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2012-02-06 08:24:25 PM
The fact that he continues to stand there next to a hot machine right at the edge of snowpack that's already given way is...interesting.
 
2012-02-06 08:36:35 PM
You know the difference between a snowmobiler and an environmentalist?

Environmentalists aren't always assholes.

/wished he had dropped into Darwin's chasim like the dipshiat he was.

//"everybody see my underwear?"


///Under where?
 
2012-02-06 08:57:12 PM
What kind of a moron goes snowmobiling alone?

Oh never mind.
 
2012-02-06 09:08:20 PM
It must be marvelous to hurtle about in the wilderness, with no sound but the wind in the pines, and the farkING SNOWMOBILE ENGINE. People who ride these things tend to favor jetskis in the summer.
Hanging's too good for them.
 
2012-02-06 09:29:10 PM
Mammoth?
 
2012-02-06 09:30:21 PM
top of upper dry creek?
 
2012-02-06 09:34:25 PM
On top of Spaghetti?
 
2012-02-06 09:35:06 PM
all covered with cheese?
 
2012-02-06 09:38:27 PM
He's sluggish. I can tell by all that mouf breafing.
 
2012-02-06 09:45:55 PM
Pocket Ninja: The fact that he continues to stand there next to a hot machine right at the edge of snowpack that's already given way is...interesting.

whether or not he has a large slobbery tongue is yet to be determined. Id prolly do the same thing that close to disaster.
 
2012-02-06 09:52:51 PM
Does that dude have some sort of specially modified, super farking annoying snowmobile? I'm certainly no snowmobile expert, but I've at least seen one on a mountain hundreds of times, and the sound of none of them have given me the instant urge to kill everyone in my immediate surroundings, unlike that video.
 
2012-02-06 10:21:08 PM
I must have blinked because I didn't see anything awesome.
 
2012-02-06 11:15:25 PM
jaylectricity: I must have blinked because I didn't see anything awesome.

Headline made no promise of awesome. And you should know after all this time not to go into the Videos tab expecting it.
 
2012-02-06 11:17:06 PM
i.qkme.me
 
2012-02-06 11:23:20 PM
MOHWowbagger: jaylectricity: I must have blinked because I didn't see anything awesome.

Headline made no promise of awesome. And you should know after all this time not to go into the Videos tab expecting it.


I guess what I meant was I just saw a guy with a snowmobile stop and take in the scenery. I thought he was gonna ride the thing off the cliff or something. Instead he just sat there. Also I couldn't figure out why he was holding on to the back of the vehicle.
 
2012-02-06 11:38:04 PM
What a puss. I would have dropped in.
 
2012-02-07 12:03:54 AM
"guess what I meant was I just saw a guy with a snowmobile stop and take in the scenery

you didnt notice the snow pack break away leaving him an inch from falling off?
 
2012-02-07 12:04:19 AM
http://www.traditionalmountaineering.org/News_Snowmobile_Helens_Accide nt.htm

Snowmobiler survives 1,500ft. fall into Mt. St. Helens

Man Survives 1,500-Ft. Drop Down Mt. St. Helens
Rescuer Describes Survivor's Fall as 'Fortuitous'
By JUNG HWA SONG
April 14, 2008

An experienced snowmobiler, John Slemp, 52, of Damascus, Ore., miraculously survived a 1,500-foot plummet into the crater of Mt. St. Helens. He is the first person ever to fall into the crater.

After dropping into the crater of Mount St. Helens, John Slemp miraculously survived with minor injuries.

(ABC News) On Saturday, Slemp, his son Jared and a family friend took their snowmobiles up to the crater's rim, where John and Jared parked their vehicles, then crawled on their bellies to peer over the cornice - a dangerous overhanging shelf of snow at the crest of a mountain - into the crater itself.

The cornice broke loose and Slemp dropped about 150 feet. His son began to slide down with him until their friend grabbed him and pulled him back to safety. The elder Slemp landed on a snow bank, but when he stood to climb back up the crater, the shelf of snow crumbled beneath him and he tumbled about 1,300 feet further down the crater, riding a tidal wave of avalanche debris on his hands and knees.

At 5:20 p.m. PT, the sheriff's office received a phone call that a man had fallen off the crater rim but was up and moving around.

"I'm not surprised," Undersheriff Dave Cox said. "There was an avalanche warning in effect and the weather conditions were such that, for that elevation, the snow was unstable. There were high temperatures, which means the snow was starting to melt ... [Slemp] just happened to be the impetus that caused that cornice to give way."

The coordinator of the rescue, Chief Tom McDowell, director of North Country emergency medical service, said Slemp first made a vertical drop of about 100 to 200 feet, then hit a snow bank and tumbled until the crater leveled out.

"We've always anticipated anyone falls off the crater rim is not gonna survive," McDowell said.

But Slemp was wearing a heavy snowmobile suit as well as a helmet and heavy boots, and he happened to fall in an area without craggy crevices or boulders which could have killed him.

"[He] picked a great place to do this," Gary Kapezynski, the training coordinator for the volcano rescue team, said. "This was one of two places at the crater which were snow covered and there were very few cliffs ... if he'd have gone off in other places, I don't think he would have made it."
 
2012-02-07 01:58:22 AM
LSUMJ: "guess what I meant was I just saw a guy with a snowmobile stop and take in the scenery

you didnt notice the snow pack break away leaving him an inch from falling off?


No, I didn't. I'm not going to watch the whole thing again.
 
2012-02-07 02:35:20 AM
It's an arête on a cirque, not a cliff.
One of the good things about now snow this winter is I haven't had to trudge my ass through the woods in the cold to scrape someones brains off a tree.
 
2012-02-07 03:17:09 AM
I'm going to have to go with moron. I wouldn't have stopped until moving back until I was at the tree line.
 
2012-02-07 04:25:01 AM
Better luck next time, mountain.
 
2012-02-07 06:09:15 PM
<b><a href="http://www.fark.com/comments/6925994/74811708#c74811708" target="_blank">Tillmaster</a>:</b> <i>It must be marvelous to hurtle about in the wilderness, with no sound but the wind in the pines, and the farkING SNOWMOBILE ENGINE. People who ride these things tend to favor jetskis in the summer.
Hanging's too good for them.</i>

This guy is a douchebag. It was really easy to see that coming and I would have laughed if he wiped.

But aside from that, are you afraid of motors ? Did someone torment you with a motor as a baby ? Did your mother get run down by a snowmobile before your very eyes ?

Moral Relativism Ahoy !
 
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