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Thread: 2015 freeride world tour
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02-01-2015, 07:12 AM #126Registered User
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02-01-2015, 11:55 AM #127
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02-01-2015, 12:25 PM #128
Some fly-by pics from a few days ago of the venue in Haines from my old boss Nick T's FB. It's looking pretty sick and should be view-able from the highway/airport.
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02-01-2015, 01:23 PM #129
Um, fuck yeah. Now we're talking.
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02-01-2015, 07:44 PM #130
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02-03-2015, 02:33 AM #131
So they moved the Fieberbrunn stop to Kappl again (same as last year, also venue for a 2star every year). Second rider Julien Lopez crashes after cliff, hikes back up to get lost ski, triggers pretty massive slab, goes for a ride, pulls airbag, he's fine but competition is cancelled for the day......
Ich bitte dich nur, weck mich nicht.
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02-03-2015, 02:36 AM #132
Like I said before. They seem to be plagued by poor decision making.
powdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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02-03-2015, 02:45 AM #133
yup.
pics of slide here: http://www.skipass.com/news/115179-f...ien-lopez.html
that could have turned out worse than it did...Ich bitte dich nur, weck mich nicht.
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02-03-2015, 03:02 AM #134
Holy shit! Have there been slides like that in a competition before? stay safe guys!
Last edited by abraham; 02-03-2015 at 03:16 AM.
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02-03-2015, 04:16 AM #135
I think Julien Lopez is onto something here. Like, airbag demonstrator.
Scary shit."Typically euro, french in particular, in my opinion. It's the same skiing or climbing there. They are completely unfazed by their own assholeness. Like it's normal." - srsosbso
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02-03-2015, 04:31 AM #136
It obviously sucks for everyone involved but if they handle this well and publicly talk about it, they could turn it into something positive. Too many people think freeride competitions are representative of what your average day of freeriding should be like, when the major part of your average day freeriding is figuring out what is safe to ski, not what is coolest to ski (at least in the Alps and particularly at the moment, when there seems to be a new avalanche fatality every few days. 42 deaths so far this season in the Alps).
In 2010 3 people got caught (1 buried with minor injuries) in a large slide which occurred right after the start of a 50 people chinese downhill type event in Ischgl, AT.
Other than that I've seen a few smaller pockets rip out in FWQs.Ich bitte dich nur, weck mich nicht.
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02-03-2015, 06:54 AM #137
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02-03-2015, 07:50 AM #138
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02-03-2015, 08:30 AM #139
In 2010 the Tram Face at Squaw ripped out just prior to the start as a camera man stepped out onto the course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd18VXQj95kpowdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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02-03-2015, 11:10 AM #140
Glad to hear Julien is OK.
Was thinking some video would be floating around already.
Everyone was stoked to get a comp in with great snow... bummer that the avi danger is what it is right now.www.dpsskis.com
www.point6.com
formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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02-03-2015, 12:04 PM #141
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02-03-2015, 12:59 PM #142
Is "10 times more skiers" an estimate by you or is there actual data on that? (I would generally agree with the estimate, just wondering if it's 10 or more like 20 times more when averaged over the alps and all of NA)
powdork's squaw video is impressive. I bet some people didn't sleep so well that night. The reason for moving the fieberbrunn stop last year was the entire contest venue sliding during control work.Ich bitte dich nur, weck mich nicht.
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02-03-2015, 01:15 PM #143
There was also a huge slide on Baldy at Snowbird last year right before the FWT comp was to be held.
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02-03-2015, 01:17 PM #144
Yep, I remember the two before opening the venue for competition. I meant camera rolling, spectators and all. I suppose either way it's still scary
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02-03-2015, 02:35 PM #145
^ Way back in 2008 Kaj Zackrisson / Cody Townsend had a lucky escape 2 days before the Verbier FWT xtreme when Bec De Rosses avalanched above them on course inspection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQb9zMURMQ
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02-03-2015, 03:14 PM #146
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02-03-2015, 03:19 PM #147
^^ yeah quite possible. the 42 I read somewhere probably didn't include last weekend. Visit numbers alone probably wouldn't do it, would need people skiing "out of bounds" to make a comparison I guess.
Ich bitte dich nur, weck mich nicht.
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02-03-2015, 03:22 PM #148
I think it would be hard to compare skier visit numbers in the Alps vs. NA as they relate to avy fatalities, since the concept of ski resorts is very different between the two. Really, we'd need to compare the number of NA skiers that ski in the backcountry and sidecountry, vs the number of off-piste skiers in Europe. Still curious to know overall skier numbers, I would not have thought it'd be 10X higher but I don't know shit about Europe.
How many fatalities are there in Europe on average?
(Taking this thread on a real tangent...)
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02-03-2015, 03:38 PM #149
Video from Julien Lopezs slide during FWT event at Kappl now online via facebook.
Scary....
https://www.facebook.com/FreerideWorldTour?fref=nf
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02-03-2015, 03:46 PM #150
based on what i see on a daily basis and have seen, a rather large and alarming amount of people ski "off-piste", even if it is only between pistes, or next to the piste with reckless abandon. of course the majority do not perish. that number includes both touring and lift accessed as per the wepowder website (which has a excel type chart with newspaper quotes that one can scroll through), perhaps those categories should be separated.... the numbers here for "backcountry/slackcountry" appear to be way higher than in na at first glance.
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