, all the stuff Ive read and training Ive done just instantly took over which was so call, but it still shook me up.
Its just a surprise, like, fuck ... oh shit !


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Dec 22 2002 5:42AM
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1080enemy
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scary shit man, good to know that you are still with us.
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Dec 22 2002 7:02AM
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Kornn101
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man. i gotta learn this terminology, and how to ski faces and whatnot, and then i gotta find one, probably not here in jersey, but o yes, i shall find one, heh
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Dec 22 2002 2:30PM
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Ghost
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that's wild, you are lucky to have not met with that tree.

I started a small avalanche one time, nothing that nuts though

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Dec 22 2002 11:35PM
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Whistlermann
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Yeah, your luck to have not been all twisted upside down and burry-ified. I've been in a small slide before... but nothing that could've even really hurt me. Its a weird feeling to have the snow go start flowing.
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Dec 22 2002 11:44PM
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MadTrixter
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i was in a slide once. it was a yellow spiral slide. i had fun

but on a more serious note; that would have sucked if you would have gone the few extra yards into the trees. you'd prolly be hurt pretty badly. did your brother see the it happen?


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Dec 23 2002 12:11AM
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Ds91260
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well i didnt get a chance to trigger a slide, the resort was supposed to open up their highest peak today, and theyre opening at 8 starting today. so i go up there and im freezing my balls off, they shot snow guns in the direction of a lift to boot. but ne way i get up there and its closed and i here them blasting it. i went back around 11 and it was still closed, and i just found out that they didnt open it because they blasted all the snow off the mountain. i guess its good cause i could have been in a slide, but im still pissed.
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Dec 23 2002 12:16AM
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Itsbackfliptime
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i wish i skiied somewhere big enough to get a slide.

My girlfriend told me to shove my skis up my ass
Dec 23 2002 12:35PM
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