Snowboarding: How to avoid avalanches

I guess if you are a snowboarder this is OK. on their other hand if you are a snow skier you should have training to know how to avoid this and have a beacon, and ski with someone that knows how to find you and dig you out avalanches are serious stuff not to be joked about this is a very misleading and stupid video people can die!

He got lucky. Misleading title.

Ok, armchair quarterbacks. Safety is the main priority on film shoots like this, Snow stability, proper routes, terrain traps, safe zones, no fall zones, slough management plans and rescue protocols and plans are all discussed at great length by people who are actually accustomed to riding this type of terrain. With a good crew who understands what they are dealing with you can ski things like this relatively safely. Everyone has there own level of acceptable risk. Education is the key and also what most of the posters on here should get before talking about things on the internet that are way out of your league.

if these guys were doing heroine every day, they would have a better chance of living to thirty years old.

I'm human. I'm just not sure about the snow boarder; but it is pretty exciting. Lucky AND skilled AND lucky; that is the formula. I hope they can avoid doing this in future because it sets a bad example for others who might not be able to enable the above formula... But anyway kudos!!

I bet they all would have felt real good, having expected avalanches that day and all, if the guy would have died in it. I wonder how his mom or girlfriend or wife would have felt. Sure they guy is stoked, he gets to be the star heliskier for the day, but where are his guides. Hey lets go do another one on the same slope, aspect, elevation that we just had a near miss on. I hope my kid doesn't see it and think hey, he rode out of it so i can too.

There's *nothing* in this video about how to avoid an avalanche.

That wasn't much of an avalanche, just a small slide. Enough to kill you if you get buried, sure, but compared toa full blown avalanche it's nothing. Big ones can reach speeds of 300km/h and go on for kilometers. No chance of 'getting to the side' of one of those.

OK to all the people calling Travis dumb if you saw all the movie (First Decent) you would know the guys had back up crew and everything to help him if he got stuck, he was wearing a recco and each member of the team had a locater and was wearing harnesses in case they got stuck in a crack in the glaciers. So he was prepared for the reality that there may be a slide. They checked the mountain and felt that there were feweer places that could slide on that route. but that one section broke loose because the sun had warmed up the break point.

lol snow