define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Comments on: Friends of Berthoud Pass Avalanche Awareness https://www.shayboarder.com/2008/10/friends-of-berthoud-pass-avalanche-awareness.html The World of Snowboarding Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:39:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Lou G. https://www.shayboarder.com/2008/10/friends-of-berthoud-pass-avalanche-awareness.html/comment-page-1#comment-736 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:44:00 +0000 http://shayboarder.plan81.com/2008/10/friends-of-berthoud-pass-avalanche-awareness.html#comment-736 After watching the avalanche that happened right on Mammoth’s face a few years back I know that nothing is perfectly ‘safe’.

I was thinking it would be a perfect time to drop cornice, then I’m noticing fresh tracks from the top at 1pm on a sunny windless afternoon and Ski Patrol going apeshit.

They managed to find everyone but that’s a perfect story to help quash that myth, here was an avalanche on a pretty popular run in the middle of a typical day… and if I had gone up sooner I could have been in it.

One thing I’m definitely looking for heading up to Colorado is to take a few backcountry safety classes as I have no experience with true powder… haha. Thanks for the recommendation.

What happened to Randall was insane, it is an absolute miracle he survived. Part of it was definitely the reaction time of his crew.

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