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Good dog, Cujo! Also, you know that mutt drops a log the size of a baguette at least twice a day and it practically takes a snow shovel to fling it into the neighbor's yard.

I use to have a tragically retarded Cocker Spaniel (and, to note, there is no other variety of that breed) and it was like the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, only with dogshit. At least three times a day, this golden-furred, floppy ear'd mongrel would scarf down a can of Alpo, a cup of kibble and whatever food was left lying on the table -- the same table the cat always got smacked for climbing on, but the dog ... ohhh, no! It's CUTE when the dog does it! -- then make a beeline to the back lawn where it'd crap Mt. Everest. I'd have to trudge out the the back yard, shovel in hand, while the guy next door shot me the stink-eye because he was tired of fishing dog turds out of his swimming pool every day during the summer. This task is odious enough, but it's a thousand times worse when you're stoned and it's a million degrees out and you'd much rather be floating on your waterbed listening to Dark Side of the Moon in headphones while blissful AC-cooled air wafts over your twice-weekly washed body and not fighting your way through a black fog of Horseflies to reach a 1:1 scale model of Mt. Doom made entirely of a too-quickly digested overpriced slurry of meat scraps and offal that the canners couldn't fob off on Mexico.

It might not have been as bad as all that, but in my hazy recollection, it was pretty darned close.

I'm not sure why I told you all this, to be perfectly honest, but I did. So there.

In Communist Russia, Snow Shovel You.

What, too soon?

So as a relative newcomer* to the backcountry, here's my $0.02:

They were incredibly lucky.

Going into a gully like that after a snow storm is a "terrain trap" where even a small slide can accumulate very deep snow. Getting buried under 2-3m is bad, but 10m+? Unless you have the world snow shoveling champion team in your party, you're dead.

Good on them for carrying shovels and probes, but where were their transceivers? The article states that the victim had his transceiver with him but the others didn't. A single transceiver is about as useful as a prick in a nunnery.

The only reason that guy is alive is he managed to stick his ski pole above the snow. Without that, by the time they find him, they're not rescuing him, they're recovering the body.

Most importantly, they knew it was a sketchy line and they went anyway (and altogether.... jesus.... spread the fuck out... no-one gonna rescue you if you're all buried).

Right there, that's the fatal mistake. I know guys who have hiked for 6 hours to get to a run, looked at it and turned back. If you're not sure, don't go. Even if it means climbing back out.

So to sum up:
unsure about conditions: don't go
the entire party doesn't have a shovel/probe/transceiver each: don't go
if you absolutely have to go: one at a time and aim for a safe spot

/sermon

I'm being a bit of a prick on this. It's really easy to criticise, but I've been there and I know that powder fever takes hold. But *nature hates you and wants to kill you. Keep that in mind.

* I've been side-country riding for a few years, but started splitboarding last year.

If it gets your four-year-old psyched about clearing your driveway for you, that's probably worth the effort right there. Despite what my parents thought, I'm fairly sure shoveling all that snow by hand as a kid didn't actually improve my character at all. There's also few things quite like snow shoveling to make you appreciate the value of knowing how to maintain a small engine, which I'd wager is a more valuable life skill and better for one's character than knowing how to shovel stuff for hours without wrecking your back.

>> ^Mashiki:

>> ^Trout:
Thanks for that translation... even funnier.
I can't believe all the snow - on the street, pushed against the houses. Wonder where this was filmed?

Well somewhere over in europe this year, lot of places in central and eastern europe got hammered with snowfall though not much in cold canada this year, they can have our snow. Though last year it could have been in Ontario. Last winter we had places with 4-6m of snow on the ground in a 1 week period. And I spent more than a few weeks out with friends shoveling off roofs and trying to dig people out.


That somewhere in Europe in this case is Italy :-)

>> ^Trout:

Thanks for that translation... even funnier.
I can't believe all the snow - on the street, pushed against the houses. Wonder where this was filmed?


Well somewhere over in europe this year, lot of places in central and eastern europe got hammered with snowfall though not much in cold canada this year, they can have our snow. Though last year it could have been in Ontario. Last winter we had places with 4-6m of snow on the ground in a 1 week period. And I spent more than a few weeks out with friends shoveling off roofs and trying to dig people out.

INPIRATION LIGHTBULB JUST WENT ON !

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I'm from up north, eh?

I'm thinking a treaded snow shoveling variant would kick ass sales-wise.

I'm from up north, eh?

I'm thinking a treaded snow shoveling variant would kick ass sales-wise.

She doesn't use the snow shovel she stole to dig herself out again? Somehow, the thought that she just discarded the thing after she was done with it the first time makes me more angry than the thought of her having stolen it and kept it.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'snow, shovel, steal' to 'snow, shovel, steal, snowblower' - edited by calvados

I like your style.. reminds me of a young me.

Not much younger, mind you! In fact, a little bit older.
>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^Unsung_Hero:
>> ^mxxcon:
In Soviet Russia dogs eat you.

Too bad this didn't happen in Korea or your comment/meme would have been hysterically perfect!
my comments are always hysterically perfect regardless of their content, context, place or time of post.

It's just his alter-ego. When danger rears it's ugly head, he becomes.... THE SHOVELER!

>> ^NordlichReiter:

>> ^demon_ix:
Snow shoveler OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE!!!!

He's doing a really shitty job of shoveling snow, I mean look at all that now.

>> ^demon_ix:

Snow shoveler OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE!!!!


He's doing a really shitty job of shoveling snow, I mean look at all that now.