I met this guy last year and got the story through some friends. Despite being a very experienced snowboarder he made a couple of mistakes and these are lessons for all of us. He dropped of the groomed run in the wrong place and didn’t traverse back at the right spot. The mistake was compounded by thinking he could continue down and loop back to the run. Sounds like it started as a fun steep deep powder run.....a real lesson for all us powder hounds.
Thankfully as well as the mistakes it sounds like he made some good decisions as well. First he didn’t panic, he built a good snow
