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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    10/21/09

    In reply to When Robots Attack, They'll Also Come by Ski
    In a few years, athletes will be obsolete. We will watch robot car races, robot baseball, robot Olympics and throw robot slaves to the robot lions on a high-tech Colosseum in Rome-3. #skiingrobot
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    10/21/09

    @SewerShark: And yet, it'll still be just as meaningless... #skiingrobot
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment Shadowfury was starred Shadowfury was unstarred
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    10/21/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: With the one exception of Usain Bolt, of course. #skiingrobot
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment mattycakes was starred mattycakes was unstarred
    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    09/26/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    According to the good people at Black Diamond he actually WAS using his Avalung and the the whimpering sound you hear is the sound the Avalung makes when inhaling.
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    Image of eliblack eliblack
    09/25/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    Waah waaah I'm stuck in an avalanche waah.
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    Image of dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
    09/24/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    What a baby wimpering like that. He better man up next time he wants to film himself getting buried in an avalanche.

    Okay, I'm off to burn some new spots on my arm with cigarettes. Then chew on some glass. See you ladies later.
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    Image of tehdahl tehdahl
    09/24/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    For having Black Diamond experience he seems to be freaking out way too much. Regulate yo breathing, man!
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    Image of Braff Braff
    09/24/09

    @tehdahl: I think skiing experience and dying experience are two very different things...
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    09/24/09

    @tehdahl: He doesn't have black diamond experience... well, I hope he has double black or better, but you mis-read that, he has one of these: [www.rei.com]

    Also, as an experienced back country skier (Montana mostly, but I did a heli jump just outside Copper CO), this absolutely terrifies me. I always have my AvaLung in my mouth, even when I'm hiking or just starting out. Just good practice to be in.
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    Image of suckacheese suckacheese
    09/24/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    For those of you who actually do this thing from time to time, notice what these guys do right:

    - They stop and talk about their plan first
    - They go down one at a time
    - They are all wearing transceivers and apparently know how to use them
    - They dig out as a group
    - They kept an eye on the victim as he was getting buried

    And what they didn't do well:

    - They didn't dig a pit to check snow consolidation
    - There wasn't a clear safe zone that the skier could have gone to when the face started sliding
    - The guy didn't have his avalung in his mouth when he started

    BTW, his glove didn't come off, his hand was sticking through the surface snow. Stay safe out there, people, backcountry is dangerous sometimes.
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    09/24/09

    @suckacheese: Agree 100% with you. I will say I rarely dig a pit to check the pack, I can feel it out pretty well by doing a few hard turns at the top of my run.

    I've seen some real dumb stuff out there, these guys seem to do enough right to not fall in to that category.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    gets dug out? SPOILER ALERT!
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    09/24/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    In an avalanche, no one can hear you scream...
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    09/24/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    And that is why I stay on the bunny courses. No chance of avalanche.
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    09/24/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: What's worse than an avalanche? An avalanche of bunnies.
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    09/24/09

    @psychiccheese: I would rather be king of the bunny course than serf of the backcountry.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    Looks weird to me that there's zero camera movement when they dig him out, as if the cam is buried by itself rather than with the guy we're hearing. Could it a good fluke?
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    09/24/09

    @ShyamariCacique: Well, considering that his entire head and helmet was packed in solid by snow and the first glimpse you see is of them digging just the front out and not the rest, I'd say it's exactly as it should be.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    09/24/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    This reminds me of the time I had someone mistakenly switch a ski poles with me, and they were then shot. That shot caused an avalanche, and I got trapped in it. The Ski Patrol was worried that the avalanche might get bigger and were planning on using explosives. I had a pocket of air around me, and after moving some snow to realize which way was up, tried to use my ski pole to signal help. Sadly, it only just barely broke the surface. I then made a makeshift "parachute flare" out of a zipper pull and a bandanna I had for my mullet. I was rescued soon thereafter.
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    09/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_WillingToBeTase...:

    Those must have been SOME mushrooms you took...
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    09/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_WillingToBeTase...: glad you made it out ok Angus, SG1 wouldn't have been the same without you....
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    09/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: See, sometimes mullets save lives.
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    09/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_WillingToBeTase...: Holy crap, MacGyver?! You're my hero!!! Can I have your mullet?!
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    09/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_WillingToBeTase...: Wow, MacGyver reads Gizmodo!
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    09/24/09

    @DonLuc:
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    09/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_WillingToBeTase...: Is that Rambo?
    Yeah, you're mixing your life up with Rambo again.
    Dammit, Frank.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    This reminds be of the time I went to a mountain and was kidnapped by John Lithgow. He forced me to act as a guide to retrieve a suitcase full of money. Ultimately, I foiled him by destroying his helicopter while he was trying to escape. Yeah, those were interesting times.
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    Image of DaveExile (SimANT for iPhone NOW!) DaveExile (SimANT for iPhone NOW!)
    09/24/09

    In reply to POV Helmet Cam Captures Skier Causing Avalanche, Getting Buried and Getting Rescued
    Avalanches somehow combine being "buried alive" with a "watery grave".

    Looks like we should all remember the buddy-system as the season approaches.....
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    09/24/09

    @DaveExile (Starless since 2006!): I think you're right. From now on, nobody posts comments without a buddy. Kaiser, you're with me.

    Buick, SteveDave will be your commenting buddy.
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    09/24/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I was always alone on field trips... I hate the buddy system. Why don't we institute a new "madog" policy, eh? Everyone comes with me! Alright guys, let's go! We're gonna have so much fu..... guys? Hello? Helllloooooo?!?
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    10/02/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Saying your buddy's name out loud is a security risk.
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    08/26/09

    In reply to Surf Skiing Takes Surfing and Injects it with a Healthy Dose of Dorkiness
    It almost makes sense that you would have something like this for surfing. I mean in snow you have skies and snowboards, on ground you have skates and skateboards, towing behind a boat water skis and wakeboard. Riding waves so far just a surfboard.

    When the first snowboard came out no one thought it would catch on. This has possibilities only because it resembles paddle surfing but from this picture it looks like the design needs a lot of work. What also looks like a potential fail is your feet are strapped in? if you fall what happens? How do you get back up?
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    08/26/09

    In reply to Surf Skiing Takes Surfing and Injects it with a Healthy Dose of Dorkiness
    Face punched, yeah well he'll just replace the oar with a Pugil stick. Now who's funny?
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