BC Etiquette

Another common sense note on the fun stuff - the downhill.  

*Don't out pace your partner (s) so far they can't rescue you or you can't rescue them.  Ski so they can keep you in view, and you keep them in view while they come down.
*Another note about staying relatively close on the downhill - it is a big slow chore going uphill if you had to climb back up to rescue your partner.

I'll admit to being one of the slowbies out there, and I here and now thank all of you who've waited as I work my way down to catch up to you.  I appreciate it alot, knowing if I did fall in a tree well, you'ld (probably ) not let me spend the night there.  Thank you guys and girls!

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die to get there.

Amen, brother. I'm ready to go, but an avalanche is not my idea of the rapture.

Another common sense note on the fun stuff - the downhill.  

*Don't out pace your partner (s) so far they can't rescue you or you can't rescue them.  Ski so they can keep you in view, and you keep them in view while they come down.
*Another note about staying relatively close on the downhill - it is a big slow chore going uphill if you had to climb back up to rescue your partner.

Wow, this one's one of the best and close to home.
Many people only ski slopes top to bottom one at a time, that's what we are told to do in avy terrain.
However in steep close trees with tree wells I always try and keep just above or below my partner and this was brought very close to home when two years ago my son, who was behind me fell into a tree well head first. I was only about 100' ft below him and heard him shout  and by the time I managed to just climb back up that 100' he was suffocating in the tree well and I pulled him out. Getting up that 100' in heavy deep snow was very difficult. If I had been 500' down and waiting for him unknowing that he had fallen he might have been a NARSID statistic.
I frankly don't think the avalung a great avy tool as I doubt that in most circumstances it can be held in the mouth during the turbulence of an avy but for tree wells I think it's a very useful tool.
Don't kid yourself that YOU'D be able to get out of a tree well if you fell in head first or be able to blow your whistle.

Edit to add; Ooops just saw Jim Oker said the same thing..... good advice on the "whoooting" as you ski.

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die to get there.

Correction:

Everyone that believes in heaven wants to go to heaven.
Some of us know it doesn't exist.

Can we talk about the driver who does 45 in the no passing zones, and then speeds up where passing is legal?  I'm allways behind this guy on the way up to Crystal.  Today he had five vehicles lined up behind him about 10 miles out of the 'Claw.

Can we talk about the driver who does 45 in the no passing zones, and then speeds up where passing is legal?  I'm allways behind this guy on the way up to Crystal.  Today he had five vehicles lined up behind him about 10 miles out of the 'Claw.

Thats driving etiquette; different thread.
Tailgate the moron until he moves over... thats what I do. I get right up his ass like ... feet away and scare him into pulling over. Works every time but you have to be very bold and real close.
Helps if you have a car/truck you don't give a toss about.