Recent content by teamti

Nope. Fatalities have gone up. THey've gone up quite a bit over the past 5 years - source is Avalanche Incidents publication -CAA. Of course, the total numbers of people going out is also up. It might be that because there are more new people in the sport; it could be that the newbs need...

that was a good article. Really disappointing to see some of the initial reactions in the thread. Instead of a victim head-in-the-sand mentality why not take the opportunity for critical self-examination of we as a community who love sledding - some people made mistakes; what can we learn from...

come on! Now we're fighting among ourselves. Truly we're our own worst enemy

For those of you who think retarded armchair quarterback comments by cubicle dwellers are only for sled accidents look at the Comments section here

Here's a glimpse of what will likely will happen. Looks like only sleds for the backcountry affected Avalanche Safety Starts With The Individual - Opinion 250 - News for Northern and Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada In combination with increased awareness, by November 2011 we will...

I don't want to sound like I'm lecturing but "act of god" and "accident" arguments are precisely the kind of thinking that will - get you killed - make all sledders look bad. Avalanches need the following to happen - I know I'm grossly simplifying btw 1. Terrain (read this as usually a...

FYI - a VHF radio will hit repeaters too from Top of the World Glacier. So either a sat phone or a VHF would work. Nice to have the VHF too for logging roads

Re: There is only 1 person to blame on the Revy avalanche. It's mind-boggling that you can seriously think that. And you're not the only person who's articulated this.

It's entirely possible to go out in "Major" avy terrain and be safe even in hair-trigger terrain. For example, I had to go out in that storm and collect data. I knew the winds were coming in SW. I had to get to a representative slope at about 2000m to get to the station for data. We've put a...

The CAC doesn't issue a lot of EXTREME ratings yup. Here's the danger scale Avalanche Danger Scale : Bulletins : Canadian Avalanche Centre : avalanche.ca In a profile I had in a test pit on a NE slope I found FIVE distinct weak layers. All of them were weak (clean shears if you want to be...

You can check the CAA site for the exact stats but here's my recollection of the spread for the Selkirks. this is for the alpine/subalpine and for all days - not just weekends Low - about 30% of time Moderate - about 35% of time Considerable - about 25% of time High - about 15% of time Extreme...

Again. It's irrelevant. Why are you guys bringing the STS incident into this? Yes the teachers who brought the kids to Connaught Creek make a mistake. No they didn't deserve to die. But they still died. The point is to LEARN from the mistake - not make the same mistake again and again...

I didn't want to get into too much detail on this because I just don't want see the relevance of you bringing this up. 1. They weren't professionally guided. They were with their teachers. Having said that having a guide doesn't give you a magic avalanche force-field detector so I don't know...

I was really sorry to hear he was there. I was really sorry to hear that another avalanche instructor was also there. They should have known better. They made a mistake (the fact that they were there and involved in an avalanche in itself, means a mistake was made). If you think otherwise...

x3. ... and what RedMtnRiders said. The time to ask these tough questions is NOW when its fresh in the mind.