Yikes.

Also, wtf cameraman. Follow the dude getting swept away, not the dude who stopped safely above the slide.

R/killthecameraman

Having extensive avy training and being involved in some skier trigger slides, I can give you an honest answer. Far more important than getting good footage is immediately assess for secondary avalanches and determine if you are in a safe zone. Then you want to prepare to switch your own beacon to search mode and initiate a search - but you don’t want to switch if you are at risk of being hit by a secondary avalanche. You want to assess how you are going to safely get to the runout to initiate a search, without avalanching anyone else down there before you. Basically, there are a lot more important things to do than catch good footage when you are near a slide like this. Of course from a curiosity standpoint and an educational standpoint, I also want good footage, but I understand why the cameraman had other things on their mind.

Fair enough. I was also thinking "keep track of where the snowboarder ends up", but I guess that's what the beacon is for.

Miami Herald. Srsly?

Nope that is absolutely correct and a major thing you should do when observing an avalanche. You often float on top of an avalanche until it slows down so you can get a really good idea of where the burial is and that’s a good starting point for a search (you still search the whole area in case there are multiple burials). For me personally, it’s much better to have my eyes on an event, than looking at it through the screen of my phone I’m recording on

Skiing Tuckermans in the winter is basically asking to die. It is a stupid idea, especially after all the snow we’ve gotten in the last few weeks. I live nearby and we literally have 3+ feet of really fluffy powder on the ground. This is perfect conditions for avalanches.

lmao right!?

"Brick did you kill a guy?"

Yeah I got the article through THAT website from my mother in Florida and yet heard nothing locally

Direct link to the video

That’s EXACTLY what I said when I heard about it this morning. Who skis Tuck’s before April?

I only ski Tuckermans in August.

There was an article in the Globe yesterday. It gives good context about them.

Something I've been pondering... do you assess the risk of hangfire before going to search, or is it somewhat just accepted due to the severity of the situation? I don't remember AIARE discussing it much.

You can be reasonably safe in tucks and huntington in the winter

One of my father’s friends died in an avalanche in the 1980s on Mt. Washington in April. The mountains are very unforgiving.

huge 😂

Get this man an MVP award

The skier even commented on it!

I believe hangfire is the correct term?

Terms used interchangeably

I don't use the word hero often.