Does getting caught in an avalanche make you totally Gnar?

**ANON-505** · 09-11-2006, 08:22 AM

WTF?

The new Powder Mag, p. 48.

Homeboy (Reggie Crist) watches his brother and then Darren R. drop into a similar line, and both of them get slid. So what does he do? Drops in. And what happens?? Duh! He triggers a slide.

This is Class I data, dumbshit. If you see other skiers on simliar aspects trigger slides, chances are, you're going to do the same.

It sucks b/c people are being told that getting caught in avy's is cool, and easy to walk away from.

stupidstupidstupid

**ill-advised strategy** · 09-11-2006, 08:23 AM

yes, getting caught in an avalanche makes me totally gnar.

next thread.

**Ville** · 09-11-2006, 08:38 AM

getting caught in an avalanche didn't make me totally gnar.

**ill-advised strategy** · 09-11-2006, 08:40 AM

you're so totally gnar and you don't even know it.

**RootSkier** · 09-11-2006, 09:09 AM

No.

45678

**smmokan** · 09-11-2006, 09:29 AM

I don't know... I haven't received my Powder yet.

**WWCD** · 09-11-2006, 09:34 AM

Powder?

The only magazines I can buy is Chicago are Maxim and Low Rider.

**baseWeldr** · 09-11-2006, 09:37 AM

new powmag's out?
sweeeeet

**smolakian** · 09-11-2006, 09:42 AM

Thats why I'm getting an avalung. DUH.

Having to hold your breath while you friends dig you out gets old after a few times...

**Core Shot** · 09-11-2006, 09:47 AM

I can't wait until my avalung backpack arrives.

Then I can be a member of TEAM GNAR!

**edg** · 09-11-2006, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by RootSkier

No.

45678

Yes.

5678

**Ireallyliketoski2** · 09-11-2006, 09:53 AM

I was almost caught in an avalanche and it scared the gnar out of me.

**danhikeski** · 09-11-2006, 10:17 AM

i had an avalanche go between me and a partner, does that make me at least 1/2 gnar? because i have some leftover gnar that i can combine it with

**Powdurr** · 09-11-2006, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by ANON-505

It sucks b/c people are being told that getting caught in avy's is cool, and easy to walk away from.

stupidstupidstupid

How are people being told that getting caught in an avy is cool and easy to walk away from??

Oooooh, I get it....you're a hippie, right?

**FrankZappa** · 09-11-2006, 10:54 AM

Even after he was de-limbed... Adam thought he was Gnar...

...then along came Eve. She was the Queen Gnar!

(Thats Eves torso in there... yah, thats right... the big chunk)

**jump** · 09-11-2006, 11:08 AM

Well, remember, it's only gnar if it's caught on camera.

**leroy jenkins** · 09-11-2006, 11:13 AM

I was pretty impressed by Jermy Jones, I think Johnny Law and some others intentionally trigering slides (in the bonus features in Soul Purpose maybe?) just to practice dealing with outrunning them. I'd say that qualifies as gnar.

**irul&ublo** · 09-11-2006, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by Ireallyliketoski

I was almost caught in an avalanche and it scared the gnar out of me.

You probably didn't know the Gnar came out of that end.

**pechelman** · 09-11-2006, 11:51 AM

the proper scientific name for an avalanche is actually gnarvalanche

**Tri-Ungulate** · 09-11-2006, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by ireallyliketoski

I was almost caught in an avalanche and it scared the gnar out of me.

I don't remember most of what happened when I got caught, but it still scared the gnar out of me.

Originally Posted by irul&ublo

You probably didn't know the Gnar came out of that end.

Yeah, but it sure smelled gnar-ly.

Last year there was an article on "How to Outrun an Avalanche"; I think it was in Skiing. Teaching all the up-and-coming BC skiers how to be totally gnar-licious.

Edit to add: Total Gnarlitude

**sarge1957** · 09-11-2006, 04:44 PM

So, this thread is a joke right? Must be.

Sarge

**MakersTeleMark** · 09-11-2006, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by sarge1957

So, this thread is a joke right? Must be.

Sarge

It depends on whether you really are a Sarge.

**ill-advised strategy** · 09-11-2006, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by pechelman

the proper scientific name for an avalanche is actually gnarvalanche

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!bwaaaahaahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

**ANON-505** · 09-11-2006, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by Powdurr

How are people being told that getting caught in an avy is cool and easy to walk away from??

Oooooh, I get it....you're a hippie, right?

umm...did you read the article? The author tells a story where three skiers (all of them very talented) choose to ski a slope of similar aspect, elevation, and pitch. After watching two people get slid he decides to ski the slope and gets slid. All three walk away. I'd say that's sending a pretty clear message.

Am I a hippy????

What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Being educated about snowpack, and how to make decisions skiing in the backcountry is responsible, and certainly doesn't make someone a hippy.

Another guy said that he has been fully buried in several avalanches, and therefore can't wait to get an avalung. Dumbshits like you are the reason why I think articles like this are bad....even dangerous.

On second thought...go for it dude. Slay that fucking windloaded time bomb. One day, you're gnarvalanche is going to take you throug a stand of trees and rip you limb from limb. I bet your avalung is going to help then.

When I lived in teton valley, a guy who was a friend of a friend got slid in three avys in one season...the final one (early march) broke a shitload of bones, includeing shattering his pelvis and collarbone, collapsing a lung. Same sorta shit, someone else had just skied a similar slope and gotten slid (Taylor, 2002? 01?) and killed his dog. I had to bring his sobbing (and pathetic) girlfirend to the trailhead. I've got an Avy 2 cert, some patrol and SAR training, and asked one of the SAR guys at the Coal Creek lot, where the rescue was being staged if I could help. He responded that I could help by telling my dumbshit friends to take an avy course. He was sick of risking his ass to pull some retarded asshole out of the mountains

It puts rescue personnel in danger, but that's a whole 'nuther story.

**Hacksaw** · 09-11-2006, 09:52 PM

When people start to brag about how many avalanches they have been caught in or how many "close-calls," they have had; I start thinking about finding someone else to ski with.....

Cheers,
Halsted