>>280060>be me, yesterday>onnamountain doing avalanche education>Other instructor took the crew over to the meadow to demonstrate beacon searches, while I went on another hill nearby and buried my pack with a beacon in it>Tree on the hill, I slip and fall waist-deep into treewell>Self-rescue, "Note to self, big-ass hole there". >Dig hole, verify with my beacon that the one in my bag is transmitting, fill in teh hole, go back where the other instructor and I proceed do our full-gear-full-speed rescue demo recovering my bag>Be on the hill with the whole group now, I climb around to get further up the hill, teaching shoveling techniques>Fuck me, fell into the same hole again>Start wiggling out, only to fall in deeper>Now neck-deep in a treewell, standing on a branch, with more room to fall if that branch breaks or if I slip off>Class laughs, "Yeah, it's a deep hole. Anyone want chinese food for lunch while i'm down here? ... Yeah, I could use a hand getting out.">Try climbing the tree to get out, nope.gif, deeper down in the hole>Other instructor grabs my vest and pulls me out>Covered in snow, glad to be out of the holeReally bad idea to go in one on purpose.
Our avalanche probes are 3m long (a little under 10 feet). Probing straight down into the snow, then pushing the top of the probe further below the snow up to my elbow, I still didn't hit the ground with the probe.
Pic related, on the way back to the trucks.
