Killington Conditions

[gorgonzola]

There was a k instructor and kids in the group, would love to know the real story. Was it a chain of simple mistakes or a case of major dumbedassedness?

Things are never as simple as they are in sno's world....

 

[Ripitz]

Curious to know where they were. Maybe they went to Cooper’s Cabin and then dropped down the Long Trail instead of traversing back in?

Sometimes if you have made a wrong turn (at any ski area) it’s very easy to want to keep skiing down instead of simply hiking back out. Especially if there are tracks.

 

[Benny Profane]

Exactly. Teenagers are idiots on drugs.

FIFY

 

[tirolski]

Curious to know where they were. Maybe they went to Cooper’s Cabin and then dropped down the Long Trail instead of traversing back in?

Sometimes if you have made a wrong turn (at any ski area) it’s very easy to want to keep skiing down instead of simply hiking back out. Especially if there are tracks.

Going downhill on skis is fun.
Hiking back up in ski boots not as much.

 

[Benny Profane]

Going downhill on skis is fun.
Hiking back up in ski boots not as much.

That happened to me at Gore one time, and I was inbounds. I was probably on drugs.

 

[raisingarizona]

Curious to know where they were. Maybe they went to Cooper’s Cabin and then dropped down the Long Trail instead of traversing back in?

Sometimes if you have made a wrong turn (at any ski area) it’s very easy to want to keep skiing down instead of simply hiking back out. Especially if there are tracks.

You wouldn’t believe the set up we have with our immediate side country. It’s a real deal tourist trap!

I’ll post up more detail about it later, it’s actually kind of interesting, we have the serious perfect shit storm for the overly confident Sonoran desert dweller goes to the mountains scenario.

 

[Ripitz]

we have the serious perfect shit storm for the overly confident

I was guiding two friends down a route once that included a short 5 minute boot pack. They saw fresh snow below and decided to drop in instead. I followed them to save them. It was a night full of avalanches, rappels, ice climbs and running belays. I was so pissed off. At one point one of them said we should huddle together in a cave that we found and wait until morning. I snapped back, as long as we can move we will continue to do so. 19 hours from when we started we made it to town just as mountain rescue was about to go look for us. That was my biggest unplanned adventure. We were fortunate to make it out alive.

Maybe they went to Cooper’s Cabin and then dropped down the Long Trail instead of traversing back in?

Sounds like these kids went down the Bucklin Trail.

 

[Harvey]

There was a k instructor and kids in the group, would love to know the real story.

There has to be more to it. No way an instructor would consciously take that kind of risk. He hoped.

https://www.facebook.com/KillingtonPD/posts/pfbid02kR2EK1fKiMyDgkPPC8QTx6Mpe9hLfgikhVyjwnYvn8K7YcRANjJXLhNiZ4LAZAn8l

 

[raisingarizona]

I was guiding two friends down a route once that included a short 5 minute boot pack. They saw fresh snow below and decided to drop in instead. I followed them to save them. It was a night full of avalanches, rappels, ice climbs and running belays. I was so pissed off. At one point one of them said we should huddle together in a cave that we found and wait until morning. I snapped back, as long as we can move we will continue to do so. 19 hours from when we started we made it to town just as mountain rescue was about to go look for us. That was my biggest unplanned adventure. We were fortunate to make it out alive.


Sounds like these kids went down the Bucklin Trail.

I don’t think I’d ski with them ever again.

Over the years I’ve grown to be extremely picky with whom I ski with in the backcountry.

 

[Ripitz]

I don’t think I’d ski with them ever again.

Over the years I’ve grown to be extremely picky with whom I ski with in the backcountry.

No doubt. One of them is dead now. I lost contact with the other one.