It's shocking how rapidly the crack propagates at the outset. One instant clean snow, the next a crack appears and shoots ahead and out of sight, then the entire mass breaks loose.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Conditions on a slope can change within just a couple hundred feet. Unless a pit was dug right where he intended to board, it could have presented misleading information.
This I learned the hard way.
Thats the point, you dig a pit where your going to ski. I didn't see one in the clip. Even a hasty pit with his glove would have likely given him some useful information. Heck even a ski cut seems like it would have set the slope off.
Or maybe he did all that?
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