Account of an avlanche accident

[Ispoiler]

Here is a link to an account of skiers caught in avalance, pretty sobering.

http://www.skywardmountaineering.com/michavWrite.html

[Rider.Steve]

Here is a link to an account of skiers caught in avalance, pretty sobering.

http://www.skywardmountaineering.com/michavWrite.html


Really sobering, beautifully written, just gripping. Thanks.

Steve

[Ispoiler]

If I have the extra money I would love to get a beacon for my dog.

[jshefftz]

If I have the extra money I would love to get a beacon for my dog.Please do *NOT* even consider doing this. For a searcher to waste valuable time looking for and then digging out a dog -- when a human being is buried and close to death -- is one of the worst possible sins that can be committed in the backcountry.

[Rider.Steve]

Please do *NOT* even consider doing this. For a searcher to waste valuable time looking for and then digging out a dog -- when a human being is buried and close to death -- is one of the worst possible sins that can be committed in the backcountry.

Good point. T'would be ironic if the dog was saved and not the Master/Mistress.

In other words, "A Ruff Trade", or perhaps the "Dog wagging the Tale".

Steve

[Ispoiler]

I did not consider that, thank you for pointing out the obvious.

[jdw]

I'm sure a lot of you have already seen this, but it's an account of the rescue/recovery at Berthoud a week or so ago. Really unsettling stuff.

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?p=541540&posted=1#post541540

[RR]

The account is also printed in the current issue of Backcountry.

[PWDR8S]

So sad yet it's a harsh truth to the backcountry.


...... All in a fury the snow riles and rolls you however it deems fit to toss you and then you stop. REALLY STOP. Everything solidifies in seconds... if you're lucky you won't have this experience and if you weren't so fortunate yet enough so that you had your face or head above snow and room to breath then you'ld get slough sliding down over your head filling in the cracks and holes the original slide couldn't fill..... Then you notice the cold... the cold that sapping away any warmth to your flesh. You cannot move to get blood flowing, You're stuck, immoble, paralized by white concrete. The cold penetrates ever deeper into your body. Your legs and arms start to shake in spasm of cold shaking survival. No use... the numbing has begun. Your grip on reaility as you knew it loosens and slips away ever so gently as the cold shrouds you in it's death hug. Fight! Fight! I have to fulfill my destiny! It cannot and will not end this way! However seductive and peaceful this manner of shucking the mortal coil, it just simply will not happen! Strength from the inner source of your being wells up in a rush, overriding all those sensations of cold and fear. Out! out! Out! You break free of the surface and cough and gag a few times like a newborn taking it's first breaths of air. Blinding light and cold air shocks your senses into life and the rest of your time on this planet is irrelevant for now is the moment of freedom of breathing that revitalizes your will to dig, dig and dig until you are free form this white cold wintery tomb. Not this time.... No.... Not this time... It is not yet my time to leave this world. Life takes on a different shine after a narrow escape from death's trap door. Everything means more... What you decide to do with your time means more.... Who you spend your time with means more. Live today as if it will be your last and enjoy every moment with those you love. Let them know and remind them, for often when we are awake, we are too often asleep and don't acknowledge each other enough.

Sorry about this little piece of rhetoric. It just spilled out onto the page. http://www.timefortuckerman.com/forums/images/smilies/redface.gif

[RR]

Let it flow out, lest it flow over....if you see what I mean!