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Thread: Has the Avalung become a joke?
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04-05-2013, 09:36 PM #101Hucked to flat once
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04-06-2013, 12:27 AM #102“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
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06-16-2013, 08:31 AM #103Minion
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Think anythings better than suffocating. Think the stats show that if you can breathe you will prob survive.
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06-16-2013, 07:10 PM #104Banned
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06-16-2013, 09:51 PM #105I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
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06-17-2013, 02:54 PM #106
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06-17-2013, 05:12 PM #107
Avalung pack....I'm in the market for a new pack and I will still buy a BD pack with an avalung .... for what I wear them for which is NARSID ( tree wells)not avalanches ......big issue up here in the PNW . I recently talked to a friend who fell in a tree well and being able to breath through his avalung while he figured how to get out was what prevented him from panicking and probably suffocating.
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06-17-2013, 05:53 PM #108"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
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06-17-2013, 08:26 PM #109Banned
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06-17-2013, 09:50 PM #110
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06-18-2013, 05:36 AM #111Banned
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well, however you choose to measure, it would seem to me that if tree wells are potentially dangerous out there, maybe try to stay a bit farther away from them. complicated, i know
rog
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06-18-2013, 07:00 AM #112Registered User
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Yeah rog, you should stay on the EC where there are no tree wells. I would support that decision.
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06-18-2013, 08:42 AM #113Jacket Cobbler
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ok we'll come up with a solution by then makers....
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06-18-2013, 09:19 AM #114
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06-18-2013, 10:38 AM #115Banned
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sounds like folks that get themselves into tree well/cliff out issues should pay a bit better attention to proper route finding.
rog
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06-18-2013, 11:03 AM #116
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06-18-2013, 11:25 AM #117Banned
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oh i had a pretty good feeling the slope would let go, and it did.
rog
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06-18-2013, 11:44 AM #118
but you lacked the knowledge to mitigate it, instead choosing instead to go for a ride?
Cool, sounds about right.
Back to your regularly scheduled ruining of every thread you possibly can.Drive slow, homie.
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06-18-2013, 12:07 PM #119
I assume you have never skied a big storm cycle in the PNW. Those who have, know that the tree wells, especially at lower elevations, can be man eaters and catching a tip at the wrong time could send you into a six foot hole. However, if you ski perfectly at all times you’ll never have a problem.
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06-18-2013, 12:10 PM #120Banned
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to "z"
eh, i just went for it. worked out fine in the end.
you seem to not be very observant as far as the process of ruining threads go. read this page again. folks react, i react back.
your lack of obz skills is troubling.
carry on
rog
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06-18-2013, 12:11 PM #121
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06-18-2013, 12:20 PM #122Banned
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plus tree wells are a bit different than avalanches. you can see the trees and if you've skied big storms in the pnw then you should know to give them a wide birth.
rog
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06-18-2013, 12:24 PM #123Hugh Conway Guest
A wide berth... into the other treewell?
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06-18-2013, 12:31 PM #124
Greydon FTW.
In no way trying to downplay NARSID (kind of a fun word to say narsid narsid narsid!), but not falling does tend to work.
Move upside and let the man go through...
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06-18-2013, 12:51 PM #125Banned
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