Owen Leeper in small slide in couloir

[powdork]

Not new news, but the video (especially the drone footage) is pretty scary
https://www.instagram.com/o_leeps/reels/


the drone footy is here but there's other angles above too
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CovXMdegXmt/

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Gotta get that content


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[whipski]

From my decade + of paramedics,"If God wants you can't hide and if not you "almost" can not be stupid enough"

[TahoeJ]

Holy shit. That must have been terrifying the moment the slab cracked and how exposed he was. Very lucky.

[mcski]

Double holy shit. That helpless feeling when you know your gonna go for a ride has got to be awful

[hawkgt]

wow, thats a ride. glad was not more serious

[raisingarizona13]

I get butterflies up my bunghole when he hits the rock wall. Ouch.

[Vt-Freeheel]

Double holy shit. That helpless feeling when you know your gonna go for a ride has got to be awful

This ^^ There's no going back, only down

[Bunion 2020]

Human pinball, glad he was able to keep it together.

[raisingarizona13]

Double holy shit. That helpless feeling when you know your gonna go for a ride has got to be awful

I've never heard myself scream like I did when I realized I couldn't fight it and had to ride it out. I was over a 30 foot cliff and a hell a thick strainer of pines too. When it came to a stop and I was only buried up to my tits I didn't care that one ski was gone and the other bent to shit, I was alive and that was all that mattered.

That shit changed my life.

That's probably why I got the butterflies up the bunghole watching that pov video. Fuck all that!

[Djongo Unchained]

Double holy shit. That helpless feeling when you know your gonna go for a ride has got to be awful

Goddamn right it is.

I've been carried a handful of times but never anything close to this.

All of the work ya put into not getting slid disappears from your head and it's a bitch to wrap your head around what to do now. Most peeps can't practice in motion skills to save oneself.

In the jh thread we discussed this a bit. One can practice self arrest but even that requires timing, technique, luck, etc.
He said he was digging with his hands up high.

Once his heinie hits the rock and sends him face first into that lil' buttress, it's all over with but the shouting.

I'm a shouter, I've hit some rocks so fucking hard, I was certain I was broken. It helps to yell.
SirVic and East or Bust heard me 2 years ago in the JH OB. I was lucky the rock hit my glute.

[powdork]

Self arresting in a slide is close to impossible. The one small ride I went for took me under a low hanging branch I thought I could grab but it just ripped through my hands and I doubt if I held that the branch itself would stay on the tree.

[raisingarizona13]

Self arresting in a slide is close to impossible. The one small ride I went for took me under a low hanging branch I thought I could grab but it just ripped through my hands and I doubt if I held that the branch itself would stay on the tree.

I've had really low density snow pull out around me while on a solid bed surface that I could dig my edges in and let it roll around me. So it depends on factors but generally speaking, anything more substantial and I think you're right. The fracture around Owen in that video didn't look all that dangerous but watching the POV and it's pretty clear there was no stopping going for the run. The one I mentioned in my previous post was to the ground, the fractures were probably 5 feet deep. That sound was fucking terrifying.

[Djongo Unchained]

The initial pitch in this slot is a bit deceiving from the viddy. Wstdeep pointed out that Owen's few turns prior were already steepish, at least enough to move quickly from the start. Def an unlikely place to dig in a pole.

If I read correctly, he'd already tried this twice and hiked up and out of it twice.

[skinipenem]

What a crash. Glad he got away with only a dislocated shoulder.

Incredible footage.

The antisocial media comments are awful. So many haters and armchair quarterbacks. Dude is a strong skiier from what I've seen. I guess everyone loves you until you make an error or get unlucky.

I am interested in details of the avalanche forecast beyond 'moderate' as well as the pitch of the slope.

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[raisingarizona13]

What a crash. Glad he got away with only a dislocated shoulder.

Incredible footage.

The antisocial media comments are awful. So many haters and armchair quarterbacks. Dude is a strong skiier from what I've seen. I guess everyone loves you until you make an error or get unlucky.

I am interested in details of the avalanche forecast beyond 'moderate' as well as the pitch of the slope.

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Let them talk. None of the haters have ever done such adventurous skiing and haven't lived half the life that kid has I bet. Besides, his sponsors love the attention I'm sure.

I bet that was around 40 where it cracked and the couloir ha got to be 50+. Give or take a few digits.

[TahoeJ]

The antisocial media comments are awful.

I made a conscious effort to not even glance at the comments because I knew it would be a bunch of fucking gapers and wannabe heroes who just took their avy 1's last year, if that.

[raisingarizona13]

I made a conscious effort to not even glance at the comments because I knew it would be a bunch of fucking gapers and wannabe heroes who just took their avy 1's last year, if that.

Bahahah! Perfect and honest truth.

"I just wanna know, did he dig a pit?"

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Don’t have any problems with him doing something like that but why do people feel the need to document everything?


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[muted reborn]

Don’t have any problems with him doing something like that but why do people feel the need to document everything?


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Yeah, a nicely written essay to his sponsors about what he skied at the end of every season would be best.

[tgapp]

Yeah, a nicely written essay to his sponsors about what he skied at the end of every season would be best.

Maybe they could turn it into a shareholder slidedeck. With quotes from people who saw him ski it.

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[John_B]

Maybe they could turn it into a shareholder slidedeck. With quotes from people who saw him ski it.

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I hope he includes a section about which turn looked the best.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

I don’t really pay any attention to pro skiers. I only see stuff like that here.

It’s not what gets me excited about skiing. I’ve never been much of a spectator though

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[muted reborn]

Maybe they could turn it into a shareholder slidedeck. With quotes from people who saw him ski it.

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That's smart. I could see the copy reading something like this - "Despite the low snow year, I have increased my cliff lengths from last season on average by 5% and straightlines by over 9% with the vertical drop of them increasing of at least 200' on average. Based on these stats, no matter what the snowfall is like in 2024, I am confident these sustained gains will continue next season."

[skinipenem]

Let them talk. None of the haters have ever done such adventurous skiing and haven't lived half the life that kid has I bet. Besides, his sponsors love the attention I'm sure.

I bet that was around 40 where it cracked and the couloir ha got to be 50+. Give or take a few digits.

Exactly... I agree.

With that much slope, i.e. 50 degrees... seems avy risk would not be that high? And ultimately, bad luck

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