WegWerfHeld
18.12.2007, 15:51
Am Sa habe ich mit diversen Forumsmitgliedern einige Schneebretter in Stuben aus der ferne (Himmelegg) beobachten können. Hier die Geschichte von einem.
Vorab noch ein Disclaimer: Ich war nicht dabei, mir ist der Text anbei weitergeleitet worden, ich kenne die u.g. Person nicht und Poste den Text nur in Hoffnung dass solch ein Bericht zu mehr risikobewusstsein von Tiefschnee-direkt-neben-der-Piste-ohne-LVS-fahren-weil-dort-alles-sicher-ist-Fahrer führt. Kurz: ich trage nur die Infos zusammen, nehme nicht Stellung hierzu - also, don't shoot the messenger!
http://resources.vol.at/FastResource.aspx?ResourceID=news-20071216-09282523-image
Am Samstag gab es folgendes zu lesen: http://www.vol.at/news/vorarlberg/artikel/lawinenabgang-verschuetteter-geborgen/cn/news-20071216-09282523
daraufhin wurde mir folgendes zu gesendet:
"Saturday we were snowboarding with a group of friends in Arlberg in Austria. We had a fantastic day with loads of powder and sun. We had been skiing quite far a way from the system and been careful with avalanches and all that. Towards the end of the last run we did that day we were almost back at the lift and were skiing some powder just between the slopes. We weren't very careful any more because it was "just between the slopes". I found some nice powder and made a backside turn on it and noticed that I set of some 'slough' but I didn't see what was going on behind me. Suddenly I was lying on my belly with tons of snow flushing around me everywhere. It took a little while until I understood that I was caught in an avalanche because it felt a bit unreal. It is a bit funny because I had really a lot of time to think so I said to myself that fuck, I better start swimming. So I waved around and fought all I could. It got dark, it got light, it got dark and light over and over again. Every time I saw that it got light I was happy that I was close to the surface but then it got dark again and so on.
When the avalanche finally stopped I was completely covered with snow but luckily (or due to my swimming skills ;-) ) my head was quite high and the layer of snow on my face was so thin that it melted on my skin. I screamed all I could to get the others attention and more snow fell in my face but it melted as well. Then I heard ******* screaming my name and that he could see my helmet sticking out of the snow so then I knew that it would be fine.
******* and another guy could dig me up really quickly even though my legs and lower body was about one meter under the snow. I have absolutely no damages at all so I am totally fine, even mentally.
The reason I am telling you this because I realized a lot of things that maybe you already know but can be worth thinking about again.
1. Even if you ski really close to the slopes you should really be careful. If it is steep and a lot of snow it doesn't matter if you are doing "a real" off pist thing or just some powder turns next to the slope. And don't forget your transievers, 2 cm more snow and I couldn't have screamed!
2. Keep check on each other even on "easy things. We were all skiing down at the same time and when I law there helpless in the snow I realized that maybe the others didn't realize that I was missing. I got very happy when I heard ******* screaming my name.
3. Keep the distance but don't be too far away from each other. When you are below the victim and you have to run upwards in one meter deep snow it takes time! ******* was quick but it felt like an eternity and then I had a breathing hole, I don't want to think about what it feels like when you also have the face covered.
4. If you have ski poles, don't attach them to your hand, you want to have your hand free for swimming.
5. It sucks having a snowboard in an avalanche, it is really pulling you down.
6. "My" avalanche was actually quite small but that is almost what frighted us the most because I was only a couple of centimeters from having been completely buried in the snow and then if my friends had been a bit slow I might have been dead today. I also missed all the trees that were in my way. I was really incredibly lucky. I had never thought that such a "small" avalanche could be so dangerous.
7. The last point is just if you are curious... We often say, "anyway when you're in an avalanche you don't have time to do anything". Well, I don't think that its true, I felt that I had a lot of time so if I had had an avalanche backpack system I really think that it would have worked and that I could have pulled the string."
Also Kinder: lesen, nachdenken und aufpassen!
Vorab noch ein Disclaimer: Ich war nicht dabei, mir ist der Text anbei weitergeleitet worden, ich kenne die u.g. Person nicht und Poste den Text nur in Hoffnung dass solch ein Bericht zu mehr risikobewusstsein von Tiefschnee-direkt-neben-der-Piste-ohne-LVS-fahren-weil-dort-alles-sicher-ist-Fahrer führt. Kurz: ich trage nur die Infos zusammen, nehme nicht Stellung hierzu - also, don't shoot the messenger!
http://resources.vol.at/FastResource.aspx?ResourceID=news-20071216-09282523-image
Am Samstag gab es folgendes zu lesen: http://www.vol.at/news/vorarlberg/artikel/lawinenabgang-verschuetteter-geborgen/cn/news-20071216-09282523
daraufhin wurde mir folgendes zu gesendet:
"Saturday we were snowboarding with a group of friends in Arlberg in Austria. We had a fantastic day with loads of powder and sun. We had been skiing quite far a way from the system and been careful with avalanches and all that. Towards the end of the last run we did that day we were almost back at the lift and were skiing some powder just between the slopes. We weren't very careful any more because it was "just between the slopes". I found some nice powder and made a backside turn on it and noticed that I set of some 'slough' but I didn't see what was going on behind me. Suddenly I was lying on my belly with tons of snow flushing around me everywhere. It took a little while until I understood that I was caught in an avalanche because it felt a bit unreal. It is a bit funny because I had really a lot of time to think so I said to myself that fuck, I better start swimming. So I waved around and fought all I could. It got dark, it got light, it got dark and light over and over again. Every time I saw that it got light I was happy that I was close to the surface but then it got dark again and so on.
When the avalanche finally stopped I was completely covered with snow but luckily (or due to my swimming skills ;-) ) my head was quite high and the layer of snow on my face was so thin that it melted on my skin. I screamed all I could to get the others attention and more snow fell in my face but it melted as well. Then I heard ******* screaming my name and that he could see my helmet sticking out of the snow so then I knew that it would be fine.
******* and another guy could dig me up really quickly even though my legs and lower body was about one meter under the snow. I have absolutely no damages at all so I am totally fine, even mentally.
The reason I am telling you this because I realized a lot of things that maybe you already know but can be worth thinking about again.
1. Even if you ski really close to the slopes you should really be careful. If it is steep and a lot of snow it doesn't matter if you are doing "a real" off pist thing or just some powder turns next to the slope. And don't forget your transievers, 2 cm more snow and I couldn't have screamed!
2. Keep check on each other even on "easy things. We were all skiing down at the same time and when I law there helpless in the snow I realized that maybe the others didn't realize that I was missing. I got very happy when I heard ******* screaming my name.
3. Keep the distance but don't be too far away from each other. When you are below the victim and you have to run upwards in one meter deep snow it takes time! ******* was quick but it felt like an eternity and then I had a breathing hole, I don't want to think about what it feels like when you also have the face covered.
4. If you have ski poles, don't attach them to your hand, you want to have your hand free for swimming.
5. It sucks having a snowboard in an avalanche, it is really pulling you down.
6. "My" avalanche was actually quite small but that is almost what frighted us the most because I was only a couple of centimeters from having been completely buried in the snow and then if my friends had been a bit slow I might have been dead today. I also missed all the trees that were in my way. I was really incredibly lucky. I had never thought that such a "small" avalanche could be so dangerous.
7. The last point is just if you are curious... We often say, "anyway when you're in an avalanche you don't have time to do anything". Well, I don't think that its true, I felt that I had a lot of time so if I had had an avalanche backpack system I really think that it would have worked and that I could have pulled the string."
Also Kinder: lesen, nachdenken und aufpassen!