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Tree Wells Danger

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    90% of people involved in Tree Well/ SIS hazard research experiments could NOT rescue themselves. If a partner is not there for immediate rescue, the skier or rider may die very quickly from suffocation - in many cases, he or she can die as quickly as someone can drown in water.

    http://www.deepsnowsafety.org/index.php/what-is/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    As a simple cost effective self-rescue device, I'm adding a loud plastic whistle to my gloves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    If you ski in Europe you don't have to worry about tree wells, exclusively a North American issue


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭fannymagee


    OMFG I'm traumatised. Thanks for the nightmares MadsL!!! ;-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭lbj666


    Fattes wrote: »
    If you ski in Europe you don't have to worry about tree wells, exclusively a North American issue


    Whys that Fattes? The type of trees ??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    lbj666 wrote: »
    Whys that Fattes? The type of trees ??

    A number of factors, most ski resorts in Europe have all or most terrain above the tree line.

    Snow, completely different snow types and weather systems so the snow crystals settle and compact differently

    And the trees, branches tend to be higher off the ground in Europe than in N.america so tree wells don't develop.

    They have been known to form in Japanese resorts but are pretty rare. You have more chance of being stampeded by elephants in a blue run than finding a tree well in europe!


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