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8 years 11 months ago #154438 by Mike Cheney
Cedar Creek Drainage was created by Mike Cheney
So what do people think about this?:

3/4/17 Cedar Creek Drainage, Washington Pass area, North Cascades, WA

A guided group was heli-skiing and the victim triggered a large soft slab in the Cedar Creek Drainage toward the end of the day. The slope broke above the guide, who skied the slope first, sweeping him downward. The clients searched and rescued the victim who was fully buried (critical) and sustained a head injury. The avalanche was 100 meters wide with a crown depth of 60-80 cm and ran approx. 200 vertical meters. The slide released on a layer of decomposing fragments and facets above the February 15th crust.

One of the reasons why I left WA this year for March madness is I could tell months ago that this go round would be extremely unstable.

I'm really hoping that the people that I've toured w/in the past don't get caught, let alone anyone else.

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8 years 11 months ago #154448 by cumulus
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Some good points.
Unfortunately a lot of your good points get lost to your oft pompous attitude:

i would like clients to understand that they are hiring people to risk their lives  so that clients can obtain their mountain goals and pump up their facebook ego's.


You (egotistically) claim to know why people hire guides... Nobody can know that. God maybe... if there is one. You seem to have no problem positioning yourself as god. A rather conceited and insulting god at that... people hiring guides to "pump up their facebook ego's."

If you're serious about your stated endeavour to keep people safe nobody does a better job of undermining that than you.

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8 years 11 months ago #154451 by cumulus
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dude- you're cracking me up. my friends too i'm sure.

''ho ho ho he he ha ha ha, see how the run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly, i'm crying'' Lennon-McCartney

and finally, we all need to step up our game.

like Charlie Manson

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8 years 11 months ago #154453 by rlsg
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You've been carrying the water bucket pretty well..don't start putting h
oles in it.

I'm not covering up my piss...that way if i have a senior moment the yellow will hopefully keep me from steppinig in it on my next lap...sorry

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8 years 11 months ago #154456 by hedonaut
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maybe all bc travellers should have minimum certification requirements and obtain permits to travel for the season.


this is a joke, right?  antithesis of personal responsibility and spirit of exploration

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8 years 11 months ago #154468 by rlsg
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Not gunna do it...gotta see yellow...

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