Alpine lost skier

Actually a boarder, missing overnight.
There's only three feet from this current storm (practically a drought)
but she didn't meet her friends at the end of the day. I hope she didn't
have a tree-well accident, the bane of boarders.

I wonder if it's possible to design release bindings for boards, maybe
with a cable coming up to a handle at your waist that your could pull if
upended and smothering in a tree well.

The dam Recco people should sell their reflectors to civilians; I called
last year and they won't; more money in selling to clothes manufacturers.

On 12/29/2010 04:02 PM, lal_truckee wrote:
Actually a boarder, missing overnight.
There's only three feet from this current storm (practically a drought)
but she didn't meet her friends at the end of the day. I hope she didn't
have a tree-well accident, the bane of boarders.

I wonder if it's possible to design release bindings for boards, maybe
with a cable coming up to a handle at your waist that your could pull if
upended and smothering in a tree well.

The dam Recco people should sell their reflectors to civilians; I called
last year and they won't; more money in selling to clothes manufacturers.

Back in the day...
When we had discussions over beer (what else?)
regarding what ski equipment should be, we
wondered out loud about a release system that
could be triggered by the user in a panic or
trapped situation. One thing we came up with
was something like explosive bolts a la missile
separation technology, with the trigger built
into the handle of the ski poles. This was
the days before strapless poles were in vogue.

If we were to adapt this to snowboarding, we
would need to find another place for the trigger.

We had other brilliant ideas back then...

I remember someone coming up with the installation
of a shotgun shell in the middle of the steering
wheel column in a car, designed to fire when
said car was in a head-on. We guaranteed that
following an uptick in traffic fatalities, the
accident rate would plummet radically. Sure
beats those expensive air bags they have now.

On 12/29/10 1:02 PM, lal_truckee wrote:

Actually a boarder, missing overnight.

Found dead, in a tree well.

On Dec 31, 12:22*pm, lal_truckee wrote:
On 12/29/10 1:02 PM, lal_truckee wrote:

Actually a boarder, missing overnight.

Found dead, in a tree well.

So why weren't you out there looking for him, Mr. Pure Skier? So much
for your posing about the "community" of skiers.