excellent approach to backcountry...

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19 Dec 2013 12:17 - 19 Dec 2013 12:21 #125888 by SquakMtn

excellent approach to backcountry... was created by SquakMtn

...and life as well.
The Danger of Becoming an Expert

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26 Dec 2013 18:22 #126139 by SKIER-X

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Thanks, your barking up my tree. It reminds me of a quote that I believe is credited to the late Ed LaChapelle. "The experts are all dead" . X

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30 Dec 2013 17:24 #126275 by peteyboy

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Probably need Gary Brill's response to this one, but was it Ed who said, "you can't call yourself an avalanche expert until you've been in an avalanche"?

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30 Dec 2013 18:42 #126279 by T. Eastman

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"you can't call yourself an avalanche expert until you've been in an avalanche"?

You mean "virgin experts"?

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07 Jan 2014 12:41 #126663 by OregonDead

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Socrates!!!

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08 Jan 2014 21:22 #126754 by Lowell_Skoog

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I think the quote you're looking for may be this one from Andre Roch:

"The avalanche does not know that you are an expert."

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Roch

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17 Jan 2014 18:31 #127241 by Griff

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Or I thought it was:

"the only avalanche experts are dead"

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19 Jan 2014 18:03 - 19 Jan 2014 18:40 #127323 by ski2fly

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Adam calls him an expert in the first line, then goes onto say Bruce Tremper would be the first one to say he is not an expert, but a student of avalanche study.

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