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Ontario AVALANCHE POV

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ChasingFlakes
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This is not my video. I just happen to find it on youtube. it is from my home town however. This guy is incredibly lucky to be alive. What do you guys thinks. should people playing on tailings be carrying probe shovel beacons and take a course? would you ever expect this to happen? Obviously i think we need more public awareness in those regions. That was a good size slide in alpine like terrain in fucking ontario of all places!




can some one embed please
Feb 13 2012 8:27AM
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Enstrut
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Feb 13 2012 8:43AM
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thegreyarea
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Yes. Tailing piles are very stupid. They're at the perfect angle to slide and no anchors.
Feb 13 2012 9:24AM
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Che~
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cousin eddy's is fucking gnar
Feb 13 2012 9:49AM
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corona
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I never get it. This happens all the time, someone's seeing how high they can go up a slope a big heavy loud vibrating machine and somehow expect that they're going to be immune to avalanches. How many people die a year from avalanches sledding? It's probably more than skiing. What do you expect though. That is a pointless sport too if ever I saw one. Why not ski the lines instead.
Feb 13 2012 10:28AM
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Blurst
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Where the fuck is this?
Feb 13 2012 10:31AM
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no_steeze
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so fucking stupid, people are the biggest idiots. snow can slide anywhere and it amazes me when people put themselves in higher risk situations than is necessary while not having any rescue equipment or, if they do have it, they have absolutely no idea how to even use it
Feb 13 2012 10:46AM
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Blurst
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To be honest I dont know if you anything about Ontario (assuming you dont because you are not Canadian) but this is the first slide that I have ever heard of im my 18 years of living in this province. I dont think that anywhere in the entire province offers an avalanche course and finding avalanche gear, much less learning how to use it, would be very difficult.

These guys are dumb and everything but they could never have anticipated this happening.
Feb 13 2012 10:52AM
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Drail
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yep. there are some tailing piles on the edge of my town (on the backside of the ski hill). Normally we skirt around them when skiing home, but some days we traverse out to them and play around. it's fun to do a ski cut on the top and watch the snow slide. They sure do like to slide.
Feb 13 2012 11:28AM
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Justin.B
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Yeah I agree with this completely. I've never ever heard of or seen any kind of slide or avy in ontario, it's just not something we anticipate or prepare ourselves for.

And I've got the same question as you wondering where this was taken
Feb 13 2012 1:54PM
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ChasingFlakes
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as said before. its just not something we ever think would happen. This is from my home town so im extra shocked it happened. Now i spend my days in the bc and if i were to ski that slope i probably would treat it as alpine terrain. BUT no one knows wtf alpine terrain is in ontario i sent it into the news so hopefully this will become public knowledge.

This is about an hour out of timmins. just north of ramore and holtyre
Feb 13 2012 2:42PM
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GayWolf420
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Those screams of pain got me, man.
Feb 13 2012 2:46PM
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japollner
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Doesn't matter where you are. East coast, west coast. He was an idiot for traversing there.

Terrain trap below with multiple obvious strainers and fresh snow on top of a tailing pile...

...a TAILING PILE! The reason tailing piles slide is because the whole ground layer is a made of up gravel.

Sucks to be the kid, and glad he is ok. But common sense says thats a shitty place to be.
Feb 13 2012 3:18PM
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ski_ENDUB
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dude got lucky but they're complete fucking idiots for going out without proper rescue equipment. If you're gonna be sledding you should definitely get some knowledge about avalanche saftey and learn how to read the snow since most places you're gonna be riding don't get avalanche control

Feb 13 2012 3:28PM
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speedin
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Is it just me? All I see is some guy going up a pretty steep "Hill", he tries to turn around and come back down, gets off balance, falls off and slides into some trees/bushes. Then a little bit of snow slides on him from him hitting a big mound of snow. Maybe im not seeing it. .....
Feb 13 2012 4:05PM
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corona
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I've been on them many times and find them pointless as just toys to drive around in. Towing a gt racer with them, now that is fun.
Feb 13 2012 4:09PM
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speedin
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whoops never mind now I see it. Seems like a small one none the less scary.

Feb 13 2012 4:11PM
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SKI.ING
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I don't know alot about backcountry, so can someone please tell me what a tailing pile is?
Feb 13 2012 4:16PM
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eheath
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Wow, he is literally only alive because of that tree and his sled.
Feb 13 2012 4:17PM
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Drail
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a tailing pile has nothing to do with "backcountry terms" directly. It's a mining term. When we mine for rocks/minerals, we are just going after specific rocks, the rest get discarded in piles beside the mine site. We call those tailing piles. The landings of both Pyramid and Chad's gap are tailing piles for example.

google image search for tailing piles:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=tailing+piles&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=eoE5T9ODMOnr0gG015SXBA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBEQ_AUoAQ&biw=903&bih=670
Feb 13 2012 4:38PM
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ChasingFlakes
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did you not watch the whole video? they had to dig 8 ft to get to his sled , This was a serious avy by all means. As for all the people raging on these guys. This might be the first ever avy involvement in that area ever. Its not common knowledge so common sense as people keep saying is not common in this area. Obviously it can happen and this is way im trying to spread the video around.
Feb 13 2012 6:08PM
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