Run away, poor abused snowmobile! Escape! Flee!

Not really a snowmobile fail, the machine it's self held up surprisingly well. I think the fact that it still ran that well means it's snowmobile success! Rider not so much.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Why EIA? It was an accident, he wasn't trying to trigger an avalanche, he was just snowmobiling.


1) The same thing happened the previous year.
2) He's riding a snowmobile up a mountain.
3) The cut at the top was incredibly stupid. Anyone who has an inkling of how snow works should know better than to make a horizontal cut like that. It essentially destabilized all the snow at the top. That's really Snow 101.

Evolution in action is right. I don't wish death on anyone, and I sincerely hope all those dummies turned out OK, however snowmobilers ARE noise polluters of the worst kind, the bane of North American winter hikers and cross-country skiers.

Come on, Mother Nature, give 'em another good scare. They need to learn about respect.

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>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Why EIA? It was an accident, he wasn't trying to trigger an avalanche, he was just snowmobiling.


EIA since he knew it had happened last year. Also, if you're doing back-country snowmobiling (or anything really), you'll know about avalanches.

>> ^Confucius:
"just like last year" Morons.....
Try it again next year.


Confucius say...

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Why EIA? It was an accident, he wasn't trying to trigger an avalanche, he was just snowmobiling.


In the video you hear someone say, "just like last year." I don't think they've learned anything.

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Indeed, that video was bat shit crazy scary

>> ^shveddy:
There's a video I saw a while ago of someone's helmet cam footage of being buried by an avalanche followed by three or four minutes of muffled whimpering and a dark screen. That is about as scary as it gets.
Of course this is scary too.

If you look clearly, you can see a brown trail after the snowmobile...

Why EIA? It was an accident, he wasn't trying to trigger an avalanche, he was just snowmobiling.

>> ^StealthNuck:
Idiots.
This needs to be eia.


You're right. Done.

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Fantastic post. I spent six months in Pt. Barrow- and can attest that it must have taken incredible ingenuity to stay alive without modern conveniences like snowmobiles and shipped in heating oil.

Great find Eric. I spent part of my childhood in Arctic Bay, which is one of the areas that he talks about and have made the trip to and from Iglulik in the spring by snowmobile before. I can attest to the fact that Inuit are indeed among the most ingenuous people in the world. Over the course of the trip from Arctic Bay to Iglulik, which usually takes 2 days, every snow-machine in our party broke down and the frame of my father's cousin's snowmobile actually broke in half while crossing a large crack in the ice.

Most other people would have simply given up on the machine and would have abandoned it on the ice, but instead, without hesitation he turned the machine on it's side and began repairing it using rope, bolts and strips of hard plastic from one of the jerry cans. This quick fix was strong enough that the machine made it to Iglulik and back to Arctic Bay! After he got back home, he sold a couple of his carvings and bought a new machine.

This example pales in comparison to what the older generations did, of course.