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  8. Damn lucky! (with photos)

    in Caught in the Middle

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    Yeah man..

    He was saying afterwords that he was completely powerless against it, and could do nothing. Said he was thrown everywhere, unable to breath as his mouth had filled with snow, but just tried to focus on keeping something on the surface.

    Pretty sobering experience, really.

    :|

  10. Damn lucky! (with photos)

    in Caught in the Middle

    Posted · Edited by thePrince

    Hi folks, this isn't a very well thought out post since I still can't quite believe it myself, and am feeling slightly numbed, so you'll have to bear with me.

    Well, I'm currently kissing the ground. Nice, sweet, solid ground.

    Well, here in Scotland we had 4 feet of fresh snow leading up to the weekend, so I went off skiing again (ah here we go).

    Anyway, I'll cut to the point.

    Me and a few mates are skiing down this gully (known as the 'Flypaper' - named because of how steep it is - it's how most people want to just cling to it, and not let go), which was absolutely loaded with fresh snow. So we were all eager to lay down fresh tracks on the Flypaper. We had one amazing run down there to start off with.

    So anyway, it was so good, we decided to do it again.

    I'm usually out in front, but I hung back to take some photos (with hindsight, thank f*ck I did). I ski after them quickly, and am second down the gully, with one of my mates infront (2 behind). The gap between me and the mate at the front is about 5metres.

    Anyway, he gets in 2 turns, when a crack appears across the slope, and the whole slope CRUMBLES, RIGHT INFRONT OF ME.

    Needless to say, I just jammed on the brakes, and watched (nothing else I could do). It was insane. A huge amount of snow, charging down the hill. My mate in the middle of it, then he VANISHED within it.

    So we're all just swearing, watching this mass of snow tumble down the hill, with no clue of where our friend is. We wait until the slide stops (my mate was carried down 800ft with it!!!!!), then ski down as quickly as we could to get to him.

    We went down 800ft, until we spotted a ski pole sticking up in the snow, and a glove.

    Thankfully he was near the surface, but the build up of snow around him was over 3metres deep (we checked with an avalanche probe), so if he wasn't as near to the surface as that it would have taken us much longer to dig him out, and the chances are that he could have died if we didn't find him within 10-15 minutes (if there wasn't a ski pole or glove showing, we wouldn't have known where to start digging).

    Anyway, hurried digging later, and we got him out. Safe and sound. But he lost his skis in the middle of it. I guess we'll have to go back in a few months when the snow melts.

    Now I'm just thinking... That could have been me!! I'm getting pretty down about that at the moment. I'm just thankful I stopped when I did to take some photos at the top, otherwise it would have been me out front that triggered that slide.

    Photos attached!!

    Somewhere in there...

    Dig, damnit, dig

    Thank f*ck. No wonder he's smiling.

    Path of the slide, 800ft downhill from where it started!

    Later, digging to try and find his lost skis (didn't find them)

  21. Happy Birthday Prince!

    in Caught in the Middle

    Posted · Edited by thePrince

    haha Wes... this has got to be a bluff from Prince, it's way to early to be drunk... :rofl:

    actually, scratch that... he's runnin a bit of a riot on ws.com too, haha! :rofl:

    Oh.. God. What did I do on WS.com? :ohdear:

    I remember it taking me a very long time to log in!

    Anyway, thanks all!

    Yeah went skiing yesterday for the day. Had a great time. Was up with some friends. There'd been even more fresh snow the night before, and the sun came out, so it was awesome. Spent the day ripping up the slopes, and doing jumps and drop-offs and things.

    Then at the end we hiked up from the highest lift, and hiked up the steepest bit on the mountain which is outside the ski area boundary (avalanche warning level was category 4: high). Was an amazing run. Only about the 2nd time I've done it too. Great snow.

    Have photos etc, I might post them later.

    Edit: I've just been to WS.com. I see I accused somebody of being a "peddofile"?! lol

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