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powstash
03-14-2005, 03:40 PM
I was over on EarnYourTurns.com (http://www.earnyourturns.com) and spotted this photo from a trip report in the So. Cal mountains. I know the snowpack tends to be bomber, but I couldn't help but wonder why 3 dudes are skiing this slope at the same time.

http://earnyourturns.com/articles/destinations/ca/gorgonio/a_walter_charlton.jpg
AltaPowderDaze
03-14-2005, 05:00 PM
hard to tell from the pics but it looks like the slope is in the upper 20's, which in a maritime snowpack should be pretty stable under most conditions. it does however have little growth on it yet it is flanked with trees so i'd guess there is some steep stuff up above.

edit: it doesn't look like the one on the right has any gear.

can't tell too much from the photo.
hucksquaw
03-14-2005, 11:57 PM
looks pretty stupid to me....
ak_powder_monkey
03-15-2005, 12:02 AM
Even I'm not that stupid ;)

I hope the caption was: don't do this
Lurch
03-15-2005, 01:31 PM
It's hard to tell from one picture. It sure does look like a slide path but it might not be.
skierX
03-16-2005, 01:55 PM
skied to: 'oh two live on...
stupid mountain...
Cornelius
03-16-2005, 11:24 PM
the guy on the right has a black shovel strapped to his back in an excellent skull fracture position.
wtp
03-17-2005, 10:39 AM
Because people down here are stupid.

Unless they transplanted from somewhere with a "real" snowpack, the vast majority of people here in Sofoul have no conept of avalanche safety. When I tell people that I have taken an avalanche class, or bring my avi gear for front country stuff, I get looks from folks like I have lobsters crawling out of my ears.

Slides are pretty rare here (hell, so is natural snow most years), and there is not much of a backcountry "scene", so the ignorance-is-bliss mentality is very common.
powstash
03-21-2005, 06:24 PM
Because people down here are stupid.

Unless they transplanted from somewhere with a "real" snowpack, the vast majority of people here in Sofoul have no conept of avalanche safety. When I tell people that I have taken an avalanche class, or bring my avi gear for front country stuff, I get looks from folks like I have lobsters crawling out of my ears.

Slides are pretty rare here (hell, so is natural snow most years), and there is not much of a backcountry "scene", so the ignorance-is-bliss mentality is very common.

Yea, but the guy that wrote the TR and posted the photos said it was the best winter he's seen in 30 years. Perhaps it was a case of the "no friends on the only powder day in 30 years" that got the best of them and they all piled onto that slope.

Either way, it caught me by surprise that some guy proclaiming to be a BC skier for 30 years would be witness to that from what I'm assuming is his party of ski buds.

<shrug>