New B.C. avalanches claim 2 lives in 24 hours

That is a damned shame, but come on, how tiring is it to read about these stories every year?

Couldn't agree with you more Gunnair. People are continually "ducking the ropes" to get into areas that are to be potentially deadly hazards. I don't ski or board but I would draw the parallel of this being no different than someone taking a 12 ft. row-boat out onto Great Bear Lake when it has 6 ft. swells and white-caps!

Couldn't agree with you more Gunnair. People are continually "ducking the ropes" to get into areas that are to be potentially deadly hazards. I don't ski or board but I would draw the parallel of this being no different than someone taking a 12 ft. row-boat out onto Great Bear Lake when it has 6 ft. swells and white-caps!

Agreed, and once again, like they discuss every year, they should be punishing the idiots that survive it - like the last guy. He should be paying through nose for the cost of his rescue.

You have to have some respect for the mountain or she will kill you.

Couldn't agree with you more Gunnair. People are continually "ducking the ropes" to get into areas that are to be potentially deadly hazards. I don't ski or board but I would draw the parallel of this being no different than someone taking a 12 ft. row-boat out onto Great Bear Lake when it has 6 ft. swells and white-caps!

Agreed, and once again, like they discuss every year, they should be punishing the idiots that survive it - like the last guy. He should be paying through nose for the cost of his rescue.
Yep, the cost of search and rescue is getting bigger and bigger every year due to idiots. The folks that do SAR also put their necks on the line so some moron can ski/board fresh powder...idiots

Agreed, and once again, like they discuss every year, they should be punishing the idiots that survive it - like the last guy. He should be paying through nose for the cost of his rescue.
Yep, the cost of search and rescue is getting bigger and bigger every year due to idiots. The folks that do SAR also put their necks on the line so some moron can ski/board fresh powder...idiots

True. I've been amazed in the past when our ship is tasked to find some hump who thought it would be a lark to take his fourteen footer out without checking out the weather. Fourteen ft boat in ten foot seas doesn't work well...

We had to go out one day looking for a quadraplegic on a snowmobile,he tipped the sled over and was hooped,his son walked to the highway for help.He was all alone and lucky his kid found my sisters place where we used to rent sleds and do tours.I've seen some folks do some pretty unbelievable things in the back country.

Oh god I know some idiots that had to be rescued after a perfectly calm night on the water. Fireworks were at English Bay, they were found the next morning on the rocks near Horseshoe Bay!!!

When I asked them before they left, what time should I call the Coast Guard to rescue you guys? they laughed...I was dead serious. The officer called when they were found and he was laughing his ass off.

IDIOTS!!!! No lights, not enough PFD's and enough booze to make the US Navy (not Canadian, they could handle it ) black out.

Skiing out of bounds in avalanche territory with no peips and alone.
You should be charged for that.

Kind of set himself up to fail there.
Most of the snowmobilers who get killed at least usually have the proper equipment and most have training.
The peips and airbags make it easier to find the body.

I would expand that to:

"Have respect for mother nature because she has no respect for you."

Aren't some avalanches by snowmobilers?

Maybe triggered is a better word.

Most fatalaties are from avalanches triggered by a sled,especially high markers because they go as high as they can and then turn in an arc and come down,meanwhile their track is spinning at sometimes over 100 mph and cutting through the hard snow like a knife.I've watched guys out run them and ive seen guys not out run them.

Couldn't agree with you more Gunnair. People are continually "ducking the ropes" to get into areas that are to be potentially deadly hazards. I don't ski or board but I would draw the parallel of this being no different than someone taking a 12 ft. row-boat out onto Great Bear Lake when it has 6 ft. swells and white-caps!

Agreed, and once again, like they discuss every year, they should be punishing the idiots that survive it - like the last guy. He should be paying through nose for the cost of his rescue.

Then theres the folks who just have to stop in the old creek beds for a campfire.
Those turn into avalanche chutes in the winter.A good sign is the absence of any trees or branches on the bottoms of the trees.

I know of 6 people who literally fell of the top of a mountain because they just had to look over the edge which triggered the cornice to let go.These were 3 seperate incidents with 2 guys in each one.2 survived about a 1000 meter fall.The rest died,one guy had lost his 2 brothers the month before so you think they would know better.

Snowmobiles today will go right to the top of most of the mountains here in the rockies.