Ski season is upon us, and that means it's the best time to hit the slopes and carve some fresh powder at cool places across the U.S. like Park City, Vail and Sugarloaf, just to name a few.
But if you should find yourself ditching the lifts to ski in the back country remember- avalanches are a real threat, so do your homework so you can live to ski another season.
The skier in this video posted by KGW News discovered how easy it is to start an avalanche while skiing, luckily nobody was on the slopes below him.
But more often than not skiers get swallowed up by the snow when they cause an avalanche, which looks pretty cool through the lens of a GoPro camera but scares the crap out of the skier sporting the GoPro.
If you ever find yourself being swept off your feet by an avalanche try to keep a cool head, and if you're lucky you may be able to outrun the avalanche, like pro skier Nick McNutt does in this jaw dropping video.
-Via FAILBlog