One lucky SOB

[bmiller]

Could have gone in the ski thread. But this too remarkable not to share here. I had to help a couple people out of tree wells but nothing like this.

 

[BoksNoRox]

That is some fuckin deep snow. That is one lucky boarder.

 

[Wetabehindtheears]

Wow! One lucky snowboarder right there. Do you carry a video camera on you when you are on Patrol?

 

[Clove Hitch]

Holy fucking shit

 

[Jules]

Never skied powder that deep! He's lucky he was in the lead.

 

[fufkin]

Never skied powder that deep! He's lucky he was in the lead.

Was the snowboarder even with the other two skiers? The way I saw it there were two (?) skiers and the trailing skier just happened to fall in the right place and notice the board sticking out upside down.

Either way, ‘You alright?’

‘I’m good’, the boarder answers, still packed like a sardine but with a breath hole and a new lease on life...

Well fucking done to both of them.

 

[Raz'r]

that was always my nightmare in the trees...

Now it's losing a keel at 2am, asleep in my bunk

I must have a fear of drowning...

 

[giegs]

From the video description:

Tree well rescue in the Mt. Baker side country. I was skiing a zone with a partner when I passed by a snowboarder upsidedown and buried in a tree well. I only caught a glimpse of his board but it was enough to get my attention. The boarder was with a group of three other riders, all very experienced and carrying beacon, shovel, probe, and walkies.

Very lucky to have been found. Wonder what his buddies were up to.

 

[Clove Hitch]

that was always my nightmare in the trees...

Now it's losing a keel at 2am, asleep in my bunk

I must have a fear of drowning...

The keel on my S2 is integrated into the hull. And the glass is thick as hell. For me to lose my Keel the boat would basically just have to be gone

 

[SloopJonB]

That is some fuckin deep snow. That is one lucky boarder.

Baker has the highest snowfall on earth.

Got almost 100 feet in the late 90's

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

and i thought it was a thread on the guy who got the last sex doll..

 

[tommays]

So he used up 8.9 lives on that one

 

[boomer]

It hasn’t been stated enough how great the rescuer did. He stayed collected the entire time and went right for the airway. Mark of a true pro that once he knew the situation wasn’t getting worse he also called out that they were both going to take a few breaths. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. It’s common sense for backcountry folk to know this but we have to give props where they’re due. He also managed the situation well after freeing the airway. Great work and thanks for sharing!

 

[boomer]

In my 30 odd years of skiing I'm lucky to have only been stuck in one once as a teen. Took me roughly an hour to get out.

Started with getting my arms to my torso, creating a pocket around my face. Then shuffling looser snow from on top of myself underneath, as I worked my way to the tree itself so I had something solid and because the closer to the tree I got, the more room I had to work with. All of this pulled more snow in as I did it. Thankfully bring young and flexible I could work at the crazy angle with the tree to leverage myself up a bit while scooping snow under myself. Getting far enough to reach branches to pull myself bits at a time was a turning point for sure. Eventually was able to get to my bindings, then pull my feet in so I was upright and work my way out.

If that happened today I'd probably not make it out.

 

[White Lightning2]

'I was gonna die on my own': Snowboarder recounts stranger rescuing him near Mt. Baker

A Washington state snowboarder is recounting the moment he was rescued by a skier after he fell into a tree well while snowboarding near Mt. Baker

komonews.com

You do not get any luckier than that kid just did. That guy had 4 routes he could launched through. That he went right next to/over the snowboard is amazing.

I used to Patrol at Baker in the early 90's. That is some deep, epic powder for the PNW. Not our norm. It's called cascade concrete for a reason. Usually wet, heavy and impossible to turn in the deep stuff.

Very, very lucky kid!!

WL

 

[Point Break]

And that……is why I stayed on groomed slopes. Well, that and a lack of skiing ability…..

 

[Zonker]

Saw it at work. The boarder was dead. Just such a small chance that the skier stopped there.

It was hard to tell from the camera but he was digging hard straight down to get to the guy's head.

 

[The Main Man]

Holy moly!

 

[Rasputin22]

That story just made Nightly News. Did an Anarchist skier make that video?

 

[bmiller]

Wasn't an anarchist from this board.

Here is a follow up of the two guys sharing a beer.