Just watched that YouTube vid... My assumptions have been confirmed. I just don't see too many of the dirt-bike "Bro types" studying snow. Maybe now they will... it makes dirt look like pre-school.

Dingus Milktoast wrote:Some people are just too stupid to live.

DMT

I always thought I was one of them. Can't believe I'm in my 60s.

Something I think about from time to time as I cycle around NYC. The difference between an ugly accident and a rude gesture can be a fraction of a second. Someone that doesn't have quick reaction times simply isn't going to survive. Same thing in the mountains. It is, as you say, Mother Nature selecting between those that think they're fast enough and those that really are (fast enough).

Sad deal.

Thankfully, most of the people that would have been there did heed the warnings on the conditions.

I'm not too sure about the stereotypes, or what dirt-biking has to do with snowmobiling.

Anyway, here's a little different take on the deal. Not sure if it's better or worse, or good or bad. Just different.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertai ... story.html

John Duffield wrote:Something I think about from time to time as I cycle around NYC. The difference between an ugly accident and a rude gesture can be a fraction of a second. Someone that doesn't have quick reaction times simply isn't going to survive. Same thing in the mountains. It is, as you say, Mother Nature selecting between those that think they're fast enough and those that really are (fast enough).

Couldn't agree more.

Reaction times for rational cerebral responses are not all that correlated to reaction times for emotional, amygdallic responses.

The kinds of reaction-time tests you can take on the internet only test your rational reaction time.... In other words, it tests the amount of time it takes for you to observe, interpret, and rationally decide to react.

However, the sort of reaction that matters in sudden survival situations (like jumping out of the way of a car) is purely emotional and never gets rationally considered, as the amygdala intercepts stimuli that have been (evolutionally or experiencially) learned and triggers an instant reaction before the stimuli can even be forwarded to the cerebral cortex to be processed rationally.

Thinking you're fast means bupkiss. Surviving repeated close-encounters actually proves something.

Dingus Milktoast wrote:
That which did not kill me...

DMT

.....only defers the inevitable.

Brad Marshall wrote:Guess you'd have to know these folks to answer that question. Take a look at this video from 2006 and you tell me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4suGjQS9gf0

What's up with the nearly perfect correlation between videos of XTREME SPORTZ and horrible, shitty metal hair music?

CAA Preliminary Report on Boulder Mountain Avalanche Accident

http://www.avalanche.ca/Default.aspx?DN ... 3138567eba

Canadian Avalanche Assoc prelim report and post pictures
http://www.avalanche.ca/Default.aspx?DN=ac60b29a-6eaa-40a2-8ea9-373138567eba

The two guys who died were best friends and they were highmarking - started the avalanche. This could have been much worse if everyone had not responded so quickly. The buried were dug out by 21 minutes and there were many helicopter responses to fly out the injured. I heard there was over 100 spot alerts went out.
Very lucky that this wasn't the worst avi in Canadian history.

Speaking of Jesus Christ check out that hair!

DMT - that polyester suit and hair! Must of had the girls swooning all over you.


Another avalanche in Revy - another snowmobiler dead.http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/all-accounted-for-after-fatal-avalanche-near-revelstoke-bc/article1506606/

Possible child endangerment charges for those that took their kids to the previous event.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/a-mothers-worst-nightmare-come-true/article1506780/