What else could this guy have done wrong?

[skiski]

Since it has a happy ending, I'd like to take the opportunity to point and laugh.

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A snowboarder lost out of bounds near Jackson Hole Mountain Resort on Friday evening tried to burn a shirt to keep warm before rescuers found him, a park official said Sunday.

Jackson Hole ski patrollers, who were helping rangers from Grand Teton National Park, found Steven Sprague, 20, of Rapid City, South Dakota, at 6:20 p.m. in the park’s Granite Canyon, adjacent to the resort. He was in good shape but unprepared to spend the night. He was helped to the trailhead by 10:30 p.m., park and resort officials said.

“It could have turned out much more serious than it was,” park spokeswoman Jackie Skaggs said Sunday. Because he was at the resort, “he didn’t have a lot of clothing on” or equipment for a bivouac, she said.

“When Mountain Resort ski patrollers got to him, he was trying to make a fire with his outer shirt,” Skaggs said. “He was stripped down to his T-shirt.”

“One of the serious parts is this happened late in the day,” Skaggs said. Temperatures that dipped to about 20 degrees could have made a night out dangerous. “He wouldn’t have had that extra warmth if he had had to spend the night,” she said of the shirt.

Officials gave the following account of Sprague’s excursion.

He and friends left the resort’s south boundary at 4:20 p.m. headed for Cody Bowl. Friends realized they were going the wrong way and shouted to Sprague, but they could not get his attention because he was wearing earphones for an iPod.
Instead of staying on the east side of Rendezvous Mountain, Sprague went west into the Granite Creek drainage in Grand Teton. The route winds around the ski area for several miles, much of it difficult to traverse on a snowboard, before emptying out in the valley.

Sprague’s friends got back to the resort and alerted ski patrollers.

Ski patrol leader Jake Elkins checked avalanche danger and sent three of his team after the missing snowboarder. Because of the steep, cliff-studded terrain, Elkins set up a command center at the top of the ski mountain to help park rangers with the rescue. Rangers began searching the canyon from the bottom up.

At approximately 5:30 p.m., the three patrollers picked up a fresh snowboard track in an area known as Targhee Woods. Soon after, they found Sprague and helped him down to the rangers, a snowmobile and the trailhead.

Resort officials used the incident to remind skiers and snowboarders of the risks involved in leaving boundaries to ski or ride areas that are not patrolled. Officials also warned about avalanches and urged backcountry travelers to use the daily Bridger-Teton National Forest Avalanche Center forecast, found online at www.jhavalanche.org.

[Kai]

This guy needs a vasectomy.

[Crampedon]

This guy needs a vasectomy.

I am going to update this list to add the pocket-vasectometer

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[Hugh Conway]

I am going to update this list to add the pocket-vasectometer

In-Bounds safety kit/checklist - Teton Gravity Research Forums

Just use a leatherman. You could be the next Aaron Ralston!

[Nitro]

Unreal. Wearing headphones so he couldn't hear his skiing partners.

[khyber.pass]

Unreal. Wearing headphones so he couldn't hear his snowboarding partners.

Fixed it for you.

[digitaldeath]

more than once i have almost collided with fucking showboarders stopped on thin traverse and couldnt hear me yelling coming thu, look out, then me shoving them and saying fkn showboarder

[tom111869]

Let's hope he never has children.

[Johnny Deep]

Maybe he'll learn to pack more shirts.

[DasBlunt]

You guys are all fucking douche bags.

How many times have people become lost? You guys will be next, mark my words.

This guy needs a vasectomy.

I am going to update this list to add the pocket-vasectometer

In-Bounds safety kit/checklist - Teton Gravity Research Forums

Unreal. Wearing headphones so he couldn't hear his skiing partners.

Fixed it for you.

more than once i have almost collided with fucking showboarders stopped on thin traverse and couldnt hear me yelling coming thu, look out, then me shoving them and saying fkn showboarder

Maybe he'll learn to pack more shirts.

Let's hope he never has children.

[toast2266]

Same guy, earlier that day:

[powdork]

that's why i always carry a 7lb bag of Kingsford MatchLight in my pack.

/shit-too late to make the BluntList

[DasBlunt]

that's why i always carry a 7lb bag of Kingsford MatchLight in my pack.

/shit-too late to make the BluntList

You did not say anything outright mean and douchey....just plain funny.

[digitaldeath]

i certainely wouldnt stop and try and light my shirt on fire for warmth! dumb!

dithc that faggy snoboard and hoof it pal

[Northville]

Just another reason why skiing/snowboarding with an ipod is dumb. Fucking people can't do shit without their tunes.

[Core Shot]

You guys are all fucking douche bags.

How many times have people become lost? You guys will be next, mark my words.

If you ever went out the top gate at JH, you would know how stupid his decision was.

Let alone rocking the tunes so loud your 2 buddies that know better could not yell at you to stop.

Let alone deciding to LEAD a sidecountry tour when you clearly do not know the hazards or terrain.

If the guy honestly got disoriented, we would all have more sympathy.

[Johnny Deep]

Death by Linkin Park.


Seriously.

[criscam]

He and friends left the resort’s south boundary at 4:20 p.m. headed for Cody Bowl. [/url].

Does no one else understand why he got lost and took off his shirt?

[skiski]

The shirt burning and earbuds are awesome, but I also have to wonder what kind of friends he has. "Shit, can't turn Steven around by yelling, just let him go, man, let him go."

He was probably also really confused. I admit that I once headed into Granite thinking I was going into Rock Springs/Cody. (I lived there and knew the area really well at the time, but got disoriented in a whiteout). It's really weird and disorienting when you finally notice that the canyon is dropping away to your right instead of your left.

[mtskier]

that's why i always carry a 7lb bag of Kingsford MatchLight in my pack.

for the win. you owe me a new keyboard. mine just got sprayed with beer.

[toast2266]

Getting lost in a whiteout is one thing. Getting lost and then trying to burn your shirt for warmth is another thing entirely.

On the upside, I can only assume his shirt was a tall-t, so it probably would have burned for hours.

[simple]

I admit that I once headed into Granite thinking I was going into Rock Springs/Cody. ( edited got disoriented in a whiteout). It's really weird and disorienting when you finally notice that the canyon is dropping away to your right instead of your left.

Ditto.

[rideit]

Does no one else understand why he got lost and took off his shirt?

EVERYBODY DANCE, NOW



I't gettin' hot in here....

[DasBlunt]

Does no one else understand why he got lost and took off his shirt?

The 4:20 time was something I noticed too.

The others here turning him into satan is just plain wrong though.

[Hugh Conway]

The others here turning him into satan is just plain wrong though.

Is he your cousin or something? I can see a family resemblance