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 09/29/2009 09:11:01 AM · #1
Check it out here!


09/29/2009 10:15:55 AM · #2
Makes me want to go to Dairy Queen with a snorkel. Yikes!
 09/29/2009 10:16:40 AM · #3
Wow! That's amazingly scary just watching it.

Life can be over in a heartbeat, folks. Make sure you're ready.
 09/29/2009 10:25:11 AM · #4
This is why I live in the south and don't snow ski
 09/29/2009 10:30:32 AM · #5
great POV........trying to catch my breath
 09/29/2009 10:38:40 AM · #6
wow
 09/29/2009 11:35:33 AM · #7
do you think there was an air pocket at all?

Message edited by author 2009-09-29 11:35:46.
 09/29/2009 11:48:26 AM · #8
The least they could have done was clear the mic so we could have heard what they were saying.

Blue Moon, They provided this link stating that he had an avalung (which helps you breathe after being buried by an avalanche).
09/29/2009 12:03:32 PM · #9
Originally posted by NathanW:
The least they could have done was clear the mic so we could have heard what they were saying.

Blue Moon, They provided this link stating that he had an avalung (which helps you breathe after being buried by an avalanche).

The best $129.95 he's ever spent !
 09/29/2009 12:12:39 PM · #10
I had seen at one time there was a technology where the suit you we wearing had inflated and turned you into somewhat of a bubble that rides on top of the avalanche. The Avalung is brilliant but only works if you put it on. That is the clincher as most times the trauma of falling prevents this from happening. Lots of guys will ski with the Avalung in their mouth because of this concern.
 09/29/2009 12:37:47 PM · #11
Thanks Skippy. That settles the question of me taking up back-country skiing this winter.
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